•+Levels+of+Initiatives

We manage a diverse system of online professional development, including a variety of output types, as well as a variety of sources creating the content. The Online Council oversees the work of the statewide team, who offers the following levels of support:


 * Support - Basic answering of technical questions and troubleshooting for your own development
 * Consult - Helping guide the vision for your process with questions and scaffolding for understanding
 * Design - Lay out (or help lay out) the outcomes, topics, resources, and assessments to be used in the course (or in other words, to create the syllabus)
 * Develop - Actually building (or helping build) the course materials, including in Moodle and other objects (video, SoftChalk)
 * Deliver - Carrying out the professional development. Note, this would be for online courses, communities, or webinars, where you would not be supplying the instructor, and instead would require AEA PD Online to recruit and train the instructor.

Because we have limited resources, we have to prioritize not only the products we choose, but also the depth of service that we offer. To help with common understanding, here are the different levels of an initiative, including who is directing the work, and the level of service offered by AEA PD Online for the work

(Directed) By ||  Director Role  ||  AEA PD Online Level of Service || Key Verb  ||  Example  || || • Determined Priority by Online Council • Buy-In/Oversight From All: Chiefs, Directors, DE ||  • Design • Develop • Deliver || Require (Only 1 will exist in the state, constantly updated/maintained by AEA PD Online) ||  • iEvaluate  || || • Direction from Individual Director Group, Provision of Time/Stipend for Involvement  || • Consult • Possible Design/Develop if reimbursed || Promote || • Google  || • Possible Consult if time || Aware of/Encourage  ||  • CSEPD  || • General Awareness of Directors, Online Council || • Support ||  Diversify/Broaden  ||  • Spanish for Educators  ||
 * Type ||  Developed
 * Statewide ||  The Online Council
 * Major Initiative ||  Statewide Director Group (e.g. Chief Administrators, SPED, Instr. Service, HR Directors, or Media)
 * Minor Initiative ||  Collaborative Development with Consultants  ||  • Direction from Individual Lead Team, Buy-In from Directors  || • Support
 * Elective ||  Individually Developed or External Content  ||  • Approved by AEAPDOnline License Renewal Coordinator