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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
SENATE BILL 1631 By: Pugh
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to teachers; directing the Comm ission
for Educational Quality and Accoun tability to
establish certain mentor teacher train ing program;
providing duration of pilot program; providing
definition; providing purpose and goal of pilot
program; directing certain stipend to be provided to
certain mentor teachers subject to availabili ty of
funding; requiring administration of certain surveys;
directing the Commission to submit certain report by
certain date; providing for contents of report;
providing for promulgation of rules; providing for
codification; providing an effective date; a nd
declaring an 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 3-116.6 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Commission for Educational Quality and Ac countability
shall establish a two-year pilot program for mentor teacher training
with the goal of retaining teachers in this state . For the purposes
of this section, “mentor teacher” shall have the same meaning as
provided for in Section 6 -182 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
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B. The pilot program sh all provide mentor teachers , who have
taught for at least five (5) years , with coaching tools to guide,
support, and assist teachers who have been employed by a public
school district in this state for one year in the areas of classroom
management, curriculum, differentiation of instruction , and other
pedagogical techniques. The goal of the pilot program shall be to
provide training to one mentor teacher from eac h school district in
this state over the two-year period.
C. Subject to the availability of funds, mentor teachers who
complete the training pilot program created by this section shall be
provided a one-time stipend of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00).
D. The Commission shall administ er an introductory survey and
an exit survey to teachers placed under the mentorship of a mentor
teacher who completed the training pilot program created by this
section. The Commission shall cr eate a standardized survey form to
measure a teacher’s mentorship experience.
E. By July 1, 2026, the Commission shall submit a report to the
President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the Hou se of
Representatives, and the c hairs of the education committees in the
Senate and House of Representatives . The report shall include but
not be limited to aggregate data from the surveys administered
pursuant to subsection D of thi s section and recommendations
regarding continuation o r expansion of the pilot program.
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F. The Commission shall promulgate rules to impleme nt the
provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2022.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary fo r the preservation
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof thi s act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval .
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