For LPDC members and principals
Review a queue, not an inbox.
Everything waiting on you sits in one list, with the evidence already attached. You approve, deny, or return it for revision with a note, and the decision goes back to the person who submitted it without anyone forwarding anything.
One queue per committee Evidence already on the request Decisions carry a name
What lands in your queue
Everything waiting on you, in one list.
A committee's real problem is rarely the decision. It is finding the request, finding the certificate that was supposed to come with it, and working out whether anyone else has already looked at it. All three of those disappear when the queue is the system of record instead of a mailbox.
Growth Plans (IPDPs) arrive the same way in the fall, so the committee reviews plans and requests in one place rather than two.
What that means in a meeting
One queue, evidence already attached
- One review queue per committee
- Requests arrive with the verification document on them
- Approve, deny, or return for revision with a note
- Multi-reviewer routing where a committee requires it
- Group entry for a whole building's in-service day
- Online committee review of Growth Plans (IPDPs)
The committee's year
The same year you already run, with the paperwork carried for you.
Nothing here asks a committee to change its process. The routing follows the structure you already have, which is why the work arrives in the order you expect it.
August to September
Plans come in
Staff build a Growth Plan (IPDP) against your state or district standards and send it to the committee for approval. Review happens online, and notifications follow the plan through it.
All year
Requests come in
Workshops, coursework, conferences and in-house sessions are requested, evidenced and approved as they happen instead of arriving together at the end of the year.
Spring
Renewals get signed off
Totals, evidence and the committee's own decisions are already assembled when a license comes up for renewal, so signing off is reading a record rather than rebuilding one.
What changes
Three ways a committee gets stuck, and what replaces each one.
The inbox
A queue, not a thread.
Approvals stop living in an email thread that only one member can see. Everything waiting sits in one list, and a decision is recorded with the reviewer's name on it.
- One review queue per committee
- The verification document is already on the request
- Decisions recorded with the reviewer's name on them
The inconsistency
The same three decisions, every time.
Approve, deny, or return for revision with a note, so a member who has to fix something is told what to fix rather than left to guess at it.
- Approve, deny, or return for revision
- Multi-reviewer routing where a committee requires it
- Notifications as a plan moves through review
The in-service day
A building's day, entered once.
Group entry covers a whole building's in-service day, so one session does not become the same form filed once per person and then retyped from a sign-in sheet.
- Group entry for a whole building's in-service day
- Attendance checked in on a phone becomes credit
- Award digital certificates
What is recorded
What a decision leaves behind, and who can see it.
A committee is making decisions about other people's careers, so it is worth being exact about what the system keeps.
Every account is bound to a district and a role, with building and committee scope on top: a principal sees a building, a committee member sees the committee's work, and a teacher sees their own record. Administrative actions are written to an audit log, so a change to somebody else's record is not an anonymous event. Multi-factor authentication at sign-in is available and is switched on either by the district for its staff or by an individual for their own account. K12 Professional Development Tracker holds staff professional learning records only: it is not a student information system and holds no student-level data at all. The security page is the longer version.
Try it with your own staff list for thirty days.
Nothing to install, no credit card, and a person on the phone if you would rather be walked through it.