Required professional educator 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 educator 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) Administrator.
(d) Career and technical education administrator.
(e) Educational staff associate, school counselor.
(f) Educational staff associate, school psychologist.
(2) Professional educator advisory board.
(a) All educator preparation program providers shall establish and maintain a professional educator advisory board to participate in and cooperate with the organization on decisions related to the development, implementation, and revision of preparation program(s).
(b) The professional educator advisory board shall adopt operating procedures and meet at least three times a year.
(c) The professional educator advisory board annually shall review and analyze data for the purposes of determining whether candidates have a positive impact on student learning and providing the institution with recommendations for programmatic change. This data may include, but not be limited to: Student surveys, follow-up studies, employment placement records, student performance portfolios, course evaluations, program review indicators, and summaries of performance on the pedagogy assessment for teacher candidates.
(d) The professional educator advisory board shall make recommendations when appropriate for program changes to the institution which must in turn consider and respond to the recommendations in writing in a timely fashion.
(3) An institution or organization may combine educational staff associate professional educator 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.
(4) An institution or organization may have separate administrator professional educator 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: 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).
(5) 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.
[Statutory Authority: Chapter
28A.410 RCW. WSR 21-08-023, § 181-78A-205, filed 3/29/21, effective 4/29/21; WSR 20-20-092, § 181-78A-205, filed 10/5/20, effective 11/5/20. Statutory Authority: RCW
28A.410.210. WSR 12-02-028, § 181-78A-205, filed 12/28/11, effective 1/28/12; WSR 11-01-047, § 181-78A-205, filed 12/7/10, effective 1/7/11; WSR 09-20-110, § 181-78A-205, filed 10/7/09, effective 11/7/09; WSR 06-14-010, § 181-78A-205, filed 6/22/06, effective 7/23/06. WSR 06-02-051, recodified as § 181-78A-205, filed 12/29/05, effective 1/1/06. Statutory Authority: RCW
28A.305.130 (1) and (2),
28A.410.010 and
28A.150.220(4). WSR 99-01-174, § 180-78A-205, filed 12/23/98, effective 1/23/99.]
