Teachers

Professional Development

• PD Central - Information about Professional Development.
• Classified PD - Classified Professional Development Training.

Salary and Benefits Information

• Salary Schedule (pdf)
• Employee Benefits Summary (pdf)

Employment Opportunities

• Job List - Listing of jobs available (updated every Wednesday)
• Job Descriptions - Includes job title, salary schedule, responsibilities and qualifications.

Documents

• Family Medical Leave Information
• Inclement Weather - Procedures for pay check distribution on days when schools are closed
• JCPS Paydates
• JCPS Policy and Procedures (pdf)
• Technology Policy & Procedures (pdf)
• JCPS Forms Online
• JCTA Agreement (Jefferson County Teachers Association)

Resource Links

• CCV Software - Order your software here.
• CASCADE - Enter students scores from assessments based on Core Content, and receive detailed analysis of classroom progress.
• Clicktionary - Are you unfamiliar with a technology-related word?
• Computer Application Skills Library- View the Computer Application Skills by level.
• Core Content Guide (CCG) - All you need to know about the Core Content Guides.
• Cultural Consortium Guide - A guide of cultural-resource representatives who meet to create, coordinate, promote, and review cultural programs in area schools.
• Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) - Responsible for issuing and renewing certificates for all Kentucky teachers and administrators.
• Elementary Curriculum Maps - Tables that show what students learn at each grade level. (PDF files)
• Kentucky Department of Education (KDE)
• Kentucky Retirement Systems - Planning to make a visit to Frankfort?
• Kentucky Teacher Retirement Systems (KTRS)
• Kentucky Teacher Certification
  • Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) - Responsible for issuing and renewing certificates for all Kentucky teachers and administrators as well as information concerning KDE Teacher Standards.
  • JCPS Teacher Certification Department - Send an email with your questions.
  • Certificate renewal and changes in Rank or Rank +15 - Information and directions for Rank changes.
• National Board Certification – For teachers interested in pursuing National Board Certification.
  • To access Kentucky resources regarding ranks and bonus for National Board Certification visit the Kentucky Department of Education
  • For individual questions, please email Susan Thurman
• Open Response Bank - View a list of Open Response items by grade, subject, core content area, or keyword or submit a new Open Response item to the quality control team.
• Predictive Assessment Series (PAS) - Your connection to ThinkLink Learning
• STLP - The Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP) is designed to advance individual student capabilities; to motivate all students; and to create leadership opportunities through the use of technology.

Instructional Links

• Apple Learning Interchange - An online educational environment to facilitate the interchange of ideas among teachers
• Reading Bookshelf - The Reading BookShelf is a site dedicated to helping parents finding books for their schools Accelerated Reading program at local libraries, bookstore and on the web.
• Brain Pop - BrainPOP produces educational animated movies for grades K-12 to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible and entertaining to both children and adults. (Flash Required)
• KET EncycloMedia - KET EncycloMedia offers teachers and students more than 4,000 videos, 40,000 video clips, and thousands of digital images, all searchable by key word, content area, grade level, and Kentucky academic standards.
• eThemes - is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate
  resources organized around specific themes.
• Graphic Organizers - List of graphic organizers at Education Place.
• High School Hub - A noncommercial learning portal to excellent free educational resources for high school students.
• Homework Help Teacher - Search, add, and edit the Homework Help database.
• Internet Public Library - a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science is developing and maintaining the IPL
• Class Brain - Teaching resources with lots of free posters and lesson plans.
• Local Weather - National Weather Service forecast for Louisville, KY
• Louisville Free Public Library - The official website of the Louisville Free Public Library
• Math Resources - Math Resources by Subject
• Marco Polo - Standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom
• netTrekker - Internet search engine that provides safe educator selected resources
• Rubistar - this web site helps teachers quickly create rubrics for a wide variety of content area.
• Sites for teachers - Website that rates educational Websites by popularity with teachers.
• Webquests - Webquests created by JCPS teachers

Tutorials

• Adobe Golive - Step-by-step tutorial for Golive CS2.
• Using iMovie - Learn the basic functions and tools of iMovie.
• Digital Cameras- Lesson Plans for using Digital Cameras in the Classroom
• LearningElectric - provides online software training through Quicktime movie tutorials.
• Photoshop Elements - Learn the basic functions and tools of Photoshop Elements. Links to other Photoshop Elements resources.
• Web Design - How to design, gather content and build a school web site
• Podcasts/Wiki's/Blog's - How to create these using the JCPS Media Server
• Using Webmail - Guides to using webmail and blocking spam.