PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR

[Filed July 25, 2020, 10:37 a.m.]

Preproposal statement of inquiry was filed as WSR 19-17-027.

Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: WAC 181-78A-205 Required professional education advisory board and 181-78A-209 Professional education advisory boards—Membership.

Hearing Location(s): On September 24, 2020, at 8:00 a.m., at the Ruby River Hotel, 700 North Division Street, Spokane, WA 99202.

Date of Intended Adoption: September 24, 2020.

Submit Written Comments to: Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB), 600 Washington Street S.E., P.O. Box 47236, Olympia, WA 98504-7236, email pesb@k12.wa.us, by September 10, 2020.

Assistance for Persons with Disabilities: PESB, phone 360-725-6275, email pesb@k12.wa.us, by September 10, 2020.

Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects, Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: Include career and technical education (CTE) B&I and CTE administrator programs in WAC on professional education advisory board.

Reasons Supporting Proposal: All program types, except these, have clear requirements for membership on professional education advisor boards.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 28A.410 RCW.

Statute Being Implemented: Chapter 28A.410 RCW.

Rule is not necessitated by federal law, federal or state court decision.

Name of Proponent: PESB, governmental.

Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting: Maren Johnson, 600 Washington Street S.E., P.O. Box 47236, Olympia, WA 98504-7236, 360-725-6264; Implementation and Enforcement: PESB, 600 Washington Street S.E., P.O. Box 47236, Olympia, WA 98504-7236.

A school district fiscal impact statement is not required under RCW 28A.305.135.

A cost-benefit analysis is not required under RCW 34.05.328.

This rule proposal, or portions of the proposal, is exempt from requirements of the Regulatory Fairness Act because the proposal:

Is exempt under RCW 19.85.025(3) as the rules relate only to internal governmental operations that are not subject to violation by a nongovernment party.

AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 12-02-028, filed 12/28/11, effective 1/28/12)

WAC 181-78A-205Required professional education advisory board.

Institutions and organizations seeking approval by the professional educator standards board as an approved preparation program, and in order to maintain such approval status, shall establish a professional education advisory board (PEAB) in accordance with the following:

(1) The program areas for which an institution or organization may seek approval and maintain an approved preparation program are:

(a) Teacher.

(b) Career and technical education business and industry route teacher.

(((c)))(d) Career and technical education business and industry route administrator.

(e) Educational staff associate (ESA), school counselor.

(((d)))(f) Educational staff associate, school psychologist.

(2) An institution or organization may combine educational staff associate professional education advisory boards as long as one-half or more of the voting members are appointed by the associations representing the ESA roles involved and are divided equally among those roles.

(3) An institution or organization may have separate administrator professional education advisory boards for each administrator role as long as one-half or more of the voting members are appointed by the association representing the administrator role involved: ((Provided, That))Each administrator PEAB shall include at least one member appointed by the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP), one appointed by the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA), and one appointed by the Washington Federation of Independent Schools (WFIS).

(4) The failure of a designated organization, as specified in WAC 181-78A-209, to make appointments to the designated board, or to make such appointments in a timely manner, shall not cause the preparation program to lose its approval status.

AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 11-01-047, filed 12/7/10, effective 1/7/11)

WAC 181-78A-207Qualification to be appointed to an institution or organization professional education advisory board.

(1) Professional education advisory boards may authorize the appointment of additional representatives from other school districts or other public and private agencies as long as one-half or more of the members of the professional education advisory board consist of representatives who meet the qualifications of this subsection and who are from the role for which the professional education advisory board has responsibility.

(2) If any professional education advisory board receives a written request from other school districts or other public or private agencies for representation on such professional education advisory board, the current members of such professional education advisory board shall vote on such request at the next regular meeting of such board((: Provided, That)). A program may elect to add private school representatives to a professional education advisory board without adding to the representation from the role for which the professional education advisory board has responsibility if the professional education advisory board authorizes such action by a majority vote.

AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 12-02-028, filed 12/28/11, effective 1/28/12)

WAC 181-78A-209Professional education advisory boards—Membership.

The professional education advisory boards shall at a minimum consist of the following:

(1) teacher.

(a) One-half or more of the voting members ((shall be))are classroom teachers. All, but one, ((will))must be appointed by the president of the Washington Education Association. The remaining teacher ((shall))must be employed in a state-approved private school and appointed by the Washington Federation of Independent Schools.

(b) At least one principal appointed by the president of the Association of Washington School Principals.

(d) At least one educational staff associate (school counselor, school psychologist, school social worker, school nurse, school occupational therapist, school physical therapist, or school speech language pathologist or audiologist) appointed by the president of the individual's professional association.

(e) At least one institution or organization representative who may serve in a voting or nonvoting role.

(f) At programs where career and technical education programs are offered in conjunction with general educator residency certification programs, one career and technical education director or career and technical education teacher, with expertise in one of the approved career and technical education programs at the institution or organization, appointed by the Washington Association of ((Vocational))Career and Technical Administrators in cooperation with the institution or organization.

(2) career and technical education business and industry route teacher.

(a) One-half or more of the voting members are career and technical education teachers. One-half of these teachers must be appointed by the executive director of the Washington Association for Career and Technical Education. The remaining teachers must be appointed by the educator preparation program. At least one career and technical education teacher on the advisory board must be prepared through a Washington state business and industry route preparation program.

(b) At least one career and technical education director appointed by the president of the Washington Association for Career and Technical Administrators.

(c) At least one secondary school administrator appointed by the Washington Association of Career and Technical Administrators' area group associated with the educator preparation program.

(d) At least one career and technical education career guidance specialist, or one career and technical education occupational information specialist, or one career and technical education counselor.

(e) At least one institution or organization representative who may serve in a voting or nonvoting role.

(3)administrator.

(a) One-half or more of the voting members ((shall be))are administrators. One-half of these administrators ((shall))must be appointed by the president of the Washington Association of School Administrators. The remaining administrators shall be appointed by the president of the Association of Washington School Principals except one who shall be employed in an approved private school and appointed by the Washington Federation of Independent Schools.

(b) At least one or more classroom teachers appointed by the president of the Washington Education Association.

(c) At least one educational staff associate (school counselor, school psychologist, school social worker, school nurse, school occupational therapist, school physical therapist, or school speech language pathologist or audiologist) appointed by the president of the individual's professional association.

(d) At least one institution or organization representative who may serve in a voting or nonvoting role.

(((3)))(4) cte administrator.

(a) One-half or more of the voting members are certificated career and technical education administrators. One-half of these administrators must be appointed by the Washington Association of Career and Technical Administrators' area group associated with the educator preparation program. The remaining administrators must be appointed by the educator preparation program.

(b) At least one or more career and technical education teacher appointed by the executive director of the Washington Association for Career and Technical Education.

(c) At least one secondary school administrator appointed by the Washington Association of Career and Technical Administrators' area group associated with the program.

(d) At least one career and technical education career guidance specialist, or one career and technical education occupational information specialist, or one career and technical education counselor appointed by the educator preparation program.

(e) At least one institution or organization representative who may serve in a voting or nonvoting role.

(5)school counselor.

(a) At least one-half of the voting members ((shall be))are school counselors appointed by the president of the Washington School Counselors Association.

(b) At least one teacher appointed by the president of the Washington Education Association.

(d) At least one administrator appointed by the Washington Association of School Administrators.

(e) At least one institution or organization representative who may serve in a voting or nonvoting role.

(((4)))(6)school psychologist.

(a) At least one-half of the voting members ((shall be))are school psychologists appointed by the president of the Washington State Association of School Psychologists.

(b) At least one teacher appointed by the president of the Washington Education Association.

(d) At least one administrator appointed by the Washington Association of School Administrators.

(e) At least one institution or organization representative who may serve in a voting or nonvoting role.

(((5)))(7)membership appointments. Applicable to all professional association appointments, if the professional association does not respond to the program's request for an appointment of a representative within sixty days of the receipt of the request, a program may appoint the representative of its choice in the role for which an appointment is being sought. If the program makes an appointment, it must notify the appropriate professional association within one week that the appointment has been made. If an association is unable to appoint a representative due to the geographic restriction of possible candidates, the PEAB will appoint an alternate to represent that association with their consent.