Flex Days for Professional Learning

Burnet CISD seeks to educate, inspire, and empower our staff through continuous professional development. The district has established 3 exchange days built within our 2026-2027 academic calendar to foster individualized professional growth and contribute to exceptional student performance.

A Flex Day for Professional Learning is mutually beneficial to staff and the district. The approach:

• Offers individual and campus empowerment and flexibility around professional learning.
• Sharpens the focus of professional learning around district initiatives and priorities.
• Encourages a variety of forms and structures for professional learning.
• Increases access to professional learning while reducing teacher time away from instruction and substitute costs.

• Flex Hours for 2026-2027 can be earned after the last day of school outside of work hours. To exchange for the July Flex day, compliance training must be complete no later than July 30, 2026. For spring Flex Days, hours must be complete by January 4, 2027.
• To earn the credit, professional learning cannot be a training for which you are compensated, and must be completed outside of the duty day.

Exempt/Professional Staff:
Plans must be pre-approved by the campus principal or supervisor. The district will track exempt staff's Flex Hour professional development through Eduphoria/Strive. Staff will be responsible for uploading certificates into Eduphoria/Strive for learning received outside of sessions already coded as Flex by the district. A full day of training (at least 6 hours) will be considered equivalent to one day of Flex time.

Non-Exempt/Hourly Staff:
Hourly staff must track actual hours worked in Skyward. Hourly staff utilizing professional development attendance for Flex time must track clock hours they were present/working in Skyward. Any upload of professional development credits from completion certificates may still be entered into Strive for future reference, but Flex time must be clocked in Skyward.

Yes. Presenters are generally given the option to earn either Flex Hours or monetary compensation. Please contact the C&I Department or utilize the Call for Presenters form within the Curriculum Connection newsletter(s).

Employees on work calendars between 197 days and 226 days are not eligible for the fall semester Flex Day due to the need for organizational continuity at the busy start-of-school season. Extended-contract employees will create a plan that is approved by their supervisor for the 2 spring semester dates, and this may include online compliance training done outside of work hours.