Approval of Staff Development (SD) hours for salary advancement requires:

• Administrator approval prior to activity participation if taken through an agency other than North Orange County ROP

• A satisfactory or better on the Instructor’s Performance Evaluation Report

• Completion of twenty (20) hours of staff development activities

• Instructors employed less than thirty (30) hours per week may advance a step upon completion of twenty (20) hours of staff development activities every two years.

• It is the Instructors responsibility to keep track of hours attended and maintain proof of attendance that is provided to AIP at yearly check-out at the end of the contracted year.