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Richard Woods, Georgias School Superintendent Educating Georgias Future gadoe.org GNETS ETS Profes ession onal al Quali lifica cati tion ons & I In-Field eld under er the Every ery Stude udent nt Succe ceeds eds

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Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent

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GNETS ETS Profes ession

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In-Field eld under er the Every ery Stude udent nt Succe ceeds eds Act t (ESSA) SSA)

August 9, 2017 Carly Covic Ambler Program Manager - Title II, Part A Division of Teacher and Leader Support and Development Office of Teaching and Learning cambler@doe.k12.ga.us, 404-623-9599

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Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent

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Catlin McMunn Dooley, Ph.D. Deputy Superintendent Office of Teaching and Learning Cindy Saxon Associate Superintendent Division of Teacher and Leader Support and Development Office of Teaching and Learning Carly Covic Ambler Program Manager - Title II, Part A Division of Teacher and Leader Support and Development Office of Teaching and Learning

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Topics pics Cover ered ed in Pr Present sentation tion

  • Contact Information & Training Opportunities
  • Resources
  • ESSA & IDEA Requirements
  • For Teachers
  • For Paraprofessionals
  • For Substitute Teachers
  • Emergency/ Provisional Certificates
  • Required Notifications
  • Establishing and Monitoring Requirements
  • Related Monitoring Requirements
  • Scenarios
  • In-field Platform

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Co Cont ntact act In Informa

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GaD aDOE Sta E Staff Su Suppor porting ting PQ PQ/ I / In-Field ield

Carly Ambler cambler@doe.k12.ga.us Pam Daniels pdaniels@doe.k12.ga.us Chris Leonard cleonard@doe.k12.ga.us Greg Petersen gpetersen@doe.k12.ga.us Terri Still tstill@doe.k12.ga.us

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Traini ning ng Opportunitie tunities

Future Training Opportunities Audience Data Collections (September) Repeat by webinar September 5, 2-3 LEA Staff Involved Data Collections FY18 CFM Monitoring Webinar All Federal Programs (August 25) LEAs being Monitored in FY18 FY17 Portal Data Webinar (September 13, 10-11) LEA and School Leaders GELI (September 19) LEA Staff Supporting PQ/ In-Field FY18 PQ/ In-Field Monitoring Webinar (September 25, 1-3) LEAs being Monitored in FY18 FY18 PQ/ In-Field Monitoring Regional (September 26, 1-3) LEAs being Monitored in FY18 FY18 GCASE Conference (November) LEA Staff Supporting PQ/ In-Field FY18 Portal Data Webinar (January, February, May) LEA Staff Supporting PQ/ In-Field Training Modules LEA Staff: HR, Principals, APs, etc

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Past Training Audience Regional and Virtual Title II, Part A Training Sessions (May) LEA Title II, Part A Coordinators GASPA – Session Friday Morning (May) LEA HR Staff GaDOE Special Education Directors Webcast (May) LEA Special Education Directors GaDOE Federal Programs Conference (June) LEA Leaders SELDA Training New Special Education Directors

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Resour sources ces

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Website bsite Resour

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GaDOE > Offices & Divisions > School Improvement/ Federal Programs > Resources “Professional Qualifications and Related Reporting Requirements” Overview Documents SAMPLE Notifications

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Purpose:

  • Broad Overview

Audience:

  • General Public

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Cur urren ent t Resour source ces

Purpose:

  • Updates

Audience:

  • LEA staff working with

PQ and In-Field Purpose:

  • Special Education Focus

Audience:

  • Special Education Staff
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ES ESSA SA and nd ID IDEA EA Requir quirements ements

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Key P Points ts abou

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ional al Qual alifica icatio tions ns an and In-Field ield for GNET ETS

  • HiQ is completely gone.
  • In its place are two different, but comparable requirements
  • Professional Qualifications
  • In-Field
  • As of July 2017, Georgia amended board rules to state that

charters and strategic waiver systems cannot waive certification requirements for Special Education Teachers. This means that all special education teachers are required to hold special education certification and –if issuing grades – demonstrate content area expertise.

  • LEAs and GNETS may not use the HOUSSE rubric or HiQ

Consultative Documents to meet PQ/ In-Field requirements.

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Ev Ever ery St Student ent Su Succ ccee eeds ds Act ct Pr Profes essional ional Qual alifica ications tions for Tea eacher ers What does ESSA say about qualifications? ESSA says that state education agencies (SEAs) and Local Education Agencies (LEAs) must ensure teachers meet applicable state certification requirements [Sections 1111(g)(2)(J), 1112(c)(6)].

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§ 20-2-2065 Georgia law allows charter and strategic waivers systems to waive state certification for most teachers. O.C.G.A. § 20-2-984 Georgia law authorizes GaPSC to establish certification requirements.

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Individuals dividuals wi with th Disa isabili bilities ties Educa catio tion Act Professi essional nal Qualif alifica cations tions for Teacher ers

What does IDEA say about qualifications? – from ESSA FAQs 01.18.17 D-1b. If the definition of “highly qualified” is no longer applicable to special education teachers, what are the federal requirements related to the professional qualifications of those teachers? Section 9214(d)(2) of the ESSA amended section 612(a)(14)(C) of the IDEA by incorporating the requirement previously in section 602(10)(B) that a person employed as a special education teacher in elementary school, middle school, or secondary school must: 1) have obtained full certification as a special education teacher (including certification obtained through alternative routes to certification), or passed the State special education teacher licensing examination and hold a license to teach in the State as a special education teacher, except that a special education teacher teaching in a public charter school must meet the requirements set forth in the State’s public charter school law; 2) not have had special education certification or licensure requirements waived on an emergency, temporary, or provisional basis; AND 3) hold at least a bachelor’s degree. Each State must continue to comply with these certification requirements during the 2016-2017 school year. (Updated May 4, 2016)

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Charter and Strategic Waiver LEAs O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2065 Georgia law allows charter and strategic waivers systems to waive state certification for most teachers. SBOE Board Rules Amended – July 20, 2017 LEAs may not waive certification for Special Education Teachers Traditional LEAs O.C.G.A. § 20-2-984 Georgia law authorizes GaPSC to establish certification requirements.

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Where do GNETS fit?

If a special education teacher issues grades, the teacher must hold certification or the equivalent in the corresponding content areas and grade level bands.

  • RESAs hiring and reporting

GNETS teachers in CPI must follow GaPSC certification requirements under O.C.G.A.

  • LEAs hiring and reporting GNETS

teachers in CPI must follow the professional qualifications requirements annually stated in the LEA’s CLIP.

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Every ry Stude dent nt Succeeds ceeds Act t Profess essional ional Qu Quali lifica ications tions for Parapr profes essionals sionals

ESSA Sec.1111(g) g)(2)(M); GaPSC SC Certif ificatio ion n Rule le 505-2-.18

The State of Georgia ensures that it has professional standards for all paraprofessionals working in any school, including qualifications that were in place on the day before the date of enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act. In Georgia, a paraprofessional employed by a Georgia LUA, must meet one of the following requirements:

  • Degree: Hold an associate’s degree or higher in any subject from a

Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC)-accepted accredited institution; or

  • Coursework: Have complete two (2) years of college coursework

(sixty [60] semester hours) at a GaPSC- accepted accredited institution; or

  • Content Area Test: Have passed the GACE Paraprofessional
  • Assessment. If eligibility is established through the assessment, the

applicant must also hold a minimum of a high school diploma or GED equivalent.

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O.C.G.A. § 20-2-216 It shall be the duty of the local unit of administration to employ substitutes, including retired teachers in accordance with Code Section 47-3-127, who possess valid teaching certificates issued by the Professional Standards Commission. If no person holding a valid teaching certificate is available for this purpose, the local unit of administration is authorized to employ the person who most closely meets the requirements for certification as a teacher and who is available to serve as a substitute, provided such person is closely supervised by the school principal or principal's designee.

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Every ry Student dent Succeed ceeds s Act Professi essional nal Qualif alifica cations tions for Substitutes stitutes

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In In-Field ield Requir uireme ements nts

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  • In-Field – To be “In-Field” a teacher must meet

GaPSC requirements or the equivalent: 1) Degree in subject area assigned or, 2) Coursework in subject area assigned – 21 semester/35 quarter hours or, 3) Passing Score on Content Area Test in subject area assigned

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In In-Field ield Rules les

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CAPS PS an and In-Field ield Rules ules

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Speci cial al Educa cation tion In In-Fie ield ld Rule les

  • 505-2-.110 SPECIAL EDUCATION GENERAL CURRICULUM Educators certified in

Special Education General Curriculum are in-field to provide educational services for students in grades P-12 with disabilities whose Individualized Education Program (IEP) indicates instruction using the general education curriculum and participation in the general statewide assessment in grades P- 12.

  • 505-2-.107 SPECIAL EDUCATION ADAPTED CURRICULUM Educators certified in

Adapted Curriculum are in-field to provide educational services for all students in grades P-12 with disabilities whose Individualized Education Program (IEP) indicates instruction in an adapted curriculum leading to participation in the Georgia alternate assessment.

  • 505-2-.106 ACADEMIC CONTENT CONCENTRATIONS Special Education teachers

serving in a consultative role must have the appropriate base Special Education certificate issued as Consultative. To be in-field as a teacher of record for an academic content field, the educator’s certificate must include the appropriate Special Education field and the appropriate Special Education academic content concentration issued at the appropriate cognitive level. The cognitive level appropriate for the educator’s certificate is based on information contained in the student’s Individualized Education Program (IEP).

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ID IDEA EA Req equir uireme ements nts

  • Assurance 14: Section 9214(d)(1) and (2) of ESSA removed the definition of

“highly qualified special education teachers” in IDEA section 602(10) and the language in IDEA section 612(a)(14)(C) indicating that each person employed as a public school special education teacher in the State must be highly qualified by the deadline established in section 1119(a)(2) of the ESEA. Section 9214(d)(2) of ESSA amended IDEA section 612(a)(14)(C) by incorporating the teacher certification requirement previously found in IDEA section 602(10)(B) and current 34 CFR §300.18(b)(1) and (2). Therefore, in order to check “yes” to assurance 14, the State must have policies and procedures in place by July 1, 2017 that meet the personnel qualification requirements in IDEA section 612(a)(14), as amended by the ESSA, including the requirement that a person employed as a special education teacher in elementary school, middle school, or secondary school: (1) has obtained full State certification as a special education teacher (including participating in an alternate route to certification as a special educator, if such alternate route meets minimum requirements described in 34 CFR §200.56(a)(2)(ii), as such section was in effect on November 28, 2008); or passed the State special education teacher licensing examination, and holds a license to teach in the State as a special education teacher, except with respect to any teacher teaching in a public charter school who shall meet the requirements set forth in the State’s public charter school law; (2) has not had special education certification or licensure requirements waived on an emergency, temporary, or provisional basis; and (3) holds at least a bachelor’s degree.

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What t Constitut stitutes es Em Emer ergen ency y or Provisional in Georgia? “W”, “N” “SI”

NON-RENEWABLE PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE ‘N’ 505-2-.09

  • Educators do not meet renewal requirements
  • hold a valid renewable professional certificate in any field, but are assigned to teach in a field in which they do

not meet certificate requirements WAIVER CERTIFICATE ‘W’ 505-2-.13

  • Educators have not satisfied all certification requirements.

This includes

  • candidates completing GaPSC- or state-approved educator preparation programs leading to Induction

Pathway One or Induction Pathway Two certification that have not attained a passing score on the GACE content assessment, Georgia Educator Ethics – Program Exit Assessment or GaPSC-approved content pedagogy assessment (edTPA)

  • educators with two unremediated, unsatisfactory, needs development or ineffective evaluations.

SUPPLEMENTAL INDUCTION CERTIFICATE ‘SI’ 505-2-.04

  • Educators holding a base certificate in a teaching field who are assigned to work in a different teaching field may be

issued a Supplemental Induction certificate field upon passing the GACE content assessment in the teaching field at the Induction level or higher

  • Supplemental Induction certificates may be issued in Special Education P-12 Consultative fields to educators

who have not passed the appropriate GACE content assessment. The appropriate GACE content assessment for the Special Education P-12 Consultative field must then be passed at the professional level before conversion to a Professional certificate. Issuance of special education academic content concentration(s) requires the appropriate GACE content assessment(s) for the concentration area(s).

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What t options tions ar are e avai ailable e to to GNET ETS S to to ad address ess PQ PQ an and In-Field? ield?

  • Ensure future hires meet GaPSC certification

requirements.

  • For right now consider:
  • adopting a virtual platform when applicable
  • incorporating blended learning into classrooms
  • partnering with LEAs to work with existing

teachers to earn credentials through GaTAPP, GACE, degree, coursework, etc.

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Requir quired ed No Notif ifica ications tions

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Requirements for Content

  • LEAs notifications MUST use the language of the law.
  • In Georgia, notifications must occur within 30 calendar days from

the start of school or upon enrollment.

  • For verification purposes, notifications must contain the

month/year of dissemination or, if included in another document, the primary document must contain a date. Or, if the primary document is undated, records may also include supplemental documentation that contains the month/year of notification dissemination.

  • For verification purposes, the name of the LEA and/ or school

must be included.

  • In Georgia, LEAs are required to notify parents in all LEA schools or

programs.

  • Responses to requests must be provided in a timely manner.
  • Maintain records of annual notifications that meet the above

requirements.

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When to Send

  • Traditional LEAs: When students have been assigned or taught for four or more consecutive weeks by a

teacher who does not meet applicable GaPSC ‘in-field’ State certification requirements at the grade level(s) and subject area(s) in which the teacher has been assigned.

  • Charter/ Strategic Waiver LEAs: When students have been assigned or taught for four or more consecutive

weeks by a teacher who does not meet LEA professional qualification requirements (in alignment with approved Charter/SWSS application and CLIP) and/ or State certification requirements for special education teachers at the grade level(s) and subject area(s) in which the teacher has been assigned. (It is possible for a teacher to meet charter/ strategic waiver LEA professional qualification requirements and not meet GaPSC in-field requirements. In this circumstance, 20 Day Notification is not required.)

  • Clearance certificate requirements are not subject to 20 Day Notification.
  • 20 Day Notifications are not required for paraprofessionals and substitute teachers.
  • Paraprofessionals: ESSA does not include paraprofessionals as educators for whom 20 Day

Notifications must be sent.

  • Substitutes: O.C.G.A. § 20-2-216/ GaPSC Rule 505-20-.20 requires LEAs hiring and assigning

substitutes to ensure substitutes meet State certification requirements or to hire substitutes who most closely meet the requirements for teacher certification and who are available to serve as substitute teachers.

  • In Georgia, notifications must occur within 10 business days following the four consecutive weeks.

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Requirements for Notification

  • For verification purposes, notifications must contain
  • Day/Month/Year of notification
  • Name of the teacher who has not met professional

qualification requirements

  • Name of the LEA and/ or school/program
  • Statement that the teacher has not met State

certification OR LEA charter/ strategic waiver professional qualification requirements for the grade level(s) and/ or subject area(s) in which the teacher is assigned. Grade level and/or subject area must be identified.

  • In Georgia, notification requirements apply to ALL teachers

in all LEA schools/programs.

  • Maintain records of notifications that meet the above

requirements.

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ESSA does not prescribe the exact method of dissemination for notifications. In Georgia, the following are considered best practices when notifying parents.

  • Develop written procedures for compliance which include a timeline and

person, by position, responsible for verifying notification content, verifying dissemination of notification, and maintaining notification documentation.

  • Notify parents in multiple formats in order to ensure that all parents have

the opportunity to receive the information. This may include, but is not limited to a LEA or school handbook, a letter mailed home, inclusion in a newsletter or brochure, posting on a website, and/or a school-wide email.

  • Notify parents, to the extent practicable, in a language that they may

understand.

  • Ensure the notification, includes the point of contact information by position,

the school or LEA name.

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Es Establi lishi shing ng and nd Mo Moni nitoring toring Requir uirements ements

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Monito toring ing GNET ETS S an and Pr Profes essional ional Qual alifica ications tions

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Cycle 4 -FY18 Cycle 1 - FY19 Cycle 2 - FY20 Cycle 3 - FY21 GNETS: Burwell Carrolton GNETS: Cedarwood Toombs GNETS: Coastal Glynn GNETS: Coastal GA Comprehensive Academy Savannah-Chatham GNETS: DeKalb-Rockdale DeKalb GNETS: Elam Alexander Bibb GNETS: Flint Sumter GNETS: FUTURES Program White GNETS: Harrell Ware GNETS: HAVEN Cobb GNETS: Heartland Dodge GNETS: Horizon Tift GNETS: Mainstay Griffin-Spalding GNETS: North Metro Buford City GNETS: Northstar Gilmer GNETS: Northwest Floyd GNETS: Oak Tree Dougherty GNETS: Oconee Baldwin GNETS: Pathways Thomas GNETS: River Quest Burke GNETS: Rutland Clarke GNETS: Sand Hills McDuffie GNETS: South Metro Clayton GNETS: Woodall Muscogee Total (24) 7 5 8 4

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  • Waive Certification – Yes or No?
  • If Yes, For Which Teachers?
  • Hard to staff areas?
  • CTAE or Foreign Language?
  • What are Minimum Qualifications?
  • Degree
  • Content Assessment
  • Related Course/Field Work
  • Certification for Special Education
  • Everyone must have a clearance

certificate

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Professional Qualifications

  • Checked during Cross-Functional

Monitoring

  • Determine the minimum

qualifications the LEA has established.

  • Verify that teachers have met

minimum qualifications using PQ and LEA records. Sample from Elementary, Middle, High, Charter, Special Education, ESOL, Gifted.

  • Verify that 20 Day letters have gone

home for all teachers who have not met minimum qualifications

  • Could result in a finding and

corrective action if the LEA does not follow own professional qualifications and distribute required notification

Out-of-field

  • Annual reports will be published

publicly at the State, LEA, and School Level.

  • Checked following the release of

CPI and Student Class Reports

  • A combination of certification

records and the reports listed will determine whether or not a teacher is ‘in-field’

  • LEAs may need to edit, but should

check before submitting reports to determine information is accurate

  • Will not result in a finding or

corrective action.

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Monito toring ing th the e GaP aPSC SC PL PL R Rule

505 505-2-.36 .36 RENEWAL EWAL REQUIREMEN IREMENTS TS

  • Beginning in FY18, during Cross-Functional Monitoring,

GaDOE Program Staff will select a sample of teachers and leaders to verify that plans/ goals have been created.

  • Beginning in FY19, during Cross-Functional Monitoring,

GaDOE Program Staff will select a sample of teachers and leaders to verify that plans/ goals have been monitored for progress.

  • GaDOE Program Staff will access reports in the TLE

Electronic Platform.

  • LEAs that do not use the TLE Electronic Platform must

provide alternative documentation.

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Sc Scenarios narios

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Question estion # 1 # 1

An Educator has an undergraduate degree in Speech Language Pathology. The Educator is currently working as a paraprofessional and the school administrator wants the Educator to become a special education teacher at the high

  • school. The Educator is interested and will take the Special Ed

GACE and complete the other requirements to teach this year. The Educator also plans to get a Master’s Degree to become certified as a special education teacher. According to ESSA documents, teachers may not hold provisional or emergency certificates in order to meet Georgia ESSA Professional Qualification Requirements. Can the LEA hire this Educator or do they have to find a teacher already fully certified?

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Question estion # 2 # 2

This educator is assigned to teach adaptive curriculum in high school to students with a cognitive level 4-8. Does this teacher meet PQ requirements?

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Question estion # 3 # 3

Question from a Teaching Candidate in a Prep Program: I have taken and passed the GACE Special Ed Adapted Curriculum and am registered to take the GACE content tests 087 and 088. What test/ certifications do I need to complete/obtain to be considered highly qualified for Title I schools in Gwinnett County and DeKalb County? Also, I have a GA school social work certificate, do I need to

  • btain any additional certifications to be considered HiQ for

Title I schools? How would you respond?

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Question estion # 4 # 4

We are a strategic waiver system. We have a residential treatment facility. They receive some Title I funds. A special education teacher left, and they are struggling to find a teacher to fill this position. If they hire someone that does not have certification in special education, but who is going to go back for certification and most likely take the GACE this summer, will this be a problem with professionally qualified?

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Question estion # 5 # 5

One of our special education teachers currently has the non-renewable Special Education certification and is working to get a renewable certificate.

  • Can we use this teacher next year if the teacher still has

a non-renewable certificate?

  • Can a special education teacher with a non-renewable

certificate teach in a special education co- taught class?

  • Do we have to send the 20 day letter to the parents?
  • Will there be any impact on funding or any findings?

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Question estion # 6 # 6

We have an approved Strategic Waiver, but do not waive

  • certification. We have a number of SPED teachers Professional Non-

Renewable certificates (N). They are “highly qualified” in their subjects (have demonstrated content knowledge in the subjects they teach), but hold the “N” in either SPED-General Curriculum or SPED-Adapted Curriculum, including some that we’ll need to request for the upcoming school year. For example: we have a teacher that is certified and HiQ in Middle Grades Language Arts, but we need that teacher to teach SPED- Language Arts at the GNETS. Because he/she was HiQ in MG- Language Arts, we have requested a professional non-renewable certificate in SPED-General Curriculum.

  • Is this a practice we can continue?
  • Will these teachers meet professional qualification requirements?
  • Will these teachers meet in-field requirements?

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Question estion # # 7

We have had a hard time getting fully staffed and have a retired teacher serving as a long term

  • substitute. His certification has expired.
  • Can I put this teacher in a classroom?
  • Do I need to send home 20 Day notification?
  • Will this teacher be subject to in-field

requirements?

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Basis sis of

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Oper erati tions

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The In-field Portal inspects an educator’s credentials along with the subject/job as reported on CPI and detailed class records reported

  • n Student Class versus “in-field” as defined in CAPS and filtered

through the lens of Georgia’s ESSA policy.

  • The In-field Portal is very similar to HiQ
  • Uses GaDOE Fall & Spring CPI, Student Class, and GaPSC Certification Records
  • Uses GaPSC Certification/Curriculum Assignment Policies System (CAPS)

“In-field” will be available for pre-view using 16-17 data the first Monday in September. “In-field” will go live no later than the second Monday in January for production use.

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Provi visi sioni

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ng User ers

  • User setup will be identical to HiQ
  • Use your www.gapsc.org Account Manager
  • Ask infield infield@gapsc.com if you don’t have a

www.gapsc.org account manager

  • Varying Levels and Roles
  • Building-level
  • System-level
  • Edit or View
  • GaPSC will extend authorized HiQ users to “In-field”

when it goes live

  • Users will need to have an active account on www.gapsc.org
  • Users will get the same rights they had in HiQ

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Ma Main in Page

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Lis ist t By Sta tatus tus

List educators by In-field status

  • In-field
  • Not In-field
  • Subject to In-field rules
  • In-field rules not applicable
  • All

(Subject to change)

Sea earch h By School hool

List educators by school building

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Sea earch h By Typ ype

List educators by “Type”

  • All
  • Teachers
  • SpEd Teachers
  • Paraprofessionals

(Subject to change)

Li Lists ts – Pri rint nt or

  • r Dow
  • wnload

nload

  • Printable View - prints all rows
  • n all pages of the list
  • Data View - data from all rows on

all pages of the list can be saved and opened in Excel or other spreadsheet software

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Sea earch h By Nam ame e or

  • r ID

Locate an educator directly

  • r

add a new educator

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De Detai ails ls Page: : Ass ssig ignment ments

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August 9, 2017 Carly Covic Ambler Program Manager - Title II, Part A Division of Teacher and Leader Support and Development Office of Teaching and Learning cambler@doe.k12.ga.us, 404-623-9599