Hello, All:

Ed Kalas, Education Program Consultant

ANNOUNCEMENTS

WEEKLY UPDATES

Archived PD Weekly Updates through February 7, 2023

Update: March 15 2023

SCHEDULE OF IN-PERSON PD PLAN FINAL WALKTHROUGHS

Update: March 8, 2023

This email went out to several districts/systems yesterday and today that are in current plan review. If I am reviewing your plan and you did not receive something yet, don't worry you will get your turn. 

"The process of reviewing plans in writing, sending them out for revision and getting them back again, sometimes more than once, is much slower than I expected.

For my final reviews of PD plans, I am scheduling in-person/Zoom calls. So whether you’ve received a few reviews or not been reviewed yet, please fill out the following survey for times you are available to meet with me to work through your PD Plan.

Link went here. 

Please send me your options by _________.

Here is the process:

• You will send me the above survey with your available times/dates.
• I will schedule the Zoom call and send the information to you. Or we may do it in-person if that is possible.
• We will meet. I have scheduled one hour, but I am open for two if you want and can continue the discussion. I also have only sent this survey to only you in your district/system so feel free to invite anyone else who will have something to contribute to the meeting.
• You will do the following within the 20 working days our meeting:
  • Make the changes we discussed at our meeting.
  • If you would like me to accept those changes before you go to the PDC for approval of the plan, we can arrange to do that.
  • If you are comfortable that everything you need to change will work, you can take the plan to the PDC for its approval. When there is a motion to approve, you may ask that the motion include the minor changes that may come up with KSDE’s final viewing of the plan.
  • Once the PDC approves the plan, you will send it to me.  
• I will put the plan on the State Board of Educations meeting agenda for the following month.
• I will inform you when the approval vote is scheduled. The approval on these plans is usually part of the consent agenda. However, since it has been a few years since the Board has seen any, they may pull them for discussion.
• Finally, I will let you know when you plan is approved or of any other action the Board requests that we take."

With this process we should be able to have our meeting in __________, finalize the plan in ________, and get Board approval in __________.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

Thank you. Ed

Ed Kalas

Work Hours 7-6 Monday thru Thursday

Update: February 28, 2023

Update: February 21, 2023

This week KSDE will email information to districts that have PD Plans currently under KSDE review about a new process for getting approval from the State Board of Education for those plans by the end of June 2023.

Also, KSDE is creating a Moodle course that PDC's can use to meet their annual PDC member training requirement. It will be available on or after April 1, 2023.

Update: February 14, 2023

Only licensed teachers selected by licensed teachers and licensed leaders selected by licensed leaders may be members of a PDC

The PDC is an autonomous advisory group for the district/system governing body for professional development

PDC members choose their own officers

Teacher members must outnumber leader members

PDC Member Selection