Networking as a mechanism to support the continuous professional development of teachers of schools with low educational results

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. The article actualizes the problem of network interaction with schools with low educational results as a mechanism for continuous professional development of teaching staff in the context of digitalization of education. Network mentoring is one of the technologies of dissemination of pedagogical experience through mutual enrichment of partner schools. The goal is to analyze the features of supporting the network interaction of teaching staff of partner schools as a mechanism for supporting continuous professional development in a digital educational environment. The results of the literature review are presented, indicating that network interaction is characterized by interdisciplinarity, variability, interactivity and is carried out in an educational environment. Network mentoring allows you to organize the interaction of schools with various organizational, methodological, scientific, material and technical potential in the context of digitalization of modern education. Partner schools, while maintaining independence within the framework of their core activities, cooperate to solve specific problems that cannot be solved alone. The research methodology is to study the continuous professional development of teaching staff as a process based on the principles of individualization, continuity, fundamentalization, variability, autonomy in choosing the pace and content of training. The formulated features of the network interaction of partner schools for the continuous professional development of teachers have scientific novelty. The results obtained will help to carry out mentoring activities in relation to educational organizations wishing to improve the quality of education and solve the problem of overcoming professional deficits. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using its results to build a system of networking for the continuous professional development of teachers in any educational organization.