Transcript New Principal`s Workshop - Illinois High School Association

New Principals’ Workshop
October 5, 2011
New Principals’ Workshop
GOVERNANCE
The Principal’s Role
Role of the Principal
The Principal’s Authority Is Granted Through Section 1.200
Of The Constitution And By-Law 2.020
By-Law 2.020 Responsibility of the Principal
• The principals, as defined in Section 1.200
of the Constitution, or their designates,
shall be responsible to this Association for
matters pertaining to all athletic as well as
non-athletic activities of their school.
New Principals’ Workshop
Governance:
Who Makes the Rules, Anyway?
Background
• The IHSA governs the equitable participation in
interscholastic athletics and activities that enrich the
educational experience.
• The mission requires rules to be in place to bring some
kind of order to the operations of the association.
Background
• Wide constituency
– Nearly 800 schools make up our membership
– Nearly 500,000 students will participate in their
school’s interscholastic program this year.
– Over 12,000 officials will be licensed through our
Officials’ Department this year.
• Clear rules need to be in place in order for us to operate
properly
Background
• 3 kinds of rules within the IHSA
– By-Laws
– Policies
– Terms and Conditions
• Each is unique unto itself
• None are established by IHSA staff
• All are approved by the entire membership or the
IHSA Board of Directors.
By-Laws
• The major rules of the association (foundation)
• Govern HS participation in athletics and activities
• Written, reviewed, and approved by member school
principals through the legislative process
By-Laws
• How a proposal becomes a by-law
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Member school submits proposal
Proposal is read at 1st Legislative Commission mtg.
Proposal is discussed at Town Meetings
Proposal is voted on at 2nd Legislative Commission mtg.
Approved proposals are placed on ballot for state-wide vote
A majority vote is required for passage
Policies
• The IHSA has several Board approved polices that
address a wide variety of issue.
• The IHSA policies are in the back section of the IHSA
handbook.
• Sample policies
– Securing an eligibility ruling
– Foreign exchange student policies
– Travel policies
Policies
• Approved by the IHSA Board of Directors.
• Can be created/developed in a number of ways.
– Membership request
– Board request
– IHSA staff request
• On some issues, the Board will gather feedback from the
membership before approving.
• Serve as the “how to get it done” part of our operations
Terms and Conditions
• Serve to establish the guidelines that are used to set up
and run state tournaments.
• T/C changes are created at advisory committee level
– 28 such committees (17 athletic, 5 activity, 6 special)
– Diverse, geographic make-up
– Recommendations can be submitted to IHSA staff or committee
members by member schools (coaches, principals, etc.)
– Committee minutes posted for review prior to Board vote
Terms and Conditions
• Approved by the IHSA Board of Directors.
• Before going to Board, additional review
– Athletic Administrators Advisory Committee
– IHSA Administrative Staff
• Member schools can follow the process by reviewing
advisory committee minutes
Who Makes the Rules, Anyway?
• You do!
• Our job:
– Be transparent
– Make information
available
– Encourage
participation
– Communicate
changes
Contests and Officials
• We are going
WHERE?
• How did we get
THOSE officials?
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IHSA Overview
Key Rules
Summer Participation
• It must be VOLUNTARY!!!!!
• Coaches and students may have 25
contact days in the summer.
• Contact days are sport by sport.
• Contact days may be used for the
following activities:
– Camps, leagues, group or individual
instruction
Summer Participation
• Contact days may be used the day after
classes end for the summer through
Sunday of Week 5 in the IHSA Calendar
(July 29 in 2012)
• Schools may transport students to contact
days during the summer.
• Schools may only compete against other
schools in 7 on 7 football.
By-law 3.011 - Attendance
• A student must attend a member school and
may only represent in interscholastic competition
the member school the student attends. For
purposes of this by-law, the term “attend” shall
mean that the student is enrolled at the member
school, and is taking at, or under arrangements
approved by the member school, a minimum of
twenty (20) credit hours of work for which credit
toward high school graduation will be granted by
the member school upon the student’s
completing and passing the courses.
Scholastic Standing
• 3.021 They shall be doing passing work
in at least twenty (20) credit hours of high
school work per week.
• 3.022 They shall, unless they are
entering high school for the first time, have
credit on the school records for twenty (20)
credit hours of high school work for the
previous semester.
Coaching Certification
• All coaches, including volunteers, must be
certified to coach. (Minimum age is 19)
• Head coaches – regularly certified
teachers or the person must have
completed an approved coaching school
program.
• Assistant coaches – one of the above or a
substitute teaching certificate.
By-law 3.031 – Residence
Public Schools
• Must reside in the district with parents,
custodial parent, or court appointed
guardian
• 2 years with other family member
• 7th and 8th grade tuition paying student
• Multiple high school districts – attendance
area
By-law 3.032 & 3.033
Private/Non-boundaried Schools
• Must reside with parents, custodial parent, or
court appointed guardian within the boundaries
of the public school district in which the school is
located
• 2 years with other family member
• 7th and 8th grade in private school or 4 years of
private (or non-boundaried) school from K-8
• Parent attended the same school
• 30 mile radius
By-law 3.034
• Seniors who have attended the same high
school all of their career
Age 17?
Age18?
• Foreign Exchange Students
– CSIET Full Listing
– IHSA Approval
By-law 3.041
Transfer
• In all transfer cases, both the principal of the
school from which the student transfers and the
school to which the student transfers must
approve of the transfer and execute a form
provided by the IHSA Office. …A student is not
eligible to participate in an interscholastic
contest until the transfer form, fully executed by
both principals, is on file in the offices of the
school to which the student transfers.
By-law 3.042
Transfer
• Once classes begin in a school for the current
school year, if a student changes attendance
from that high school to another high school, the
student shall be ineligible for the remainder of
the school year in any sport in which he/she
participated or was participating in a practice or
interscholastic contest in the current school year
at the school from which the transfer occurs; or
By-law 3.042
Transfer
• Once classes begin in a school for the current
school year, if a student changes attendance
from that high school to another high school, the
student shall be ineligible for a period of thirty
days, …(in any sport in which he/she was not
participating or had not participated during the
current school year).
By-law 3.043
Transfer
• Transfer with parents, custodial parent, or
court appointed legal guardian
• Multiple High School Districts
• Transfer to home public
• Transfer private to private
• Transfer related to custody change
By-law 3.045
• The Executive Director may grant eligibility only
if it is determined, after investigation, that the
circumstances giving rise to the change of
guardianship or adoption and the transfer were
completely beyond the control of all of the
following:
• (1) the student
• (2) the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s)
• (3) the schools to and from which the student
transferred.
By-law 3.047
• The member school to which a student transfers
shall enforce any period of ineligibility imposed
or that would have been imposed upon the
student by the school from which the student is
transferring, even if the student is otherwise
eligible under these by-laws. The period of
ineligibility at the school to which the student
transfers shall be the remaining duration of the
period of ineligibility imposed or that would have
been imposed had the student not transferred,
but not longer than 365 days after the date of the
transfer, whichever is less.
Questions?