Civil Municipal - June 2024

online modules, where teachers can work at their own pace. I think that’s very important. Just like we like to give students ‘voice and choice,’ it gives teachers ‘voice and choice.’ And in that professional learning, we try and model ways that we would like to see teachers engage students. So we try to engage teachers at the same level. That has been popular. For instance, last year, our teachers attended 1,100 professional learning sessions throughout the year and that’s with a little over a hundred participants. So, we’re attending those sessions at a pretty high level. It’s a vast array of different offerings and it’s been popular.” A PRIORITY ON SAFETY School safety has become an overriding important issue over the last several years, and Yorktown is meeting the challenge. “When I came to Yorktown seven years ago, we did not have any safety resource officers in our district,” Hinshaw recounts.“Currently, we have a head SRO and we have an SRO in every one of our buildings. We require that our SROs be 225 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 05, ISSUE 06 YORKTOWN COMMUNI TY SCHOOLS