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Charter Schools and ESEA

Highly Qualified Teachers

June 2014

What Does ESEA Say?

Highly Qualified – The term ‘highly qualified’ means…the teacher has a bachelor’s degree, obtained full State licensure with subject matter competency in English, reading or language arts, mathematics, science, foreign languages, civics and government, economics, geography, history, and arts.

ESEA, Title IX §9101(23)

ESEA Timeline

• ESEA states: By 2002- 2003, all teachers

teaching core subjects in Title I-A schools

must be highly qualified.

• ESEA states: By the beginning of 2007

school year, all teachers teaching core

academic subjects must be highly

qualified. This includes charter and

alternative education teachers.

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What Determines HQT Status?

A highly qualified teacher holds a

minimum of a bachelor’s degree, and

A highly qualified teacher has obtained

full state licensure, and

A highly qualified teacher has

demonstrated subject matter

competence in each of the core

academic subjects the teacher teaches.

HQT Determination

HQT Determination Forms are found at:

http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=

2219.

Forms for both Elementary and Secondary

teachers are available.

http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=2219


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OAR 584-100-0101

Oregon Licenses Considered

“Full State Certification”

(1) Basic Teaching License; or (2) Standard Teaching License; or (3) Initial (Initial, I, II) Teaching License; or (4) Continuing Teaching License; or (5) Five-Year Elementary Teaching License; or (6) Five-Year Secondary Teaching License; or (7) International Visiting Teacher License; or (8) NCLB Alternative Route Teaching License; or (9) Charter School Registry.

Highly Qualified

vs.

Legal to Teach

The ESEA definition of “highly qualified” does not completely align to the current state licensure/certification structure and assignment rules.

Teachers who are allowed to teach certain courses under state licensure/certification and assignment rules may not meet the definition of “highly qualified.”

Teachers who do meet the definition of “highly qualified” and who do NOT have the endorsement on their license MAY require a License for Conditional Assignment under the current state licensure structure.

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What are the Core Academic

Areas?

The term core academic subjects means:

• English

• Reading

• Mathematics

• Science

• Foreign Languages

• Civics and Government

• Economics

• History

• Geography

• Arts (Art and Music)

Oregon through TSPC further defines the arts as being visual arts and

music, and foreign language as German, French and Spanish

Demonstrating Subject Matter

Competency • Pass a rigorous state exam in the core

academic subject matter area, or

In the K-6 setting

educators should take

the ORELA (NES)

Elementary Exam

subtest I and II.

In the 7-12 setting

educators should take

the appropriate subject

matter test for the

course they are

teaching.

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• Complete a major or coursework

equivalent to an undergraduate major in

the core academic area (only available for

7-12 grade setting), or

The major should be

listed on the educator’s

transcript.




• Complete a major or coursework

equivalent to an undergraduate major in

the core academic area, or

• Hold a graduate degree in the core

academic subject matter area, (only

available for 7-12 grade setting), or

The graduate

degree must

be in the

subject matter

the educator

will be

teaching.




• Complete a major or coursework equivalent to an undergraduate major in the core academic area, or

• Hold a graduate degree in the core academic subject matter area, or

• Highly Objective Uniform State Standards of Evaluation (HOUSSE).

• Only for licensed teachers.

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Elementary HOUSSE

To qualify for the Elementary HOUSSE, a total of sixty (60) points of combined coursework must be earned.

Experience must meet the 3 year minimum requirement to be eligible. A teaching license must have

been awarded prior to the 2007-2008 school year and a minimum of three years teaching

experience at the elementary level must have occurred prior to the 2009-2010 school year.

Secondary HOUSSE To qualify for the Secondary HOUSSE, a total of one hundred (100) points of

• combined coursework,

• professional development, and

• experience must be earned.

Experience must meet the 3 year minimum requirement, to be eligible, and may not exceed the 5 year

maximum for a total of no more than 50 points. A teaching license must have been awarded prior to the

2007-2008 school year and a minimum of three years teaching experience in the subject to be evaluated must have occurred prior to the 2009-2010 school year.

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HOUSSE Worksheets

HOUSSE Worksheets are found at:

http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=2219.

When Must A Teacher be HQ?

Core content

teachers must

meet HQT

requirements at

the time of

assignment or

the time of hire.


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Do Charter School Teachers

Need to be Highly Qualified?

For Charter School teachers, the term

HQT means that the teacher meets the

requirements set forth in Oregon public

charter school law.

“Any person employed as a teacher in a public

charter school shall be licensed or registered to teach

by the commission.”

ORS Title 30 Chapter 338.135 7(b) and (c)

Licensed or Registered • Any person employed as a teacher in a public

charter school shall be licensed or registered by

TSPC.

• In a public charter school, at least 50% of total

Teacher and Administrator FTE* must be

licensed** and up to 50% may be registered by

TSPC. ORS 338.135(7)

• Teachers teaching at a virtual public charter who

are licensed by TSPC must provide 95% of the

school instructional hours. ORS 338.120(1)(f)(B)

*Full-time Equivalent

** Basic, Continuing, Initial and Standard.

Licensed or Registered

To be HQ, a licensed Charter School Teacher must have: • a bachelor’s degree, • a valid license, and • demonstrate subject

matter knowledge by testing, major coursework, or graduate degree in subject.

To be HQ, a registered

Charter School Teacher

must have:

• a bachelor’s degree,

• a valid charter school

registry, and

• demonstrate subject

matter knowledge by

testing, major

coursework, or graduate

degree in subject.

http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/338.html

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Who is responsible for HQT in

a Charter School?

The District and the

Charter School need to

work together to ensure

that all teachers are

highly qualified at the

time of hire or

assignment.

Do Special Education Teachers Need

to be Highly Qualified?

Teaching Assignments

• K-8 special education teachers who provide the

direct core content instruction to students must

meet HQ requirements for elementary school

teachers.




• 9-12 special education teachers providing

instruction in core academic subjects must

demonstrate subject matter knowledge in each core

academic subject they teach.

• 9-12 special education teachers who teach

exclusively to students who are assessed against

the Alternative (Extended) Assessment (alternative

achievement standards) must meet HQ

requirements for elementary school teachers.

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• Special education teachers providing

supplemental/support or consultative services are

not required to meet HQ requirements for that

portion of the assignment.

Do Online/Distance Learning

Teachers need to be Highly

Qualified?

The teacher providing

the core content

instruction, grade and

credit must be highly

qualified.

Online/Distance Learning Classes

Types

• Teacher is provided by the online provider

and interacts with the students. • Online teacher must be HQ and reported in Staff

Assignment.

• Online curriculum provided without a

teacher. • School must provide a HQ teacher and report him/her

in Staff Assignment.

• University/community college faculty • School does not need to report these classes/teachers.

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Other Teachers that Need to be

Highly Qualified

Alternative Education Teachers must meet

the requirement of HQT in all core academic

subjects they are assigned to teach.

Bilingual and ESL teachers must meet the

requirement of HQT in all core academic

subjects they are assigned to teach.

Reporting

US Dept. of Education requires ODE to

submit reports around Highly Qualified

Teachers.

• Teacher Quality Elementary and Secondary

• Special Education Teachers

• Title III Teachers

This data is reported from districts to ODE as part of

the Staff Assignment Collection.

Reporting

Staff Assignment Collection

• Links teachers to the classes that they teach.

• Determines Highly Qualified Teachers for

core academic subjects.

• Includes all teachers who are providing

instruction.

• Non-instructional courses like student aides

do not need reported.

• Reporting is for the entire school year

(summer, fall spring).

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Reporting

Staff Assignment

• IUID (extracted from Student Information System)

• Creates a unique identifier for each course taught.

• Uses the NCES Secondary and NCES Prior-to-

Secondary Course Codes.

• USID Collection

• Staff demographic data.

• Staff Assignment Details

• How the teacher is/isn’t Highly Qualified.

Reporting

Course Codes

• NCES and Prior to Secondary NCES Course Codes

• http://www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/nclb/title_ii/a_tea

cherquality/2013-14-nces-secondary-and-prior-to-secondary-

codes.pdf

• NCES (High School)

• Subject Area 1- Subject Area 22

• Prior to Secondary NCES (Elementary/Middle School)

• Subject Area 51- Subject Area 99

• When determining what course code to choose match the

course description for what is being taught in the classroom.

• All core content classes are marked with a #.

• All core content classes REQUIRE a HQ teacher!!!!!!

Reporting

Course Codes

• Elementary/Middle School

• Self-contained classroom-Subject Area 73

• Kindergarten - 73030

• Grade 1 – 73031

• Grade 2 – 73032

• Grade 3 – 73033

• Grade 4 – 73034

• Grade 5 – 73035

• Grade 6 – 73036

• Grade 7* – 73037

• Grade 8* – 73038

• Blended – 73039

*Teacher must provide instruction in math, social studies, language

arts and science to be a self-contained 7th or 8th grade classroom.

http://www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/nclb/title_ii/a_teacherquality/2013-14-nces-secondary-and-prior-to-secondary-codes.pdf



















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Reporting

Course Codes


• Physical Education – 58001

• Music – 55139

• Title I Reading- 51068 – Corrective Reading

• Title I Math – 52003 – Particular Topics in Foundational

Mathematics

• English Language Development – 51008

• Electives – Use course code that matches the elective

• Middle School Core Content – Use content specific course

codes

• Subject Area 51 – English Language Arts

• Subject Area 52 – Mathematics

• Subject Area 53 – Life and Physical Science

• ….

Reporting

Course Codes


• Special Education

• 74000 Developmental Support

• 72206 Life Skills

• Subject Area 73-Core Content

• 72005 Tutorial –Supplemental Support/Resource Room

Reporting

Course Codes

• High School

• Core Content

• Subject Area 1 – English Language Arts

• Title I Reading- 1068

• Subject Area 2 –Mathematics

• Title I Math - 2003

• Subject Area 3 – Life and Physical Science

• Subject Area 4 Social Science and History

• Subject Area 5 Fine and Performing Arts

• Subject Area 6 Foreign Language and Literature

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State Reporting

Course Codes

• High School

• Special Education

• 22251 Community Living

• 22252 Communication Instruction

• 22253 Social Development Instruction

• 22254 Developmental Support

• 22206 Life Skills

• Core Content Codes

• 22005 Tutorial-Supplemental Support/Resource Room

Scenarios Our school offers our students a Sixth Grade Spanish class which

they take as an elective class. The teacher has an elementary

multiple subjects endorsement and speaks fluent Spanish.

A teacher is teaching one class of AP Art History. It falls under the

Art Endorsement, however she does not hold an Art Endorsement.

She does however, have an undergraduate minor in Art History,

she has 30 quarter credits of Art and 33 quarter credits of Art

History.

We use Aventa Learning as our online provider. Aventa’s teachers

build the curriculum, provide the instruction and issue the grade.

They have told us all of their teachers meet the highly qualified

requirements.

Scenarios

Teachers are teaching a reading intervention program at the junior

high. The intervention program is being taught as an elective and

is not replacing core language arts instruction. The school has all

teachers teaching this program.

Our K-8 Charter School has a Registered Teacher who is teaching

8th grade science and has an Biology endorsement from TSPC.

Our Spanish Immersion School elementary teacher is teaching

self-contained 3rd grade. The teacher has a restricted transitional

license with an endorsement in Spanish.

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Scenarios Middle School Reading I is a comprehension based skill support class.

This class focuses on the skills needed to comprehend different types

of text. Students in this class generally have all other skills needed for

strong reading, such as decoding and fluency skills. The teacher

providing this instruction has an English Language Arts endorsement.

Our middle school offers an elective called Geology of Oregon. This

course focuses on the unique geology of Oregon and explores the

physical geography in Oregon. The teacher providing the instruction

is endorsed in Social Studies.

Scenarios Our students attend our online school where they are working on all

different classes. These are self-paced, online courses where the

computer program builds the curriculum and provides the instruction.

There is a staff member in the room monitoring the students.

We have a teacher on maternity leave for 3 months and we hired a

substitute teacher who has a middle level math endorsement and is

authorized to teach grades 5-9. The substitute will be teaching

middle school and high school math.

Some of our students are taking an online Spanish class from a Blue

Mountain Community College faculty member. The teacher has a

master’s degree in Spanish. The community college sends us the

grade which we add to the student’s grade/transcripts.

Contact Information:

Janet Bubl

HQT Coordinator

[email protected]

503-947-5687

Anna Haley

Staff Assignment Data Owner

[email protected]

503-947-2561

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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