Report of Certificated Staff

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Report of Certificated Staff
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Agenda

• Report of Certificated Staff Overview
• Description
• Data Elements
• Instructional Certificates Endorsements
• Teacher of the Handicapped (TOH)
• Teacher of Students with Disabilities (TOSD)
• Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements
• Report of Certificated Staff Specifics
• Key Screens

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• Report of Certificated Staff Overview

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Description
• A statewide, school-based data collection system
• Includes every teacher, his/her certification,
  class assignment, and highly qualified teacher
  status
  
• Part of the fall survey

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Data Elements - Teachers
• Status (full-time, part-time, permanent sub)
• Social security number
• Last name, first name, middle initial
• Sex
• Race
• Degree
• Educational experience in district
• Educational experience in NJ
• Educational experience total

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Salary
• Exemption contract salary condition
• Year of birth
• Entering code
• Leaving code
• Job codes (can have up to 6)
• FTE
• Employee type (10-, 11-, or 12-month)

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Teacher preparation
• 1 Alternate Route
• 2 Traditional Route
• Type of certificate held
• 1 Standard
• 2 Provisional
• 3 Emergency
• 4 Temporary
• 5 Conditional
• 6 Non-citizen
• 7 Certificate of Eligibility (CE)
• 8 Certificate of Eligibility with Advanced
  Standing (CEAS)
  

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Highly qualified (for each job code)
• 1 No, is not highly qualified.
• 2 Doesnt need to be highly qualified.
• 3 Yes, passed the appropriate Praxis/NTE.
• 4 Yes, by the House Matrix.
• 5 Yes, has 30 credits in content area.
• 6 Yes, has graduate degree in subject area
• 7 Yes, has undergrad degree in subject area
  8 Yes, is Nationally Board Certified.
  

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Classes Taught (CT)
• Type (self-contained or departmentalized)
• Number of classes taught
• Grade Level(s) Taught
• 1 Elementary
• 2 Middle
• 3 Secondary
• 4 Elementary/Middle
• 5 Elementary/Secondary
• 6 Middle/Secondary
• 7 Elementary/Middle/Secondary
• National Board Certified (NC)
• Y Yes
• N No

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Data Elements District/Program Level
• Vacancies
• Areas of shortage
• Teacher fluency in languages other than English
• General Questions

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• Certificates Endorsements

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Certificates and Endorsements

• Three types of certificates
• Instructional
• Educational Services
• Administrative
• Instructional certificates allow the holder to be
  a classroom teacher.

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Certificates and Endorsements

• Educational services certificates allow the
  holder to provide educational support such as
  counseling, speech language pathology and school
  nursing services.
• Administrative certificates allow the holder to
  provide supervisory and managerial services in
  the school district such as those provided by the
  building principal or school administrator.

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Certificates and Endorsements

• Under each type of certificate, there are
  endorsements.
  
• The endorsement identifies the specific type of
  service that the holder is allowed to provide.
  

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Certificates and Endorsements

• All endorsements are for grade levels preschool
  through Grade 12 (P-12).
  
• Exceptions
• Elementary School Teacher with Grades K-5
  endorsement (K-5)
  
• Elementary School Teacher with subject-matter
  specialization Grades 5-8 endorsement (5-8)
  
• Preschool through Grade 3 endorsement (P-3)

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Special Education Instructional Certificates
Endorsements

• Teacher of the Handicapped (TOH)
• Original endorsement that authorizes the holder
  to teach students with disabilities in grades
  N-12
  
• Teacher of Students with Disabilities (TOSD)
• New endorsement that must be accompanied by a
  general education instructional certificate

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Special Education Instructional Certificates
Endorsements

• TOH - Grandfathering
• New Jersey and out of state college program
  completers through September 1, 2008 will be
  issued the Teacher of the Handicapped
  certificate.
• Must have been matriculated by Spring 2005,
  complete the program by September 1, 2008, and
  apply to our office no later than March 1, 2009.
  

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Special Education Instructional Certificates
Endorsements

• Teacher of Students with Disabilities (TOSD)
• Must hold an instructional certificate (CE, CEAS
  or Standard certificate as a prerequisite).
  
• For TOSD CE, must hold an instructional
  certificate (CE, CEAS or Standard).
  
• For TOSD CEAS, must complete a state-approved
  college program that includes 21 27 credits in
  special education and required supervised
  teaching.
• For standard TOSD must hold a standard
  instructional certificate and complete a
  state-approved college special education
  program.

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• Highly Qualified Teachers

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Highly Qualified Teachers

• The Highly Qualified Teacher initiative is a
  federal mandate that requires states to
  demonstrate the alignment between teachers
  academic preparation and their content area
  teaching assignments through each states
  licensing system.

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NJ Special Education Regulations

• All personnel serving students with disabilities
  shall be highly qualified and appropriately
  certified and licensed, where a license is
  required.
• N.J.A.C. 6A14-1.2(b)13 and 6A14-7.6(c)

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Debunking the Myths

• Just because you are certified, does not mean you
  are highly qualified.
  
• Being highly qualified does not automatically
  confer certification.
  

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Highly Qualified Federal Definition

• To satisfy the federal definition of Highly
  Qualified, teachers must
  
• Have at least a Bachelors degree
• Have valid state certification
• No requirements have been waived
• No emergency certificates
• CE and CEAS are considered state certification
  and
  
• Demonstrate content expertise in the core
  academic subject(s) they teach.
  

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ALL TEACHERS PROVIDING DIRECT INSTRUCTION IN CORE
ACADEMIC SUBJECTS MUST DEMONSTRATE THEIR CONTENT
EXPERTISE.
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Professionals Who are Required to Demonstrate
Content Expertise

• Teachers of the following core academic
  subjects
  
• Arts (Music, Theater, Dance, Visual Arts)
• English
• Foreign Languages
• Language Arts
• Mathematics
• Reading
• Science
• Social Studies
• Economics
• Geography
• Government/Civics
• History

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Professionals Who are Not Required to Demonstrate
Content Expertise

• Preschool teachers
• Health/Physical Education
• Educational Services Personnel
• Librarians
• Guidance Counselors
• LDT-Cs, Psychologists, Social Workers,
• Speech-Language Specialists
• Vo-Tech
• Business
• Family and Consumer Science
• Technological Literacy and Technological
  Education
  
• Special education teachers providing in-class
  resource programs
  
• Special education teachers providing pull-out
  support resource programs
  
• Special education teachers providing consultation
  as a service
  

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HQ Requirements and NJ Special Education Teachers

• Who must demonstrate content expertise in the
  subject(s) they teach?
  
• Special education teachers who provide direct
  instruction in core academic subjects in special
  class programs (self-contained) or pull-out
  replacement resource programs

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HQ Requirements and NJ Special Education Teachers

• Who does not have to demonstrate content
  expertise?
  
• Special education teachers who provide in-class
  resource programs
  
• Note The primary instructional responsibility
  for the student in an in-class resource program
  shall be the general education teacher unless
  otherwise specified in the students IEP
  N.J.A.C. 6A14-4.6(i)

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HQ Requirements and NJ Special Education Teachers

• Who does not have to demonstrate content
  expertise?
  
• Special education teachers who provide pull-out
  support resource programs
  
• Special education teachers who provide
  consultation as a service on behalf of a student
  or a group of students with disabilities
  

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A TEACHER MUST HAVE THE APPROPRIATE CERTIFICATION
FOR THEIR TEACHING ASSIGNMENT IN ORDER TO BE
DEEMED HIGHLY QUALIFIED.
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HQ Requirements and NJ Special Education Teachers

• Teachers with Teacher of the Handicapped (TOH)
  endorsement have the appropriate certification to
  teach at the middle and high school level.
  
• However, they must demonstrate content expertise
  through the federal requirements.
  
• Teachers with Teacher of Students with
  Disabilities (TOSD) endorsement may only teach in
  their area of instructional certification.
  
• Teachers with TOH or TOSD may provide support and
  consultation services at any level.
  

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HQ Requirements and NJ Special Education Teachers

• Special education teachers in the following
  programs can qualify as elementary generalists
  
• Pull-out replacement resource programs
• (K-5)
• Self-contained settings (K-8)
• Self-contained settings above grade 8 where the
  content/curriculum is elementary and students are
  assessed against alternate proficiency standards
  (APA)

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HQ Requirements and NJ Special Education Teachers

• Special education teachers in the following
  programs must qualify in each core academic
  subject they teach
  
• Self-contained settings above grade 8
• Departmentalized programs grade 5 and above,
  including pull-out replacement resource programs

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Areas for Clarification

• New teacher a novice teacher in the first year
  of teaching (MUST use federal requirements).
  
• Newly hired teacher experienced teacher newly
  hired and new to the district (HQ from previous
  district or federal requirements).
  
• Veteran teacher experienced teacher
• Hired before 2002 2003 in Title I schools
• Hired before June 30, 2006 in non-Title I schools
  (Federal Requirements or HOUSE).
  

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Areas for Clarification

• Teachers with an N-8 certificate may satisfy the
  highly qualified requirements as an elementary
  generalist if they are teaching a self-contained
  class at any of those levels by passing the
  Praxis II Elementary Content Knowledge Test.
• Teachers with N-8 certificate have the
  appropriate certification to teach at the middle
  school level.
  
• However, they must demonstrate content expertise
  if they are teaching in departmentalized
  settings.
  

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Areas for Clarification

• Teachers with a K-5 certificate may not teach at
  the middle school level unless they have the
  Middle School Content Area Endorsement.
  
• Teachers who already satisfied the Praxis as part
  of their certification have met the highly
  qualified requirement, but must complete the
  highly qualified forms.

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HOUSE Requirements

• Provided an alternate means for veteran teachers
  to show content expertise by accruing a total of
  ten points for
  
• College coursework (2 points per content course)
  
  
• Professional learning (1 point and within a 4
  year recency)
  
• Working with a content expert (1 point and within
  a 4 year recency)
  
• Teaching experience in the content.
• HOUSE may no longer be used as a means of
  showing highly qualified status except for those
  employing IDEA Flexibility.
  

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HOUSE Phase-Out

• All new (novice) teachers must demonstrate
  content expertise through the federal
  requirements except those using IDEA flexibility
  and foreign teachers
• All veteran teachers who have a new assignment
  within their certification must now meet the
  federal highly qualified requirements
  

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Federal Exceptions to House Phase-Out

• New (novice) special education teachers who are
  highly qualified in LAL, math or science upon
  hire have 2 years from date of hire to become
  highly qualified in additional subjects. (IDEA
  flexibility)
• Foreign teachers who are hired on short- term
  assignments may use HOUSE to demonstrate content
  expertise.

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Areas for Clarification

• All highly qualified designations are portable
  from district to district in New Jersey,
  including HOUSE.
  
• Those who have demonstrated content expertise
  through HOUSE retain that status within their
  district.
  

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Areas for Clarification

• Teachers who provide direct instruction in core
  content areas for 4 weeks or more must be highly
  qualified in the subject or subjects they teach.
  
• Teachers who have not yet met the highly
  qualified status must be reported accurately on
  the Certificated Staff Report.
  
• The intent of is not to fire teachers if they
  have not met the highly qualified status, but
  rather to support them in meeting the
  requirements.

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• Report of Certificated Staff Specifics

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Downloading

• WBDOEnet
• -EDCPC Downloads

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• Screen 1
• Log In

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• Screen 2
• Data Entry

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• Screen 3
• Staff Information
• (Select School)

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• Screen 4
• Individual Staff Listing

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Report of Certificated Staff

• Additional Information Screens
• Vacancies
• Languages
• General Questions

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• Final Screen
• Non-certificated Staff

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Key Contacts

• Barbara Molnar [phone] or Shannon Tootell
  [phone](Fall Survey)
  
• FSV_at_doe.state.nj.us