Professional Growth for ESs

Professional Growth Hours Clarification:

The responsibility to monitor compliance of teacher’s professional growth has been taken from the CCTC by SB1209 and given to the local school/district of your employment. You no longer have to supply any professional growth information to CCTC at all, as they are no longer the monitoring agency for your professional growth. This does not mean there is no professional growth requirement for you as teachers! We as a school must now monitor and track your PG. We will continue to track your hours and award PG certificates with your PG hours listed at the end of each year as our means to meet our school responsibility.

Policy

ESs will need to complete 36 hours of professional growth for SS/OG this school year. Some training meetings are required for all ESs; some are choice sessions. Your ES Advisor is your professional growth advisor and can answer your questions. Specific in-services, WASC required meetings, and/or other professional training may be required during the school year. Additionally, an individual Professional growth assignment may be given to an ES by their ES Advisor when deemed appropriate and necessary. ESs who do not attend and complete these required trainings without cause will be subject to Disciplinary Action.

ES Responsibilities for Professional Growth:

The ES develops their specific PG goals, chooses activities within those goals, and then reports activities on their goals using the school database—ES Webfiles/ES Detail Goal page. The ES Advisors have the opportunity to examine and approve their assigned ESs goals in Webfiles. The ES is responsible to communicate at least twice a year with their ES Advisor on their professional growth goals and plan. The goals are included as a part of the yearly ES Evaluation.

Required Meetings:

· All ES Meeting: 7 hours

· Local ES Group Meetings led by your AF: 3 hours each for 7 meetings; 4 hours for the March ES Group Meeting= 25 total hours

· There are 32 hours of required ES Professional growth training sessions. The remaining 4 hours should match your professional goals for this school year.

• Note: There are no PG hours given for a missed group training session.  The ES is responsible to obtain all information from a missed meeting (contact your ES Advisor for specifics), but hours cannot be awarded for this outside of the group meeting.

Choices for additional PG hours:

· Initial ES Training phases

· VPSS: VPSS hours for those who are not NCLB certified in a core subject area and have indicated their plan to participate in VPSS on their NCLB plan will count towards your PG hours.

· Advisor led Webex trainings on various topics of interest.

· Curriculum Trainings: Live Curriculum trainings will be announced throughout the year over Webex in various subjects.

· Guidance Trainings: Live Guidance trainings will be announced throughout the year over Webex in various topics.

· Assessment Trainings: Live Assessment trainings will be announced throughout the year over Webex in various subjects.

· CSET Exam preparation: If you plan to take a CSET exam for NCLB certification purposes, 8 hours of your prep time can be used towards PG

· Outside Conferences: If you plan to attend an educational conference and wish to have those hours applied to your professional growth, email your advisor for approval for the hours prior to your attendance at the session. (The school will not pay for these conferences.)

· Additional opportunities may be announced, as they are available.

These Choices DO NOT qualify for additional PG hours:

· Watching a recorded Webex training individually.

· Reading a book and reporting on it.

· The time at a conference spent checking out booths, lunch, passing breaks, etc.

· Doing research on a topic of your choice by yourself.

· Any class taken at a college or university.

· Individual trainings may be required by your ES Advisor, but they may not count towards your PG hours. (This includes make up meetings with an advisor.)

Procedure:

· Attendance is expected at all required ES meetings. Hours are automatically tracked from the sign-in sheet you sign at the meeting. If you leave early, you will need to make up for what you missed with your advisor.

· For school provided optional PG opportunities, respond to the directions given to sign-up for the Webex training on the announcement listserve. There is a limit of 14 participants per any 1 training session, therefore respond early and do not attend unless you receive a confirmation that you are “enrolled”.

· For outside PG opportunities, email your Advisor to discuss how this meets your goals listed in Webfiles, and the number of hours you can receive.

· Outside opportunities may not take the place of school required hours. But, school required hours may "count" towards meeting your ES Goals, so do indicate that in your ES goals section of Webfiles.

Professional Growth Certificates:

Professional Growth certificates will be tracked by the school and a certificate is available for each ES to print that will include their hours at the end of each school year. After the next school year starts in the database, the prior year’s certificate will no longer be available.