I. Professional Learning

• All staff must have sufficient training to be able to carry out their assigned duties and to help our students realize maximum achievement.
• Professional Learning shall be used to acquire new learning to assist in attaining district/campus/department goals.  
• All professional learning hours must be accrued in academic learning that is applicable to the participant’s current job description. 
• Test preparation/test review/administration sessions or sessions/courses for initial teacher certification, extra duties such as extracurricular or co-curricular duties, supervision of students, etc…do not count as district professional development.
• Professional Learning activities listed in the electronic database are accrued from the employee’s hire date in GPISD.  It is the employee’s responsibility to print a copy of his/her transcript when leaving the district. 
• All registrations and out-of-district credits are for the current school year, and all records are closed out at the end of each school year.
• Certificates from previous years cannot be added nor can credits from one year be applied to another year.

II. Conferences/Out-of-District Sessions 

(The requested credit must be in the specific teaching area in which you are currently employed or approved by campus principal or designee.)

• Any session taken out-of-district must be pre-approved by the appropriate central office administrator and the campus principal. 
• Certificate of completion with the SBEC number of the awarding organization must be submitted as stated on the pre-approval form within 30 days of completion.
• Total credits requested must be in one-hour increments.
• Time spent in exhibits, meetings, lunch, social events, or breaks at conferences will not be added as professional development.

III. Attendance/Credit

To ensure appropriate credit is awarded:

• Register through Edugence and sign in as requested at a session.
• Any participant not registered through Edugence must have a completed Walk-in Certificate as documentation for credit as there will not be an electronic record of attendance.
• Participants may be requested to sign-in after lunch or sign-out at the end of the day by the facilitator.
• Legible signature MUST be on the official district sign-in sheet.
• A colleague may not sign-in for another participant.
• Late arrival to or early departure from the session may result in loss of credit for the session.
• Partial credit will NOT be granted.

Absences 

• Failure to sign in.
• Late arrival or early departure of 15 or more minutes will result in a recorded absence.

Walk-in credit 

• Requires a completed walk-in certificate per specific instructions on the certificate.
• Legible signature of the participant and the instructor MUST be on the official district sign-in sheet.
• Participation is not guaranteed; admission will be dependent on room capacity.

IV. Children

• Children are not permitted to attend professional development sessions.
• Children may not be left unattended in the building where professional learning is occurring.

V. School Courses

• Sessions entered and attendance recorded by campus administration. 
• Campus maintains records, agendas, sign-in sheets for all credits awarded for CPE credit for campus/school courses.
• Informational meetings e.g. faculty meeting "nuts and bolts" meetings are not eligible for CPE credit.
• It is the educator’s responsibility to maintain documentation of campus courses for recertification purposes.