HES Teacher Qualifications

Hanksville Elementary School
Highly Qualified Staff 
Fall 2023
  • This school employs individuals holding an LEA-specific educator license, license areas, and/or endorsements
  • The following designations or levels apply to educator licenses, license areas (i.e.-elementary, secondary, special education), and content endorsements (i.e.-mathematics, music, Spanish, social studies):
    • Professional: The educator has completed an educator preparation program that includes content and pedagogical knowledge. This program may have been completed at a university or in an alternate pathway that was supported by school districts/charters and the Utah State Board of Education.
    • Associate: The educator is currently completing an educator preparation program, but has not yet completed all requirements for a Professional Educator License, license area, or endorsement. The educator is enrolled in a university-based or Local Education Agency (LEA)-based program. When the educator completes the program, they will have a professional level.
    • LEA-Specific: The educator has not completed an educator preparation and is not currently enrolled in one
  • For the 2023-24 school year, this school employs educators with the following types of licensure:
    • Professional License - 100%
    • Associate License - 0%
    • LEA-specific License - 0%
    • Not USBE Qualified - 0%
  • Individual educator credentials are public information and may be found here: https://cactus.schools.utah.gov/PersonSearch

If you have any questions about the qualifications of your child’s teacher, please contact the principal.


Hanksville Elementary is a Title I School; therefore, we have a School Wide Title I Plan. The plan includes the following information about our school:


  • A comprehensive needs assessment of the entire school
  • School wide reform strategies that provide opportunities for all children to meet the state’s proficient and advanced levels of academic achievement by using effective methods and instructional strategies based on scientifically based research
  • Instruction by highly qualified teachers
  • High quality and ongoing professional development for teachers, principal and paraprofessionals
  • Strategies to attract high-quality, highly qualified teachers to our school
  • Strategies to increase parental involvement in accordance with section 118 of the NO Child Left Behind Act
  • Plans for assisting preschool children in the transition from early childhood programs, such as Title I/SPED Preschool, Upstart, or state-run preschool programs to local elementary school programs
  • Measures to include teachers in the decision making process regarding the use of academic assessments
  • Activities to ensure that students who experience difficulty mastering the proficient or advanced levels of academic achievement standards be provided timely and additional assistance
  • Coordination and integration of Federal, State and local services and programs.

If you would like to review the entire Schoolwide Title I Plan, please ask at the office or see our school website.