Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 5 - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Division 20 - Division of Learning Services
Chapter 400 - Office of Educator Quality
Section 5 CSR 20-400.630 - Certification Requirements for Career Continuous Administrator Certificate
Universal Citation: 5 MO Code of State Regs 20-400.630
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: The proposed amendment will update the requirements to include the Missouri Leadership Development System Micro Credentials.
(1) An applicant for a Missouri Career Continuous Administrator Certificate who possesses good moral character may be granted a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate subject to the certification requirements found in 5 CSR 20-400.500 and the following additional certification requirements specific to Career Continuous Administrator Certificates:
(A) The Career Continuous Administrator
Certificate for School Leader (Grades K-12), Career and Technical Education
Administrator (Grades 7-12), or Special Education Director (Grades K-12) will
be issued upon completion and verification of the following:
1. Completion of an educational specialist
degree or higher from a regionally accredited college or university. Such
degree must be in educational leadership, reading/literacy, or
curriculum/instruction or successful completion of fifteen (15) Missouri
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (department) approved
micro-credentials based on the department's leadership development
system;
2. Successful participation
in an annual performance-based building level administrator
evaluation;
3. Participation in
thirty (30) contact hours of professional development annually;
4. Four (4) years of administrator experience
approved by the department; and
5.
Participation in two (2) years of district-provided mentoring (during the first
two (2) years of administrator experience);
(B) The holder of a Career Continuous
Administrator Certificate for School Leader (Grades K-12), Career and Technical
Education Administrator (Grades 712), or Special Education Director (Grades
K-12) is exempt from the thirty (30) contact hours of professional development
if the holder has a local professional development plan in place with the
school and meets at least two (2) of the following:
1. Ten (10) years of administrator experience
approved by the department;
2.
Completion of an educational specialist degree or higher from a regionally
accredited college or university. Such degree must be in educational
leadership, reading/literacy, or curriculum/instruction;
3. Certification from a nationally recognized
professional administrator organization approved by the State Board of
Education (board); and/or
4.
Completion of the department's Leadership Development System
micro-credentials;
(C)
The Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for applicants seeking a Career
Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent (Grades K-12) will be
issued upon completion and verification of the following:
1. Four (4) years of district-level
administrator experience approved by the department;
2. Participation in one (1) year of
district-provided mentoring (during the first year of superintendent
experience);
3. The development,
implementation, and completion of a professional development plan of at least
one hundred twenty (120) contact hours of professional development based on
standards and quality indicators as required by the board, or eight (8)
semester hours of graduate credit toward a doctorate degree in educational
leadership, or a combination of credits/professional development; and
4. Successful participation in an annual
performance-based evaluation;
(D) The Career Continuous Administrator
Certificate for Superintendent (Grades K-12) will remain valid based upon
verification by the employing school district that the certificate holder-
1. Participated in a performance-based
evaluation; and
2. Completed thirty
(30) contact hours of professional development, or two (2) semester hours of
graduate credit toward a doctorate degree in educational leadership, or a
combination of professional development and graduate credit each year;
and
(E) The holder of a
Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent (Grades K-12) is
exempt from the thirty (30) contact hours of annual professional development if
the holder has a local professional development plan in place with the school
and meets the following:
1. Ten (10) years of
district level administrator experience approved by the department;
2. A doctorate degree in educational
leadership from a regionally accredited college or university; and
3. Certification from a nationally recognized
professional administrator organization approved by the board.
(2) The requirements of this rule shall become effective September 1, 2021.
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