Board approves conference attendance and reimbursement for school psychologists

Tobin Lefever, a district school psychologist, asked trustees to approve attendance at two professional conferences and to authorize reimbursement and use of professional-development (PD) days. He said the in-person Idaho School Psychology Association conference in Boise (Oct. 1–2) will require mileage and PD days, while the national conference would be attended virtually with a lower registration fee.

"We are requesting reimbursement for the cost to go, which all the sites have already purchased because we wanted to take advantage of the early bird pricing," Lefever said, and he described why the conferences are cost-effective ways to meet continuing-education requirements. After brief discussion about funding, the board moved, seconded and approved the request to attend both conferences.