Did you know that you can earn salary credits for professional learning time that is outside of your contract day and not compensated by extended hours or your 18 hours? The Office of Professional Growth and Development asks that you read the following process and submit any requests for CEU for pre-approval. This process is also a way for you to keep track of any and all professional learning activities once they are approved as eligible for continuing education units.

Below are the steps for pre-approval, record keeping, and submission for approval:

1. Review the eligible Professional Learning Activities eligible for credit. 

2. Meet with an advisor (this may be a coach, administrator, or supervisor) to set professional learning goals and plan the professional learning opportunities in which you will engage. If you are working towards applying your professional learning units towards your continuing education units, please upload your professional learning plan for pre-approval by the Office of Professional Growth & Development (PGD). These hours will be reviewed by a member of the PGD team and are subject to approval. Items such as reading a book or magazine on your own or participating in a club or PD that is not relevant to education will not be approved.

3. Once you have received an approval from PGD, use the approval log to document your activities. Set a schedule within which you expect your coach, program administrator, or direct supervisor to sign off on the activities.

4. Once you complete your hours, submit your completed log via this form: PL Credit Hours Submission Form

Reminder: 

- Activities completed before meeting and planning with an advisor are not eligible Professional Learning Units.

- Educators cannot claim participation in the same activity more than once (i.e. log hours as a teacher presenting in a PD and as a participant).

- Hours must be outside of your contract day, and you may not also receive payment such as 18 hours, Extended hours or stipends. 

- If an educator earns more than the required professional learning credit hours in the final year of their three-year cycle, a portion can be applied to the next cycle.