Bill Text: NY S09092 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires continuing teacher and leader education to include courses, programs and activities related to immigrant focused trauma-informed practices to support students who are dealing with adverse childhood or adolescent experiences as a result of immigration status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-22 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S09092 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09092-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9092

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 22, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  mandatory  continuing
          education  for  teachers relating to immigrant focused trauma-informed
          practices

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2 of section 3006-a of the education law, as
     2  added by section 2 of subpart C of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws  of
     3  2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  a. During each five-year registration period beginning on or after
     5  July first, two thousand sixteen, an applicant  for  registration  shall
     6  successfully  complete  a  minimum  of  one  hundred hours of continuing
     7  teacher and leader  education,  as  defined  by  the  commissioner.  The
     8  department  shall  issue  rigorous  standards for courses, programs, and
     9  activities, that shall qualify as continuing teacher and  leader  educa-
    10  tion  pursuant  to  this  section.  For purposes of this section, a peer
    11  review teacher, or a principal acting as an independent  trained  evalu-
    12  ator,  conducting  a classroom observation as part of the teacher evalu-
    13  ation system pursuant to section three thousand twelve-d of this article
    14  may credit such time towards his or her continuing  teacher  and  leader
    15  effectiveness requirements.
    16    b.  (i) Such continuing teacher and leader education required pursuant
    17  to this section shall include, but not be limited to, a minimum  of  ten
    18  hours  of  continuing education courses, programs and activities related
    19  to immigrant focused trauma-informed practices to support  students  who
    20  are dealing with adverse childhood or adolescent experiences as a result
    21  of  immigration  status.  For  purposes  of  this  paragraph, "immigrant
    22  focused trauma-informed practices" means a focus on the impact of trauma
    23  related to immigration status and the effect such trauma has on physical
    24  health, mental health, early childhood  or  adolescent  development  and
    25  childhood or adolescent traumatic stress. The number of hours of contin-
    26  uing  education  required  related  to immigrant focused trauma-informed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14096-02-4
        S. 9092                             2

     1  practices during each five-year registration period shall be  determined
     2  by the department.
     3    (ii)  The  department  shall ensure, in consultation with providers of
     4  continuing teacher and leader  education,  that  courses,  programs  and
     5  activities  related  to  immigrant focused trauma-informed practices are
     6  made sufficiently available for an applicant for registration to  comply
     7  with the requirements of this paragraph.
     8    c.  Nothing  in  this  section shall limit the ability of local school
     9  districts to agree pursuant to collective bargaining to additional hours
    10  of professional development or continuing teacher  or  leader  education
    11  above the minimum requirements set forth in this section.
    12    [c.]  d.  A  certified individual who has not satisfied the continuing
    13  teacher and leader education requirements shall not be  issued  a  five-
    14  year  registration  certificate by the department and shall not practice
    15  unless and until a registration or conditional registration  certificate
    16  is issued as provided in subdivision three of this section. For purposes
    17  of  this  subdivision, "continuing teacher and leader education require-
    18  ments" shall mean activities designed to improve the teacher or leader's
    19  pedagogical and/or leadership  skills,  targeted  at  improving  student
    20  performance,  including but not limited to formal continuing teacher and
    21  leader education activities. Such activities shall promote  the  profes-
    22  sionalization  of  teaching and be closely aligned to district goals for
    23  student performance which meet the standards prescribed  by  regulations
    24  of the commissioner. To fulfill the continuing teacher and leader educa-
    25  tion  requirement,  programs must be taken from sponsors approved by the
    26  department, which shall include but not be limited to school  districts,
    27  pursuant to the regulations of the commissioner.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.