Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 704 - EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CABINET - BOARD OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - OFFICE OF LEARNING PROGRAMS DEVELOPMENT › Chapter 3 - Office of Instruction › Section 704 KAR 3:406 - Superintendent training program and assessment process

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				156.111,
				160.350
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				156.111 mandates that the Kentucky Department
				of Education establish a superintendent training program and assessment center
				and that the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education adopt
				administrative regulations to govern the training content, number of hours,
				written examination, and criteria for successful completion of the training and
				assessment center process. This administrative regulation implements the
				superintendent training program and assessment center process.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Assessee" means an individual who
			 undergoes the assessment process.
(2) "Assessment center candidate" means a
			 superintendent or applicant for a superintendent position who has been
			 recommended by a local board of education or the Kentucky Department of
			 Education to undergo assessment.
(3) "Assessor" means a trained observer who
			 records and analyzes assessee performance during an assessment.
(4) "Assessor training" means training in
			 which participants are taught how to observe and record behaviors displayed by
			 assessment center candidates and are taught to write objective and
			 comprehensive reports.
(5)
			 "Comprehensive superintendent examination" means a written comprehensive
			 examination over the following subjects:
(a)
			 Core concepts of management;
(b)
			 School-based decision making;
(c)
			 Kentucky school law;
(d) Kentucky
			 school finance;
(e) School
			 curriculum and assessment.
(6) "Final assessment report" means a written
			 report providing the overall performance ratings as well as the performance
			 rating for each skill, and shall include suggestions for improvement and
			 growth, and signatures of all persons involved in the assessment
			 process.
(7) "Mastery level on the
			 Kentucky Superintendent Comprehensive Examination" means a required level of
			 performance on each of the five (5) components of the Kentucky Superintendent
			 Comprehensive Examination to be determined by an advisory committee to the
			 Kentucky Department of Education based on technical reports secured from field
			 test data obtained during the 1992-93 school year.
(8) "Screening committee" means the local
			 superintendent search screening committee required by
			 KRS
			 160.352.
(9) "Superintendent assessment and training
			 and testing process" means a comprehensive assessment process and training
			 program including assessment of personal administrative skills, training
			 modules in identified skill dimensions and selected concepts related to the
			 position of school superintendent, and a comprehensive examination. Assessment
			 and training are more specifically defined as follows:
(a) "Assessment process" means a Kentucky
			 Department of Education psychometric procedure emphasizing multiple individual
			 and group simulations representative of the superintendent position which will
			 yield extensive feedback of each assessee's strengths and behaviors in skill
			 dimensions validated as essential for effective performance. The assessment
			 process is used to develop a personal skills profile on candidates seeking
			 employment or employed in superintendent positions.
(b) "Training program" means a series of
			 training modules designed for the purpose of improving individual skills of
			 superintendent candidates or providing knowledge in the following subjects:
1. Core concepts of management, up to
			 eighteen (18) hours;
2.
			 School-based decision making, up to nine (9) hours;
3. Kentucky school law, up to nine (9)
			 hours;
4. Kentucky school finance,
			 up to twelve (12) hours;
5. School
			 curriculum and assessment, up to twenty-four (24) hours.
(10) "Written assessment report"
			 means a report which provides each assessee with a profile of strengths and
			 behaviors and suggestions to help improve the assessee's skills.
(11) "Written testing report" means a report
			 which provides each assessee with certification of successful completion of
			 each component of the comprehensive superintendent examination.