Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 603 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION › Title 603 CMR 14.00 - Education of English Learners › Section 14.08 - Career Vocational Technical Teachers and Administrators

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) Career vocational technical teachers who
			 provide sheltered English instruction to English learners in school districts,
			 including charter schools, education collaboratives, agricultural high schools,
			 and regional vocational technical school districts, must earn an SEI Teacher
			 Endorsement as set forth in 603 CMR 4.00:
Vocational Technical
			 Education,
603 CMR 7.00:
Educator Licensure and Preparation
			 Program Approval
and
			 603
			 CMR 14.08. Principals, assistant principals,
			 and supervisors/directors who supervise or evaluate such teachers, must earn an
			 SEI Teacher Endorsement or SEI Administrator Endorsement as set forth in 603
			 CMR 4.00, 603 CMR 7.00 and
			 603
			 CMR 14.08.
(2) The cohort of all career vocational
			 technical teachers who instructed English learners during the 2017-2018 school
			 year, and principals, assistant principals, and supervisors/directors who
			 supervised or evaluated such teachers, must earn the appropriate SEI
			 Endorsement by July 1, 2021. Members of the cohort who fail to earn an SEI
			 endorsement by July 1, 2021 shall not be eligible to advance or renew their
			 license under 603 CMR 4.00:
Vocational Technical Education,
603
			 CMR 7.00:
Educator Licensure and Preparation Program Approval
and 603 CMR 44.00:
Educator License Renewal,
until such
			 members earn an SEI endorsement; provided however, upon a showing of hardship,
			 the Department may grant a member of the cohort an extension of time beyond
			 July 1, 2021. Hardship shall consist of serious illness or injury, or other
			 circumstances that are beyond the control of the individual and impede the
			 individual's ability to complete the requirements for an SEI
			 endorsement.
(3) Starting on July
			 1,2021, any career vocational technical teacher who is assigned to provide
			 sheltered English instruction to an English learner shall either hold the SEI
			 Teacher Endorsement, or is required to earn such endorsement within one year
			 from the date of the assignment. Any school district that assigns an English
			 learner to a career vocational technical education teacher who has a year to
			 obtain the SEI Teacher Endorsement shall take all reasonable steps to ensure
			 that such English learner is assigned to career vocational technical teachers
			 with the SEI Teacher Endorsement in subsequent school years.
(4) Starting on July 1, 2021, no principal,
			 assistant principal, or supervisor/director shall supervise or evaluate a
			 career vocational technical teacher who provides sheltered English instruction
			 to an English learner, unless such principal, assistant principal, or
			 supervisor/director holds the SEI Teacher Endorsement or the SEI Administrator
			 Endorsement, or will earn either endorsement within one year of the
			 commencement of such supervision or evaluation.
(5) For purposes of
			 603
			 CMR 14.08, "career vocational technical
			 teacher" shall mean a teacher of a career vocational technical subject in a
			 career vocational technical education program at the secondary level; "career
			 vocational technical education program" shall include programs approved under
			 M.G.L. c. 74; programs that meet the definition of career and technical
			 education listed in the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
			 Improvement Act of 2006, 20 U.S.C. § 2302(5); and any other programs that
			 may be designated by the Commissioner; "career vocational technical subjects"
			 shall include automotive technology, carpentry, culinary arts, engineering,
			 exploratory, masonry, information technology, and any other subjects listed by
			 the Department in guidance.