The Learning Center is now the Center for Staff & Community Development (CSCD).

CSCD now includes Staff Development and The Parent University.

Oversight for Staff Development will be provided by a new partnership between the Center for Staff and Community Development, the Douglas County Federation, Learning Services, and Human Resources.

All courses, including Skill Blocks, are being reviewed by cross-functional teams to determine alignment to current educational trends, inclusion of technology, and Ends work.

Course offerings will resume in July, 2009. Skill Blocks will be offered as information only, with stipend pay pending contract negotiations.

Instructors will be asked to resubmit course applications after identifying how they will embed technology and the Ends work.

CSCD acknowledges the shift to site, feeder, and central course offerings and will implement processes to assist with the transition.

The emphasis for future courses will shift from knowledge acquisition to site application and authentic practice.

Some courses will begin utilizing an online personal and work environment, allowing online collaboration, document sharing, and social networking.