PSD Professional Development Procedures and Expectations for Offering Classes Instructors PSD Professional Development welcomes qualified instructors. Anyone interested in becoming an instructor should contact the PSD Professional Development Department. Instructors who will be teaching classes eligible for University credit must have a Master’s Degree and submit a current resume. Compensation for Instructors The PSD Professional Development Department will work with district departments and schools to determine if an instructor is eligible for compensation from the PSD Professional Development budget or other PSD budgets. Rates of Compensation 
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Providing professional development opportunities is a job expectation of district‐level staff during the workday and they are therefore not eligible for instructor compensation. No compensation is provided for planning time. The compensation rates above honor the work needed to prepare and facilitate classes. For class times outside PSD staff contract hours: o Individual Instructor: $40.00 per hour for each hour of contact time during class sessions. Non‐
exempt classified staff will receive one and one half times their regular hourly rate of pay (if these hours put them over 40 hours for the week) or $40/hr., whichever is greater. o Co‐instructors: $30.00 per hour for each hour of contact time during class sessions. For class times during PSD staff contract hours o $17.00 per hour for each hour of contact time during class sessions. o PSD Professional Development Department will pay for substitutes for instructors when needed. Instructors cannot earn PSD credit for teaching a class. Exceptions for book studies and Summer Institute classes must be approved by the Director of Professional Development. The PSD Professional Development Department does not compensate instructors for School‐based Classes. Principals are encouraged to use their allocated professional development funds to support School‐based Classes. Submitting a Class for Approval To submit a class for approval, complete a class proposal form located on the PSD Professional Development website, https://www.psdschools.org/department/professional‐staff‐development. Proposals must be submitted 30 days prior to the start of the first session of a class. All class proposals require two levels of approval. The first level is the approval and signature of the school principal or district department director to agree to the class content and any financial requests. The second level is the approval of the Director of Professional Development. Updated July 2016 Minimum Class Enrollment Policy When the PSD Professional Development Department is compensating an instructor, the minimum class size is 15 participants. Classes with fewer than 15 participants registered will be cancelled for low enrollment. Instructors will be contacted and low enrollment cancellations will be made 3 days before the first session of a class. Instructors may opt to still hold the class, however the instructor would not be compensated. If the PSD Professional Development Department is not compensating the instructor, low enrollment cancellations will be at the discretion of the instructor or approving administrator. Responsibilities of Instructors Please contact the PSD Professional Development Department if you have any questions about these responsibilities. 
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Secure principal or director approval of class proposal and submit to the PSD Professional Development Department for approval 30 days prior to the first session of the class. Before the first session of the class, instructors will be emailed a final roster for the class and individual sign‐in sheets for each session. If the class is eligible for University credit, the appropriate CSU paperwork will be included. Offer this to participants that have also purchased PSD credit. This paperwork must be returned to the PSD Professional Development Department after the first session of a class. Keep detailed attendance for each session. Attendance and participation in all sessions of a class is an expectation. Staff must attend and participate in at least 80% of all class session to be eligible for credit. o Missed class sessions will not be awarded credit hours and staff will not be reimbursed for those individual sessions. Make‐up work may be assigned for some sessions of classes. The instructor of each class decides if make‐up work is available and earns credit hours for missed sessions. Please note that many professional development opportunities rely on the interaction and collaborative learning and therefore it is acceptable to not offer make‐up work. o If make‐up work is assigned by the instructor and after the assignment is completed to the instructor’s satisfaction, the instructor will mark the participant as “made up on (date)” for the absence. At the first session of a class, ask participants to review their information on the sign‐in sheet. If they have questions about their credit purchase or Audit choice, they need to contact the PSD Professional Development Department as soon as possible. If their information states “Pending”, they opted to pay by cash or check and must submit that payment before the last session of the class or their status will be changed to Audit. When the class is over, complete the final roster by transferring attendance for each class session and mark a final grade of Pass or Incomplete for each participant. Within two weeks of the end of the class, return the sign‐in sheets for each session and the overall roster to the PSD Professional Development Department. Do not enter any attendance or grade information into the PD Online Catalog. The PSD Professional Development Department will enter attendance, grades, and credit into the PD Online Catalog as well as report all grades for University credit to CSU. Updated July 2016