FLEX Professional Development Day Sample Clauses

FLEX Professional Development Day. Teachers shall spend eight hours outside of school hours for professional development (PD) activities. AVSEC teachers will have one (1) pre-service professional development day in lieu of one (1) flex PD day. The calendar year for obtaining hours will be June 1 through May 31. To count as flex hours, activities must be those typically approved by the district’s PD council. • All activities must take place outside of the duty day. • The activity must be one where you are learning, not merely working. Ex. If you are learning how to create curriculum maps, why they are important, etc. the time would count. If you are working on data entry for your maps, updating them, etc. the time does not count. • If any of the learning activity is being reimbursed by the district through supplemental pay, tuition reimbursement, or registration /other fees are paid for by the district, it cannot be counted for flex time. (with the exception of New to the District Teacher PD days before the first teacher report day). • Cannot be “Service to the Profession” activities as they typically do not involve personal learning, nor can they be taken to application or impact level PD points. • Activities must have a duration of at least 30 minutes. • If you lead a pre-advertised learning session where multiple staff can attend, your time is doubled. Examples of allowable activities: • Attending a learning session sponsored by a staff member • Leading a learning session for others, that is pre-advertised so that other staff members can participate. (The presenter’s points will be doubled) • Grade-level or PLC meetings where learning activities are taking place on weekends, before the school year begins, after school year ends, before or after the duty day, etc. • Attending/learning during virtual meetings, webinars, and twitter chats outside the work day • Book studies done with others outside the work day • New to the district teacher training days • Professional reading done on your own • PD done during duty-free lunch (Lunch and Learns) • College classes or workshops done on your own time and paid by yourself, including those taken for relicensure purposes. • If one teacher agrees to work with another teacher or two after school, the “presenter’s” time is not doubled, but can count the actual time helping/demonstrating the topic at hand. • Visiting other schools on days off to learn new techniques. • If a teacher participates in a principal-approved and structured peer observation ac...