156.101 Purpose of section -- Definition of "instructional leader" -- Instructional
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leader improvement program.
(1)The purpose of this section is to encourage and require the maintenance and
development of effective instructional leadership in the public schools of the
Commonwealth and to recognize that principals, with the assistance of assistant
principals, supervisors of instruction, guidance counselors, and directors of special
education, have the primary responsibility for instructional leadership in the schools
to which they are assigned.
(2)For the purpose of this section, "instructional leader" shall be defined as an
employee of the public schools of the Commonwealth employed as a principal,
assistant principal, supervisor of instruction, guidance counselor, director of special
education, or other administrative position deemed by the Education Professional
Standards Board to require an administrative certificate.
(3)In order to carry out the purpose of this section, the Kentucky Board of Education
shall establish a statewide program to improve and maintain the quality and
effectiveness of instructional leadership in the public schools of the
Commonwealth.
(4)The instructional leader improvement program shall contain the following
provisions:
(a)Each instructional leader employed by the public schools of the
Commonwealth shall participate in a continuing intensive training program
designed especially for instructional leaders;
(b)Each instructional leader shall annually complete an intensive training
program approved by the Kentucky Board of Education to include no fewer
than twenty-one
(21)participant hours of instruction;
(c)The Kentucky Board of Education shall prescribe specific criteria for the
training program. The Kentucky Department of Education may contract for
specific training with qualified agencies or institutions or approve programs
offered by training providers, including local district training programs,
except that the department shall ensure the requirements of paragraph
(d)of
this subsection are met; and
(d)Annually, each local district superintendent shall report to the Kentucky
Department of Education any instructional leader who fails to complete the
training requirements of paragraph
(b)of this subsection and shall place the
leader on probation for one
(1)year. The Department of Education shall
verify completion of the required training. If the required training for the prior
year and the current year is not completed during the probationary period, the
Department of Education shall forward the information to the Education
Professional Standards Board, which shall revoke the instructional leader's
certificate.
(5)The Kentucky Department of Education shall ensure that training options in human
resource management and conflict resolution techniques are available to education
leaders throughout the state.
(6)This section shall be known as the "Effective Instructional Leadership Act."