Full Text of HB5002 093rd General Assembly
HB5002 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB5002
Introduced 02/05/04, by Jay C. Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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105 ILCS 5/21-14 |
from Ch. 122, par. 21-14 |
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Amends the School Code with regard to Standard and Master teaching certificates. Provides that for the holder of an Early Childhood or Elementary type of certificate, 50% of the continuing professional development activities included in a certificate renewal plan must be coursework or activities that expand the holder's knowledge and application of best practices in the teaching of reading.
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| AN ACT concerning education.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 21-14 as follows:
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| (105 ILCS 5/21-14) (from Ch. 122, par. 21-14)
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| Sec. 21-14. Registration and renewal of certificates.
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| (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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| (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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| 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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| 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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| certificated teaching position, or a charter school operating | 24 |
| in compliance
with the
Charter Schools Law.
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| (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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| 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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| (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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| Section;
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| (2) establish the standards for certificate renewal;
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| (3) approve the providers of continuing professional | 2 |
| development
activities;
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| (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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| 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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| 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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| (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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| (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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| (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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| subsection (c) of this Section.
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| (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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| (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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| 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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| 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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| professional
development purposes:
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| (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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| certification,
endorsement, or teaching assignment in | 7 |
| order to keep the certificate holder
current
in those | 8 |
| areas.
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| (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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| (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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| (D) Expand the certificate holder's knowledge and | 19 |
| skills in an
additional teaching field or toward
the
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| acquisition of another teaching certificate, endorsement, | 21 |
| or relevant
education degree.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Standards and the Illinois Content Area Standards in the |
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| certificate holder's
areas of
certification, endorsement, or | 2 |
| teaching assignment in order to keep the
certificate holder
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| 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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| A speech-language pathologist or audiologist who is
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| licensed under the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and
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| 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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| professional development requirements established by the State
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| Board of Education and the Teacher Certification Board to renew
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| a Standard Certificate.
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| (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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| (A) completion of an advanced degree from an approved | 26 |
| institution
in an education-related field;
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| (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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| (C) continuing education units that satisfy the |
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| 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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| (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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| 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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| paragraph (2)
of subsection (e) of this Section;
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| (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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| (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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| (i) participating on collaborative planning and | 24 |
| professional
improvement
teams and committees;
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| (ii) peer review and coaching;
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| (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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| (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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| (v) coordinating community resources in schools, | 35 |
| if the project is a
specific goal of the school | 36 |
| improvement plan;
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| (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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| school improvement plans;
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| (vii) participating in business, school, or | 6 |
| community partnerships
directly
related to student | 7 |
| achievement or school improvement plans; or
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| (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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| (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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| (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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| 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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| (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;
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| (H) conferences, workshops, institutes, seminars, and
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| symposiums related
to improving the teacher's knowledge | 32 |
| and skills as a teacher,
including
the following:
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| (i) completing non-university credit directly | 34 |
| related to student
achievement, school improvement | 35 |
| plans, or State priorities;
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| (ii) participating in or presenting at workshops, |
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| seminars,
conferences,
institutes, and symposiums;
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| (iii) training as external reviewers for Quality | 3 |
| Assurance; or
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| (iv) training as reviewers of university teacher | 5 |
| preparation programs;
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| (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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| (i) participating in action research and inquiry | 10 |
| projects;
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| (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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| (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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| destinations where the learning experience will occur;
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| (iv) participating in study groups related to | 21 |
| student achievement or
school
improvement plans;
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| (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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| strategic agenda teams, or the State Advisory Council | 26 |
| on Education of
Children with Disabilities;
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| (vi) participating in work/learn programs or | 28 |
| internships; or
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| (vii) developing a portfolio of student and | 30 |
| teacher work;
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| (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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| (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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| level;
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| (ii) participating in team or department | 3 |
| leadership in a school or
school
district;
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| (iii) participating on external or internal school | 5 |
| or school district
review
teams;
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| (iv) publishing educational articles, columns, or | 7 |
| books relevant to
the
certificate area being renewed; | 8 |
| or
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| (v) participating in non-strike related | 10 |
| professional association or
labor organization
service | 11 |
| or
activities related to professional development.
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| (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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| committee
and
the certificate holder of its determination.
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| (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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| 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
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| holder may appeal that determination to the regional | 5 |
| professional development
review
committee, as set forth in | 6 |
| paragraph (4) of this subsection (e).
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| (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
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| 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.
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| (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
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| 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:
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| (1) review and approve certificate renewal plans and | 26 |
| any
modifications made to these plans, including | 27 |
| transferred plans;
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| (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;
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| (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 |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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.)
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