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:

1. (A) The Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for either Career Education Director (Secondary/Adult); Elementary Principal (Grades K-8); Middle School Principal (Grades 5-9); Secondary Principal (Grades 7-12); or Special Education Director (Grades K-12) will be issued upon completion and verification of the following:

   1. 1. Completion of an educational special-

ist degree or higher, or the equivalent thereof, from a college or university or another educational leadership program meeting the approval of the department. Such degree, or the equivalent thereof, must be in educational leadership, reading/literacy, or curriculum/instruction;

1. 2. Successful participation in an annual

performance-based principal evaluation;

1. 3. Participation in thirty (30) contact

hours of professional development annually; and

1. 4. Four (4) years of administrator expe-

rience approved by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (department);

1. (B) The holder of a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for either Career Education Director (Secondary/Adult); Elementary Principal (Grades K-8); Middle School Principal (Grades 5-9); Secondary Principal (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. 1. Ten (10) years of administrator expe-

rience approved by the department;

1. 2. Completion of an educational special-

ist degree or higher, or the equivalent thereof, from a college or university or another educational leadership program meeting the approval of the department. Such degree, or the equivalent thereof, must be in educational leadership, reading/literacy, or curriculum/instruction; and/or

1. 3. Certification from a nationally recog-

nized professional administrator organization approved by the State Board of Education (board);

1. (C) The Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for applicants seeking a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent will be issued upon completion and verification of the following:

   1. 1. Four (4) years of district-level admin-

istrator experience approved by the department;

1. 2. Participation in one (1) year of dis-

trict-provided mentoring (during the first year of superintendent experience);

1. 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

1. 4. Successful participation in an annual

performance-based evaluation;

1. (D) The Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent will remain valid based upon verification by the employing school district that the certificate holder—

   1. 1. Participated in a performance-based

evaluation; and

1. 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

1. (E) The holder of a Career Continuous Administrator Certificate for Superintendent 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 at least two (2) of the following:

   1. 1. Ten (10) years of administrator expe-

rience approved by the department;

1. 2. A doctorate degree in educational

leadership from a regionally accredited college or university; and/or

1. 3. Certification from a nationally recog-

nized professional administrator organization approved by the board.

1. (2) The requirements of this rule shall become effective August 1, 2017.

AUTHORITY: sections 168.011, 168.405, and 168.409, RSMo 2000, and sections 161.092, 168.021, 168.071, 168.081, and 168.400, RSMo Supp. 2013.* Original rule filed Oct. 29, 2013, effective May 30, 2014. *Original authority: 161.092, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 2002, 2003, 2013; 168.011, RSMo 1963, amended 1984; 168.021, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013; 168.071, RSMo 1963, amended 1973, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2011, 2013; 168.081, RSMo 1963, amended 1984, 2002; 168.400, RSMo 1985, 5 CSR 20-400 amended 1990, 2002; 168.405, RSMo 1985; and 168.409, RSMo 1985.