The Vendor is required to provide for a professional development (PD) management system, hereafter referred to as system that will support the professional development functions of our departments.
- The core focus areas include but are not limited to the following:
• PD management
• Instructional coaching management
• Observation tool management
• Reporting of connected data across all three areas - PD, coaching, and observations - at multiple levels and roles
- The Professional Development (PD) Management System shall help the District save time at every level of planning, delivering, and analyzing professional learning.
- The Professional Development Management System shall offer visibility into learning activity. Administrators must be able to track attendance and credits, as well as areas of strength and need in instructional practice.
- The System shall enable greater coherence by connecting professional learning efforts to shifts in classroom practice. By integrating tools to track classroom observations and walkthroughs, the System shall show administration the extent to which professional learning drives forward school and district-wide improvement initiatives at any level.
- The System shall be cloud based.
- Requirements:
• Allows for and supports timely creation of unique surveys, coaching forms, and observation tools throughout the contract period.
• Allows for professional development for all employees.
• Allows for tracking and reporting of courses.
• Ability to tie high-quality professional development directly to the district-defined competencies within the evaluation system.
• Provided training library and help documentation.
• Proven uptime and reliability.
• Verifiable backup system with redundancy.
• Profile for each employee that displays coaching supports, walks, and PD attendance.
• Data reports update automatically as new data is input to the system.
• Data reports can be shared with users, and the system will recognize the data permission of new users to limit the data set (i.e., campus principals).
• Data can be compared in a single report across instructional coaching, walkthroughs, and PD.
• Reports can be generated by role (teacher, defined teacher teams, administrators, and district staff), by level, and by area (PD, coaching, and observation instrument).
- Functionality
• Total integration between the district, schools, and classrooms.
• Clear and intuitive navigation.
• Web-based and browser-driven, requiring no remote clients.
• Data synced with Active Directory.
• Compatible with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other commonly used browsers using only default installation settings.
• Single sign-on.
• Page management is presented in a quickly accessible, easy-to-use, responsive way.
• Unlimited users and multi-level groups with permission-based logins.
• The user can enter tables, graphics, charts, etc.
• Content can be previewed before final publication on the site.
• Data is sortable by building, position, department, etc.
- Course Creation
• Allows for the creation of in person and online courses.
• Access controlled capabilities for creating courses and sections, including the ability to align courses with rubrics or curriculum standards.
• Ability to create courses with different credit/types.
• Tracks course title, course type, course category and course descriptions.
• Tracks sponsoring department/group.
• Tracks the number of credits/hours.
• Tracks end of registration date.
• Tracks start/end time.
• Tracks location.
• Maintain maximum class size.
• Ability to upload or link to attachments (including but not limited to agenda, additional materials, brochures).
• Courses can be made visible to specific groups of employees based on role and location.
• Allows for conference-style PD.
• Allows for multi-part/session PD events.
• Allows for PD pathways/playlist. This is a playlist to group professional development offerings that relate to a themed topic or need.
- Course Management
• Employees can submit a course proposal.
• Proposed courses can go through an approval workflow before being published.
• Employees can complete registration for courses online.
• Includes online course cataloging and searching.
• Online catalog includes user registration with self-service enrollment.
• Online registration – includes automated email communication and waiting list.
• Employees can join a waitlist if the course is full, and the waitlist is managed automatically.
• Allows the user to self-withdraw from a course before the course start.
• PD facilitator can sort the list of registered staff by campus/department
• Prevents teachers from double booking overlapping PD events
• Easy communication with registrants/attendees both before and after a PD event
- Course Completion & Evaluation
• Automatically sends course survey upon completion of the course.
• Survey completion can be required to receive course credit.
• Multiple surveys can be utilized simultaneously within the System.
• The certificate is auto generated upon course completion.
- Tracking and Reporting
• Transcripts include internal and external professional learning.
• Transcripts included accumulated points/credits based on credit type.
• Transcripts can be emailed or printed.
• Ad hoc reporting for robust reporting options.
• Schedule reports for recurring report needs.
• Aggregate data by district/location/building/group of individuals.
• Reporting available for district and building level admins.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
- Pre-Proposal Conference (Non-Mandatory) Date: February 12, 2026
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: February 16, 2026
