Professional Development: Bright Futures Information System (BFIS)

Sponsors of Professional Development

Sponsors of Professional Development can help to support early childhood and afterschool professionals.
Providers are counting on sponsors to participate in Vermont’s unified professional development system.
The system includes a statewide database called the Bright Futures Information System (BFIS).
Professional development activities are advertised, verified and tracked for providers within BFIS. This is a free service that benefits individuals, especially when sponsors of professional development follow a few basic steps!

It’s Easy! Just Follow These Simple Steps…

1. Provide complete training information for posting into the BFIS Course Calendar.

Use the Course Calendar Checklist to be sure that you have included all of the details that will help Providers search and register for trainings. Follow the directions on theForm to submit information for posting.

Course Calendar Checklist Word (Add your information directly to this version)
Course Calendar Checklist PDF (Print and use this form as a guide.

2. Provide Documentation of Professional Development forms for each activity that you sponsor.

Providers need these forms for their personal records. Copies are often required when they apply for certification, licensing and credentialing. You are supporting their career advancement when you distribute these forms!

For security reasons, blank copies of the Documentation of Professional Development Form are available only to Sponsors. They can be accessed by contacting the Vermont Northern Lights Career Development Center in Montpelier (802)828-2876 or Springfield (802)885-8374.

Professional development activities should align with Vermont’s Core Competencies for Early Childhood or Afterschool Professionals. Indicate the Core Knowledge Areas and Subheadings on each Documentation of Professional Form.

Use and submit a BFIS-friendly Attendance Form.

Add the training title, date and time to each page.
Have participants add their name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address so that we can regularly update contact information within the BFIS system.
Have participants add their current employer, which helps us to find them in a database that includes thousands of names!
There is a BFIS ID number attached to every professional development account within the BFIS system. Have participants add their BFIS ID # to the attendance sheet so that we can quickly access their account and accurately enter the training into it!

For quickest data entry, completed attendance forms can be scanned and sent electronically professional.development@ccv.edu You can also FAX the attendance forms to Northern Lights @ 802-828-2805 Or mail to BFIS Attendance c/o Northern Lights. CCV - PO Box 489 Montpelier, VT. 05601