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• One is obviously through teacher preparation, which includes alternative teacher preparation providers
• One is obviously through teacher preparation, which includes alternative teacher preparation providers
• </c><01:08:54.199><c> preparation</c> the alternative teacher preparation the alternative teacher preparation
• </c><01:09:43.679><c> preparation</c> is obviously through teacher preparation is obviously through teacher
• </c> which includes alternative teacher which includes alternative teacher preparation<01:09:46.120><

Bills: HF1966 , HF54 , HF2043 , HF1171 , HF2741

Committee: House Education Finance

Keywords: HF1966, Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs, STARS program, alternative education, alternative programs, education finance, general fund appropriation, student support services, career readiness, employment skills, academic skills, social skills, student conferences, training grants, Minnesota Department of Education, specialized education, at-risk students, nontraditional education, HF54, Silver Lake

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• He has an amazing group of students who are our teacher candidates from UCO.
• First, I'd like to welcome the 2025 Teacher of the Year, Melissa Yvon, who is here with us.
• I still accidentally call her Miss Hayes because she was my American history and government teacher in
• She currently serves as a family and consumer science teacher at Elgin High School and she's the Teacher
• to be sent to the new district that the teacher is applying to.

Bills: SB514 , SB346 , SB1593 , SB1782 , SB1366 , SB1497 , SB366 , SB1895 , SB2048 , SB2005 , SB2006 , SB710 , SB1480

Committee: Senate Education

Keywords: SB514, school choice, charter school, virtual charter school, OSSAA, extracurricular activities, interscholastic activities, athletics, homeschool, other means of education, alternative education, student eligibility, student transfer, district policy, public school district, adjacent district, blended learning, virtual learning, school sports, academic eligibility

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• Committee and the oversight committee, it caps the professional development requirement for teachers
• And for teachers with more than five years' experience, the allowable requirement remains 150 hours over
• Senate Bill 346 simply modifies the background check process for certain teachers seeking employment
• It is creates an innovative pathway for our education preparation programs.
• What Senate Bill 1614 does is create a teacher induction program specifically dealing with new teachers

Bills: SB1734 , SB1630 , SB1894 , SB1975 , SB1432 , SB1437 , SB1812 , SB346 , SB1250 , SB710 , SB1489 , SB2045 , SB1614

Committee: House Common Education

Keywords: artificial intelligence, AI, schools, public school districts, education technology, edtech, student privacy, FERPA, data privacy, data security, emerging technologies, machine learning, generative AI, classroom technology, instructional technology, teacher oversight, human-in-the-loop, student data, parental consent, opt-out

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• Green Program that this body passed last year trying to incentivize career pathways to becoming a teacher
• applicant, and due to some additional funds, OEQ has requested some flexibility to award more than one teacher

Bills: SB44 , SB546 , SB1213 , SB1256 , SB1287 , SB1443 , SB1644 , SB1653 , SB1716 , SB1209 , SB1826 , SB1919 , SB1930 , SB1976 , SB2028 , SB2067 , SB2072 , SB2117 , SB710 , SB1477 , SB1405

Keywords: sales tax exemption, nonprofit organizations, contractors, charitable purposes, state law, SB1213, earned credits, inmate credits, good time, sentence reduction, Department of Corrections, DOC, prison reform, corrections policy, inmate classification, class levels, rehabilitation credits, achievement credits, vocational training, educational credits

Bills: HF119 , HF535 , HF536 , HF587 , HSB278 , HSB276 , HSB277 , HF552 , HF621 , HF335 , HF102 , HF336 , HF448 , HSB156 , HSB158 , HF284 , HF149 , HF332 , HSB219 , HF103 , HF334 , HF221 , HSB218 , HSB220 , HSB217 , HF543

Committee: Joint Education

Keywords: Iowa education, Board of Educational Examiners, BOEE, teacher licensure, educator authorization, content specialist authorization, initial content specialist authorization, career and technical education, CTE, career and technical secondary authorization, teacher shortage, alternative licensure, nontraditional teacher preparation, mentor teacher, community college instructor, secondary teaching credential, vocational education, workforce development, teacher intern license, education review

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• The teachers that this will benefit the most are teachers who are secondary wage earners In their households
• Also, teachers who have to stay home for a couple of years to take care of little ones before they are
• The local school board retains Complete authority to accept or deny the request of the teacher.
• There is no appeal process for the teacher once the local school board has decided.
• I would point the questioner to the definition of career teacher at the bottom of page three and just

Bills: SB1534 , SB1473 , SB1379 , SB1743 , SB1769 , SB1195 , SB1245 , SB1420 , SB1945 , SB514 , SB346 , SB1593 , SB1782 , SB1366 , SB1497 , SB366 , SB1895 , SB2048 , SB2005 , SB2006 , SB710 , SB1480 , SB2135 , SB2130 , SCR16 , SB1457 , SB1732 , SB1317 , SB1533

Keywords: charitable organization, charitable nonprofit corporation, nonprofit corporation, nonstock corporation, 501(c)(3), charitable solicitation, charitable contributions, fundraising, professional fundraiser, professional solicitor, professional fundraising counsel, Secretary of State registration, Form 990, Attorney General enforcement, district attorney, consent judgment, civil penalty, nonprofit governance, board of directors, fiduciary duty

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• It is a teacher induction program aimed at working with our newer teachers and our emergency certified
• teachers.
• So is it each teacher or each mentor teacher?
• So is it each teacher, or each mentor teacher, is given so many funds for a stipend?
• Or how, if you have new teacher induction, like I was in a school that had 30 brand new teachers one

Bills: SB710 , SB843 , SB1317 , SB1338 , SB1410 , SB1477 , SB1489 , SB1593 , SB1614 , SB1630 , SB1632 , SB1633 , SB1670 , SB1726 , SB1734 , SB1725 , SB1735 , SB1894 , SB1975 , SB346 , SB2045

Committee: House Education Oversight

Keywords: teacher preparation, teacher education, teacher shortage, teacher workforce, educator pipeline, alternative certification, apprenticeship, residency program, paraprofessional pathway, high school to teacher pathway, nontraditional teacher candidates, Commission for Educational Quality and Accountability, TeachForwardOK, higher education, public school districts, workforce development, grant program, technical assistance provider, mastery-based assessment, emergency clause

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• Senate Bill 6278 concerning the ongoing review of approved teacher and principal preparation... ...concerning
• the ongoing review of approved teacher and principal preparation programs.
• and principal preparation programs to include the following components: program standards, educator
• It provides a process and directives for when preparation program performance... ...partners.
• As a high school social studies teacher that has helped oversee hundreds of students working...

Bills: SB6278

Committee: House Education

Keywords: teacher preparation, principal preparation, educator preparation, alternative route certification, teacher certification, principal certification, Washington Professional Educator Standards Board, PESB, field placement, student teacher, residency, mentoring, school district partnerships, K-12 education, preK-12, high-need schools, Title I, special education, English language learner, rural schools

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• at my school, and part of the problem is that it varies from teacher to teacher.
• PESB has established two types of reviews of approved teacher and administrator preparation programs:
• PESB-approved teacher preparation programs must develop and submit to PESB a plan describing how the
• It requires ongoing review of fully approved teacher and principal preparation programs to include the
• Our board is in alignment with the bill's intent to ensure strong teacher and principal preparation program

Bills: SB6278

Committee: House Education

Keywords: teacher preparation, principal preparation, educator preparation, alternative route certification, teacher certification, principal certification, Washington Professional Educator Standards Board, PESB, field placement, student teacher, residency, mentoring, school district partnerships, K-12 education, preK-12, high-need schools, Title I, special education, English language learner, rural schools

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• It came from students and teachers. It came from students and teachers.
• Senate Bill 6278 concerns the ongoing review of approved teacher and principal preparation programs.
• The bill before you today creates specified requirements for that review of approved teacher preparation
• and to our students and to our education system that the teachers who come into our system are prepared
• Our board is in alignment with the sponsor's intent to ensure strong teacher and principal preparation

Bills: SB6130 , SB6247 , SB6260 , SB6268 , SB6278

Committee: Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education

Keywords: voter registration, elections, national holiday, civic engagement, government initiative, school funding, financial management, budgeting, transparency, district governance, SB 6260, public education, K-12, Washington State, OSPI, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, education finance, school transportation, school buses, zero-emission bus

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• The executive recommends an appropriation authority of $5 million for the teacher preparation affordability
• And then $60,000 for a teacher task force.
• preparation affordability program.
• On the teacher preparation affordability program. Tell me how those two marry.
• Our teachers are licensed under PED.

Bills: SB37 , SB29

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: high-quality literacy instruction, science of reading, structured literacy, reading instruction, literacy assessment, dyslexia screening, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, biliteracy, English language learner, ELL, bilingual education, dual language program, reading intervention, reading difficulty, reading improvement plan, literacy coach

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• We're not preparing them, and then they get out and they think they're going to make all this money with
• what kind of special qualifications has a physician that is the, I don't know how to say that, the teacher
• And now we're looking at funding equity and other things, preparing for the program to start.

Bills: SB37 , SB29 , SB37 , SB29

Committees: Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: high-quality literacy instruction, science of reading, structured literacy, reading instruction, literacy assessment, dyslexia screening, phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, biliteracy, English language learner, ELL, bilingual education, dual language program, reading intervention, reading difficulty, reading improvement plan, literacy coach

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• And now they had to focus on teacher preparation because we have to relearn things when we don't learn
• I mean, teachers always test. Teachers have to test. It's part of their curriculum.
• They work with all the teachers. They work with the bilingual teachers.
• By strengthening teacher preparation and early assessment, Senate Bill 37 helps ensure students build
• more teachers.

Bills: SB29 , SB37 , SB29 , SB37

Committees: Senate Senate Education , Senate House Education

Keywords: SB29, math requirements for teaching license, teacher licensure, teacher endorsement, mathematics methods, elementary education, secondary education, special education, early childhood education, reciprocity, Public Education Department, Mathematics and Science Education Act, mathematics instructional leadership framework, professional learning plan, K-3 screening, mathematics screening assessment, mathematics difficulty, support plan, multilevel support, intervention

Bills: HSB555 , HSB558 , HSB594 , HF2051 , HF2012 , HSB610

Committee: Joint Education

Keywords: teacher education, licensing, practitioner preparation, students with disabilities, English learners, practicum hours, summative assessment, HSB 558, HF 2231, seal of civics excellence, civics seal, civics recognition, civics education, American government, high school diploma, transcript notation, student recognition, Department of Education, voluntary participation, public schools

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• that</c> teacher preparation um rules that teacher preparation um rules that included included included
• <c> beyond</c> teacher preparation and looking beyond teacher preparation and looking beyond the<00:31
• </c><00:32:49.279><c> It</c> preparing teachers in that space. It preparing teachers in that space.
• c> our teachers to be prepared as they have our teachers to be prepared as they have miles<01:04:25.200
• <c> of</c><01:05:17.599><c> teacher</c> improves the preparation of teacher improves the preparation

Bills: HF3421

Committee: House Education Policy

Keywords: early literacy, reading instruction, teacher preparation, teacher candidates, teacher licensure, educator licensing, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, PELSB, field experience, supervised practicum, evidence-based reading, science of reading, literacy methods, teacher training, preservice teachers, school-based experience, reading intervention, Minnesota education policy

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• And then finally, Senator Wellman, to your point on the teacher preparatory program, I teach in a teacher
• Really quick to my prepared remarks.
• I was a public school teacher.
• preparation programs.
• preparation programs.

Bills: SB5849 , SB6278 , SB6130 , SB6222 , SB6206 , SB6260 , SB5346 , SB6263 , SB6268 , SB6247

Committee: Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education

Keywords: financial education, graduation requirement, student curriculum, financial literacy, education reform, teacher preparation, principal preparation, educator preparation, alternative route certification, teacher certification, principal certification, Washington Professional Educator Standards Board, PESB, field placement, student teacher, residency, mentoring, school district partnerships, K-12 education, preK-12

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• , after receiving an application from a developer or founder group, may charter either a licensed teacher
• under statute or a group of individuals that includes one or more licensed teachers to operate a school
• 41.680><c> statute</c><00:10:42.079><c> or</c><00:10:42.320><c> group</c><00:10:42.560><c> of</c> teacher
• under statute or group of teacher under statute or group of individuals<00:10:43.360><c> that</c><00
• to</c><00:10:46.160><c> operate</c><00:10:46.560><c> a</c><00:10:46.800><c> school</c> Licensed teachers

Bills: HF3487 , HF3421

Committee: House Education Policy

Keywords: anonymous reporting, school safety, education, crisis intervention, threat reporting, early literacy, reading instruction, teacher preparation, teacher candidates, teacher licensure, educator licensing, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, PELSB, field experience, supervised practicum, evidence-based reading, science of reading, literacy methods, teacher training, preservice teachers

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• and</c> preparation of teachers Federal and preparation of teachers Federal and State<00:31:58.600><c
• </c> that um any pby approved teacher that um any pby approved teacher preparation<01:20:09.400><c> programs
• Laura Molsen, and I'm here from the Minnesota Association of Colleges for Teacher Preparation.
• And then some programs fund districts, some fund teacher preparation programs, and others go directly
• </c> there is a separate alternative teacher there is a separate alternative teacher preparation<01:36

Bills: HF846 , HF1538 , HF1959

Committee: House Education Finance

Keywords: education, special education, apprenticeship, funding, grants, intermediate school districts, teacher apprenticeship, registered apprenticeship, teacher licensure, teacher shortage, workforce development, education finance, K-12 education, higher education, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, PELSB, Tier 3 license, teacher preparation, mentor teacher, school district

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• We have prepared over 1,000 teachers through residency pathways since funding began with House Bill 13
• It was just awarded, literally three days ago, the Distinguished Teacher Preparation Program for 2026
• We strongly believe that residency is the best way to prepare a high-quality teacher workforce, and we
• Teacher residencies are intended to enhance the preparation of prospective educators through extended
• With diverse and well-prepared teachers.

Bills: HB30 , HB120 , HJR1 , SB210 , SB306 , HB30 , HB120 , HJR1 , SB210 , SB306

Committees: Senate Senate Education , Senate House Education

Keywords: teacher residency, Teacher Residency Act, public schools, teacher preparation, educator pipeline, teacher recruitment, teacher retention, student teachers, apprenticeship, co-teaching, mentor teachers, residency stipend, teacher salary, level one teacher, charter schools, school districts, New Mexico education, teacher workforce, principal stipend, cohort model

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• It also allows our educator prep programs to prepare our pre-service teachers by training them on the
• to prepare them for life after high school.
• to prepare them for life after high school.
• And we felt it, we feel it in teacher preparation. We felt it at the university level.
• We’re training teachers, and teachers are part of that training through the RECs.

Bills: HB30 , HB120 , HJR1 , SB210 , SB306

Committee: House House Education

Keywords: teacher residency, Teacher Residency Act, public schools, teacher preparation, educator pipeline, teacher recruitment, teacher retention, student teachers, apprenticeship, co-teaching, mentor teachers, residency stipend, teacher salary, level one teacher, charter schools, school districts, New Mexico education, teacher workforce, principal stipend, cohort model