Accessing PD Dollars Presidents’ Training Seminar Canad Inn Club Regent August 27,2007 Gail Button & Réjean LaRoche

Legislation Educational Administration Act 39 Responsibilities of Teachers: (f) Ongoing professional development

FRAME Program & Codes Program 630: pertains to instructional staff Amount of provincial funding found on page 2 How amounts are locally spent found on page 11

FRAME Programs & Codes Staffing Code 320 = Executive, Managerial and Supervisory Staffing Code 330 = Instructional – Teaching

FRAME Program & Codes Staffing Code 350 = Teacher Aides and other Staffing Code 380 = Clinicians

FRAME Professional & Staff Development = Activities that contribute to professional or occupational growth of instructional staff Includes: workshops, conferences, service training demonstrations and school visits Source: FRAME Manual

FRAME Timelines Local association input to the school division by December Division submits FRAME Final Budget to Province in April Budget takes effect July 1st of every year

FRAME Expenditures Where the money can be spent: Salaries Services Supplies Materials

TEACHER VOICE Are you satisfied with the PD decision- making process in your school division or district? Is your teacher association actively involved in decisions about PD? Are you aware of teacher PD needs within your local association?

TEACHER VOICE Structures: PD article in the collective agreement Letter of agreement pertaining to PD Joint PD committee (teachers/employer) Policy – written or unwritten – regulates how dollars will be spent School based decision making

EQUITY The principle of ‘equity among teachers’ is based on the belief that all teachers should have an equal opportunity to do their job in an effective manner.

EQUITY Adequate instructional space, material and related resources to deliver education programs and services to their students Working conditions which facilitate teaching and promote learning Open and continuing access to professional development Source: Glen McRuer

Accessing PD Dollars Predict the end result: get involved often and early develop a plan with your association don’t act alone persist and educate call a PI staff officer

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