Professional Development
Professional Development Reimbursement Fund
2022-23 Professional Development Reimbursement Program
JCAA Member Benefit: $400 Reimbursement JCAA has a reimbursement benefit for administrator professional growth and development. The intent of this program is to reimburse JCAA members for expenses related to their professional learning. All administrators and professional/technical employees who are current JCAA members are eligible to receive up to $400 per school year of reimbursements for conferences, workshop or class, in Colorado or out of state, or membership to professional organizations.
The intent of this program is to reimburse JCAA members for expenses related to their professional learning. All administrators and professional/technical employees who are current JCAA members are eligible to receive up to $400 per school year of reimbursement for a conference, workshop, class, or membership to professional organization in or out of the state of Colorado. To apply, please click the link below and complete the “Application to Request JCAA Professional Growth and Development Funds”. Funds are available on a first come first serve basis. Submit the application and payment receipt to Denice Fair at Denice.Fair@Jeffco.K12.co.us.
To apply for funds, please email Denice for the application or click the Link below.
Professional Development Subscriptions
The Marshall Memo
The Marshall Memo, published 50 times a year and sent to JCAA Members, is designed to keep principals, teachers, administrators, instructional leaders, and superintendents, well-informed on current research and best practices.
To produce the Marshall Memo, Kim subscribes to more than 60 carefully-chosen publications, and every Sunday reads through the material that arrived that week and selects 5-10 articles that have the greatest potential to improve teaching, leadership, and learning.
What do subscribers gain from the 20 minutes it takes to read or listen to the Memo? For one thing, they feel less guilty about not getting to all the accumulated journals and education blogs. More importantly, they tap into a rich vein of ideas and resources that can help them be more effective. Some Memo summaries reaffirm what practitioners are already doing well; some boost an idea higher up the “to-do” list; and some are genuinely new and take readers in a different direction. Reading the Memo provides top-notch professional development and keeps educators on the cutting edge.
In addition to receiving a new Memo each week, JCAA Members have password access to the Members’ Area of this website, where it’s easy to download back issues and search the archive by author, topic, title, headline, publication, or grade level (there are now more than 7,000 article summaries from the last 14+ years). The podcast of each week’s issue is also available to members in MP3 or YouTube format a few days after the online edition is sent.
The MAIN IDEA
What exactly does THE MAIN IDEA provide?
THE MAIN IDEA creates an 8-page summary of a current education book each month. This summary contains the core ideas of the book, and organizes those ideas with enough accompanying details and examples, so you can have a working knowledge of its content. At the end, THE MAIN IDEA includes a full page of suggestions for ways to use the ideas in the book for professional development of your staff.
A year-long subscription to THE MAIN IDEA not only includes these monthly book summaries, but it also includes free access to over 120 book summaries and workshops in our archives.
Mission of THE MAIN IDEA
At THE MAIN IDEA we believe education can be transformative for students. Currently there is a great deal of information about improving student learning. However, although expert knowledge is available, it is not necessarily in the hands of true practitioners — principals and school leaders.
THE MAIN IDEA helps to bridge that gap by providing school leaders with the best current education ideas and practices. Through in-depth 8-page summaries of current education books, and suggestions for implementing those ideas, THE MAIN IDEA empowers education leaders with the knowledge and tools to improve student learning.
What are the benefits of THE MAIN IDEA’s summaries?
Improve your knowledge ? Improve your school
LEARN MORE
- Learn the core ideas of 8-10 powerful education books a year
- Improve your knowledge of current education ideas and practices
- Get the important information in each book from the clearly organized format
- Stay current and continue to learn — all the best education leaders do
IMPLEMENT MORE
- Provide in-house professional development sessions yourself with PD suggestions in each summary
- Use the ideas from the summaries in working with individual teachers
- Rejuvenate yourself and your teachers by infusing your school with new ideas