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1 | AN ACT concerning education.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 21-14 as follows:
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6 | (105 ILCS 5/21-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-14)
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7 | Sec. 21-14. Registration and renewal of certificates.
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8 | (a) A limited
four-year certificate or a certificate issued | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | after July 1, 1955, shall
be renewable at its expiration or | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | within 60 days thereafter by the
county superintendent of | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | schools having supervision and control over the
school where | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | the teacher is teaching upon certified evidence of meeting
the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | requirements for renewal as required by this Act and prescribed | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | by
the State Board of Education in consultation with the State
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15 | Teacher Certification Board. An elementary supervisory | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | certificate
shall not be renewed at the end of the first | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | four-year period covered by
the certificate unless the holder | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | thereof has filed certified evidence
with the State Teacher | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Certification Board that he has a master's degree
or that he | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | has earned 8 semester hours of credit in the field of
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21 | educational administration and supervision in a recognized | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | institution
of higher learning. The holder shall continue to | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | earn 8 semester hours
of credit each four-year period until | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | such time as he has earned a
master's degree.
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25 | All certificates not renewed or registered as herein | |||||||||||||||||||
26 | provided shall
lapse after a period of 5 years from the | |||||||||||||||||||
27 | expiration of the last year
of
registration. Such certificates | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | may be reinstated for a one year period
upon payment of all | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | accumulated registration fees. Such reinstated
certificates | |||||||||||||||||||
30 | shall only be renewed: (1) by earning 5 semester hours of
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31 | credit in a recognized institution of higher learning in the | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | field of
professional education or in courses related to the |
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1 | holder's contractual
teaching duties; or (2) by presenting | ||||||
2 | evidence of holding a valid
regular certificate of some other | ||||||
3 | type. Any certificate may be
voluntarily surrendered by the | ||||||
4 | certificate holder. A voluntarily
surrendered certificate | ||||||
5 | shall be treated as a revoked certificate.
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6 | (b) When those teaching certificates issued before | ||||||
7 | February 15, 2000 are
renewed for the first time after February | ||||||
8 | 15, 2000, all
such
teaching
certificates
shall be exchanged for | ||||||
9 | Standard Teaching Certificates as provided in subsection
(c) of | ||||||
10 | Section 21-2. All Initial and Standard Teaching Certificates, | ||||||
11 | including
those issued to persons who previously held teaching | ||||||
12 | certificates issued before
February 15, 2000, shall be | ||||||
13 | renewable under the conditions
set forth
in this
subsection | ||||||
14 | (b).
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15 | Initial Teaching Certificates are
nonrenewable and are | ||||||
16 | valid for 4 years of teaching.
Standard Teaching Certificates | ||||||
17 | are renewable every 5 years as provided
in
subsection (c) of | ||||||
18 | Section 21-2
and subsection (c) of this Section.
For purposes | ||||||
19 | of this Section, "teaching" is defined as employment and
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20 | performance of
services in an Illinois public or State-operated | ||||||
21 | elementary school, secondary
school, or
cooperative or joint | ||||||
22 | agreement with a governing body or board of control, in a
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23 | certificated teaching position, or a charter school operating | ||||||
24 | in compliance
with the
Charter Schools Law.
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25 | (c) In compliance with subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of | ||||||
26 | this Code, which
provides that a
Standard
Teaching Certificate | ||||||
27 | may be renewed by the State Teacher Certification Board
based
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28 | upon proof of continuing professional development, the State | ||||||
29 | Board of Education
and
the State Teacher Certification Board | ||||||
30 | shall jointly:
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31 | (1) establish a procedure for renewing Standard | ||||||
32 | Teaching Certificates,
which shall include but not be | ||||||
33 | limited to annual timelines for the renewal
process and the | ||||||
34 | components set forth in subsections (d) through (k) of this
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35 | Section;
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36 | (2) establish the standards for certificate renewal;
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1 | (3) approve the providers of continuing professional | ||||||
2 | development
activities;
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3 | (4) determine the maximum credit for each category of | ||||||
4 | continuing
professional development activities, based upon | ||||||
5 | recommendations submitted by
a continuing professional
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6 | development
activity task force, which shall consist of 6 | ||||||
7 | staff members from the State
Board of
Education, appointed | ||||||
8 | by the State Superintendent of Education, and 6 teacher
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9 | representatives, 3 of whom are selected by the Illinois | ||||||
10 | Education Association
and 3 of
whom are selected by the | ||||||
11 | Illinois Federation of Teachers;
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12 | (5) designate the type and amount of documentation | ||||||
13 | required to show that
continuing professional development | ||||||
14 | activities have been completed; and
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15 | (6) provide, on a timely basis to all Illinois | ||||||
16 | teachers, certificate
holders, regional superintendents of | ||||||
17 | schools,
school districts, and others with an interest in | ||||||
18 | continuing professional
development, information about the | ||||||
19 | standards and requirements established
pursuant to this | ||||||
20 | subsection (c).
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21 | (d) Any Standard Teaching Certificate held by an individual | ||||||
22 | employed and
performing services in an
Illinois public or | ||||||
23 | State-operated elementary school, secondary school, or
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24 | cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or board | ||||||
25 | of control in a
certificated teaching
position or a
charter | ||||||
26 | school in compliance with the Charter Schools Law must be | ||||||
27 | maintained
Valid
and
Active through certificate renewal | ||||||
28 | activities specified in the certificate
renewal procedure
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29 | established pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, | ||||||
30 | provided that
a holder of a Valid
and Active
certificate who is | ||||||
31 | only employed on either a part-time basis or day-to-day
basis | ||||||
32 | as a
substitute
teacher shall pay only the required | ||||||
33 | registration fee to renew his or her
certificate
and maintain | ||||||
34 | it as Valid and Active. All other Standard Teaching | ||||||
35 | Certificates
held may be
maintained as
Valid and Exempt through | ||||||
36 | the registration process provided for in the
certificate |
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1 | renewal
procedure established pursuant to subsection (c) of | ||||||
2 | this Section. A Valid and
Exempt
certificate must
be | ||||||
3 | immediately activated, through procedures developed jointly by | ||||||
4 | the State
Board of
Education and the State Teacher | ||||||
5 | Certification Board, upon the certificate
holder
becoming | ||||||
6 | employed and performing services in an Illinois public or
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7 | State-operated elementary school,
secondary school, or | ||||||
8 | cooperative or joint agreement with a governing body or
board | ||||||
9 | of control in a
certificated
teaching position or a charter | ||||||
10 | school operating in compliance with the Charter
Schools
Law. A | ||||||
11 | holder of a Valid and Exempt certificate may activate his or | ||||||
12 | her
certificate
through procedures provided for in the | ||||||
13 | certificate renewal procedure
established pursuant to
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14 | subsection (c) of this Section.
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15 | (e)(1) A Standard Teaching Certificate that has been | ||||||
16 | maintained as Valid
and
Active for the 5 years of the | ||||||
17 | certificate's validity shall be renewed as Valid
and Active
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18 | upon the certificate holder: (i)
completing an advanced degree | ||||||
19 | from an approved institution in an
education-related field; | ||||||
20 | (ii)
completing at least
8 semester hours of
coursework as | ||||||
21 | described in
subdivision (B) of paragraph (3) of this | ||||||
22 | subsection (e);
(iii)
earning at least
24 continuing education | ||||||
23 | units as described in subdivision (C) of
paragraph (3)
of this | ||||||
24 | subsection (e); (iv) completing the National Board for
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25 | Professional
Teaching Standards process as described in | ||||||
26 | subdivision (D) of
paragraph (3) of
this subsection (e); or (v) | ||||||
27 | earning 120 continuing professional
development
units ("CPDU") | ||||||
28 | as described in subdivision (E) of paragraph (3) of
this
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29 | subsection (e). The maximum continuing professional | ||||||
30 | development units for each
continuing professional development | ||||||
31 | activity identified in subdivisions
(F)
through (J) of | ||||||
32 | paragraph (3) of this subsection (e) shall be
jointly | ||||||
33 | determined
by the State Board of Education and the State | ||||||
34 | Teacher Certification Board.
If, however, the certificate | ||||||
35 | holder has maintained the certificate
as Valid and
Exempt for a | ||||||
36 | portion of the 5-year period of validity, the number of
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1 | continuing
professional development units needed to renew the | ||||||
2 | certificate as Valid and
Active shall
be proportionately | ||||||
3 | reduced by the amount of time the certificate was Valid and
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4 | Exempt.
Furthermore, if a certificate holder is employed and | ||||||
5 | performs teaching services
on a
part-time basis for all or a | ||||||
6 | portion of the certificate's 5-year period of
validity, the | ||||||
7 | number
of continuing professional development units needed to | ||||||
8 | renew the certificate as
Valid
and Active shall be reduced by | ||||||
9 | 50% for the amount of time the certificate
holder has
been | ||||||
10 | employed and performed teaching services on a part-time basis. | ||||||
11 | Part-time
shall
be defined as less than 50% of the school day | ||||||
12 | or school term.
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13 | Notwithstanding any other requirements to the contrary, if | ||||||
14 | a Standard
Teaching
Certificate has been maintained as Valid | ||||||
15 | and Active for the 5 years of the
certificate's validity and | ||||||
16 | the certificate holder has completed his or her
certificate | ||||||
17 | renewal plan before July 1, 2002, the certificate shall
be | ||||||
18 | renewed as Valid and Active.
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19 | (2) Each Valid and Active Standard Teaching Certificate | ||||||
20 | holder shall
develop
a certificate renewal plan for satisfying | ||||||
21 | the continuing professional
development
requirement provided | ||||||
22 | for in subsection (c) of Section 21-2 of this Code.
Certificate
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23 | holders with multiple certificates shall develop a certificate | ||||||
24 | renewal plan
that addresses
only that certificate or those | ||||||
25 | certificates that are required of his or her
certificated
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26 | teaching position, if the certificate holder is employed and | ||||||
27 | performing
services in an Illinois public
or State-operated | ||||||
28 | elementary school,
secondary school, or cooperative or joint | ||||||
29 | agreement with a governing body or
board of control, or that | ||||||
30 | certificate or those certificates most closely
related to his | ||||||
31 | or
her teaching position, if the certificate holder is employed | ||||||
32 | in a charter
school. Except as otherwise provided in this | ||||||
33 | subsection (e), a
certificate renewal plan shall include a | ||||||
34 | minimum of 3 individual improvement
goals
developed by the | ||||||
35 | certificate holder and shall reflect purposes (A), (B), and
(C) | ||||||
36 | and may reflect purpose (D) of the following continuing |
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1 | professional
development purposes:
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2 | (A) Advance both the certificate holder's knowledge | ||||||
3 | and skills as a
teacher consistent with the Illinois | ||||||
4 | Professional Teaching Standards and the
Illinois Content | ||||||
5 | Area Standards in the certificate holder's areas of
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6 | certification,
endorsement, or teaching assignment in | ||||||
7 | order to keep the certificate holder
current
in those | ||||||
8 | areas.
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9 | (B) Develop the certificate holder's knowledge and | ||||||
10 | skills in areas
determined
to be critical for all Illinois | ||||||
11 | teachers, as defined by the State Board of
Education, known | ||||||
12 | as "State priorities".
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13 | (C) Address the knowledge, skills, and goals of the | ||||||
14 | certificate holder's
local
school improvement plan, if the | ||||||
15 | teacher is employed in an Illinois public
or State-operated | ||||||
16 | elementary school, secondary school, or cooperative or | ||||||
17 | joint
agreement with a governing body or board of control.
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18 | (D) Expand the certificate holder's knowledge and | ||||||
19 | skills in an
additional teaching field or toward
the
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20 | acquisition of another teaching certificate, endorsement, | ||||||
21 | or relevant
education degree.
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22 | A certificate renewal plan must include a description of how | ||||||
23 | these goals are
to
be
achieved and an explanation of selected | ||||||
24 | continuing professional development
activities
to be | ||||||
25 | completed, each of which must meet one or more of the | ||||||
26 | continuing
professional
development purposes specified in this | ||||||
27 | paragraph (2). The plan shall identify
potential
activities and | ||||||
28 | include projected timelines for those activities that will
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29 | assure completion
of the plan before the expiration of the | ||||||
30 | 5-year validity of the Standard
Teaching
Certificate.
Except as | ||||||
31 | otherwise provided in this subsection (e), at least
50% of | ||||||
32 | continuing professional development units must relate to
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33 | purposes (A)
and (B) set forth in this paragraph (2): the | ||||||
34 | advancement of a certificate
holder's
knowledge and skills as a | ||||||
35 | teacher consistent with the Illinois Professional
Teaching
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36 | Standards and the Illinois Content Area Standards in the |
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1 | certificate holder's
areas of
certification, endorsement, or | ||||||
2 | teaching assignment in order to keep the
certificate holder
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3 | current in those areas and the
development of a certificate | ||||||
4 | holder's knowledge
and skills in the State priorities that | ||||||
5 | exist at the time the
certificate
renewal plan is developed. | ||||||
6 | For the holder of an Early Childhood or Elementary type of | ||||||
7 | certificate who is developing a certificate renewal plan on or | ||||||
8 | after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd | ||||||
9 | General Assembly, 50% of the continuing professional | ||||||
10 | development activities included in the certificate renewal | ||||||
11 | plan must be coursework or activities that expand the holder's | ||||||
12 | knowledge and application of best practices in the teaching of | ||||||
13 | reading.
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14 | A speech-language pathologist or audiologist who is
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15 | licensed under the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
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16 | Audiology Practice Act and who has met the continuing
education | ||||||
17 | requirements of that Act and the rules promulgated
under that | ||||||
18 | Act shall be deemed to have satisfied the continuing
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19 | professional development requirements established by the State
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20 | Board of Education and the Teacher Certification Board to renew
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21 | a Standard Certificate.
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22 | (3) Continuing professional development activities | ||||||
23 | included in a certificate
renewal plan may include, but are not | ||||||
24 | limited to, the following activities:
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25 | (A) completion of an advanced degree from an approved | ||||||
26 | institution
in an education-related field;
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27 | (B) at
least 8 semester hours of coursework
in an | ||||||
28 | approved education-related program, of which at least 2 | ||||||
29 | semester
hours relate
to the continuing professional | ||||||
30 | development purpose set forth in purpose (A) of
paragraph | ||||||
31 | (2) of this subsection (e), provided that such a plan need | ||||||
32 | not
include any
other continuing professional development | ||||||
33 | activities nor reflect or contain
activities
related to the | ||||||
34 | other continuing professional development purposes set | ||||||
35 | forth in
paragraph
(2) of this subsection (e);
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36 | (C) continuing education units that satisfy the |
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1 | continuing
professional
development purposes set forth in | ||||||
2 | paragraph (2) of this subsection (e), with
each continuing | ||||||
3 | education unit equal to 5
clock
hours, provided that a plan | ||||||
4 | that includes at least 24 continuing
education units (or | ||||||
5 | 120 clock/contact hours) need not
include any other | ||||||
6 | continuing professional development activities;
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7 | (D) completion of the National Board of Professional | ||||||
8 | Teaching
Standards
("NBPTS") process, provided that a plan | ||||||
9 | that includes completion of the NBPTS
process need not
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10 | include
any other continuing professional development | ||||||
11 | activities nor reflect or contain
activities
related to the | ||||||
12 | continuing professional development purposes set forth in
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13 | paragraph (2)
of subsection (e) of this Section;
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14 | (E) completion of 120 continuing professional | ||||||
15 | development
units that
satisfy the continuing professional | ||||||
16 | development purposes set forth in
paragraph (2) of this | ||||||
17 | subsection (e) and may include without limitation
the | ||||||
18 | activities identified in subdivisions (F) through
(J) of | ||||||
19 | this paragraph
(3);
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20 | (F) collaboration and partnership activities related | ||||||
21 | to
improving the
teacher's knowledge and skills as a | ||||||
22 | teacher, including the following:
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23 | (i) participating on collaborative planning and | ||||||
24 | professional
improvement
teams and committees;
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25 | (ii) peer review and coaching;
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26 | (iii) mentoring in a formal mentoring program, | ||||||
27 | including service as a
consulting teacher | ||||||
28 | participating in a remediation
process formulated | ||||||
29 | under Section 24A-5 of this Code;
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30 | (iv) participating in site-based management or | ||||||
31 | decision making teams,
relevant committees, boards, or | ||||||
32 | task forces directly related to school
improvement | ||||||
33 | plans;
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34 | (v) coordinating community resources in schools, | ||||||
35 | if the project is a
specific goal of the school | ||||||
36 | improvement plan;
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1 | (vi) facilitating parent education programs for a | ||||||
2 | school, school
district, or
regional office of | ||||||
3 | education directly related to student achievement or
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4 | school improvement plans;
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5 | (vii) participating in business, school, or | ||||||
6 | community partnerships
directly
related to student | ||||||
7 | achievement or school improvement plans; or
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8 | (viii) supervising a student teacher or teacher | ||||||
9 | education candidate in
clinical supervision, provided | ||||||
10 | that the supervision may only be counted
once during | ||||||
11 | the course of 5 years;
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12 | (G) college or university coursework related to | ||||||
13 | improving the
teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher | ||||||
14 | as follows:
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15 | (i) completing undergraduate or graduate credit | ||||||
16 | earned from a
regionally
accredited institution in | ||||||
17 | coursework relevant to the certificate area being
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18 | renewed,
including coursework that incorporates | ||||||
19 | induction activities and
development of a portfolio of | ||||||
20 | both student and teacher work that
provides experience | ||||||
21 | in reflective practices,
provided the coursework meets | ||||||
22 | Illinois Professional Teaching Standards
or Illinois | ||||||
23 | Content Area Standards and
supports the essential | ||||||
24 | characteristics of quality professional development; | ||||||
25 | or
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26 | (ii) teaching college or university courses in | ||||||
27 | areas relevant to the
certificate area being renewed, | ||||||
28 | provided that the teaching may only be
counted once | ||||||
29 | during the course of 5 years;
| ||||||
30 | (H) conferences, workshops, institutes, seminars, and
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31 | symposiums related
to improving the teacher's knowledge | ||||||
32 | and skills as a teacher,
including
the following:
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33 | (i) completing non-university credit directly | ||||||
34 | related to student
achievement, school improvement | ||||||
35 | plans, or State priorities;
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36 | (ii) participating in or presenting at workshops, |
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1 | seminars,
conferences,
institutes, and symposiums;
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2 | (iii) training as external reviewers for Quality | ||||||
3 | Assurance; or
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4 | (iv) training as reviewers of university teacher | ||||||
5 | preparation programs;
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6 | (I) other educational experiences related to improving | ||||||
7 | the
teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, including | ||||||
8 | the following:
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9 | (i) participating in action research and inquiry | ||||||
10 | projects;
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11 | (ii) observing programs or teaching in schools, | ||||||
12 | related businesses, or
industry that is systematic, | ||||||
13 | purposeful, and relevant to certificate renewal;
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14 | (iii) traveling related to ones teaching | ||||||
15 | assignment, directly related to
student achievement or | ||||||
16 | school improvement plans and approved at least
30 days | ||||||
17 | prior to the travel experience,
provided that the | ||||||
18 | traveling shall not include time spent commuting to
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19 | destinations where the learning experience will occur;
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20 | (iv) participating in study groups related to | ||||||
21 | student achievement or
school
improvement plans;
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22 | (v) serving on a statewide education-related | ||||||
23 | committee, including but
not
limited to the State | ||||||
24 | Teacher Certification Board, State Board of Education
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25 | strategic agenda teams, or the State Advisory Council | ||||||
26 | on Education of
Children with Disabilities;
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27 | (vi) participating in work/learn programs or | ||||||
28 | internships; or
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29 | (vii) developing a portfolio of student and | ||||||
30 | teacher work;
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31 | (J) professional leadership experiences related to | ||||||
32 | improving
the teacher's
knowledge and skills as a teacher, | ||||||
33 | including the following:
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34 | (i) participating in curriculum development or | ||||||
35 | assessment activities
at the
school, school district, | ||||||
36 | regional office of education, State, or national
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1 | level;
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2 | (ii) participating in team or department | ||||||
3 | leadership in a school or
school
district;
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4 | (iii) participating on external or internal school | ||||||
5 | or school district
review
teams;
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6 | (iv) publishing educational articles, columns, or | ||||||
7 | books relevant to
the
certificate area being renewed; | ||||||
8 | or
| ||||||
9 | (v) participating in non-strike related | ||||||
10 | professional association or
labor organization
service | ||||||
11 | or
activities related to professional development.
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12 | (4) A certificate renewal plan must initially be approved | ||||||
13 | by the
certificate holder's
local professional development | ||||||
14 | committee, as provided for in subsection (f) of
this
Section. | ||||||
15 | If the local professional development committee does not | ||||||
16 | approve the
certificate renewal plan, the certificate holder | ||||||
17 | may appeal that determination
to the
regional professional | ||||||
18 | development review committee, as provided for in
paragraph (2)
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19 | of
subsection (g) of this Section. If the regional professional | ||||||
20 | development
review committee
disagrees with the local | ||||||
21 | professional development committee's determination,
the
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22 | certificate renewal plan shall be deemed approved and the | ||||||
23 | certificate holder
may begin
satisfying the continuing | ||||||
24 | professional development activities set forth in the
plan. If | ||||||
25 | the
regional professional development review committee agrees | ||||||
26 | with the local
professional
development committee's | ||||||
27 | determination, the certificate renewal plan shall be
deemed
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28 | disapproved and shall be returned to the certificate holder to | ||||||
29 | develop a
revised
certificate renewal plan. In all cases, the | ||||||
30 | regional professional development
review
committee shall | ||||||
31 | immediately notify both the local professional development
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32 | committee
and
the certificate holder of its determination.
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33 | (5) A certificate holder who wishes to modify the | ||||||
34 | continuing professional
development activities or goals in his | ||||||
35 | or her certificate renewal plan must
submit the
proposed | ||||||
36 | modifications to his or her local professional development |
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| |||||||
1 | committee
for
approval prior to engaging in the proposed | ||||||
2 | activities. If the local
professional
development committee | ||||||
3 | does not approve the proposed modification, the
certificate
| ||||||
4 | holder may appeal that determination to the regional | ||||||
5 | professional development
review
committee, as set forth in | ||||||
6 | paragraph (4) of this subsection (e).
| ||||||
7 | (6) When a certificate holder changes assignments or school | ||||||
8 | districts
during
the course of completing a certificate renewal | ||||||
9 | plan, the professional
development and continuing education | ||||||
10 | credit earned pursuant to the plan shall
transfer
to the
new | ||||||
11 | assignment or school district and count toward the total | ||||||
12 | requirements.
This certificate renewal plan must be
reviewed by
| ||||||
13 | the appropriate local professional development committee and | ||||||
14 | may be modified to
reflect the certificate holder's new work | ||||||
15 | assignment or the school improvement
plan of
the new school | ||||||
16 | district or school building.
| ||||||
17 | (f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, each | ||||||
18 | school district,
charter school, and cooperative or joint | ||||||
19 | agreement
with a
governing body or board of control that | ||||||
20 | employs certificated staff, shall
establish and implement, in
| ||||||
21 | conjunction with its exclusive representative, if any, one or | ||||||
22 | more local
professional
development committees, as set forth in | ||||||
23 | this subsection (f), which shall
perform
the following | ||||||
24 | functions:
| ||||||
25 | (1) review and approve certificate renewal plans and | ||||||
26 | any
modifications made to these plans, including | ||||||
27 | transferred plans;
| ||||||
28 | (2) maintain a file of approved certificate renewal | ||||||
29 | plans;
| ||||||
30 | (3) monitor certificate holders' progress in | ||||||
31 | completing approved
certificate renewal plans, provided | ||||||
32 | that a local professional development
committee shall not | ||||||
33 | be
required to
maintain materials submitted by certificate | ||||||
34 | holders to demonstrate their
progress in
completing their | ||||||
35 | certificate renewal plans after the committee has reviewed | ||||||
36 | the
materials and the credits have been awarded;
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | (4) assist in the development of professional | ||||||
2 | development plans
based upon needs identified in | ||||||
3 | certificate renewal plans;
| ||||||
4 | (5) determine whether certificate holders have met the
| ||||||
5 | requirements of their certificate renewal plans and notify | ||||||
6 | certificate holders
of its determination;
| ||||||
7 | (6) provide a certificate holder with the opportunity | ||||||
8 | to address the
committee when it has determined that the | ||||||
9 | certificate holder has not met
the requirements of his or | ||||||
10 | her certificate renewal plan;
| ||||||
11 | (7) issue and forward recommendations for renewal or | ||||||
12 | nonrenewal
of certificate holders' Standard Teaching | ||||||
13 | Certificates to the appropriate
regional superintendent of | ||||||
14 | schools, based upon whether certificate holders have
met | ||||||
15 | the requirements of their approved certificate renewal | ||||||
16 | plans, with 30-day
written notice of its recommendation | ||||||
17 | provided to the certificate holder
prior to forwarding the | ||||||
18 | recommendation to the regional superintendent of
schools, | ||||||
19 | provided that if the local professional development | ||||||
20 | committee's
recommendation is for certificate nonrenewal, | ||||||
21 | the written notice provided
to the certificate holder shall | ||||||
22 | include a return receipt; and
| ||||||
23 | (8) reconsider its recommendation of certificate | ||||||
24 | nonrenewal, upon
request of the certificate holder within | ||||||
25 | 30 days of receipt of written
notification that the local | ||||||
26 | professional development committee will make
such a | ||||||
27 | recommendation, and forward to the regional superintendent | ||||||
28 | of schools
its recommendation within 30 days of receipt of | ||||||
29 | the certificate holder's
request.
| ||||||
30 | Each local professional development committee shall | ||||||
31 | consist of at least 3
classroom teachers; one superintendent or | ||||||
32 | chief administrator of the school
district,
charter school, or | ||||||
33 | cooperative or joint agreement or his or her designee; and
one | ||||||
34 | at-large
member
who shall be either (i) a parent, (ii) a member | ||||||
35 | of the business community,
(iii) a
community member, or (iv) an | ||||||
36 | administrator, with preference given to an
individual
chosen |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | from among those persons listed in items (i), (ii), and (iii) | ||||||
2 | in order
to secure
representation of an interest not already | ||||||
3 | represented on the committee.
Except in a school district in a | ||||||
4 | city having a population exceeding 500,000,
a local
| ||||||
5 | professional development committee shall be responsible for no | ||||||
6 | more than 200
certificate renewal plans annually unless | ||||||
7 | otherwise mutually agreed upon by the
school
district, charter | ||||||
8 | school, or governing body or board of control of a
cooperative | ||||||
9 | or joint
agreement and its exclusive representative, if any.
If
| ||||||
10 | mutually
agreed upon
by the school
district, charter school, or
| ||||||
11 | governing body or board of control of a cooperative or joint | ||||||
12 | agreement and its
exclusive representative, if any, additional | ||||||
13 | members may be added to a local
professional development | ||||||
14 | committee, provided that a majority of members are
classroom | ||||||
15 | teachers.
Except in a school district in a city having a | ||||||
16 | population exceeding 500,000,
if additional
members are added | ||||||
17 | to a local professional development committee, the maximum
| ||||||
18 | number of certificate renewal plans for which the committee | ||||||
19 | shall annually be
responsible may be increased by 50 plans for | ||||||
20 | each additional member, unless
otherwise mutually agreed upon | ||||||
21 | by the school district, charter school, or
governing body
or | ||||||
22 | board of control of a cooperative or joint agreement and its | ||||||
23 | exclusive
representative,
if any.
The school district, charter | ||||||
24 | school, or governing body or
board of control of a cooperative | ||||||
25 | or joint agreement and its exclusive
representative, if any, | ||||||
26 | shall determine the term of service of the members of a
local | ||||||
27 | professional development committee. All individuals selected | ||||||
28 | to serve on
local professional development committees must be | ||||||
29 | known to demonstrate the best
practices in teaching or their | ||||||
30 | respective field of practice.
| ||||||
31 | The exclusive representative, if any, shall select the | ||||||
32 | classroom teacher
members of the
local professional | ||||||
33 | development committee. If no exclusive representative
exists, | ||||||
34 | then the
classroom teacher members of a local professional | ||||||
35 | development committee shall
be
selected by the classroom | ||||||
36 | teachers that come within the local professional
development
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | committee's authority. The school district, charter school, or | ||||||
2 | governing body
or board of
control of a cooperative or joint | ||||||
3 | agreement shall select the 2 non-classroom
teacher
members (the | ||||||
4 | superintendent or chief administrator of the school district,
| ||||||
5 | charter school,
or cooperative or joint agreement or his or her | ||||||
6 | designee and the at-large
member) of
a
local professional
| ||||||
7 | development committee. Vacancies in positions on a local | ||||||
8 | professional
development committee shall be filled in the same | ||||||
9 | manner as the original
selections. The members of a local | ||||||
10 | professional development committee shall
select a chairperson. | ||||||
11 | Local professional development committee meetings shall
be | ||||||
12 | scheduled so as not to interfere with committee members' | ||||||
13 | regularly scheduled
teaching duties, except when otherwise | ||||||
14 | permitted by the policies of or agreed
to or approved by the | ||||||
15 | school district, charter school, or governing body or
board of | ||||||
16 | control of a cooperative or joint agreement, or its designee.
| ||||||
17 | The board of education or governing board shall convene the | ||||||
18 | first meeting of
the local professional development committee. | ||||||
19 | All actions taken by the local
professional development | ||||||
20 | committee shall
require that a
majority of committee members be | ||||||
21 | present, and no committee action may be taken
unless
50% or | ||||||
22 | more of those present are teacher members.
| ||||||
23 | The State Board of Education and the State Teacher | ||||||
24 | Certification Board shall
jointly provide local professional | ||||||
25 | development committee members with a
training
manual, and the | ||||||
26 | members shall certify that they have received and read the
| ||||||
27 | manual.
| ||||||
28 | Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection | ||||||
29 | (f), for a teacher
employed and performing services in a | ||||||
30 | nonpublic or State-operated elementary or
secondary school, | ||||||
31 | all references to a local professional development committee
| ||||||
32 | shall mean the regional superintendent of schools of the | ||||||
33 | regional office of
education for the geographic area where the | ||||||
34 | teaching is done.
| ||||||
35 | (g)(1) Each regional superintendent of schools shall | ||||||
36 | review and concur or
nonconcur
with each recommendation for |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | renewal or nonrenewal of a Standard Teaching
Certificate he or | ||||||
2 | she receives from a local professional development committee
| ||||||
3 | or, if
a certificate
holder appeals the recommendation to the | ||||||
4 | regional professional development
review committee, the
| ||||||
5 | recommendation for renewal or nonrenewal he or she receives | ||||||
6 | from a regional
professional
development review committee and, | ||||||
7 | within 14 days of receipt of the
recommendation,
shall
provide | ||||||
8 | the State Teacher Certification Board with verification of the
| ||||||
9 | following, if applicable:
| ||||||
10 | (A) a certificate renewal plan was filed and approved | ||||||
11 | by the appropriate
local
professional development | ||||||
12 | committee;
| ||||||
13 | (B) the professional development and continuing | ||||||
14 | education activities set
forth
in the approved certificate | ||||||
15 | renewal plan have been satisfactorily
completed;
| ||||||
16 | (C) the local professional development committee has | ||||||
17 | recommended the
renewal of the certificate holder's | ||||||
18 | Standard Teaching Certificate and
forwarded the | ||||||
19 | recommendation, along with all supporting documentation
as | ||||||
20 | jointly required by the State Board of Education and the | ||||||
21 | State Teacher
Certification Board, to the regional | ||||||
22 | superintendent of schools;
| ||||||
23 | (D) the certificate holder has appealed his or her | ||||||
24 | local professional
development committee's recommendation | ||||||
25 | of nonrenewal to the regional
professional development | ||||||
26 | review committee and the result of that appeal;
| ||||||
27 | (E) the regional superintendent of schools has | ||||||
28 | concurred or nonconcurred
with
the
local professional | ||||||
29 | development committee's or regional professional
| ||||||
30 | development review committee's recommendation to renew or | ||||||
31 | nonrenew the
certificate holder's Standard Teaching | ||||||
32 | Certificate and made a
recommendation to that effect; and
| ||||||
33 | (F) the established registration fee for the Standard | ||||||
34 | Teaching
Certificate has
been paid.
| ||||||
35 | At the same time the regional superintendent of schools | ||||||
36 | provides the State
Teacher
Certification Board with the notice |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | required by this subsection (g), he or she
shall
also notify | ||||||
2 | the
certificate holder in writing that this notice has been | ||||||
3 | provided to the
State
Teacher
Certification Board, provided | ||||||
4 | that if the notice provided by the regional
superintendent of | ||||||
5 | schools
to
the State Teacher Certification Board includes a | ||||||
6 | recommendation of certificate
nonrenewal, the written notice | ||||||
7 | provided to the certificate holder shall be by
certified
mail, | ||||||
8 | return receipt requested.
| ||||||
9 | (2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to appeal | ||||||
10 | his or her
local
professional development committee's | ||||||
11 | recommendation of nonrenewal to the
regional
professional | ||||||
12 | development review committee, within 14 days of receipt of | ||||||
13 | notice
that the
recommendation has
been sent to the regional | ||||||
14 | superintendent of schools. Each regional
superintendent of | ||||||
15 | schools shall
establish a regional professional development | ||||||
16 | review committee or committees
for the
purpose of
advising the | ||||||
17 | regional superintendent of schools, upon request, and handling
| ||||||
18 | certificate
holder appeals. This committee shall
consist of at | ||||||
19 | least 4 classroom teachers, one non-administrative
| ||||||
20 | certificated
educational
employee, 2 administrators, and one | ||||||
21 | at-large member who shall be either (i) a
parent, (ii)
a member | ||||||
22 | of the business community, (iii) a community member, or (iv) an
| ||||||
23 | administrator, with preference given to an individual chosen | ||||||
24 | from among those
persons
listed in items (i), (ii), and (iii) | ||||||
25 | in order to secure representation of an
interest not already
| ||||||
26 | represented on the committee. The teacher and | ||||||
27 | non-administrative certificated
educational employee members | ||||||
28 | of the review committee shall be selected by their
exclusive | ||||||
29 | representative, if any, and the administrators and at-large | ||||||
30 | member
shall be
selected by the regional superintendent of | ||||||
31 | schools. A regional superintendent
of schools
may add | ||||||
32 | additional members to the committee, provided that the same | ||||||
33 | proportion
of
teachers to administrators and at-large members | ||||||
34 | on the committee is maintained. Any
additional teacher and | ||||||
35 | non-administrative certificated educational employee members
| ||||||
36 | shall be selected by their exclusive representative, if any. |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Vacancies in positions on a
regional professional development | ||||||
2 | review committee shall be filled in the same manner
as the | ||||||
3 | original selections. Committee members shall serve staggered | ||||||
4 | 3-year terms. All
individuals selected to serve on regional | ||||||
5 | professional development review committees
must be known to | ||||||
6 | demonstrate the best practices in teaching or their respective
| ||||||
7 | field of
practice.
| ||||||
8 | The exclusive representative responsible for choosing the | ||||||
9 | individuals that
serve
on a regional professional development | ||||||
10 | review committee shall notify each
school
district, charter | ||||||
11 | school, or governing body or board of control of a
cooperative | ||||||
12 | or joint
agreement employing the individuals chosen to serve | ||||||
13 | and provide their names to
the
appropriate regional | ||||||
14 | superintendent of schools. Regional professional
development
| ||||||
15 | review committee meetings shall be scheduled so as not to | ||||||
16 | interfere with the
committee
members' regularly scheduled | ||||||
17 | teaching duties, except when otherwise permitted
by the
| ||||||
18 | policies of or agreed to or approved by the school district, | ||||||
19 | charter school, or
governing
body or board of control of a | ||||||
20 | cooperative or joint agreement, or its designee,
provided
that | ||||||
21 | the school district, charter school, or governing body or board | ||||||
22 | of control
shall not
unreasonably withhold permission for a | ||||||
23 | committee member to attend regional
professional development | ||||||
24 | review committee meetings.
| ||||||
25 | In a city having a population exceeding 500,000 that does | ||||||
26 | not have a regional
office of education, one or more separate | ||||||
27 | regional professional development
review
committees shall be | ||||||
28 | established as mutually agreed upon by the board of
education | ||||||
29 | of
the school district organized under Article 34 of this Code | ||||||
30 | and the exclusive
representative. The composition of each | ||||||
31 | committee shall be the same as for a
regional
professional | ||||||
32 | development review committee, except that members of the | ||||||
33 | committee
shall be jointly appointed by the board of education | ||||||
34 | and the exclusive
representative.
All other provisions of this | ||||||
35 | Section concerning regional professional
development
review | ||||||
36 | committees shall apply to these committees.
|
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | The regional professional development review committee
may
| ||||||
2 | require
information in addition to that received from a | ||||||
3 | certificate holder's local
professional
development committee | ||||||
4 | or request that the certificate holder appear before it,
shall
| ||||||
5 | either concur or nonconcur with a local professional | ||||||
6 | development committee's
recommendation of nonrenewal, and | ||||||
7 | shall forward to the regional superintendent
of
schools its | ||||||
8 | recommendation of renewal or nonrenewal. All actions taken by | ||||||
9 | the
regional
professional development review committee shall | ||||||
10 | require a quorum and be by a
simple
majority of those present | ||||||
11 | and voting.
A
record of all votes shall be maintained. The | ||||||
12 | committee shall have 45 days from
receipt of a
certificate | ||||||
13 | holder's appeal to make its recommendation to the regional
| ||||||
14 | superintendent of
schools.
| ||||||
15 | The State Board of Education and the State Teacher | ||||||
16 | Certification Board shall
jointly provide regional | ||||||
17 | professional development review committee members with
a
| ||||||
18 | training
manual, and the members shall be required to attend | ||||||
19 | one training seminar
sponsored
jointly by the State Board of | ||||||
20 | Education and the State Teacher Certification
Board.
| ||||||
21 | (h)(1) The State Teacher Certification Board shall review | ||||||
22 | the regional
superintendent of schools' recommendations to | ||||||
23 | renew or nonrenew Standard
Teaching Certificates
and notify | ||||||
24 | certificate holders in writing whether their certificates have
| ||||||
25 | been renewed or
nonrenewed within 90 days of receipt of the | ||||||
26 | recommendations,
unless a certificate holder has appealed a | ||||||
27 | regional
superintendent of schools'
recommendation of | ||||||
28 | nonrenewal, as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection
| ||||||
29 | (h). The State Teacher Certification Board shall verify that | ||||||
30 | the
certificate holder
has met the renewal criteria set forth | ||||||
31 | in paragraph (1) of subsection (g) of
this Section.
| ||||||
32 | (2) Each certificate holder shall have the right to appeal | ||||||
33 | a regional
superintendent of school's recommendation to | ||||||
34 | nonrenew his or her Standard
Teaching Certificate
to
the State | ||||||
35 | Teacher Certification Board, within 14 days of receipt of | ||||||
36 | notice that
the
decision has been sent to the State Teacher |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | Certification Board, which shall
hold an
appeal hearing within | ||||||
2 | 60 days of receipt of the appeal. When such an appeal is
taken,
| ||||||
3 | the certificate holder's Standard Teaching Certificate shall | ||||||
4 | continue to be
valid until the
appeal is finally determined. | ||||||
5 | The State Teacher Certification Board shall
review the
regional | ||||||
6 | superintendent of school's recommendation, the regional | ||||||
7 | professional
development review committee's recommendation, if | ||||||
8 | any, and the local
professional
development committee's | ||||||
9 | recommendation and all relevant documentation to verify
| ||||||
10 | whether the certificate holder has met the renewal criteria set | ||||||
11 | forth in
paragraph (1) of
subsection (g) of this Section. The | ||||||
12 | State Teacher Certification Board may
request that
the | ||||||
13 | certificate holder appear before it. All actions taken by the | ||||||
14 | State
Teacher
Certification Board shall require a quorum and be | ||||||
15 | by a simple majority of those
present and voting.
A record of
| ||||||
16 | all votes
shall be maintained. The State Teacher Certification | ||||||
17 | Board shall notify the
certificate
holder in writing, within 7 | ||||||
18 | days of completing the review, whether his or her
Standard
| ||||||
19 | Teaching Certificate has been renewed or nonrenewed, provided | ||||||
20 | that if the State
Teacher
Certification Board determines to | ||||||
21 | nonrenew a certificate, the written notice
provided to
the | ||||||
22 | certificate holder shall be by certified mail, return receipt | ||||||
23 | requested.
All certificate
renewal or nonrenewal decisions of | ||||||
24 | the State Teacher Certification Board are
final and
subject to | ||||||
25 | administrative review, as set forth in Section 21-24 of this | ||||||
26 | Code.
| ||||||
27 | (i) Holders of Master Teaching Certificates shall meet the | ||||||
28 | same
requirements
and follow the same procedures as holders of | ||||||
29 | Standard Teaching Certificates,
except
that their renewal | ||||||
30 | cycle shall be as set forth in subsection (d) of Section
21-2 | ||||||
31 | of this
Code.
| ||||||
32 | A holder of a
teaching certificate endorsed as a | ||||||
33 | speech-language pathologist who
has been granted the | ||||||
34 | Certificate of Clinical Competence by the
American | ||||||
35 | Speech-Language Hearing Association may renew his or her
| ||||||
36 | Standard Teaching Certificate pursuant to the 10-year renewal |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | cycle set
forth in subsection (d) of Section 21-2 of this Code.
| ||||||
2 | (j) Holders of Valid and Exempt Standard and Master | ||||||
3 | Teaching Certificates
who are not employed and performing | ||||||
4 | services in an Illinois public or
State-operated
elementary | ||||||
5 | school, secondary school, or cooperative or joint agreement | ||||||
6 | with a
governing body or board of control, in a certificated | ||||||
7 | teaching position,
may
voluntarily activate their certificates | ||||||
8 | by developing and submitting a
certificate renewal
plan to the | ||||||
9 | regional superintendent of schools of the regional office of
| ||||||
10 | education for the geographic area where their teaching is done,
| ||||||
11 | who, or whose designee,
shall approve the plan and serve as the | ||||||
12 | certificate holder's local professional
development committee. | ||||||
13 | These certificate holders shall follow the same renewal
| ||||||
14 | criteria
and procedures as all other Standard and Master | ||||||
15 | Teaching Certificate holders,
except
that their continuing | ||||||
16 | professional development plans shall not be required to
reflect | ||||||
17 | or
address the knowledge, skills, and goals of a local school | ||||||
18 | improvement plan.
| ||||||
19 | (k) Each school district, charter school, or cooperative or | ||||||
20 | joint
agreement
shall
be paid an annual amount of not less than | ||||||
21 | $1,000, as determined by a formula
based on
the number of | ||||||
22 | Standard Teaching and Master Teaching Certificate holders,
| ||||||
23 | subject to
renewal and established by rule, not to exceed | ||||||
24 | $1,000,000 annually for all
school
districts, charter schools, | ||||||
25 | and cooperatives or joint agreements, for
administrative costs
| ||||||
26 | associated with conducting the meetings of the local | ||||||
27 | professional development
committee, as determined in | ||||||
28 | consultation with the committee. Each regional
office
of | ||||||
29 | education shall receive $2,000 annually to
pay school
| ||||||
30 | districts, charter schools, or cooperatives or joint | ||||||
31 | agreements for costs, as
defined by rule,
incurred in staff | ||||||
32 | attendance at regional professional development review
| ||||||
33 | committee
meetings and the training seminar required under | ||||||
34 | paragraph (2) of subsection
(g) of this
Section.
| ||||||
35 | (l) The State Board of Education and the State Teacher | ||||||
36 | Certification Board
shall
jointly contract with an independent |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | party to conduct a comprehensive
evaluation
of the certificate | ||||||
2 | renewal system pursuant to this Section. The first
report of | ||||||
3 | this evaluation shall be presented to the General Assembly on | ||||||
4 | January
1, 2005 and on January 1 of every third year | ||||||
5 | thereafter.
| ||||||
6 | (Source: P.A. 92-510, eff. 6-1-02; 92-796, eff.
8-10-02; 93-81, | ||||||
7 | eff. 7-2-03.)
|