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The DOE will accept Continuing Education Contact Hour Certificates for Professional Development (PD)

Continuing Education Contact Hours (CECH), formerly CEUs, are used when renewing your teacher certification.

It is the responsibility of the individual to:

• Submit the required renewal documentation to the SD Department of Education in a timely manner to ensure their certification does not lapse.
• Keep track of their past yearly CECH certificates provided by SFSD.
• Keep track of how many hours they should receive from their district-led PD. Administrators tell participants how many hours they will receive at the beginning of the training.
• Record their attendance at any Professional Development event by using the QR code/roster provided by the facilitator before the closure deadline and or before leaving the training site speak with a facilitator to resolve any problems they experienced when logging into the QR.
• Log the attended Professional Development on their Professional Development Log.
• Yearly obtain the required signatures on their Professional Development Log.

Staff Development cannot/does not:

• Provide CECH’s for non-district sponsored professional development.
• Provide CECH certificates from 2019 onward.
• Provide the amount you have earned to date within a school year.
• Know which PD is missing from your Professional Development Log.
• Know specifics about your training sessions/professional development.
• Obtain missing required signatures on your Professional Development Log.

The DOE has requested that Sioux Falls School District teachers document all Professional Development on one form for the school year. Please use the Professional Development Log to do this. The link to this form is provided below.

On the Professional Development Log, you may list the following activities:

• District-sponsored in-service
• Building in-service time
• Book talks
• Building-sponsored training that is not a Red Apple Workshop course (i.e. Literacy, Math, Social Emotional, Culturally Responsive, etc.)
• Collaboration, not to exceed 5 hrs. per year, focused on student work & evidence of learning.

You may not list the following activities:

• Staff meetings
• Planning meetings
• Trainings sponsored by an entity other than the Sioux Falls School District
• Red Apple Workshop classes (you will receive a Continuing Education Contact Hour Certificate from the instructor, if applicable)
• Time increments of less than 30 minutes
• Do not include any activities for which you have received a Continuing Education Contact Hour Certificate from a District administrator and/or an instructional coach.

Print the form and record your Professional Development (see above for acceptable training). Indicate the name of the instructor/facilitator of each activity on the form. Print as many forms as you need during your renewal process. Your building administrator must sign and date each completed form before the end of the current school year.

 

Professional Development Log Form

 

Remember, when submitting contact hours, 15 hours equals one credit.

You must submit this form to the SD Department of Education (DOE) along with your on-line renewal application at the time of your scheduled renewal. Do not send the form to the SD DOE at the end of each year.

Do not send the Professional Development Log to Human Resources or Staff Development.

It is the responsibility of the individual to:

• Download each year & keep track of their Professional Development Log(s).
• Keep track of how many hours they should receive from their Professional Development.
• Obtain the appropriate signatures on their Professional Development Log on a yearly basis.

If you are currently enrolled in an advanced degree program (i.e. master's, specialist's, doctoral) in which you will earn a minimum of six graduate level credits prior to your certificate renewal date, you do not need to utilize this form.

If you already have enough credits/Continuing Education Contact Hours to renew your certification, you do not need to utilize this form.

Starting in 2018-2019 the Department of Education (DOE) will not accept generic listings on the professional development log such as “Professional Development” or “District Inservice” or “Building Inservice”.

Please ensure that you list a specific title for your trainings on your Professional Development Log.

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