Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3301 - Department of Education - Administration and Director › Chapter 3301-35 - Standards for Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade › Section 3301-35-01 - Purpose and definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The purpose for adopting the rules in
			 this chapter, which comprise the operating standards for Ohio school districts
			 and elementary and secondary schools, is to assure that all students are
			 provided a general education of high quality. The rules in this chapter
			 establish specific expectations for school districts and schools, as those terms are defined in paragraph (B) of this
			 rule, to use in creating the best learning conditions for meeting the
			 personalized and individualized needs of each student and achieving state and
			 local educational goals and objectives. The operating standards focus on the
			 most critical expectations for school districts and schools in order to foster
			 a regulatory system that focuses on improving outputs and student
			 outcomes.
(B) The following terms
			 are defined as they are used in this chapter:
(1) "Assessment" means the measuring of
			 student achievement of performance goals and objectives.
(2) "Blended learning" has the same meaning
			 as in section
			 3301.079
			 of the Revised Code. For purposes of that definition,
			 "primarily" means over the course of the school year, a student works more than
			 fifty per cent of the time from a supervised physical location away from
			 home.
(3) "Board of
			 education" means a board of education as described in Chapter 3313. of the
			 Revised Code.
(4) "Classified
			 staff" means nonteaching school personnel who are assigned to positions that do
			 not require a certificate, license, permit or other credentialing document
			 issued by the 
									state board of education and that are listed in
			 accordance with section
			 3317.12
			 of the Revised Code.
(5)
									"Competency-based learning model" means any system of
			 academic instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting where students receive
			 credit based on demonstrations and assessments of their learning rather than
			 the amount of time they spend studying a subject. A competency-based learning
			 model encourages accelerated learning among students who master academic
			 materials quickly while providing additional instructional support time for
			 students who need it.
(6)
									"Computer as instructor" means instruction provided by
			 a computer with no instruction or assessment of mastery of content of any kind
			 provided by a teacher, either in-person or from a remote location. A teacher
			 monitoring a student in a computer as instructor course is not involved in
			 developing, adapting or modifying lessons and/or clarifying subject content. A
			 teacher monitoring a student(s) receiving instruction via this delivery method
			 may assign the grade for the course provided the assignments and/or evaluations
			 are scored by the computer program.
(7) "Credentialed
			 staff" means faculty or staff who hold a certificate, license, permit or other
			 document issued by the state board of education under section
			 3301.071
			 or Chapter 3319. of the Revised Code. Credentialed staff includes, but is not
			 limited to, teachers, principals, superintendents, treasurers, school business
			 managers, related service personnel, administrative specialists, educational
			 aides, and pupil activity providers.
(8) "Credit
			 flexibility" means the method by which students may meet curriculum
			 requirements or earn units of high school credit by demonstrating subject area
			 competency through the completion of traditional coursework, testing out or
			 otherwise demonstrating mastery of course content through the pursuit of an
			 approved educational option pursuant to the plan for credit flexibility adopted
			 by the state board of education in accordance with section
			 3313.603
			 of the Revised Code, and is available on the department of education's
			 website.
(9) "Digital learning"
			 has the same meaning as in section
			 3301.079
			 of the Revised Code.
(10) "Digital learning
			 tools" means computers, tablets, software, applications, or other technology
			 necessary to access a school's program of digital learning.
(11)
			 "Educational options" means learning experiences or activities that are
			 designed to extend, enhance, supplement, or serve as an alternative to
			 classroom instruction and meet the personalized and individualized needs of
			 each student. Educational options are offered in accordance with the models
			 adopted by the state board of education, local board of education policy, and
			 parental approval.
(12) "Educational
			 service personnel" means individuals who hold appropriate qualifications and
			 who possess the knowledge, skills and expertise to support the educational,
			 instructional, health, mental health and college and career readiness needs for
			 all students.
(a) Educational service
			 personnel that support educational, instructional and college and career
			 readiness programs include, but are not limited to: fine arts, music, and
			 physical education teachers; librarian or media specialists; school counselors;
			 and reading intervention specialists;
(b) Educational service personnel that
			 support the learning needs of the special needs student population include, but
			 are not limited to: gifted intervention specialists, adapted physical education
			 teachers, audiologists, interpreters, speech-language pathologists, physical
			 and occupational therapists, and English-as-a-second-language
			 specialist;
(c) Educational service
			 personnel that support the health and mental health of the student population
			 include, but are not limited to: school nurses, social workers, school
			 psychologists, and school resource officers.
(13)
			 "Evidence-based" has the same meaning as in division (21) of section 8101 of
			 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the Every
			 Student Succeeds Act, at
			 20
			 U.S.C. 7801.
(14) "Harmful to
			 juveniles" has the same meaning as in section
			 2907.01
			 of the Revised Code.
(15) "Intervention"
			 means alternative or supplemental instruction designed to help students meet
			 performance objectives.
(16) "Obscene" has the
			 same meaning as in division (F) of section
			 2907.01
			 of the Revised Code as that division has been construed by the supreme court of
			 this state.
(17)
									"OEDS" means the Ohio educational directory system or a
			 successor system.
(18)
									"Online learning" has the same meaning as in section
			 3301.079
			 of the Revised Code. For purposes of that definition, "primarily" means over
			 the course of the school year, a student works more than fifty per cent of the
			 time from their residence on assignments delivered via the internet or other
			 computer-based instructional method.
(19) "Parent" means:
(a) A natural or adoptive parent of a
			 child;
(b) A guardian; or
(c) An individual acting in the place of a
			 natural or adoptive parent, including a grandparent, stepparent, or other
			 relative, with whom the child lives, or an individual who is legally
			 responsible for the child's welfare.
(20) "Policies" means
			 general principles governing the operation of a school and are established and
			 adopted by the district board of education.
(21) "Procedures"
			 means detailed rules, regulations and courses of action, specified in writing,
			 for carrying out school district and school policies.
(22)
			 "School," with the exception of the term "school" as used in rule
			 3301-35-08
			 of the Administrative Code, means an environment organized for learning and
			 chartered pursuant to this chapter and section
			 3301.16
			 of the Revised Code to provide a community of students with the opportunity to
			 acquire skills and knowledge necessary to meet state and local performance
			 objectives.
(23) "School district"
			 means a local, exempted village, city or joint vocational school district as
			 defined in Chapter 3311. of the Revised Code.
(24) "School year" has
			 the same meaning as in section
			 3313.62 of the
			 Revised Code.
(25) "Site evaluation"
			 means an evaluation the department of education conducts of a school district
			 or school to determine whether a school district or school meets the operating
			 standards in this chapter.
(26) "Site visit"
			 means an evaluation the department of education conducts of a chartered
			 nonpublic school in accordance with Chapter 3301-39 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(27) "Stakeholder"
			 means those who directly affect or are affected by the educational success of a
			 school district and school. Stakeholders may include, but are not limited to,
			 colleges and universities, school district and school staff, employers,
			 parents, students, and other individuals or groups in the community. For
			 nonpublic schools, the governing authority of the school identifies
			 "stakeholders."
(28) "State
			 performance data" means the data reported to the department of education in
			 accordance with section
			 3302.03
			 of the Revised Code that reflects the performance of the school district or
			 school.
(29) "Teacher of
			 record" means an educator who is responsible for a significant portion of a
			 student's instruction within a subject or a course.