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Excelsior Springs board approves 2025-26 career ladder revisions, expands tutoring and volunteer-coach credit
Summary
The Excelsior Springs School District board voted unanimously to adopt revisions to the 2025-26 career ladder that raise the percentage of required direct student contact hours allocated to tutoring, allow a portion of volunteer coaching hours to count toward career-ladder accrual, and set new hourly caps for LETRS training and mentoring credits.
The Excelsior Springs School District Board of Education voted unanimously to approve revisions to the district's 2025-26 career ladder, adopting changes to how staff accrue career-ladder hours and which activities qualify for those hours.
The board's adoption follows a multiweek review by a career ladder committee that analyzed 2024-25 program data, solicited staff feedback and compared models used by neighboring districts. The committee's recommended changes include a clarification of the direct student contact requirement (30% of total ladder hours), a specification that at least half of those direct-contact hours (15% of total ladder hours) must be tutoring, an allowance for up to 30% of an individual's total accrual to come from volunteer-coaching hours (subject to conditions), and new caps for LETRS and mentoring hours.
The revisions are intended to broaden the kinds of student-facing activities that qualify for career-ladder credit…
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