Baltimore County Public Schools

Engage. Empower. Excel.

Our mission is to ensure that every adult learner will have relevant and engaging training, growth, and development opportunities and access to continuing education that supports their unique goals.  We commit to building and scaling equitable, universally designed learning and training environments that develop our current and future workforce.  We define workforce development as the ongoing preparation and maintenance of a skilled, talented, and motivated workforce through a coordinated investment in individual skill development and capacity building in schools, organizations, and communities (Jacobs, 2003).  We believe that it is not enough to recruit and hire employees.  We must ensure that we proactively design growth oriented learning environments and opportunities to meet individual needs, to reach untapped potential and to ensure that all members of Team BCPS are able to thrive in the workplace to best serve all of our students.

As we work toward this vision, ETD commits to collaborating across divisions to develop innovative practices to recruit and retain a qualified, highly effective, and diverse workforce, and create a systemwide workforce development plan to improve work performance through:

• designing and delivering online, hybrid and face to face systemic professional development opportunities aligned to our strategic plan,
• partnering with district leadership to identify staff needs that can be enhanced through mentoring, coaching, leadership development, technical and trade training, and advanced educational coursework,
• providing high quality technical training and compliance management,
• facilitating consistent onboarding and continuous induction programs for non certificated staff,
• strengthening the BCPS career ladder to support both recruitment and retention efforts;
• providing pathway opportunities for individuals interested in career advancement, change or leadership within their current role.