keywords: Roles, PowerTeacher, PowerSchool, Co-teachers, lead teachers

aliases: PowerTeacher, PowerSchool, Roles, Co-teachers

Lead Teacher: primary teacher of the class

• Every section in PowerSchool must have a lead teacher for the entire term. 
• There can be only one Lead Teacher at a time
• Lead teachers have full access to the curriculum
• Lead Teachers are reported to the state in CEDARS Reporting. They must be Certified and Approved by ESS to teach the subject they are assigned to a teach.
• Once assigned to the class in PowerSchool Admin the Lead Teacher will have full access to grades and attendance in PowerTeacher and PowerTeacher Pro
• It will take an overnight process for them to get access to curriculum programs.

Co-Teacher Roles: Multiple Co-teacher roles may be assigned to the class in PowerSchool which will determine reporting to the state and access to both PowerSchool and the Curriculum

Co-Teacher: Peer to the Lead Teacher

• The Co-Teacher can be assigned for less than the full term as needed.
• Co-Teachers have full access to grades and attendance in PowerSchool
• Co-Teachers must be manually added to the class in ParentSqure.

Student Teacher: the Mentor teacher should request access for their student teacher

• The Mentor teacher must submit a work order requestion their student teacher be assigned to their class
• Student Teachers should only be assigned for the time frames they are listed as student teaching on the University Placements for the year
• ESS processes Student Teachers in the ESS database so they should have accounts already
• Student Teachers have full access to grades and attendance once assigned in PS.
• Student Teachers are not reported to the state in CEDARS Reporting

Special Education Co-Teacher: A Special Education teacher is assigned to provide instruction or support at the same time in the same classroom as the lead teacher for a given course.

• This role is used to assign a Special Education Teacher to a Gen Ed Class with special education students enrolled.
• Full access to grades and attendance - must work with the lead teacher on who they will enter grades for

English Language Co-Teacher: An EL or ESL teacher is assigned to provide instruction or support at the same time in the classroom as Lead teacher for a given course.

• This role is used to assign a Special Education Teacher to a Gen Ed Class with Special Education Students Assigned.
• Full access to grades and attendance - must work with the lead teacher on who they will enter grades for which students.

Long-Term Substitute Teacher: HQ LT Substitute as notified by HR More than 20 days in the classroom

• Once approved by ESS then a long-term sub is assigned to a section with the co-teacher role of long-term sub.

  Overnight they will feed into the curriculum and at this time manually added to the class in Parent Square

• Long-term subs have full access to grades and attendance
• Long-term subs are reported to the state in CEDARs Reporting

There are other roles listed that should not be used without checking with the Student Database Administrator