Departmentalization. A. Professional Staff Members shall be encouraged to organize at the individual school level to stimulate professional growth, improve instruction, promote curriculum development and provide for continuous assessment of teaching and learning. Typical faculty organizations may take the form of departments delineated along the lines of subject matter fields at the Middle School and High School level and grade levels in the elementary schools so that Professional Staff Members are grouped in their areas of competency. It is not the intent of this Article, however, to restrict the operational structure of schools to the departmental type organization. Schools are encouraged to experiment with varied organizational patterns in search of more effective ways of achieving their objectives.
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