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Johanna Duncan-Poitier, Senior Deputy Commissioner of Education - P-16 for the Office of Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and Continuing Education and Office of Higher Education
Joseph Frey, Associate Commissioner, Office of Higher Education

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)

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NCLB NYS
Field Memo
#05-2003 (Revised)

Cover Letter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part A:  NCLB Requirements for the HOUSSE

Part B:  Teachers Who May Want to Use the HOUSSE

Part C:  New York State’s Definition of the HOUSSE

Part D:  Accountability and Records

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

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Table of Contents

Introduction

State Context
 
Part A
NCLB Requirements for the HOUSSE
A1. What is the “high objective uniform State standard of evaluation” (HOUSSE)?
A2. Which teachers can use the HOUSSE?
A3. What non-HOUSSE options can teachers use to demonstrate their  subject matter competency?
Part B
Teachers Who May Want to Use the HOUSSE
B1. Which teachers may want to use the HOUSSE?
B2. Are all teachers of core academic subjects required to use the HOUSSE?
B3. Can a teacher have a HOUSSE evaluation more than once?
Part C
New York State’s Definition of the HOUSSE
C1. What was New York State’s interim definition of the HOUSSE?
C2. What is New York State’s new definition of the HOUSSE?
C3. What types of “coherent, objective information” are acceptable to the Commissioner for the HOUSSE?
C4. What time periods are covered by a HOUSSE?
Part D
Accountability and Records
D1. Will SED maintain records on whether individual teachers have met the HOUSSE?
D2. Must employers maintain records on HOUSSE evaluations?
D3. Must teachers maintain their own records when they use the HOUSSE?
D4. Are HOUSSE evaluations transferable from one employer to another?
Appendix A
NCLB Definition of the High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE)
Appendix B
New York State Definition of “Highly Qualified” Teachers and Options for Demonstrating Subject Matter Competency in Core Academic Subjects
Appendix C
Section 100.2(o) of the Commissioner’s Regulations regarding Annual Professional Performance Reviews
Appendix D
Evaluation Tool for Using Information Acceptable to the Commissioner of Education for the HOUSSE
Part 1.  
For teachers of common branch classes in grades
K through 6 and special education classes with grades
K through 6 instructional content

Part 2.  
For teachers of core academic subjects in grades 7 through 12;
specially designed instruction deemed equivalent to the general
curriculum in grades 7 through 12; and the arts, foreign languages
and reading at all grade levels

Part 3.  Definitions
Appendix E
Guide to References

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