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Professional Development 2025-2026

NOTE: the options listed on this web page are the options available. If you wish to complete professional development outside of these options, see your building principal.

 

Comply forms for professional development hour submission remain unchanged. These will include the following:

 

1. Act 48 Only

2. Act 48 and Flex

3. Flex Only

 

4. Post Technology Training Session Lesson Plan Submission for Flex Hours. (THIS FORM HAS NOT CHANGED. IT IS TO BE USED ONLY AFTER TAKING A FACE TO FACE TECHNOLOGY TRAINING SESSION WITH AN ASD INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY COACH).

 

Introductory Guide to Comply

 

Before submitting a form, you will need to determine what hours you are seeking credit for (i.e. Act 48 Only, Act 48 and Flex, Flex Only). This chart may be used to assist in that process in addition to information on Act 48 requirements.

 

Professional develompent for scheduled Act 80 and Inservice days will be submitted through admin offices of your building these include full days. Flex hours cannot be earned on these days.

 

MEDBRIDGE is available for appropriate personnel to provide flex inservice hour professional development options. MEDBRIDGE certificates or other non-district sponsored professional development choices for these personnel should be submitted via Comply request.

 

Flex PD Options for Classroom Teachers:


Option 1: Technology Menu

The 25-26 schedule will be posted.

 

These training sessions were developed and will be conducted by ASD Instructional Technology Coaches.  The sessions were created based on teacher feedback, and will include the following:


      • Attendance will be taken for each session and a list of attendees will be sent to the Human Resource Department.
      • Within Comply a compliance item will be assigned to the attendee and a reminder email will be sent when it is available.
      • Access the Comply Compliance item to obtain credit by completing the Professional Development Feedback Questionnaire.
2. Select "My Compliance Items" from the menu on the left.
3. Locate the training that you attended, IE. "FLEX Hours - AI Training Session - September 12, 2022"
4. Complete the required questionnaire and submit.
 
  • 1 hr of technology professional development may be used for lesson design time.  Teachers that participate in one or more follow up follow-up tech training sessions with our tech coaches on the content platforms listed above may choose to use 1 hr of design time on their own.   

      • The form for submission under this option the Post Technology Training Session Lesson Plan Submission for Flex Hours
 
  • It is your option to complete the FLEX Hours Post Technology Training Session Lesson Plan Submission form (1 hr) for lessons that integrate technology principles after taking an in person training with one of our Instructional Technology Coaches.
 

Option 2: Department/Team Menu


Department heads are expected to work with their department members and administrators including building principals to establish planned use of this time.  Please communicate with your colleagues and your building princpal on how you may use this time. The following options may be considered:


  • Participation in a building or district level Professional Learning Community
 
  • Review of data and planning of interventions from IXL
 
  • Targeted professional development selected by dept. members

  • Curriculum review and writing

  • Dept. mtg/co-planning

  • Several members of a department working as a team on one or more of these topics 

  • Other as approved
 
  • Cross curricular projects between departments


When these activities are being completed outside of a regularly scheduled school, inservice, or Act 80 day participants should submit a list of attendees, dates, times, and topics to Mrs. Bachar in HR ([email protected]).  She will enter the item for participants.

 

When these activities are being completed on a scheduled inservice or Act 80 day, Act 48 hours will be submitted by the building admin office. These events will be arranged prior to the day through communication between participants and the building principal.  Event attendance lists and descriptions will be collected and entered in the building admin office for ACT 48 Hour submission manually as they have been in past years. 

 
    • You can check your Act 48 hour accounting via the link to PERMS in Comply or on the PERMS system here

 

Option 3: Pennsylvania Department of Education PD Center Courses

 

Below are course options for courses offered through the PDE Professional Development Center.  These components of the Classroom Teacher Framework for Evaluation were identified as area of growth following analysis of evaluation data:

DOMAIN
COMPONENT
AVAILABLE COURSES
Domain 2: Classroom Environment
2B. Establishing a culture for learning
  • Expectations for Learning and Achievement
  • Sparking Student Engagement
  • Student Pride in Work
Domain 2: Classroom Environment 2D. Managing student behavior expectations
  • Foundations for Managing Student Behavior
  • Monitoring Student Behavior
  • Responding to Student Misbehavior
Domain 3: Instruction 3B. Questioning and discussion techniques
  • Discussion Techniques
  • Facilitating Classroom Discussions
  • Student Participation
Domain 3: Instruction 3C. Engaging students in learning activities and assignments
  • Student Engagement and Exploration
  • Types of Learning Activities
  • Engaging Students in Learning
Domain 3: Instruction 3D. Using assessment in instruction
  • Creating Meaningful Assessments
  • Advanced Assessment Strategies

 You may enroll in and/or preview any of the above courses or a course specific to an area of individual growth you wish to pursue as approve by your building principal.  Upon completion of courses, please submit your certificate of completion to HR via Comply.

 PDE Course Catalog with additional information and previews