2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 4 - Teachers and Pupils › Article 61 - Teachers and Supervisory and Administrative Staff › 3006-A - Registration and Continuing Teacher and Leader Education Requirements for Holders of Professional Certificates in the Classroom Teaching Service, Holders of Level Iii Teaching Assistant Certificates, Holders of Professional Certificates in the Educational Leadership Service.

§  3006-a.  Registration  and  continuing teacher and leader education
  requirements for holders of professional certificates in  the  classroom
  teaching  service, holders of level III teaching assistant certificates,
  holders of  professional  certificates  in  the  educational  leadership
  service.  1.  a.  Commencing with the two thousand sixteen--two thousand
  seventeen school year, each holder of a professional certificate in  the
  classroom  teaching  service,  holder  of a level III teaching assistant
  certificate and holder of a professional certificate in the  educational
  leadership  service  shall be required to register every five years with
  the department to practice in  the  state  and  shall  comply  with  the
  provisions  of  the continuing teacher and leader education requirements
  set forth in this section.
b. Any of the certified individuals described in paragraph a  of  this
  subdivision  who  do  not  satisfy  the  continuing  teacher  and leader
  education requirements shall not  practice  until  they  have  met  such
  requirements   and  have  been  issued  a  registration  or  conditional
  registration certificate.
c. In accordance with the intent of this section, adjustments  to  the
  continuing  teacher  and  leader education requirement may be granted by
  the department  for  reasons  of  health  certified  by  a  health  care
  provider,  for  extended  active  duty  with  armed forces of the United
  States, or for other good cause acceptable to the department  which  may
  prevent compliance.
d. Any certificate holder who is not practicing as a teacher, teaching
  assistant   or  educational  leader  in  a  school  district,  board  of
  cooperative educational services, or nonpublic school that is  providing
  instruction  pursuant  to  subdivision two of section thirty-two hundred
  four of this title in this state shall be  exempt  from  the  continuing
  teacher  and  leader  education requirement upon the filing of a written
  statement with the department declaring such status.  Any  holder  of  a
  professional  certificate in the classroom teaching service, holder of a
  level III teaching assistant certificate and holder  of  a  professional
  certificate  in  the educational leadership service who resumes practice
  during the five-year registration period  shall  notify  the  department
  prior  to  resuming  practice and shall meet such continuing teacher and
  leader education  requirements  as  prescribed  in  regulations  of  the
  commissioner.
2.  a. During each five-year registration period beginning on or after
  July first, two thousand sixteen, an applicant  for  registration  shall
  successfully  complete  a  minimum  of  one  hundred hours of continuing
  teacher and leader  education,  as  defined  by  the  commissioner.  The
  department  shall  issue  rigorous  standards for courses, programs, and
  activities,  that  shall  qualify  as  continuing  teacher  and   leader
  education pursuant to this section. For purposes of this section, a peer
  review  teacher,  or  a  principal  acting  as  an  independent  trained
  evaluator, conducting a classroom observation as  part  of  the  teacher
  evaluation  system  pursuant  to section three thousand twelve-d of this
  article may credit such time towards his or her continuing  teacher  and
  leader effectiveness requirements.
b.  Nothing  in  this  section shall limit the ability of local school
  districts to agree pursuant to collective bargaining to additional hours
  of professional development or continuing teacher  or  leader  education
  above the minimum requirements set forth in this section.
c. A certified individual who has not satisfied the continuing teacher
  and  leader  education  requirements  shall  not  be  issued a five-year
  registration certificate by the department and shall not practice unless
  and until a registration  or  conditional  registration  certificate  is
  issued as provided in subdivision three of this section. For purposes of

  this subdivision, "continuing teacher and leader education requirements"
  shall  mean  activities  designed  to  improve  the  teacher or leader's
  pedagogical and/or leadership  skills,  targeted  at  improving  student
  performance,  including but not limited to formal continuing teacher and
  leader  education  activities.  Such  activities   shall   promote   the
  professionalization of teaching and be closely aligned to district goals
  for   student   performance  which  meet  the  standards  prescribed  by
  regulations of the commissioner. To fulfill the continuing  teacher  and
  leader  education  requirement,  programs  must  be  taken from sponsors
  approved by the department, which shall include but not  be  limited  to
  school districts, pursuant to the regulations of the commissioner.
3.  The  department,  in  its  discretion,  may  issue  a  conditional
  registration to a teacher, teaching assistant or educational leader in a
  school district, board of cooperative educational services, or nonpublic
  school that is providing instruction  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of
  section thirty-two hundred four of this title in this state who fails to
  meet   the   continuing   teacher   and  leader  education  requirements
  established in subdivision two of this section but who agrees to make up
  any deficiencies and take any additional continuing teacher  and  leader
  education  which  the  department  may  require.  The  duration  of such
  conditional registration shall be  determined  by  the  department.  Any
  holder  of a professional certificate in the classroom teaching service,
  holder of a level III teaching assistant  certificate  or  holder  of  a
  professional  certificate  in the educational leadership service and any
  other certified individual required  by  the  commissioner  to  register
  every  five  years  who  is  notified  of the denial of registration for
  failure to submit evidence, satisfactory to the department, of  required
  continuing  teacher  and leader education and who practices without such
  registration,  shall  be  subject  to  moral  character   review   under
  subdivision seven of section three hundred five of this chapter.