Professional Advancement and License Renewal

To begin...PACs impact your MMSD salary schedule placement and PDPs are developed to renew your teaching license. (Both should be helpful for you professionally!)

PACs and MMSD Salary Schedule Advancement

Professional Advancement Credits (PACs) are earned when taking courses through MMSD that are offered outside the contract day.  PACs will automatically be transferred to HR when participants complete a course in the PD Catalog. PACs are used to determine your placement on the MMSD salary schedule. 10 hours of contact time=1 PAC. You can use PACs to move across the salary schedule instead of (or in conjunction with) university credits.

Human Resources explains the details about how you move across and down the salary schedule with PACs and academic credits. (Need other HR related items?) What are PACs anyway?

In order to find your official credit record, which shows PACs and Academic Credits, you can log into the GUI400 Icon  in your Novell Application. Here is a tip sheet for logging into your GUI record.

PDP & DPI Teacher Licensing

1. Professional Development Plans (PDPs) can be completed on a 5,4 or 3 year timeframe. If you need to know when your DPI-issued teaching license expires, look here at the online educator license lookup. You need to have your PDP completed by the time your license expires. You can't officially start a PDP until you are working under a regular contract (ie. non-extended long term sub contract.)

2. All those teachers licensing after 2004 must complete a PDP to renew their license. A couple of resources that can help you get started...

• Here is MMSD's step-by-step guide that walks you through  the Initial Educator electronic pdp process completed through WECAN. Here are some sample PDP goals you can look at to get you started.
• You'll be choosing two of the Wisconsin Teaching Standards to use with your PDP
• Even more details about PDP are available from DPI's web site

(During your first year of a licensure cycle, when you are in the reflection year, you can begin by considering the following questions:

o What are you noticing with yourself and your students? (General joys and concerns)
o What would you like to improve?
o What are you noticing about your strengths in the WI standards?
o What are you noticing about your student’s performance? (Social, emotional, academic and behavioral)
o What would you like to see yourself doing 5 years from now that you aren’t doing now?
o If you did that, what would you see your students doing that is different from what they are doing now?

These should be documented and kept in with your PDP/licensing information. It will form the basis for your PDP goal which you will submit to DPI starting in June of your first year of teaching.

3. Support is available to help with this process through both a workshop format as in these classes offered through the PD portal:

25.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	1	Sept 15	2015-09-15	2015-09-15	No Seats Avail 2 on Wait List
26.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	2	October 27	2015-10-27	2015-10-27	9 / 25
27.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	3	Dec. 8	2015-12-08	2015-12-08	23 / 25
28.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	4	Jan 12	2016-01-12	2016-01-12	22 / 25
29.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	5	Feb 10	2016-02-10	2016-02-10	22 / 25
30.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	6	March 9	2016-03-09	2016-03-09	25 / 25
31.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	7	April 19	2016-04-19	2016-04-19	25 / 25
32.	1563	PDP Writers' Workshop	View	8	Sept. 24	2015-09-24	2015-09-24	24 / 25

*****MMSD staff members are responsible for monitoring their own license renewal. The PDP is a meaningful and powerful professional learning opportunity.  It is a state requirement for certified staff who received their initial license after August, 2004, an option for all other certified staff.*****