2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 388 - System of Public Instruction
NRS 388.159 - Learning strategist: Designation; additional compensation; provision of professional development in subject area of reading; regulations.

1. The principal of a public elementary school, including, without limitation, a charter school, shall designate a licensed teacher employed by the school who has demonstrated leadership abilities to serve as a learning strategist to train and assist teachers at the school to provide intensive instruction to pupils who have been identified as deficient in the subject area of reading.

2. A school district or charter school may provide additional compensation to:

(a) A licensed teacher designated as a learning strategist pursuant to this section; or

(b) A teacher who is employed by a school district or charter school to teach kindergarten or grade 1, 2, 3 or 4 whose overall performance is determined to be highly effective under the statewide performance evaluation system established by the State Board pursuant to NRS 391.465.

3. Each teacher employed by a school district or charter school to teach kindergarten or grade 1, 2, 3 or 4 shall complete professional development provided by a learning strategist designated pursuant to subsection 1 in the subject area of reading.

4. The State Board shall prescribe by regulation:

(a) Any training or professional development that a learning strategist is required to successfully complete;

(b) Any professional development that a teacher employed by a school district or charter school to teach kindergarten or grade 1, 2, 3 or 4 is required to receive from a learning strategist in the subject area of reading; and

(c) The duties and responsibilities of a learning strategist.

(Added to NRS by 2015, 1861)