Professional Development for SD71 (Comox Valley) Teachers

     
Doug David PD Chair
Email: pd71@bctf.ca  or
teacherprod@sd71.bc.ca

Pro-D Forms

Flex Pro-D days in August (NO LONGER - now school based PD days)

  • SD71 Comox Valley teachers:  IMPORTANT INFO for new School-Based PD Days

    1 – School-based pro-d days are back in the school calendar. 
    Please ensure your school site has a minimum of 2 teachers to support your school pro-d with admin and other staff.

    If teachers choose to do pro-d outside their school (meet with other teachers at another school location), they need to put in AMS under ‘in-district pro-d’ and have approved by their admin.

     

    2 – October Provincial Days or out-of-district pro-d:

    Teachers may wish to partake in pro-d outside their district and will need admin approval and put in the AMS under ‘out-of-district pro-d’.

     

    3 – NIDES Distance teachers (not physically in Comox Valley):

    All NIDES Distance Learning teachers will need to discuss their pro-d plans with their administrators.

 

  •  PROTOCOL FOR TEACHER PRO-D ATTANDANCE ON FEB & OCT PD DAYS:

    1- AT YOUR REGULAR LOCATION
    If a teacher remains at their school/location of work to do pro-d – no form is needed. This includes teachers doing any online workshop as they remain within their regular classroom/work location.

  • 2- OUTSIDE SD71 COMOX VALLEY
    If a teacher is going to be out of the Comox Valley school district (Victoria, Vancouver, Nanaimo) to do pro-d, you must put in absence in AMS ‘Pro-D Out Of District’ with destination & details and have your principal’s approval before the trip out of Comox Valley. ​NIDES distance teachers are an exception, as they already work out of Comox Valley. They simply need to ensure their principal knows what pro-d work they intend to do on Pro-D Day.

    Note: if pro-d is being done during regular instruction days, and you need TOC coverage, please ensure you have enough pro-d funds to pay for this absence (from $350 -$470 /day depending on TOC replacement) or if any school /district funds will be paying it.

  • 3- WITHIN SD71 BUT NOT REGULAR SCHOOL LOCATION
    If a teacher is doing pro-d activities outside their school/ regular work location, but within the Comox Valley school district (another school, museum, study group, etc.), they must go into the Absence AMS to enter “Pro-D In-District” with details for your pro-d activity so as to ensure your principal is aware of your location.
    * THIS AMS CODE REPLACES THE OLD “SELF-DIRECTED PRO-D FORMS”

    Note: Participation in the Teacher February District Pro-D day (in-person) only requires you to inform your principal and no AMS code is needed.

     

Teacher - Local Specialist Associations

The Pro-D Committee has funding available to support SD71 Local Specialist Associations (LSA).
If you would like to organize an LSA for SD71 please see the 5 steps below.
​The funds can be used to provide snacks for meetings, supplies, resources, day-care costs, thank you gifts for presenters, or even an honorariums.
Please contact teacherprod@sd71.bc.ca if you have any questions or would like to create your own LSA!

5 Steps to set up your Local Specialist Association (LSA)
  • Email teacherprod@sd71.bc.ca your LSA group name (examples: Library, Home Economics, Kindergarten, Counsellors, etc.).
  • Constitution/mission statement – brief goals for the LSA (just a couple of lines summarizing).
  • Give us a list of members/participants for your particular LSA.
  • Collect a small fee ($2- $10) from each member for costs/resources to run the meetings.
  • When you run out of funding from fees, you can utilize the $250 set up in your LSA with the Pro-D secretary @ teacherprod@sd71.bc.ca
  • Starting an LSA Pro-D SD71

BCTF Pro-D

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