Park 6 Staff,

As a service in providing recertification support to staff, our district tracks professional development (PD) activities and submits the qualifying hours to the Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board (PTSB).   Each year’s database begins July 1 and ends June 30.  We submit the Fall database to PTSB in February and the Spring database in late August.  Fourteen (14) contact hours are required to earn one PTSB credit.  If you attend every district training and in-service activity and submit the required documentation, you should be able to accumulate enough credits for recertification.  All you need to do at that point is submit the PTSB form and fee; your credits will already be on file.  

Forms must be submitted according to the guidelines below in order to earn PTSB credit.  Please read these guidelines carefully.  Complete and accurate documentation is required not only by PTSB but also by the Wyoming Department of Education and the federal grants that fund much of our district's professional development opportunities.

The forms required to earn PTSB credits are:

District PD Application

1.  An Application for District Professional Development, all sections completed, signed by you and by your building administrator, and received by the Curriculum Office for final approval at least 30 days prior to the activity.

2.  An agenda or schedule showing the dates and times of the activity must be attached to the Application.  At this point, a one-page schedule-at-a-glance* will suffice.  

*Helpful hint: You also will be required to attach an agenda to your Travel Reimbursement Form after you return; this type of agenda works great for that purpose.  However, the agenda you attach to your travel reimbursement goes to the Business Office to document that expense; the Curriculum Office never sees it.

  • If you will not receive an agenda until you get to the activity, please note that on the Application and send the agenda to the Curriculum Office upon your return.

3.  Submitting contact hours for PTSB credit requires more documentation.   

  • If you attend an activity with multiple sessions, you must keep track of the sessions you attend, including the start & end times of each session, and submit this upon your return.

    • If you receive a Certificate of Attendance or similar documentation of your contact hours, send a copy to the Curriculum Office.

4.  Complete the PD Evaluation within 30 days of receiving it from the Curriculum Office.  PD evaluations are sent to attendees based on the Applications.

In District PD (organized by district departments or schools)

1.  Sign the sign in sheet at the training.  Your signature is your guarantee that the title activity is what you attended on the stated date at the stated time & is part of the documentation the district is required to keep.  

  • If there is not a sign in sheet specific to your event, get a blank one from the building Admin Assistant & fill it in.  Attach your agenda and/or notes prior to submitting it to the Curriculum Office (within 5 days).

    • PD Organizers: Sign in sheets submitted 30 days or more after the activity will not be accepted.

2.  Complete the PD Evaluation within 30 days of the activity. 

  • Evaluations for small groups are sent to attendees based on the sign in sheet(s).

  • Evaluations for district-wide activities are posted below.  You must complete the evaluation for the activity which you signed in for in order to receive PD credit.  

Professional Development (PD) Evaluations

You must be logged in to your District Google account in order to access the evaluations.  An Evaluation must be completed within thirty (30) days of the PD activity. 

  • If there is not an evaluation for the activity you participated in, please contact the Curriculum Office.  Responses unrelated to the stated activity can substantially skew the evaluation results and will not fulfill your evaluation requirement.

  • Please be sure you click on the correct evaluation.  Responses are not transferable between forms and you cannot be credited for a response on the evaluation for an activity you did not attend.

2023 - 2024 Open Professional Development Evaluations: 

Ongoing District Team Meetings

These meetings may or may not qualify for professional development contact hours.  Decisions will be made by the Assistant Superintendent & are dependent on the meeting's content match to PTSB requirements.

1.  Sign the sign in sheet at the meeting; sign in sheets should be submitted to the Curriculum Office within a week of the meeting. 

2.  Assign a group member to take meeting notes (from an agenda pre-approved by a building administrator) and send those notes to the Curriculum Office within a week of the meeting.

3.  Complete the Evaluation within 30 days of receipt.  Depending on the number of meetings scheduled, there may be separate evaluations for August through December and January through May meetings.

Recertification and PTSB*

*The Curriculum Office cannot do any of this for you.  We submit your credits but cannot see anyone's individual records.

To recertify, check your PTSB credits, or submit a non-district activity for PTSB credit*

Go to the PTSB website (wyomingptsb.com).  If you do not have an online account with them, Register for an Account.

To recertify:

~ If you are recertifying with only district submitted credits, you can renew online by clicking on Renew Online in the top right corner.  If you are using university or other outside credits as part of your recertification, you will need to download the paper application.

* Please note: The online renewal process has changed dramatically so it is "HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you PRINT OUT INSTRUCTIONS" before you log in & try.  That is a direct quote from PTSB's online renewal page.

~ If you are recertifying with university or other outside-the-district credits OR adding an endorsement, click on Licensure then go down to Renewing a License or Permit.

To check your PTSB credits:

~ Click on Online Login  This will take you to the State of Wyoming Online System.  Enter your Login ID & Password.

~ Click on Educator Section: Click Here

~ When you log in to your account, your PTSB ID number will be available to you.  You can use your number on any PTSB forms you encounter instead of using  your social security number.

~ Click on View Report of your Licensing Information.  Our district's submissions will show up as "Park 6 PSD (plus the relevant school year, e.g. 19-20)" with your Credits Earned total.  You will not see a breakdown of the individual PDs, although PTSB has that information on file.  If you want a list of the PDs we submitted, please contact the Curriculum Office.

~ Continuing Education Units (CEU) are available at some workshops and seminars.  You may also see other entries in your PTSB account if you have attended conferences or symposia that submitted PTSB forms.  There will be a PTSB form and/or sign in sheet available at activities that are pre-approved for PTSB credit.

To submit a non-district PD activity for PTSB credit:

~ Click on  Professional Development 

~ Go to Workshops Not Pre-Approved for Credit and click on the Individual Workshop Request for Credit Form to download it.  Completed forms must be received by PTSB within 30 days of the workshop completion.

If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the Curriculum Office.  We are pleased to be able to provide this service for our staff.

Tim Foley, Assistant Superintendent

Maddie Jackson, Curriculum Admin Assistant/Curriculum Librarian