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20   chapter 272, who is assuming a position as a classroom
21   teacher.
22     2.  "Board of directors" means the board of
23   directors of a school district or a collaboration of
24   boards of directors of school districts.
25     3.  "Classroom teacher" means an individual who
26   holds a valid practitioner's license and who is
27   employed by a school district under sections 279.13
28   through 279.19 in a school district or area education
29   agency in this state to provide instruction to
30   students.
31     4.  "Department" means the department of education.
32     5.  "Director" means the director of the department
33   of education.
34      6.  "District facilitator" means a licensed
35   professional pursuant to chapter 272 who is appointed
36   by the board of directors, or a collaboration of
37   districts, to serve as the liaison between the board
38   of directors and the department for the beginning
39   teacher induction program.
40      7.  "Mentor" means an individual employed by a
41   school district or area education agency as a
42   classroom teacher and who holds a valid license to
43   teach issued under chapter 272.
44      Sec. 8.  NEW SECTION.  256E.3  DISTRICT PLAN.
45     1.  A board of directors of a school district or
46   the boards of directors of a collaboration of school
47   districts participating in the beginning teacher
48   induction program shall appoint a district
49   facilitator, whose duties shall include, but are not
50   limited to, overseeing the development of a plan for

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 1   meeting the goals of the program as set forth in
 2   section 256E.1, and composing a district committee
 3   pursuant to subsection 2.
 4     2.  The membership of the district committee
 5   composed by the district facilitator shall include,
 6   but is not limited to, licensed practitioners and an
 7   area education agency staff development professional.
 8     3.  The district committee shall adopt a plan and
 9   written procedures for a mentor program consistent
10   with this chapter.  The plan and the written
11   procedures shall, at a minimum, provide the process
12   for the selection of and the number of mentors; the
13   mentor training process; the timetable by which the
14   plan shall be implemented; placement of mentors and
15   beginning teachers; the minimum amount of contact time
16   between mentors and beginning teachers; the minimum
17   amount of release time for mentors and beginning
18   teachers for meetings for planning, demonstration,
19   observation, feedback, and workshops; the process for

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