Principal’s Qualifications
55.  (1) A person who meets the following qualifications shall have an entry recorded on his or her certificate of qualification or interim certificate of qualification indicating an additional qualification as a supervisory officer: 1. The person has at least five years of successful classroom teaching experience in a school providing elementary or secondary education. 2. The person holds a certificate of qualification or an interim certificate of qualification. 3. The person has, i. an entry on his or her certificate of qualification that shows a qualification in technological education for Grades 9 and 10 or a concentration in the intermediate division, and that shows any two of, A. a concentration in the primary division, B. a concentration in the junior division, and C. either a qualification in technological education for Grades 11 and 12 or a concentration in the senior division, or ii. qualifications that the Registrar considers equivalent to the qualifications described in subparagraph i. 4. The person holds an acceptable post-secondary degree or qualifications the College considers to be equivalent to an acceptable post-secondary degree. 5. The person holds a master’s degree for which the applicant was required to complete at least 30 graduate post-secondary credits or their equivalent, as described in subsection (2), or a doctorate, where the master’s degree or doctorate was granted by an institution identified in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition of “acceptable post-secondary degree” in subsection 1 (1). 6. The person meets one or more of the following criteria: i. The person holds, A. an Elementary School Principal’s Certificate, B. a Secondary School Principal’s Certificate, Type A, C. a Secondary School Principal’s Certificate, Type B, or D. a Secondary School Principal’s Certificate. ii. The person holds a certificate of qualification indicating Part I and Part II Principal’s Qualifications. ii.1 The person holds principal’s qualifications from a jurisdiction outside Ontario, as certified by a person acceptable to the Registrar. ii.2 The person holds or has held a principal’s position in a jurisdiction outside Ontario that the Registrar considers equivalent to a position in Ontario for which principal’s qualifications are required under the Education Act. iii. The person holds specialist or honours specialist qualifications in one or more subjects and has, in addition to the experience required by paragraph 1, at least two school years of successful experience as a teacher appointed by a board under section 17 of Regulation 298 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 to supervise or co-ordinate a subject or program or to act as a consultant for the teachers of a subject or program, as certified by the appropriate supervisory officer. iii.1 The person, A. holds specialist or honour specialist qualifications from a jurisdiction outside Ontario, as certified by a person acceptable to the Registrar, and the Registrar considers the qualifications equivalent to the qualifications described in subparagraph iii, and B. has, in addition to the experience required by paragraph 1, at least two years of successful experience in a position that the Registrar considers equivalent to a position described in subparagraph iii. iv. The person has, in addition to the experience required by paragraph 1, at least two years of experience, A. as an education officer employed by the Ministry of Education, as certified by a district manager or branch director of the Ministry, or as an employee outside Ontario in a position that the Registrar considers equivalent, B. as an employee outside Ontario in a position that the Registrar considers equivalent to the position of supervisory officer of a school board, as certified by a person acceptable to the Registrar, or C. as a program consultant seconded to the Ministry of Education for French language, English language or Native language programs, as certified by a district manager or branch director of the Ministry, or as an employee outside Ontario in a position that the Registrar considers equivalent. v. The person has, in addition to the experience required by paragraph 1, at least two years of education-related leadership experience in an educational organization in a position that the Registrar considers comparable to one of the positions described in subparagraph iv. 7. The person meets one or more of the following criteria: i. He or she successfully completed the supervisory officer’s qualifications program described in section 56 within five years after starting the program. ii. The person has qualifications and experience, including experience gained while employed as a supervisory officer under section 2.0.1 of Regulation 309 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 (Supervisory Officers), made under the Education Act, that the Registrar considers equivalent to the successful completion of all of the modules of the supervisory officer’s qualifications program described in section 56. iii. The person has qualifications and experience, including experience gained while employed as a supervisory officer under section 2.0.1 of Regulation 309 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990, that the Registrar considers equivalent to the successful completion of some of the modules of the supervisory officer’s qualifications program described in section 56, and the person successfully completed the remaining modules of the program, as identified by the Registrar, within five years after starting the program. O. Reg. 184/97, s. 55; O. Reg. 188/04, s. 25; O. Reg. 135/08, s. 9 (1, 3, 4); O. Reg. 374/08, s. 1. (2) To fulfil the requirement in paragraph 5 of subsection (1) relating to the completion of graduate post-secondary credits or their equivalent, the credits or their equivalent must have been completed by the applicant in addition to any credits that he or she was required to complete to be granted a certificate of qualification or interim certificate of qualification. O. Reg. 135/08, s. 9 (5).