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Professional Development Program / Flex
MiraCosta's Professional Development / Flex Program offers employees a comprehensive and systematic program of services and activities designed to foster staff, student, and instructional improvement by leveraging the reflective vision of participants.
The Flexible Calendar Program (Flex) is a privilege afforded to community colleges by the state of California. It allows districts with a state-approved program to replace up to 15 instructional days per academic year with professional development activities. Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations stipulates the details of the program and that it must be administered locally by regular meetings of an advisory committee composed of faculty, students, and administrators. At MiraCosta, this advisory committee is known as the Professional Development Program committee, or PDP.
Important Information
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ALL FACULTY PLEASE READ!
- PDP appreciates your patience and cooperation as we work to bring us into compliance with state regulations and to improve our local implementation.
- This website and all PDP/Flex-related documentation ("Documents and Forms") are undergoing major revisions. PDP asks that you please refrain from taking action or answering others' questions based upon your "historical knowledge" of the program -- contact Rica or Louise for help. Please continue to check back here for updates to the site and supporting documentation. We do apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
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FULL-TIME FACULTY
- The flex obligation for 2011-12 is 60 hours.
- To assist you in meeting the increased obligation, PDP asks that you think more carefully about things you already do that may count as flex and to please be more diligent about recording these activities. These must be activities above and beyond your contractually obligated duties and responsibilities and must meet the state's criteria for staff, student, and/or instructional improvement.
- Make sure you have thoroughly read and enrolled in the 2011-12 certification on your transcript. This is not optional. Failure to enroll in the certification means you have not filed the required contract with the state (see "Documents and Forms") and negates any professional development hours recorded.
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ASSOCIATE FACULTY
- No more paper flex forms!
- All associates are required to maintain a transcript online at MyFlex.
- Paper timesheets are still required, properly filled out and attached to your transcript printout. See the "MyFlex" page and the "Documents and Forms" page for more information.
Current Flex Schedule
- Please check to make sure you have the latest version: check the date (YYYY-MM-DD) in the lower right corner of the file against the version posted here.
- View/Download (PDF)
Changes to the schedule:
..."Open Educational Resources (OER)" on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. has moved to OC 3606.
..."Library Live!" on Thursday at 9:00 a.m. is ONLINE ONLY! See the workshop description in MyFlex for instructions on how to connect to the webinar.
...POT workshops on Thursday, "How To Choose Good Tools...", "Lunch with Roundtable Discussion...", "Creating Learning Units...", and "All Day" have been moved to OC 4802.
..."The Unreasonable Reasonable Accommodation" on Thursday at 9:00 a.m. has moved to OC 3601 (Little Theatre).
..."All College Day" on Friday at 9:00 a.m. is in OC 2406 (Concert Hall).
Contact Information
Rica Sirbaugh French Louise McDermott Mailing Address Location Office Hours |
2011-12 Committee Members
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