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3242 - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LICENSURE
The Board of Education directs the Superintendent to establish a Professional Development Committee that is in compliance with State law and applicable terms of the negotiated agreement with the Otsego Education Association.
The Committee may be a District committee or one that is part of a consortium of school districts.
The Committee shall be responsible for establishing the guidelines by which the Committee is to function. Among these guidelines should be:
| A. | a set of bylaws governing when the Committee will meet and where, how the committee will select and replace members, the manner in which voting will occur, and the procedure the Committee will use to hear appeals of its decisions; | |
| B. | the criteria that will be used to determine whether or not a professional development plan will be approved; | |
| C. | procedures for assessing the extent to which a staff member's professional development plan has been accomplished. |
All Professional Development Committee meetings are subject to the Sunshine Law.
If the District will be part of a Professional Development Committee operated by a consortium, the Consortium shall negotiate with appropriate bargaining units the number of members of the District's bargaining unit shall be members of the Committee and the compensation arrangements for those members. The Superintendent, in concert with other superintendents in the consortium shall determine which administrators from each district will serve on the Committee.
R.C. 3319.22