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Welcome to the Staff Required Training Information Page

Belmont Public Schools and the state of Massachusetts require employees to complete annual training on a variety of topics, as a condition of their employment. Though many of these trainings are the same or similar from year to year, some are newly added or modified and all should be reviewed.

Please follow the instructions below each year to complete both categories of training:

  • District Mandated Required Training: BPS Policy & Protocol Modules

  • State Required Training: State Ethics Modules

Deadlines for completion of all annual trainings:

  • Employees starting/returning on the first day of school – end of day, September 30

  • New hires starting after the first day of school – 30 days after your date of hire.

Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. Please feel welcome to reach out the HR Department with any questions.

Respectfully,

Michael McAllister, Director of Human Capital

Winn Brook ELE staff at Kindergarten Registration

Winn Brook ELE staff at K Registration

*** Deadline ***

Please Complete All Mandated Training Modules

by 9/30/2024

BPS Policy & Protocol Modules, 2024-2025

This year, the district has partnered with ArxEd for Mandated Training. Founded by educators, ArxEd is a Massachusetts-based company with more than 150 partner districts in Massachusetts. Their Mandated Training Suite streamlines the process and satisfies state and federal requirements. The training, designed for your convenience, can be completed in approximately one to two hours. It is mobile-friendly and allows you to complete it at your own pace and not necessarily in one sitting.

On or around September 1 for returning staff, or within a week of hire for new staff, ArxEd will send an enrollment email to your BPS email address, with simple instructions on accessing the online course. If you do not receive this email, please contact Rebecca Leeb at rleeb@belmontschools.net.

If you know you are enrolled, you may use the direct link to login to the ArxEd training system:

  • lms.arxed.com

  • If you are already logged into your BPS account just click on the Google "G" icon  to login

  • Otherwise enter your BPS email address and ArxEd account password.

Please see these ArxEd-Tips for Users – contact Rebecca Leeb (rleeb@belmontschools.net) with any further questions or issues.

For your reference, the full catalog of Belmont School Committee policies can be found here: School Committee Policies

State Ethics Modules, 2024-2025

This 2024-2025 school year is an online state ethics Summary year – All employees must complete Steps 1, 2 and 4 below.

  • All Staff (this means everyone, new and returning, including teaching, administrative, and support staff) must complete the Summary of the Conflict of Interest Law.

  • New BPS employees must complete both the Summary and the full Online Conflict of Interest Training:

    • New employees should generate their Certificates of Completion and email them to Rebecca Leeb in Human Resources, rleeb@belmontschools.net – click on green Your Certificates button in upper right, choose certificate to view, click SAVE to download .pdf

    • Note: If you completed the full online training course last year for another district, you only need to add Belmont as an Affiliation in your online state ethics portal account.

The state's online Conflict of Interest Portal system login screen is here – this link is also included as a module in the ArxEd Mandated Training Suite. Detailed instructions for creating your account and completing conflict of interest training are shown below.

All steps of this year's legal requirements must be completed by September 30 to get credit for 2024.

Public Employee Responsibility to Complete Conflict of Interest Law Requirements

The law places responsibility for acknowledging receipt of the summaries, and for completing the online training program, on the public employees. For an employee who is required to meet the training requirements, a willful failure or refusal to acknowledge receipt of a summary of the law or to complete the online training program will be considered by the State Ethics Commission to be a violation of the conflict of interest law and can be the basis of an enforcement action by the Commission against the employee. The Commission is authorized to impose a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for each violation of G.L. c. 268A, the conflict of interest law.