ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 599	By:	Paddack of the Senate

			and

		Nollan of the House

[ professional development in schools - administrator professional development pilot program - requiring the State Department of Education to approve of certain entities - State Department of Education to pay for associated costs - codification - effective date - 		emergency ]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6-194.3 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A.  Subject to available funding, the State Board of Education shall establish and administer the school administrator professional development pilot program.
B.  Upon implementation, the pilot program shall aim to improve leadership skills through requiring the completion of professional development academies according to the following guidelines:
1.  School principals, between their second and fifth year as a school principal, shall complete ten (10) hours of a content-specific academy designed to improve their leadership and organizational skills;
2.  Any principal of a school that does not make adequate yearly progress (AYP) pursuant to Section 1210.541 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be required to complete six (6) hours of a content-specific academy following the school year in which the school did not make AYP; and
3.  All superintendents shall complete ten (10) hours of an academy between their second and fifth years as a superintendent.  Superintendents shall receive professional development in the following topics:
a.	education leadership to include vision, culture and equity,
b.	resolving complex problems to include ethics, instruction and management,
c.	communications to include advocacy, and
d.	developing self and others to include learners, learning and leadership.
C.  Prior to implementation, the State Department of Education shall develop a list of approved professional development providers based upon proven capacity to deliver research-based instruction.
D.  Subject to available funding, the State Department of Education shall pay for all reasonable costs associated with attendance of an approved academy, including but not limited to tuition, fees, mileage, and lodging.
E.  The State Board of Education shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2011.
SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
Passed the Senate the 14th day of March, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer 	of the Senate

Passed the House of Representatives the ____ day of __________, 2011.

	
Presiding Officer of the House
	of Representatives