West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 126 - Education › Title 126 - LEGISLATIVE RULE BOARD OF EDUCATION › Series 126-075 - Innovation in Education (Policy 3236) › Section 126-75-4 - Application for Innovation in Education school designation

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
4.1. Applicants must submit an application
				and a plan outlining their Innovation in Education focus in STEM, community
				school partnership, entrepreneurship, career pathways, or the arts to the West
				Virginia Department of Education (hereinafter WVDE). The application and
				Innovation in Education Plan guidelines are available through the WVDE Division
				of Teaching and Learning.
4.2.
				Application and Innovation in Education Plans must follow the established
				timelines and rubrics, as well as all regulations indicated in law and policy,
				secure the necessary support, and include all the components outlined in WVDE
				guidance documents.
4.3.
				Application and plans must include:
4.3.a.
				documentation of participation of the principal, faculty, if the school is a
				high school, students, with input from the local school improvement council,
				the county board of education, and the county superintendent in the plan's
				development;
4.3.b. the proposed
				mission and vision of the school as it pertains to becoming an Innovation in
				Education school, including identification of the designation it seeks to
				obtain as a primary focus on which may include:
(1) STEM;
(2) community school partnership;
(3) entrepreneurship;
(4) career pathways; or
(5) the arts;
4.3.c. an executive summary and the school's
				proposed academic program, including a description of the school's
				instructional design, learning environment, class structure, curriculum
				overview, teaching methods, research basis, and other elements required in the
				school's Innovation in Education Plan;
4.3.d. a clear articulation of the areas of
				autonomy and flexibility in curriculum, budget, school schedule and calendar,
				professional learning, and staffing policies and procedures which would require
				a exception of policy or code;
4.3.e. requests for exceptions of any state
				policy, rule, statute, or interpretation except from an assessment program
				administered by the WVDE; or required approved content standards any provision
				of law or policy required by the
Every Student Succeeds Act of
				2015
(hereinafter ESSA), Public Law No. 107-110, or other federal law.
4.3.e.1. A request for an exception to a
				statute, policy, rule, or interpretation must contain the following
				information:
4.3.e.1.A. a description of the
				program or initiative the school system intends to implement as an innovative
				strategy to improve student achievement if the request is approved by the
				WVBE;
4.3.e.1.B. an explanation of
				the specific exception to a statute, policy, rule, or interpretation, in the
				singular or plural, that the school system has identified as prohibiting or
				constraining the implementation of the program or initiative;
4.3.e.1.C. why the exception is necessary;
				and
4.3.e.1.D. an explanation of
				how the program or initiative contributes to the activities contemplated in the
				school system Innovation in Education Plan.
4.3.e.2. A request for an exception to a
				state policy, rule, statute or interpretation must be approved by a vote of the
				affected employees. Requests for exceptions may be submitted at any point
				during the Innovation in Education designation.