Staff Training: General Information

A catalog is available which contains a listing of LISD professional learning opportunities. After studying the catalog, please register on-line following the directions found here as well as on-line in our new, improved eLearning Management System (eLMS).

Contents
Education/Training Requirements for Certified Staff
Types of Credit
        Continuing Education (CE)
        Comp Time (Comp)
        Gifted/Talented (G/T)
How do I know what credit I receive for attending a session?
Required Learning for 2004-05 CPHS, LHS, VRHS
How to Register On-Line

Education/Training Requirements for Certified Staff:

• All certified instructional staff have 11 days (77 hours) of education/training built into the calendar during the 2005-06 school year. Nine days (63 hours) of district or campus based staff development occur during the regular school day (Aug. 9,10,11, 15; Oct. 10; Feb. 6, 7,8; May 30). Remember that you are responsible for the learning should illness result in missing a staff development day. As these 11 days are contracted days, absences must be called in. Please refer to your Employee Handbook under "Special Procedures for Discretionary Absences".

• August 12 and January 16 are comp days (14 hours) - days for which you are contracted but may earn the day off by attending workshops outside the regular school day and prior to the designated comp day(s). Not fulfilling the professional learning requirements can result in loss of pay. (See "Explanation of Required Learning" to help guide your selections for learning). Your campus principal will receive a list of staff names for which there is no documented training and notify you if you need to attend on the designated comp day(s). For training received outside the district, please get prior approval from your principal and/or curriculum supervisor. Please send a copy of the certificates received, signed by the appropriate supervisor, to Anita Cotter at Instructional Services to ensure that credit is recorded.

• To comp (not attend) August 12, please complete 7 hours between May 31and Aug. 8, 2005. Note: There may be specific learning sessions to meet your contract obligation for Aug. 12. Should you choose not to attend in the summer, you will receive this training on August 12. Otherwise, you need not report to work on August 12.

• To comp (not attend) January 16, please complete 7 additional hours between May 31and January 9 outside the regular school day. Again, you will be notified if you need to earn these 7 hours by attending January 16 professional learning offerings. Otherwise, you need not report to work on January 16.


All professional learning opportunities offered by the district during the summer are also approved for Continuing Education (CE) credit. Not all sessions are approved for comp hours. You may access your personal transcript through eLMS to check your documented training and/or to print the entire transcript at any time .

• Also offered are professional learning opportunities during the school year. These seminars (coded PS in the Table of Contents) are excellent portfolio choices and offer both 7 hours of comp plus hours for Continuing Education commensurate with the number of hours attended.

TYPES OF CREDIT

Continuing Education (CE)
State Requirement: 150 hours every five years

Instructional staff certified or recertified after September 1999 must receive 150 hours of continuing education every five years to qualify for state recertification. Keeping documentation of these hours is an individual, not a district, responsibility. As a state approved provider, the district may approve selected workshops for CE credit. NOTE: CE credit is not the same as comp credit.
 

Comp Time (Comp)
Local Requirement: 14 hours for 2005-06

Note: Not all professional learning offering in the catalog receive comp hours.

All instructional staff are contracted (paid) for 187 days. The district or campus does not provide staff development during the regular school calendar for two of those days, or fourteen (14) hours. These hours are in lieu of being on campus August 12, 2005 and January 16, 2006. These hours must be earned outside the regular school day for which you are already being paid. To earn approved COMP time for August 12, please complete 7 hours between May 31 and August 8, 2005. To earn the January 16 comp time, please complete 7 additional hours between May 31, 2005 and January 9, 2006. Staff not completing these hours by the above dates will attend sessions for professional learning on those days. If hours are complete, you need not attend. They are yours!
 

Gifted/Talented (G/T)
 

Required:	.30 hours plus 6 hours annually for primary instructors of identified gifted students
	.6 hours plus 3 hours annually for elementary cluster teachers
	.6 hours for principals, assistant principals, counselors, program administrators

These hours are acquired during the contracted year for which they apply.
 

How do I know what credit I receive for attending a session?

Look in the Credits portion of each class description. A class may earn one or more types of credit.

Ex:
CE: # hrs. Comp: # hrs.

Ex:
CE: # hrs. G/T: # hrs (N&N) Comp: # hrs.

If there is another code after G/T -[G/T (C&I)]- it denotes the category of G/T credit such as Curriculum & Instruction or Nature and Needs (N&N), etc.
 

Enjoy the vast variety of sessions offered to you for professional learning this summer.