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Virtually
anyone connected with the K-12 education
community knows that the quality of schools
is synonymous with the quality of the
teachers in those schools. There has been a
vast amount of scientific research conducted
over the last ten years that points to
teacher quality as the single most important
factor influencing student achievement.
CRS
Incorporated’s professional development
management system, CoursePlanner, is a fully
automated, ASP system which is designed to
track and maintain individual Professional
Development activities for your school
districts teachers, administrators and other
staff.
CoursePlanner can facilitate meeting state
and federal reporting requirements. More
importantly,
CoursePlanner serves as a vital management
tool providing knowledge to administrators
and
principals that will guide improvements and
enhancements to teacher capabilities. At the
same time
CoursePlanner provides teachers with a
platform for creating and managing their own
individual
professional development plans.
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Benefits of
CoursePlanner
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Online
Registration
System
streamlines
registration
process
saving
the
district
time
and
money.
It
also
sends
automatic
email
reminders.
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Comprehensive
Professional
Development
Portfolio
allows
users
to
view
all
PD
activity
in
current
and
previous
years.
Users
can
track
each
of
their
activities
status
and
print
and
store
their
individual
PD
plans.
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Allows users to view district required and district optional professional development activities, as well as their own individual professional development activities; |
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Allows districts to ‘push’ required professional development activities to specific users; |
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Tracks goals by district, building, and individual; Allows users to print and store a copy of their individual professional development plan at any time. |
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Tracking
Capabilities
enable
the
user
to
track
annual
PD
requirements,
as
new
teacher
requirements,
mentoring
hours
and
staff
activities
such
as
OSHA
training. |
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Communication
Capabilities
such
as
an
online
bulletin
board
for
news,
integrated
e-mail
reminders
and
reminds
supervisors
to
check
progress
towards
completion
of
an
activity
or
to
approve
special
requests. |
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Validation
Methods
include
several
methods.
There
is
the
honor
system,
individual
validation
coupons,
master
validation
numbers,
sign-in
sheets
and
supervisor
or
instructor
validation. |
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Reports
allow
administrators
the
ability
to
satisfy
state
and
federal
data
requirements,
and
in
some
cases
even
reporting
electronically.
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