PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
WE HELP SCHOOL DISTRICTS MANAGE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SAVE OVER 1500 HOURS AND $50,000 EACH YEAR WITH OUR PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE.SAMPLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS USING KALPA
1500 SCHOOLS AND COUNTING!
Testimonials
DEBBIE ATWELL
Superintendent, Mountainburg Schools
“Since signing with KALPA, all of our numbers have increased! We’ve held more sessions and have had more people attending sessions. Faculty are taking PD seriously, building their schedules and registering in advance. Faculty also like that they can see their PD plan at any time. Supervisors can see what their employees are attending and monitor PD plans all year long.”
THERESA HUNT
Coordinator of Instructional Operations & Support Services, Washtenaw Community College
“In the first year of KALPA implementation, our organization realized a $50,000 savings compared to the cost of our previous system and staff time to manage the previous system. We realized that savings provided our end users a much simpler and more robust solution and advanced our capabilities. Literally a win-win-win.”
MATT SAFERITE
Assistant Director, Bentonville Schools
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Montabella
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BEFORE IMPLEMENTING KALPA:
Montabella Community Schools had been using a rudimentary system that did not track professional development effectively, which resulted in additional resources and dollars spent to meet compliance requirements.
AFTER IMPLEMENTING KALPA:
KALPA’s intuitive system that effectively manages and tracks professional
development, has greatly reduced the amount of time, money and resources previously invested.
“As a small district, our administrators wear many hats and KALPA has allowed us to streamline the end-of-the-year process and save hours of manpower hours, which in the end is saving the district money.”
Shelly Millis
Superintendent
BEFORE IMPLEMENTING KALPA:
Washtenaw Community College was using a system that was designed for meeting registrations, not effectively tracking professional development
AFTER IMPLEMENTING KALPA:
Our tailored, easy-to-use system allows them to create custom reports as needed and resulted in a 47% increase in professional development being completed.
“Since signing with KALPA, all of our numbers have increased! We’ve held more sessions and have had more people attending. Faculty are taking PD seriously, building their schedules and registering in advance. Faculty also like that they can see their PD plan at any time, and supervisors can see what their employees are attending and monitor PD plans all year long.”
Theresa Hunt
Coordinator of Instructional Operations & Support Services,
Washtenaw Community College
BEFORE IMPLEMENTING KALPA:
Saline Schools had difficulty in managing professional development, despite dedicating staff hours and additional dollars. They struggled with effectively providing reporting on professional development hours completed.
AFTER IMPLEMENTING KALPA:
After using KALPA, teachers and administrators report finding the system easy to use as it relates to recording and managing their professional development hours.
Stephen Laatsch
Assistant Superintendent of Learning, Saline Area Schools
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Established in 2001, we are a team of driven thought leaders that believe educational administrators spend too much time managing professional development plans and state compliance, when this time could be better spent strengthening curriculum and creating stronger students.
products?
First, we understand professional development because that is 100% of our focus. Our extensive knowledge of the PD landscape and tailored customer service differentiates us from other tracking solutions. We also have developed our product and enhancements based on 18+ years of administrator, superintendent and teacher input and feedback. Our system is easy to use and customized for your school district.
I’ve always used Word Processing or Excel spreadsheets to manage professional development. Why should I switch to a specially designed professional development system?
If you continue to do what you’ve always done, then you know what you’re going to get. KALPA clients see instant results that save time, money and hours of effort while ensuring state compliance.
The biggest ROI is reduced time and money managing professional development. Customers have reported as much as $50,000 in savings annually. We also see a great relief from the teachers who have a system that is intuitive and easy to manage with their development plans.
KALPA transforms the way you manage professional development. From easily setting up your district, managing and tracking your PD to streamlining your reporting, KALPA Professional Development will take care of it all!
We offer a subscription-based fee structure based on the number of users. Our product has been benchmarked annually against our competition, and our fees are quite a bit lower than many of the HR/education solutions on the market.
We understand that this concept is innovative and a true game changer for managing PD. While many of the work relief benefits are immediately apparent, there are many additional benefits for the HR and administrative/curriculum teams that work tirelessly behind the scenes. We encourage you to schedule a call with our support team to discuss the immediate impact that KALPA can have on your school district.
As HR and security systems evolved, we knew that KALPA had to work easily with HR modules, Active Directory Integration, as well as Google login/authentication. We have 100% success with our installations. KALPA is simple with no heavy integrations. We can have clients live in the marketplace within 21 days.
We have seen successful results across school districts of all sizes. We have been implementing and growing KALPA over the last 18 years and our customers are our best reference. They simply tell us that they love KALPA and our support team!
Development originate?
In 2001, a superintendent of a local school district approached us and asked, “With all the complex rules our state mandates on professional development training with teachers, why isn’t there a better tool to manage it?” That sparked our interest to find a solution that easily worked with school districts across the country. Working with administrators and teachers, KALPA PDMS was designed and developed.
After you have a signed letter of agreement, our team will have an implementation meeting to review the system and discuss setup and configuration, including the data we need to load. We load and configure your personal school district environment and you can then log in and will see all of your administrators, teachers, buildings, requirements, etc. all configured and ready to go.
Our feedback from past installs is that it was extremely easy. We can share our best practices for the best way to roll it out to the teachers. There are many ways to do this, but most districts distribute a simple getting started guide that we provide, and that’s all the teachers really need. We also can do a customized screencast video if needed.