National Post

Is the PD day broken? Professional development days may do little to improve teaching
Since at least the 1970s, school calendars across Canada have contained four to eight “professional development days,” a mysterious day where school buses are parked, students stay home and teachers gather in empty classrooms to figure out the latest ways to get kids to absorb lessons on math and science. Nevertheless, after 40 years, exasperated principals and bored teachers are starting to say what students have suspected for decades; the Canadian PD day is broken.