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Missouri Revised State Plan Highly Qualified Teachers 2006-2007 November 2006 Revision Missouri Department of Elementary Secondary Education Jefferson City, Missouri Outline Introduction and Background Requirement 1: Analysis of core subject area classes not being taught by highly qualified teachers, including Specific subject areas taught by not highly qualified teachers Not highly qualified teachers in buildings not making AYP Groups of teachers not highly qualified Districts and buildings with not highly qualified teachers Courses taught by not highly qualified teachers Requirement 2. Information on Highly Qualified Teacher status in each school district and the steps to assist teachers in attaining HQT status Identify districts that have not met AMOs for HQT Steps districts that have not met AMOs will take Local district plans for HQT Requirement 3. Information on technical assistance, programs, and services to assist school districts in completing their Highly Qualified Teacher Plan Technical assistance AYP DESE programs Requirement 4. How DESE will work with school districts that fail to reach the 100 percent goal by the end of the 2006-2007 school year DESE’s compliance monitoring and technical assistance for HQT High Quality Professional Development Requirement 5. The HOUSSE process for teachers not new to the profession and how DESE will limit the use of HOUSSE The HOUSSE process Multi-subject secondary teachers Multi-subject Special Education teachers Requirement 6. DESE’s written “equity plan” for ensuring that poor or minority children are not taught by inexperienced, unqualified, or out-of-field teachers at higher rates than are other children Identification of inequities Strategies Evidence of success DESE compliance monitoring and technical assistance Appendix  Introduction and Background The Missouri Department of Elementary Secondary Education (DESE) has a two-decade long history of providing highly qualified teachers through a st