School Development Services is the unit providing general education service to constituent districts. The SDS staff target their efforts toward increasing student achievement and teacher and administrator effectiveness. We provide customized service and professional development in the areas of: school improvement, curriculum, instruction, assessment, core content areas, early childhood education, talent development, and planning and evaluation.
Our vision is…
The vision of the School Development Services (SDS) team is to ensure services to our constituents are data-driven, relevant, and based on best practice.
Our services focus on...
- Creating and sustaining shared leadership capacity
- Implementing high quality professional development
- Engaging students, families and community in the education process
- Facilitating structures of support to ensure success for all learners
SDS works in collaboration with many vital regional, state and even national partners to provide quality services and to achieve the economies of scale that equate to good use of limited resources.
Contact Us
Sylvia Buie
Director, Talent Development
517-244-1209
Kathy Dewsbury-White
Director of Curriculum Development
517-244-1254
Kathy Humphrey
Supervisor of Planning & Evaluation
517-244-1231
Michelle Nicholson
Supervisor, SDS & Early Childhood Ed
517-244-1384
