HB396 funding will be available for the 2025-2026 year for both educators and building administrators. For each qualified individual 1.0 FTE, 25 hours are available. Here are several important reminders and deadlines:
- HB396 provides SLCSD with funding for educators to complete 25hours of paid professional time at their hourly rate. This includes general education and special education teachers, counselors, school specialists, library technology teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists, audiologists and building administrators. Hourly teachers are not eligible.
- Individuals may complete pre-approved district plans, university courses or endorsements without supervisor approval (but the district form must still be submitted). Alternately, an Individual Plan* may be submitted and must be reviewed and approved by the supervisor prior to beginning any work.
- All educators must submit their plan, on the district form, before the end of the day on September 30, 2025.
- When all HB396 hours are completed, a timecard and activity log of hours and activities must be reviewed and signed by supervisors no later than May 29, 2026.
- Professional development work for HB396 may be completed between July 1, 2025, and the last day of the school year, May 29, 2026. All educators must complete their hours outside of contract time.
*Individual Plans should be designed to follow the guidelines of the legislation:
“…(a) provide educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable students to succeed in a well-rounded education and to meet the challenging state academic standards; and (b) may include activities that (i) improve and increase an educator's: (A) knowledge of the academic subjects the educator teaches; (B) time to plan and prepare daily lessons based on student needs; (C) understanding of how students learn; and (D) ability to analyze student work and achievement from multiple sources, including how to adjust instructional strategies, assessments, and materials based on the analysis (ii) are an integral part of broad school-wide and LEA-wide educational improvement plans; (iii) allow personalized plans for each educator to address the educator's specific needs identified in observation or other feedback; (iv) advance educator understanding of: (A) effective and evidence-based instructional strategies; and (B) strategies for improving student academic achievement or substantially increasing the knowledge and teaching skills of educators (v) are aligned with, and directly related to, academic goals of the school or LEA; and (vi) include instruction in the use of data and assessments to inform and instruct classroom practice.” Educator Paid Professional Hours
