Staff PD your secretaries and teachers will thank you for

Practical staff development that fits in one hour

Most technology training for school staff is either too general to be useful on Monday morning or too long to fit into an in-service day. MyWorkRelief™ takes a different approach. Each module is a self-paced, hands-on lab built around a situation your staff already recognize: a field-trip fund, a dismissal plan, a supply purchasing log, a conference sign-up. A teacher or secretary works through a short series of drills, types real formulas, sees the result change immediately, and leaves with a skill that applies to the file they opened that morning.

A module is designed to take about one hour. When every drill in a module is solved, the lab offers a printable Certificate of Professional Development Completion showing 1.0 clock hour of self-paced practice, the module title, the completion date and a short verification code. The staff member types their own name and school at the moment of printing, on their own device. Those details are never transmitted to us.

Using the certificate toward Act 48 and locally approved PD hours

In Pennsylvania, Act 48 credit is awarded through approved providers, including school districts and Intermediate Units, in line with each entity’s professional education plan. MyWorkRelief issues a certificate of completion as documentation of time and content. Whether those hours are accepted toward Act 48 or other continuing-education requirements is decided by your local education agency or approved provider, so please confirm with your Act 48 coordinator or professional development committee before planning a session. Many districts record self-paced technology practice as locally approved in-service time, and the certificate is formatted to make that record-keeping simple.

Title II-A and other funding sources

Federal Title II, Part A funds support professional development that improves the effectiveness of teachers, principals and other school leaders. Whether a particular purchase is allowable depends on your district’s approved application and needs assessment. We are glad to provide a plain description of the content, the time commitment and the data-privacy design for your federal programs coordinator to review.

Purchasing with a P-Card

The School Building license and the District license are priced so that most buildings can purchase them with a purchasing card as a micro-purchase. Under the federal Uniform Guidance at 2 C.F.R. § 200.320(a)(1), purchases below the micro-purchase threshold may be awarded without soliciting competitive price quotations when the price is considered reasonable. Your state, district or board policy may set a lower threshold or add its own steps, and your business office’s policy always governs. We do not describe the product as a “sole source” purchase and you should not need to.

To make the paperwork straightforward, this page provides:

• a printable itemized quote, generated in your browser, showing the vendor name and location, the license selected, the quantity and the total;
• a W-9 and vendor packet request button, which opens a pre-filled email to us. A signed W-9 is sent promptly once we have a verified institutional email address or a checkout receipt. We do not post tax identification numbers on the public internet;
• licenses that do not renew automatically, so no charge ever appears on a card without a new decision by your building.

Zero student data: the short brief

The simplest way to protect student information is not to collect any. MyWorkRelief is built so that there is nothing to protect.

• No student accounts and no staff accounts. Nobody signs in. There are no usernames or passwords to manage, and nothing to roster.
• No student records. Every roster, schedule and log in the labs is synthetic practice data that ships with the page. Staff never upload, paste or connect real files.
• No ad retargeting or student profiling. There are no advertising networks, cross-site retargeting cookies, or data brokers; public pages record only aggregate visit and campaign referral counts with IP anonymization enabled.
• Progress stays on the device. Solved drills are remembered in the browser’s local storage on that computer only, and a “Reset My Progress” button clears them.
• Intended for adults. The site is a professional tool for school and office staff. It is not directed to children and is not designed for student use.

Because no education records or personal information about students are collected, there is no student data for the service to disclose, sell or retain. Your district remains responsible for its own determinations under FERPA, COPPA and applicable state law, and we are happy to answer a data-privacy questionnaire. The full details are on our privacy page.

Accessibility

Public entities, including public schools, are required under the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II rule at 28 C.F.R. Part 35 to make web content conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. This site is designed and tested against that standard: every control has a visible label, every page can be operated with a keyboard alone, focus is always visible, status messages are announced to screen readers, and text meets or exceeds the required contrast. If a member of your staff encounters a barrier, please write to [email protected] and we will address it.

A simple rollout plan for a building

1. Try it first. The free drills are open to everyone. Ask two or three staff members to spend ten minutes in Module 1 and tell you what they think.
2. Print a quote. Use the quote builder on this page and send it to your business office with the vendor packet request.
3. Share the Building Pass Code. After purchase you receive one code for the building. Staff type it once on their own device to open every module.
4. Run a one-hour session. Choose a module that matches a current need, such as the summary-report module before report-card season. Work the first two drills together, then let staff continue independently.
5. Collect certificates. Staff print their own certificates and hand them to whoever keeps your PD records.

Common questions from schools