The first contract will organize all existing ET professional development and training providers into a single coordinated system. This system will provide you with a single point of contact to evaluate and select professional development and training services for your district. In addition, it will ensure that there is an appropriate match between districts needs and provider services in every region of the state. This system will make your districts ET professional development and training dollars go much further. We will work with the selected consortium to develop the Department's winter and spring integrated professional development conferences.
Conferences are open to all educators.
I have attached an Executive Summary, Draft Schedule of Contract Milestones, and application for district pilot participation. This contract will have a dramatic impact on all Department programs and initiatives. It will replace virtually all existing paper-based forms with a World Wide Web transactional system and distributed databases. By the end of next school year, for example, you will no longer receive a paper form to fill out requesting your district's share of school food service commodities. Instead, you or your staff will log on to the Department's Web site through the internet, download a form customized with your district's information, fill in on the screen your requested amount, and press a button to transmit it back to the Department.