Professional Learning

Key Contacts

Newsletters

The PL team manages the weekly Principals’ Newsletter that includes important content that might be applicable to innovation schools. Please reach out to John if your school has new principals that should be included on the newsletter listserv. You can also email the Professional Learning Team at ProfessionalLearning@myips.org. 

In addition to the Monday Principals’ Newsletter, the portfolio team will send an email each Tuesday with more innovation-specific items and reminders. Please reach out to Ricky Ritter with any new school leaders or points of contact that should be added to the Innovation Leaders listserv. 

IPS Learning Portal

Available to in-LEA innovation partners. 

The IPS Learning Portal (LearningPortal.MyIPS.org) is a resource hub for professional development opportunities and materials! As a school leader, you will have the ability to assign and manage learning opportunities for your team. All staff members will also have access to resources detailed in the Learning Portal’s user guide, including other live PD events, trainings from district professional development days, asynchronous PD and additional learning materials. The cost is $75 per user. 

The IPS Learning Portal offers access the following resources:

●       Thousands of on-demand professional development opportunities related to project management, people skills and other topics focused on personal and professional growth.

●       Annual compliance content required by state statutes.

●       A central hub for team members to collect and reference resources from PD events and other content utilized for continuing-education credits. 

IPS Employee Evaluations  

The Evaluation Guidebook can be found here. You can also view the one-page Summary/Cheat Sheet here. 

New for the 2024-25 school year:

• All certified staff are in one group, so there is no Group 6 vs Group 1, etc. 

• No Professional Growth Goal

• Standardized Measure is held harmless (but will be documented in SFS) as we figure out how ILEARN checkpoints can be used for grades 3-8

• Observations are decreased to 1 mini and 1 long per semester

IPS Monthly Principal Meetings 

All Innovation Network Principals should have access to our monthly academic and operational principal meeting agendas and may attend any portion if they so choose. Please reach out to Ricky Ritter at ritterr@myips.org if you need access to the monthly principal meeting Outlook series. 

Summer PD Offerings 

Summer PD offerings will follow the same guidelines as above (Monthly Principal Meetings). The schedule will be shared in late spring/early summer each year. 

IPS Grading Policy

Access the IPS grading policy resource here.