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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES: The Professional Development Committee shall work with all teachers identifying instructional concerns and remedies. Assist all teachers by helping them work toward upgrading certification. Serve as a confidential consultant upon a teacher’s request. Implement and maintain beginning teacher assistance program. Assess faculty needs and develop in-service opportunities for certified staff. Provide on-going professional development for certified staff. Support and provide funding professional development activities for certified staff. Provide for the evaluation of professional development activities. Support professional networking. NOTE: Matters discussed by a teacher and Professional Development Committee will be held in confidence, but it would not be considered privileged information if someone were called upon to testify in court. Only doctors, lawyers, and clergy have a legal right to privileged information. PLAN EVALUATION: The committee will evaluate all components of the Professional Development Plan annually. The plan will include needs identified by the MSIP review team. Long-range plans will be developed from school improvement recommendations. The Professional Development Committee will develop an end-of-year report for the School Board, administration, and staff of the activities, accomplishments, expenditure, goals, and objectives. 4
POLICIES FOR REIMBURSEMENT The Professional Development Committee will pay for activities, which are directly linked to CSIP goals and strategies and building plans. Professional development opportunities are available for all certified staff. Policies exist for the reimbursement of expenses for professional development activities. The following forms are required in this process: 1. Activity Request Form (pink form) 2. Payment Request Form (yellow form) Teacher Staff Development Plan for Professional Development Activities Activities Request Form must be completed and approved prior to attendance. Staff development opportunities will be provided during school time, early dismissal days, weekends, and selected days during summer vacation. Substitutes will be provided, if needed, for those attending professional development activities. The PDC may also provide substitutes for teachers when they observe mentor teachers and/or observe master teachers in our district or another district upon completion of an Activities Request Form. Activity Requests must be presented to the PDC building representative prior to the activity in order to be approved and processed before the activity. If turned in less than 30 contract days prior to the activity, it may still be approved but must be pre-paid by the teacher and reimbursed after the activity. Payment Requests must be submitted to the PDC building representative within 30 contract days from an activity. Summer workshop payment requests must be submitted no later than the September PDC meeting for reimbursement. Certificate of attendance is required with payment request. Teachers will be responsible for an evaluation of the activity. Evaluation of the activity must be submitted with Payment Request Form or payment will not be made. Teacher Staff Development Plan provides documentation that in-service recipients are sharing what they have learned through outside workshops with other teachers. This form must be submitted with Payment Request Form. If you have registered and cannot attend, you must call and cancel the registration. If you are approved and registered for a conference and do not go, you may not be approved for any other professional development activities for the remainder of the school year. *MUST be submitted to building rep 30 days prior to attending. 5
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