Professional Development 2024-2025

We will be moving to a simplified version of forms on the Comply platform for professional development hour submission. 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 24-25 schedule will be posted by September 13.

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:

• Scheduled technology training sessions can be found here
• All sessions will be 1 hr. 

• 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

• EXAMPLE: you may attend the initial Techxploration training session (1 hr).  In the following weeks, you may elect to attend the training sessions on Kahoot (1hr) and Nearpod (1 hr) offered by our tech coaches. It would be your option to complete the FLEX Hours Post Technology Training Session Lesson Plan Submission form (1 hr) for lessons that incorporate Kahoot and Nearpod. If completed for both, this would comprise 5 total FLEX hours.

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