| (a) Boards and the Agency's designated Texas Rising
Star assessment entity shall:
(1) conduct a background check on each Texas Rising
Star staff member prior to hiring and again every five years; and
(2) ensure that each Texas Rising Star staff completes
the Texas Rising Star standards training, as described in the Texas
Rising Star guidelines.
(b) Boards shall ensure that Texas Rising Star mentor
staff meets the minimum requirements in subsections (c) - (f) of this
section.
(c) Texas Rising Star mentor staff shall meet the minimum
education requirements as follows:
(1) Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year
college or university in early childhood education, child development,
special education, child psychology, educational psychology, elementary
education, or family consumer science;
(2) Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year
college or university with at least 18 credit hours in early childhood
education, child development, special education, child psychology,
educational psychology, elementary education, or family consumer science
with at least 12 credit hours in child development; or
(3) Associate's degree in early childhood education,
child development, special education, child psychology, educational
psychology, elementary education, or family consumer science, and
two years of suitable experience in early childhood education as determined
by the Board.
(d) The Agency may grant a waiver of no more than two
years to obtain the minimum education requirements in subsection (c)
of this section if a Board can demonstrate that no applicants in its
workforce area meet the minimum education requirements.
(e) Texas Rising Star mentor staff shall meet the minimum
work experience requirements of one year of full-time early childhood
classroom experience in a child care, EHS, HS, or pre-K through third-grade
school program.
(f) All mentors must attain mentor microcredentialing,
as described in the Texas Rising Star Guidelines.
(g) The Agency's designated Texas Rising Star assessment
entity shall ensure that Texas Rising Star assessor staff shall attain
and maintain the Texas Rising Star Assessor Certification, as described
in the Texas Rising Star Guidelines.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §809.134 adopted to be effective February 16, 2015, 40 TexReg 708; amended to be effective January 8, 2019, 44 TexReg 114; amended to be effective January 25, 2021, 46 TexReg 593; amended to be effective October 3, 2022, 47 TexReg 6437; amended to be effective July 29, 2024, 49 TexReg 5540 |
