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Internships required for upgrade of Kansas administrative licenses:

(Building Leadership, District Leadership, Reading Specialist, School Counselor, and School Psychologist)

All students finishing administrative programs and filing applications for Kansas licensure after Sept. 1, 2004 have been issued a 2-year Conditional License. Note: this is a KSDE rule; it does not matter when students started a program, but when they will apply for licensure. In order to upgrade the 2-year Conditional License to a 5-year Professional License, administrators will have to complete an on-the-job supervised internship. This is the "performance assessment" under our new performance-based licensure system.

If you never plan to apply for a Kansas license or if you don’t want to keep your Kansas administrative license current, you will not have to do the performance assessment. Please visit with the KU Licensure Officer, Alisa Branham, if you have questions about the timing of your individual situation.

The Internship requirement: The last standard in the new KSDE regulations states that applicants in these areas"… must complete an internship supervised by the recommending institution as part of the performance assessment for this license. The candidate must enroll in 2-3 hours a semester during the first year under the Conditional License as a full-time employee. If the employee is working only half time, the internship can be spread out over two years. A mentor should be provided by the employing district from the same endorsement field and under conditions described … (experienced, in an accredited position, on-site, trained as a mentor). The university must supply a supervisor who makes a minimum of two visits per semester with additional communications between visits. The university will then make the recommendation for licensure after the internship has been completed successfully."

KU has designated the following courses, most of them "new" and therefore not listed in the current graduate catalog, for internship enrollment:

• Building Leadership ELPS 893 (2 credits x 2 semesters)
• District Leadership ELPS 993 (2 credits x 2 semesters)
• Reading Specialist C&T 845 (2 credits x 2, or 1 credit x 4)
• School Counseling PRE 893 (2 credits x 2 semesters)
• School Psychologist PRE 991 (5 credits x 2 semesters)

Important: check with your KU faculty advisor before enrolling so that supervision may be arranged! If you have not been enrolled recently, you will have to apply for re-admission to KU; contact the staff person in C&T, ELPS or PRE who is responsible for graduate admissions if you have questions.

• The current supervisor for Building and District Leadership is Dr. Perry Perkins, pperkins@ku.edu.
• The current supervisor for School Counseling is Dr. Tammy Mikinski at mikinski@ku.edu.

Due to shortages in available supervisors, KU will not be able to serve administrators who completed their programs at other schools, in-state or out-of-state.

Near the end of the final internship semester, students need to file the online Form 19 to upgrade the administrative license to the Professional Level; instructions are posted at this web site. As always, allow 2 weeks for processing at KU and 6 weeks at KSDE.

-updated May 2008