Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 284A - Administrator Quality Program

• Administrator: means an individual holding a professional administrator license issued under chapter 272 who is employed in a school district administrative position by a school district or area education agency pursuant to a contract issued by a board of directors under section 279. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Beginning administrator: means an individual serving under an administrator license, issued by the board of educational examiners under chapter 272, who is assuming a position as a school district principal or superintendent for the first time. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Comprehensive evaluation: means a summative evaluation of a beginning administrator conducted by an evaluator in accordance with section 284A. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of education. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Director: means the director of the department of education. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Evaluation: means a summative evaluation of an administrator used to determine whether the administrator's practice meets school district expectations and the Iowa standards for school administrators adopted pursuant to section 256. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Mentor: means an individual employed by a school district or area education agency as a school district administrator or a retired administrator who holds a valid license issued under chapter 272. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:
   a. See Iowa Code 261B.2
• School board: means the board of directors of a school district or a collaboration of boards of directors of school districts. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• State board: means the state board of education. See Iowa Code 284A.2
• Student: means a person who enrolls in or seeks to enroll in a course of instruction offered or conducted by a school. See Iowa Code 261B.2
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1