7.1: Substantial Field and Clinical Internship Experience: The program provides significant and documented performance based field experiences for candidates within a school environment to synthesize and perform the content knowledge of Standards 1 – 6. Significant refers to the demonstration of Standards 1-6 through authentic, school-based leadership experiences that can be documented or measured.
7.2: Sustained Internship Experience: Candidates are provided a six-month, concentrated (9–12 hours per week) internship that includes field experiences within a school-based environment.
7.3: Qualified On-Site Mentor: An on-site school mentor who has demonstrated experience as an educational leader within a school and is selected collaboratively by the intern and program faculty with training by the supervising institution
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Waterford School District
Kingsley Montgomery School (KMS) is located in Waterford, Michigan. KMS is defined by Oakland Schools as a program for all, which is a newer term for a center based program, that services the southeast cities of Oakland County. The students that attend this school have all gone through Oakland County’s continuum of services, that identifies that interventions have been tried on all levels and that the frequency, intensity, and duration are necessary for specific programing. All students are offered transportation provided by their home district.
The school houses three very different programs, that also have different age capacities attached to them. Inside KMS we house the Severely Multiply Impaired students, SXI, with students ranging from ages 3 to 26 divided into four classrooms. The Severely Cognitively Program, SCI, has students in fifth grade through post high at age 26, these students are divided up among three classrooms. The last program that KMS houses is the Severely Emotionally Impaired program, SEI, or also known as Day Treatment, this program is a K-12 program where there are two elementary, two middle and two high school classrooms.