Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 8 - DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Subtitle 2 - EDUCATION › Part 1 - PUBLIC SCHOOL › Chapter 54 - TEACHER LICENSING STANDARDS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8-54-3 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Accreditation" means a process for assessing and
						enhancing academic and educational quality through peer review. National
						accreditation informs the public that an institution has a professional
						education unit that has met state, professional, and institutional standards of
						educational quality. National accrediting bodies are approved by the US
						Department of Education to accredit teacher education programs.
"Board" means the Hawaii teacher standards board.
"Censure" means a formal or stern warning given by the
						board.
"Charter schools" means public schools holding charters
						to operate as charter schools under chapter
						302D, including start-up and
						conversion charter schools, that have the flexibility to implement alternative
						frameworks with regard to curriculum, facilities management, instructional
						approach, length of the school day, week, or year, and personnel
						management.
"Charter School Administrator" means head of a local
						school board of a Charter School.
"Code of Ethics" means the contents of Appendix D, which
						describes the desired conduct of P-12 teachers as members of the teaching
						profession.
"Condition" means a qualification, restriction,
						limitation, or requirement imposed on the licensee or permittee that must be
						true or done.
"Criminal action against children" means any crime
						involving minors deemed by the Hawaii teacher standards board to have a direct
						bearing on an individual's ability to serve as a teacher.
"Cultural Growth and Development Plan" means a plan to
						develop the cultural and professional knowledge, skills and dispositions to
						effectively integrate Hawaiian ways of knowing, learning and teaching and
						increase instructional proficiency in the Hawaiian language, history and
						culture for an individual holding a special permit to teach in
						Kaia'õlelo-Kaiapuni Hawai'i, Hawaiian Language Immersion, and Hawaiian
						Knowledge classrooms. The plan will be developed for the permittee in
						collaboration with the Office of Hawaiian Education and a Hawaiian Immersion
						educator preparation program.
"Deny" means to withhold or refuse to grant a license or
						permit.
"Department" means the department of education.
"Educator Preparation Provider" means a teacher, school
						counselor or school librarian preparation program that meets the board's state
						approval performance standards and has been reviewed and approved in an
						approval process specified by the board.
"Emergency Hire" means an unlicensed employee of a public
						school paid under the salary schedule contained in the unit 05 collective
						bargaining agreement.
"Employer" means any public, charter, independent or
						private school which hires teachers, school counselors and school
						librarians.
"Executive Director" means the executive officer of the
						Hawaii teacher standards board.
"Experience" means contracted service in a P-12 school
						setting in the license field and/or level required to grant a Hawaii license or
						permit.
"Fee" means any monetary amount assessed to process,
						issue, modify, correct, or approve a license or permit. Fee also means any
						monetary amount assessed to process, issue, modify, correct, or approve a
						teacher education program; or to an institution for the processing or
						correction of data or information.
"Felony" is defined as those acts which are criminal acts
						defined as felonies by the Hawaii Revised Statutes or similar criminal acts
						which were committed in other jurisdictions.
"Forfeit" or "forfeited" or "forfeiture" shall refer to
						and mean the status of a license or permit that has been automatically
						cancelled for failure to renew the license or permit, or for failure to comply
						with the provisions of section 8-54-2.4.
"Internet crimes" means internet crimes as defined by
						Hawaii Revised Statutes.
"License" means the document signifying recognition
						granted by the board to practice the profession of teaching.
"Licensee" means the holder of a valid Hawaii teaching
						license.
"Meritorious New Teacher Candidate" means a designation
						awarded to teacher candidates in states approved by the board who meet rigorous
						criteria in areas that have been shown to correlate with student learning
						gains; strong verbal skills; a high level of mastery of their subject matter;
						in-depth student teaching; and excellence in their professional program.
"Misdemeanor" for the purpose of these rules is defined
						as those misdemeanor convictions that pose a substantial risk of harm to the
						health, safety or welfare of students, minors or others.
"National Board Certification" means the voluntary
						advanced certification developed and administered by the National Board for
						Professional Teaching Standards.
"Payment plan" shall refer to and mean a binding
						agreement on the licensee or permittee to make required payments in a timely
						manner to comply with license, permit, or renewal requirements.
"Permit" means a limited duty special permit as defined
						by § 8-54-9.6.
"PRAXIS" means the set of tests developed and
						administered by the Educational Testing Service.
"Private Employer" for purposes of teacher licensure
						refers to non-public employers of teachers.
"Program" means a planned sequence of courses and
						experiences for the purpose of preparing teachers and other school
						professionals to work in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade settings.
						Programs may lead to a degree, a recommendation for a state license, both, or
						neither.
"Public school" means an academic and non-college type
						school established and maintained by the department of education or a charter
						school chartered by the board of education in accordance with law.
"Reinstate" or "reinstatement" shall refer to and mean a
						determination by the board to allow a person who has met requirements set by
						the board to engage in the practice of teaching following a license or permit
						suspension or disciplinary condition.
"Renew" or "renewal" means a determination by the board,
						prior to expiration of a license or permit, to grant additional years of
						validity based on the number of years the license or permit is eligible to be
						renewed.
"Reprimand" shall have the same meaning as
						"Censure".
"Revocation" means loss of a teaching license or permit
						for not less than five years.
"Sex offense" means sexual offenses as defined by Hawai'i
						Revised Statutes.
"School Counselor" means a person whose duties are
						primarily promoting and enhancing the learning process within the context of
						academic development, career development and personal/social development and
						may also include the same definition as "teacher" for purposes of this
						chapter.
"School Librarian" means a person whose duties are
						primarily administering the library media program at the individual school
						level and also includes the same definition as "teacher" for purposes of this
						chapter.
"Specialized Professional Associations" or 'SPAs" are
						national organizations that represent teachers, professional education faculty,
						and other school professionals who teach a specific subject matter, teach
						students at a specific developmental level, teach students with specific needs,
						or provide services to students.
"State-approved teacher education program" means a
						teacher preparation program that meets the board's state approval performance
						standards and has been reviewed and approved by the board.
"Superintendent" means the state superintendent of the
						department of education.
"Suspension" means temporary loss of a teaching
						license/permit for not more than five (5) years due to a disciplinary action by
						the board.
"Teacher" means a person whose duties in the public
						school system are primarily teaching or instruction of students or related
						activities centered primarily on students and who is in close and continuous
						contact with students, and shall include but not be limited to classroom
						teachers, school librarians, counselors, registrars, and special education
						teachers.
"Teacher Leader" means an educator identified by his/her
						employer who assumes formally or informally one or more of a wide array of
						leadership roles to support teaching and learning.
"Terminate" or "Terminated" or "Termination" shall refer
						to and mean the status of a license or permit that has been automatically
						cancelled for failure to timely restore a forfeited license or permit.
"Unit" or "professional education unit" means the
						college, school, department, or other administrative body in colleges,
						universities, or other organizations with the responsibility for managing or
						coordinating all programs offered for the initial and advanced preparation of
						teachers and other school professionals, regardless of where these programs are
						administratively housed in an institution. The professional education unit must
						include in its accreditation review all programs offered by the institution for
						the purpose of preparing teachers and other school professionals to work in
						pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade settings.
"Valid license or valid permit" means a license or permit
						issued or renewed by the board after all criteria set by the board have been
						met and authorizes the licensee or permittee to engage in the teaching
						profession.
"Warning" means an admonition relating to a violation of
						the Code of Ethics that the board deems not warranting a censure or other
						disciplinary action.