Iowa Admin. Code r. 281-98.25 - Teacher leadership supplement
The purpose of the teacher leadership supplement is to improve instruction and elevate the quality of teaching and student learning.
(1)
Appropriate uses
of categorical funding . Appropriate uses of teacher leadership
supplement funding may be used to increase the payment for a teacher assigned
to a leadership role pursuant to a framework or comparable system approved
pursuant to Iowa Code section
284.15; to increase the
percentages of teachers assigned to leadership roles; to increase the minimum
teacher starting salary to $33,500; to cover the costs for the time mentor and
lead teachers are not providing instruction to students in a classroom; for
coverage of a classroom when an initial or career teacher is observing or
co-teaching with a teacher assigned to a leadership role; for professional
development time to learn best practices associated with the career pathways
leadership process; for other costs associated with a framework or comparable
system approved by the department of education under Iowa Code section
284.15 with the goals of
improving instruction and elevating the quality of teaching and student
learning, or as described in subrule 98.25(4). "Payment for a teacher" as used
in this rule means additional salary for teachers and the amount required to
pay the employer's share of the federal social security and Iowa public
employees' retirement system, or a pension and annuity retirement system
established under Iowa Code chapter 294. Appropriate uses also include payments
to another school district or districts as negotiated in a whole grade sharing
agreement pursuant to Iowa Code section
282.10(4) and
payment to another school district receiving an open enrolled student pursuant
to Iowa Code section 282.18.
(2)
Inappropriate uses of categorical funding . Inappropriate uses
of teacher leadership supplement funding include any expenditures other than
the appropriate uses described in subrule 98.25(1).
(3)
Flexibility account. All
or a portion of the amount remaining unexpended and unobligated at the end of a
budget year beginning on or after July 1, 2020, may be transferred for deposit
into the flexibility account established under Iowa Code section
298A.2, provided all statutory
requirements of the teacher leadership program have been met.
(4)
Additional provision.
Beginning July 1, 2023, all or a portion of the money carried forward from a
prior year or received in the current year as teacher leadership supplement
funds may be restricted for use limitations described in rule
281-98.24 (257,284).
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