Certification Requirements for Career Continuous Administrator Certificate

PURPOSE: The State Board of Education is authorized to grant certificates of license to teach in any of the public schools of the state and establish requirements and qualifications for those certificates. This rule outlines the requirements for application for each of the various areas of certification within the Career Continuous Administrator Certificate. (1) An applicant for a Missouri Career Continuous Administrator Certificate who possesses good moral character may be granted a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate subject to the certification requirements found in 5 CSR 20-400.500 and the following additional certification requirements specific to Career Continuous Administrator Certificates: (A) The Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for School Leader (Grades K-12), Career and Technical Education Administrator (Grades 7-12), or Special Education Director (Grades K-12) will be issued upon completion and verification of the following: 1. Completion of an educational specialist degree or higher from a regionally accredited college or university. Such degree must be in educational leadership, reading/ literacy, or curriculum/instruction or successful completion of fifteen (15) Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (department) approved micro-credentials based on the department’s leadership development system; 2. Successful participation in an annual performancebased building level administrator evaluation; 3. Participation in thirty (30) contact hours of professional development annually; 4. Four (4) years of administrator experience approved by the department; and 5. Participation in two (2) years of district-provided mentoring (during the first two (2) years of administrator experience); (B) The holder of a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for School Leader (Grades K-12), Career and Technical Education Administrator (Grades 7-12), or Special Education Director (Grades K-12) is exempt from the thirty (30) contact hours of professional development if the holder has a local professional development plan in place with the school and meets at least two (2) of the following: 1. Ten (10) years of administrator experience approved by the department; 2. Completion of an educational specialist degree or higher from a regionally accredited college or university. Such degree must be in educational leadership, reading/literacy, or curriculum/instruction; 3. Certification from a nationally recognized professional administrator organization approved by the State Board of Education (board); and/or 4. Completion of the department’s Leadership Development System micro-credentials; (C) The Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for applicants seeking a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent (Grades K-12) will be issued upon completion and verification of the following: 1. Four (4) years of district-level administrator experience approved by the department; 2. Participation in one (1) year of district-provided mentoring (during the first year of superintendent experience); 3. The development, implementation, and completion of a professional development plan of at least one hundred twenty (120) contact hours of professional development based on standards and quality indicators as required by the board, or eight (8) semester hours of graduate credit toward a doctorate degree in educational leadership, or a combination of credits/ professional development; and 4. Successful participation in an annual performancebased evaluation; (D) The Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent (Grades K-12) will remain valid based upon verification by the employing school district that the certificate holder— 1. Participated in a performance-based evaluation; and 2. Completed thirty (30) contact hours of professional development, or two (2) semester hours of graduate credit toward a doctorate degree in educational leadership, or a combination of professional development and graduate credit each year; and (E) The holder of a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent (Grades K-12) is exempt from the thirty (30) contact hours of annual professional development if the holder has a local professional development plan in place with the school and meets the following: 1. Ten (10) years of district level administrator experience approved by the department; 2. A doctorate degree in educational leadership from a regionally accredited college or university; and 3. Certification from a nationally recognized professional administrator organization approved by the board. (2) The requirements of this rule shall become effective September 1, 2021. AUTHORITY: sections 161.092, 168.011, 168.071, 168.081, 168.400, 168.405, and 168.409, RSMo 2016, and section 168.021, RSMo Supp. 2020.* Original rule filed Oct. 29, 2013, effective May 30, 2014. Amended: Filed Jan. 14, 2021, effective July 30, 2021. *Original authority: 161.092, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 2002, 2003, 2013, 2014; 168.011, RSMo 1963, amended 1984; 168.021, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020; 168.071, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2011, 2013, 2014; 168.081, RSMo 1963, amended 1984, 2002, 2014; 168.400, RSMo 1985, amended 1990, 2002; 168.405, RSMo 1985; and 168.409, RSMo 1985.