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Policy

Personnel

Professional Growth

All professional employees of the district are expected to engage in activities which maintain and improve their professional skills during the period of their employment by the school district.

Professional growth activities include exchange teaching, contributions to the local school district through participation in in-service programs and in activities designed to develop plans or materials for district use, study in colleges or universities or through participation in workshops offered by public and private agencies, community service, and occupational experience.

The superintendent is charged with the responsibility of developing and administering professional development and in-service opportunities for members of the board of education, administrative personnel, and all personnel of the district (2500).

The superintendent shall establish a system for maintenance of records of the professional growth of each employee; this system, and requirements for employee notification of professional growth experiences, shall be described in the employee handbooks prepared by the district. Employee handbooks shall be reviewed on an annual basis.

The district may reimburse staff or pay fees or tuition costs for staff for participation in professional development opportunities. In order to be reimbursed or in order to have the district pay the fees an employee must submit a requisition in advance of the workshop, class or professional development opportunity; the training must be related to an individual’s teaching or administrative assignment, the activity must be a part of the individual’s or the district’s plan for professional development and permission must be received from the building principal. In no cases shall the district pay fees for staff to participate in a workshop which is mandated by state or federal law to obtain or maintain certification or which is used by the employee for advancement on the salary schedule.

Legal Reference: R. R. S.

79-843 Teachers and school nurses; contract; renewed; exception; amend or terminate; notice; hearings; decision.

Adopted: October 4, 1983

Revised: November 16, 1992