Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 91 - KANSAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Article 1 - CERTIFICATE REGULATIONS › Section 91-1-200 - Definition of terms

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
Each of the following terms, as used in this article of the
				department's regulations, shall have the meaning specified in this
				regulation:
(a) "Accomplished teaching
			 license" means a license issued to an individual who has successfully completed
			 an advanced performance assessment designated by the state board for the
			 purpose of identifying accomplished teaching or who has achieved national board
			 certification.
(b) "Accredited
			 experience" means teaching experience gained, under contract, in a school
			 accredited by the state board or a comparable agency in another state while the
			 teacher holds an endorsement valid for the specific assignment. At least 90
			 consecutive days of substitute teaching in the endorsement area of academic
			 preparation and in the same teaching position shall constitute accredited
			 experience. Other substitute teaching experiences shall not constitute
			 accredited experience.
(c)
			 "Alternative teacher education program" means a program to prepare persons to
			 teach by a means other than the traditional, college-based, approved
			 program.
(d) "Approved mentoring
			 program" means a program based on state board-approved program guidelines that
			 is established and maintained by an LEA for the purpose of providing educators
			 employed under initial licenses with professional support and continuous
			 assistance from a mentor.
(e)
			 "Approved program" means a teacher education program approved by the state
			 board for content and pedagogy.
(f)
			 "Content area" means a defined domain of knowledge and skill in an academic
			 program.
(g) "Content assessment"
			 means an assessment designated by the state board to measure subject matter
			 knowledge for an endorsement.
(h)
			 "Deficiency plan" means a detailed schedule of instruction from an approved
			 program that, if completed, will qualify an individual for full endorsement in
			 a subject. The individual who is to receive the instruction and a
			 representative of the institution at which the instruction is to be given shall
			 sign each deficiency plan.
(i)
			 "Early adolescence through late adolescence and adulthood" means grades six
			 through 12.
(j) "Early childhood"
			 means any level from birth through grade three.
(k) "Early childhood through late adolescence
			 and adulthood" means any level from prekindergarten through grade 12.
(l) "Early childhood through late childhood"
			 means any level from prekindergarten through grade six.
(m) "Early childhood unified" means an
			 endorsement that provides access to teach in a general education classroom or
			 to provide special education instruction and support services for any level
			 from birth through grade three.
(n)
			 "Elementary education unified" means an endorsement that provides access to
			 teach in a general education classroom or to provide special education
			 instruction and support services for early childhood through late
			 childhood.
(o) "Emergency
			 substitute teaching license" means a license issued to an individual that
			 allows access to practice as a substitute teacher as defined by
			 K.A.R.
			 91-31-34(b).
(p) "Endorsement" means the legend printed on
			 each license that identifies the subject in which an individual has
			 specialization.
(q)
			 "Evidence-centered assessment" means an assessment designated by the state
			 board to measure an individual's knowledge of subject matter and ability to
			 implement the knowledge and skills of a teacher leader.
(r) "Initial," when used to describe a
			 license, means the first tier of license provided to an individual who meets
			 all requirements to begin practice and may be issued for school leadership,
			 school specialist, or teaching.
(s)
			 "Initial school leadership license" means the first license that an individual
			 holds to begin practice as a school leader while preparing for the professional
			 school leadership license.
(t)
			 "Initial school specialist license" means the first license that an individual
			 holds to begin practice as a school specialist while preparing for the
			 professional school specialist license.
(u) "Initial teaching license" means the
			 first license that an individual holds to begin teaching while preparing for
			 the professional teaching license.
(v) "Interim alternative license" means a
			 license that allows temporary access to practice to an individual who has
			 completed an alternative teacher education program and been issued a license in
			 another state.
(w) "Late childhood
			 through early adolescence" means grades five through eight.
(x) "Licensure" means the granting of access
			 to practice teaching, administration, or school services in Kansas public
			 schools.
(y) "Limited-use teaching
			 license" means a license that allows an individual limited access to practice
			 in an LEA under an arrangement by which the LEA is developing the teacher
			 through a specified approved plan of study.
(z) "Local education agency" and "LEA" mean
			 any governmental agency authorized or required by state law to provide
			 education to children, including each unified school district, special
			 education cooperative, school district interlocal, state school, and school
			 institution.
(aa) "Mentor" means a
			 teacher, a school specialist, or an administrator who holds a professional
			 teaching license, school specialist license, or leadership license assigned by
			 an LEA to provide support, modeling, and conferencing to a beginning
			 professional.
(bb) "Middle-level
			 generalist," when used to describe an endorsement, means an endorsement that
			 allows access to teach mathematics, English language arts, history, government
			 and social studies, and science for late childhood through early
			 adolescence.
(cc) "Official
			 transcript" means a student record that includes grades and credit hours earned
			 and that is affixed with the official seal of the college and the signature of
			 the registrar.
(dd) "One year of
			 teaching experience" means accredited experience that constitutes one-half time
			 or more in one school year, while under contract.
(ee) "Pedagogical assessment" means an
			 assessment designated by the state board to measure teaching
			 knowledge.
(ff) "Performance
			 assessment" means an assessment designated by the state board to measure an
			 individual's ability to implement the knowledge and skills of a teacher,
			 administrator, or school services provider.
(gg) "Prekindergarten" means a program for
			 children three and four years old.
(hh) "Professional," when used to describe a
			 license, means achievement of the second tier of licensure based upon
			 successful completion of a performance assessment while practicing under an
			 initial license and may be awarded for school leadership, school specialist, or
			 teaching.
(ii) "Professional
			 occupational license" means the license required to practice in Kansas for the
			 profession of speech language pathologist, audiologist, or licensed master
			 social worker.
(jj) "Professional
			 school leadership license" means a school leadership license issued to an
			 individual based on successful completion of a performance assessment and
			 maintained by professional development.
(kk) "Professional school specialist license"
			 means a school specialist license issued to an individual based on successful
			 completion of a performance assessment and maintained by professional
			 development.
(ll) "Professional
			 teaching license" means a teaching license issued to an individual based on
			 successful completion of a performance assessment and maintained by
			 professional development.
(mm)
			 "Provisional school specialist endorsement license" means a license issued to
			 an individual that allows access to practice as a school specialist while the
			 individual is in the process of completing requirements for the school
			 specialist license.
(nn)
			 "Provisional teaching endorsement license" means a license issued to an
			 individual that allows access to practice in an endorsement area while the
			 individual is in the process of completing requirements for that
			 endorsement.
(oo) "Recent credit"
			 means valid credit earned during the six-year period immediately preceding the
			 filing of an application.
(pp)
			 "Recent experience" means accredited experience earned during the six-year
			 period immediately preceding the filing of an application.
(qq) "Restricted school specialist license"
			 means a license that allows an individual limited access to practice as a
			 library media specialist or a school counselor under a special arrangement
			 among the individual, a Kansas teacher education institution, and an
			 LEA.
(rr) "Restricted teaching
			 license" means a license that allows an individual limited access to practice
			 under a special arrangement among the individual, a Kansas teacher education
			 institution, and an LEA.
(ss)
			 "School leadership license" means a license that allows an individual to hold a
			 position with the primary responsibility for supervision or management of a
			 local education agency, a school system, a school building, or school programs
			 .
(tt) "School specialist" means a
			 person other than a teacher or school leader who is required to hold an
			 educator license to provide specialized professional support services to
			 students or teachers.
(uu) "School
			 specialist program" means an approved program provided by teacher education
			 institutions to prepare individuals for licensure as a school
			 specialist.
(vv) "Secondary
			 education unified" means an endorsement that provides access to teach academic
			 subjects for which the content assessment has been passed and to provide
			 special education support services for early adolescence through late
			 adolescence and adulthood.
(ww)
			 "Standard," when used to describe a license, means that the license is
			 unrestricted, nonprobation-ary, nonprovisional, nonsubstitute, nonlimited-use,
			 or nontemporary; is issued by the state board or a comparable agency in another
			 state; and allows an individual to work as a teacher, administrator, or school
			 specialist in accredited school systems in Kansas or another state.
(xx) "Standards board" means the teaching and
			 school administration professional standards advisory board.
(yy) "State board" means Kansas state board
			 of education.
(zz) "STEM license"
			 means a license that allows an individual to teach only life science, physical
			 science, earth and space science, mathematics, engineering, computer
			 technology, finance, or accounting subjects in a hiring LEA, as specified in
			 K.A.R.
			 91-1-203(m).
(aaa) "Subject" means a specific teaching
			 area within a general instructional field.
(bbb) "Substitute teaching license" means a
			 license issued to an individual that allows access to practice as a substitute
			 as defined in
			 K.A.R.
			 91-31-34(b).
(ccc) "Teacher education institution" means a
			 college or university that has an accredited administrative unit for the
			 purpose of preparing teachers.
(ddd) "Transitional license" means a license
			 that allows an individual to temporarily practice if the individual held a
			 license but does not meet recent credit, recent experience, or the renewal
			 requirements to qualify for an initial teaching license or a professional
			 teaching license, an initial school specialist license or a professional school
			 specialist license, or an initial school leadership license or a professional
			 school leadership license.
(eee)
			 "Valid credit" and "credit" mean a semester hour of credit earned in, or
			 validated by, a college or university that is on the accredited list maintained
			 by the state board.
(fff) "Visiting
			 international teaching license" means a license issued to an individual
			 participating in the visiting international teacher program, allowing the
			 individual to be employed by a local education agency and be assigned to teach
			 that individual's native language or the content area of that individual's
			 teacher preparation.
(ggg)
			 "Visiting scholar teaching license" means a license that allows an individual
			 who has documentation verifying the individual's qualifications for the license
			 as described on the application to practice on a temporary, limited
			 basis.