No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
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Field Memo
#01-2004
Coverletter
Introduction and Federal Planning Requirements
State Context
State Strategies
Strategy 1. Policy Guidance and Technical Assistance
Strategy 2. Teacher Education
Strategy 3. Teacher Certification
Strategy 4. Teaching Practice
Strategy 5. Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Strategy 6. Accountability and Public Reporting
Appendix A - Federal Requirements
Appendix B - Information Links
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Strategy 5. Teacher Recruitment and Retention
To meet the Regents and the NCLB's goals, New York State uses a wide range
of approaches to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers in hard-to-staff
schools and subject areas and schools serving large percentages of minority
children and children from low-income families. Significant progress
has been made, but challenges remain. The State's efforts will continue
until the Regents and NCLB's goals are met.
5a. Outreach and Information. SED will continue to promote
careers in teaching, especially in hard-to-staff schools and subject areas,
with a wide range of outreach initiatives, which in the past have included the
following.
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The Pathways to Teaching brochure and the New York ♥ Teachers
campaign are attracting individuals into careers in teaching.
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The Regents and SED organized Call to Teaching Forums in 2002-2003
in Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers to strengthen ongoing,
regional K-12 and higher education partnerships that will increase the supply
of highly qualified teachers in urban centers that serve minority children
and low-income children.
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SED sent mailings to over 70,000 individuals with expired provisional licenses
or temporary licenses to invite them to return to teaching and to inform them
about how to qualify for certification.
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SED recruits teachers from minority communities at events like the
Forum on the Future of Hispanic Education , the Black and Puerto
Rican Caucus and the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration.
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SED built an enhanced web site with clear information about careers in
teaching and how to become certified, links to job banks for teachers and
teacher supply and demand data. The site has been visited over
3.4 million times since it was launched in March 2002.
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SED has ongoing partnerships with school and LEA leaders, deans of schools
of education, the Commissioner's Advisory Council on Higher Education, the
State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching and other groups
to collaborate on such issues as recruiting and retaining certified teachers
for hard-to-staff schools.
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SED assists the New York City Department of Education in recruiting and
certifying hundreds of teachers from other countries to serve minority children
and children from low-income families.
5b. State Resources. New York State will continue to invest in teacher recruitment and retention
in ways that are consistent with the NCLB's goals and standards.
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Teachers of Tomorrow (TOT). The
TOT program was created in 2000 to recruit and retain qualified teachers in
hard-to-staff schools and subject areas. It has provided over
$75 million to LEAs for recruitment incentives for new teachers; stipends
for uncertified teachers to complete certification requirements; mentoring
stipends for master teachers; tuition reimbursement for teachers seeking terminal-level
certification; introducing prospective teachers to urban education in the
“Big Five” school districts; and, in New York City, intensive summer training
for beginning teachers.
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Teacher Opportunity Corps (TOC). The TOC provides grants
to colleges and universities to recruit, prepare and retain teachers who are
underrepresented and/or economically disadvantaged individuals and to provide
special preparation to teachers of at-risk K-12 students.
5c. Federal Resources . New York
State will continue to focus its federal resources on teacher recruitment
and retention for hard-to-staff schools and subject areas.
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The Troops to Teachers Program helps recruit retiring
members of the armed forces into teaching.
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Discretionary funds from the Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) help prepare, recruit and retain
teachers of special education. Intensive Teacher Institutes
(ITI) help prepare and recruit teachers of the blind and visually
handicapped and for teachers of bilingual special education. Projects for Speech Language Pathologists and Teachers of the Speech
and Hearing Handicapped increase the capacity of colleges and universities
to supervise additional candidates in clinical and instructional practicum
settings; provide incentives for candidates to enter these fields; and develop
recruitment strategies targeted to high school students. Special education teacher recruitment projects assist New
York City and the rest of the State. The Special Education
Teacher Retention Initiative is part of a multi-state
partnership to develop a Resource Guide to help schools maintain a stable
special education workforce by reducing teacher transfer and attrition.
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SED will continue to administer its competitive federal grants for up to $3.5 million to expand capacity in ATC programs for hard-to-staff schools and subject areas in New York City.
Over five years, the grants will enable independent colleges and universities
to prepare up to 800 teachers for the City's schools.
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