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What Are the Core Concepts of the PDS Standards?

These key concepts are embedded into the content and the structure of the PDS Standards.

Time Before the Beginning

Integration of Professional and Student Learning Through Inquiry

Placing Students at the Center of PDS Work

Learning in the Context of Practice

Boundary Spanning Roles, Relationships, and Structures

Blending of Resources

Principal Partners and Institutional Partners

The Expanded Learning Community

The PDS as a Standards-Bearing Institution

Leveraging Change
 
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