NCLB Qualified Teachers

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NCLB Qualified Teachers

• Nebraska Department of Education
• July, 2005

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Agenda

• NCLB Qualified Teachers
• Changes in data collections
• Fall Personnel Report and Curriculum Report
• HOUSSE
• Goals and Objectives
• State of the Schools Report
• New to the profession elementary teachers

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NCLB Qualified Teachers

• USDE compliance monitoring visit
• Starting over with new definition and
  requirements (Can no longer use Rule 10
  accreditation requirements)
• Report to USDE due August 31, 2005
• NCLB requirements support
• Continued professional growth for teachers
  assigned outside of their endorsed areas
• Can use Title I and Title II funds

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NCLB Requirements

• Separate from Rule 10 requirements and Rule 51
  reimbursement
• A condition of funding that is applicable to
  all schools and districts in the State
• Requirements are found in Title I and Title II
  and the definitions in Section 9101 of NCLB and
  IDEA, 2004

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NCLB Requirements

• All teachers can demonstrate content area
  knowledge in the areas they are teaching
• A process for teachers assigned outside of
  endorsed areas (HOUSSE)
• Goals at the State, school and district levels to
  reach 100 of applicable staff being NCLB
  Qualified
• Changes in the State of the Schools Report
• An assessment for elementary and special
  education teachers who are new to the profession

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Who is exempt from being NCLB Qualified?

• Preschool
• Health and Physical Education
• Career Education (Agriculture, Business
  Education, Cooperative Education, Family and
  Consumer Sciences, Industrial Technology,
  Information Technology, Marketing, Trade and
  Industrial Education)
• Coaching, driver education

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Who is already NCLB Qualified? Elementary
Veteran Teachers

• Teachers who are teaching K-8 in an elementary
  school and hold an Elementary Education
  endorsement
• Content specialists who provide instruction to
  elementary students and have the appropriate
  endorsement
• Art (K-12) or General Art (K-6)
• Health and/or Physical Education (K-12 or K-6)
• Reading Specialist (K-12 or K-8)
• Music (K-12)
• Instrumental Music (K-12 or K-8)
• Vocal Music (K-12 or K-8)
• Early Childhood Education (PK-3)
• English as a Second Language (K-12)
• High Ability Education ((K-12)
• Information Technology, formerly Computer Science
  (K-12)

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Who is already NCLB Qualified?Middle Grades
Veteran Teachers

• Teachers with a middle grades endorsement and
  areas of specialization in the content areas they
  are teaching
• Teachers with a generic middle grades endorsement
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• Teachers with an appropriate 7-12 endorsement and
  are teaching that content area to grades 7, 8 or
  9
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• Teachers with a K-12 endorsement in the content
  area being taught
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• Teachers with an elementary education endorsement
  and are teaching mathematics, science, social
  studies, or English/language arts to grades 5, 6,
  7, or 8

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Who is already NCLB Qualified?Secondary School
Veteran Teachers

• Teachers who are teaching only courses for which
  they are appropriately endorsed as identified in
  the Curriculum Reports Appendix D, Course Codes
  and Clearing Endorsements

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Who is already NCLB Qualified? Veteran
Elementary Special Education Teachers

• Elementary special education teachers that hold
  an appropriate special education endorsement and
  co-teach/collaborate with elementary endorsed
  teachers.
• Elementary/special education teachers that hold
  an appropriate special education endorsement and
  an elementary education endorsement

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Who is already NCLB Qualified? Veteran Middle
Grades Special Education Teachers

• Middle grades teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and
  co-teach/collaborate with appropriate content
  endorsed middle grade teachers.
• Middle grades teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and generic middle
  grades endorsement
• Middle grades teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and hold an
  appropriate 7-12 endorsement and are teaching
  that content area to grades 7, 8 or 9
• Middle grades teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and hold a K-12
  endorsement in the content area being taught
• Middle grades teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and hold an
  elementary education endorsement and are teaching
  mathematics, science, social studies, or
  English/language arts to grades 5, 6, 7 or 8.

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Who is already NCLB Qualified? Veteran
Secondary Special Education Teachers

• Secondary teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and
  co-teach/collaborate with appropriate content
  endorsed secondary teachers
• Secondary teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and K-8 elementary
  endorsement and are teaching mathematics,
  science, social studies, or English/language arts
  to students at the instructional level of grade 8
  and below
• Secondary teachers that hold an appropriate
  special education endorsement and are teaching
  courses for which they are appropriately endorsed
  as identified in the Curriculum Reports Appendix
  D, Course Codes and Clearing Endorsements to
  students at the instructional level of grades 9-12

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Who needs to be NCLB Qualified?

• Already know that 92 of courses in secondary
  schools are taught by teachers who are endorsed
  in that area
• Dont have the data to know about the Special
  Education teachers who might need to be NCLB
  Qualified

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New Data Needed

• Fall Personnel Report Fall, 2005
• Districts will indicate if any teacher is
  assigned in any areas outside of his/her
  endorsement(s)
• Applies to all grade levels except Pre-K
• New position assignment codes for Special
  Education Teachers

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Fall Personnel Report

• First Column (H)
• Currently mark X if teacher is no longer in the
  system
• NEW Mark Q if teacher (position assignment
  codes 1160 or 1150) is assigned outside of
  endorsed area
• Can use the Non-endorsed Report provided by the
  Accreditation Section for information on teachers
  (except special education) from the previous year
  

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Teachers Outside of Endorsed Areas

• A copy of the HOUSSE form will be included with
  the Fall Personnel Report. Districts distribute
  HOUSSE forms to all teachers assigned outside of
  endorsed area (one form for each area outside of
  endorsements)
• Teachers complete the HOUSSE form, administrator
  approves and submits to NDE

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What is a HOUSSE?

• High Objective Uniform State Standard Evaluation
  used to determine if teachers have sufficient
  content knowledge
• Developed by a task force representing districts,
  Special Education, ESUs and higher education
• Reviewed by the NCLB Committee of Practitioners

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HOUSSE Criteria

• College courses in the assigned content areas
• Experience (years of teaching in that area)
• Professional development in that content area or
  in STARS assessments, writing, data retreats
• Professional leadership and participation
• Curriculum selection teams
• Presentations and articles

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Special Education IDEA/NCLB

• Categorizes Special Education teachers into three
  groups
• 1) Special Education teachers responsible for
  teaching content and assigning a report card
  grade
• 2) Alternate curriculum using the alternate
  assessments (most severely involved students)
• 3) Consulting or co-teaching (not responsible for
  assigning the report card grade)

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Special Education Teachers

• Responsible for assigning report card grades
• Self-contained, resource room, home bound, etc.
• IDEA criteria if you meet HOUSSE standard in at
  least one content area have 3 years to meet a
  HOUSSE standard in other areas
• Endorsement at level of instruction
• Elementary endorsement is sufficient if teaching
  at that level, e.g., secondary aged students may
  be at elementary level of instruction

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Alternate Curriculum Assessments

• Special Education teacher must have content
  endorsement at the level of instruction of the
  students
• Example an elementary endorsed special education
  teacher would be NCLB qualified even if students
  are of the age of secondary students but the
  level of instruction is elementary

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Consulting or Co-teaching

• Resource room, inclusion, or consultation any
  situation where the Special Education teacher is
  not responsible for assigning the grade for the
  report card
• Classroom teacher must be NCLB Qualified not
  the Special Education teacher

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Fall Personnel Report

• Special Education Teachers
• Special Program Indicator (SPI) code of S
• NEW Position Assignment Codes
• 1161 Academic Content Area Teacher
• 1162 SPED Teacher Teaching to Alternate
  Standards/Assessments
• 1163 Consultative/Co-Teaching/Collaborative
  Teacher

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Unresolved

• Special Education teachers who have only a
  Special Education endorsement
• Special Education teachers who fall into more
  than one category
• REAP eligible schools have an additional year
  other provisions
• Reciprocity a process to approve teachers who
  come from other states to teach in Nebraska

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Goals for Schools and Districts

• NCLB requires goals to have 100 of eligible
  teachers meet NCLB criteria
• Data that includes special education teachers
  wont be available until the end of 2005-06 to
  establish goals
• The only consequence of not making progress
  toward meeting goals is an improvement plan that
  identifies how the district will use Title I and
  II funds

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State of the Schools Report

• Has presented only information on the
  instructional units at secondary taught by
  teachers assigned in their endorsed areas
• The 2004-05 State of the Schools Report will
  include as much information on all grades and
  teachers as is available, complete report in
  2005-06 report card

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New to the Profession Elementary and
Elementary/Special Education Teachers

• Designing options for demonstrating content
  knowledge
• An assessment completed during student teaching
  (beginning 2005-06)
• A test (ETS) Elementary Education Curriculum
  Instruction and Assessment 0011

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New to the Profession Middle Grades and Secondary
Teachers

• Demonstrate subject-matter competency in each of
  the core academic subjects they teach by
  completing an academic major that results in an
  endorsement or completing coursework equivalent
  to an academic major
• Nebraska considers the middle grades endorsement
  as equivalent to an academic major

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Information

• There will be a NCLB Qualified Teachers link
  under the Federal Programs NCLB on NDEs
  homepage www.nde.state.ne.us
• HOUSSE form, guidance from USDE, visitation
  letter from USDEs site visit, Nebraskas
  response, links to resources

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Contacts

• Special Education questions
• Adria Bace, abace_at_nde.state.ne.us
• HOUSSE questions
• Sharon Katt, skatt_at_nde.state.ne.us
• Endorsement/Certification questions
• Marge Harouff, mharouff_at_nde.state.ne.us
• NCLB questions
• Marilyn Peterson, mpeterso_at_nde.state.ne.us