From the ECS State Policy Database Teaching Quality--Induction Programs and Mentoring

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary CA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Appropriations and Reappropriations S.B. 1016 - Appropriations and Reappropriations From section 56 of bill summary: Reduces by various amounts appropriations made for supplemental school counseling, special education, partn... More... CA Signed into law 09/2011 P-12 Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment S.B. 941 - Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment From bill summary: Permits the commission on teacher credentialing to waive requirements relating to beginning teacher support and assessmen... More... ND Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Teacher Support Program S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions Requires the education standards and practices board (ESPB) to establish and administer a first-year teacher support (mentoring) program. Re... More... CA Vetoed 08/2010 P-12 Teacher Leaders Advisory Panel A.B. 2040 Directs the commission on teacher credentialing to convene an advisory panel to consider: (1) The various roles of teacher leaders in today'... More... HI Adopted 06/2010 P-12 Re-Employment of Retired Teachers H.B. 2533 Establishes the conditions under which state and county retirees may be reemployed while still receiving employees' retirement system benefi... More... MD Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Mentoring H.B. 1263 - Induction and Mentoring Section Requires the state board to establish standards for effective mentoring that is focused; is systematic; is ongoing; is high quality; is gear... More... NM Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Teacher Mentorships and Evaluation H.B. 71 District must provide for the mentorship and evaluation of level one teachers. At the end of each year and at the end of the license period,... More... IL Adopted 01/2010 P-12 Workloads for Those Mentoring New Teachers 23 IAC 25.910 Amends provisions related to mentors assigned to new teachers. Provides that mentors holding a full-time teaching assignment may be assigned... More... IL Adopted 11/2009 P-12 New Teacher Induction and Mentoring 23 IAC 65.20, .130, .140, .160 Amends rule to eliminate the current focus of this program as a pilot program and restructure it along the lines of a continuing grant that ... More... CA Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Teacher Induction Requirement A.B. 2 - Section 17 From legislative analysis: Existing law sets forth the minimum requirements for the professional clear multiple or single subject teacher cr... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Financial Reporting and Minimum Standards H.B. 1 - Section 3301.07 Partially from the DOE summary of H.B. 1:Modifies the current requirement for the state board to develop a standard for reporting financial ... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Center for Creativity and Innovation H.B. 1 - Section 3301.82 **No funds allocated in the current budget for this center, according to the DOE's H.B. 1 summary document http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Model Peer Assistance and Review Program H.B. 1 - Section 265.70.50 By December 31, 2010, directs the department of education, in consultation with the educator standards board, to develop a model peer assist... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 School Finance Redesign H.B. 1 - Section 3306.01, 3306.011, 3306.012, 3306.02, 3306.051 New Chapter 3306.: As described in the bill analysis by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission (LSC), "The bill enacts a new R.C. Chapter 3... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Teacher Mentors S.B. 1290 Specifies that teachers eligible for mentors are those with less than two years' teaching experience in the subject or grade level to which ... More... MN Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Mentoring and Peer Coaching H.F. 2 Allows school districts to have trained observers serve as mentors or coaches and to have probationary teachers participate in professional ... More... WA Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Teacher Mentoring H.B. 2261-Section 114, Teacher Mentoring Section 114 creates the quality education council and charges it with recommending and informing the ongoing implementation by the legislatu... More... UT Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Educator Evaluation Program H.B. 264 Requires a local school board to develop an educator evaluation program and provide for (1) the evalution of provisional and probationary ed... More... IL Signed into law 10/2008 P-12 Teaching Excellence Program and P-20 Council Membership S.B. 2687 Revises the Teaching Excellence Program. Provides an annual payment of $3,000 to a teacher or counselor who holds both a Master Certificate ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 H.B. 672 Renames provisions of law providing for the rights of teachers to the Teacher Bill of Rights. Provides that teachers have a right to immunit... More... CT Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Revamp of Teacher Support and Training Program H.B. 5871 Concerns the Beginning Educator Support and Training (BEST) Program; requires school boards and unions to bargain over compensation, hours a... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Teacher Certification, Loan Forgiveness, and Additional Endorsements S.B. 64 Creates a certification incentive fund to provide grants for eligible recipients to conduct summer institutes. Specifies that the priority f... More... OR Adopted 01/2008 P-12 Teacher/Administrator Mentoring OAR 581-020-0085, -0090 Establishes requirements for teacher and administrator mentoring programs. OREGON 29089... More... IL Signed into law 08/2007 P-12 Postsec. Community College Agricultural Science Teacher Training Continuum and Incentive Funding Grants H.B. 1922 Subject to appropriation, requires the state board of education to develop a secondary-level agricultural science teacher training continuum... More... HI Became law without governor's signature 07/2007 P-12 Teacher Professional Development Supports H.B. 1014 Appropriates $585,000 for fiscal year 2007-2008 for up to five complex areas to coordinate and expand complex-level resources for support se... More... OR Signed into law 06/2007 P-12 Teacher and Administrator Mentoring Program H.B. 2574 Modifies the beginning teacher and administrator mentoring program; adds to the qualifications and specifies training for mentors; increases... More... IA Signed into law 05/2007 P-12 Student Achievement/Teacher Quality program S.F. 277 - funding provisions Allocates $173,943,894 -- $69,600,000 above FY07. Includes $20 million for professional development; $250,000 for new administrator mentorin... More... IA Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Teacher Quality Committee S.F. 277 (Section 17) Strikes Section 284.4, subsection 1, paragraph c, which made a district eligible for student achievement and teaching quality monies if the ... More... NM Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Teacher Mentoring Programs S.B. 211 Directs the department of education to distribute available funds for mentorship programs to school districts annually on a per-teacher basi... More... KY Adopted 10/2006 P-12 Kentucky Teacher Internship Program 16 KAR 7:010 Establishes rules regarding the requirements for the Kentucky Teacher Internship Program. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/kar/016/007/010reg.htm... More... IL Adopted 06/2006 P-12 Beginning Teacher Induction Pilot Program 23 IAC 65.10, .20, .110, .120, .130, .140, .150, .160 Establishes rules regarding the "Beginning Teacher Induction Pilot Program," which provides for statewide induction and mentoring programs b... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Teacher Issues H.B. 2792 - Section 5 - 23 Adds "evaluation of teachers against the Iowa teaching standards" as fifth element of the student achievement and teacher quality program. C... More... IA Signed into law 06/2006 P-12 Merit-Based Teacher Pay H.B. 2792 - Section 24 - 27 Rewrites section 284.11 (former "Pilot program for team-based variable pay for student achievement"). New section 284.11 encourages school ... More... FL Signed into law 05/2006 P-12 Postsec. School Community Professional Development Act H.B. 7087 (Section 62) The Department of Education, public postsecondary educational institutions, public school districts, public schools, state education foundat... More... MD Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Teacher Induction Program S.B. 238 Establishes a comprehensive induction program in the State Department of Education for new teachers employed by hard-to-staff schools; requi... More... DE Signed into law 07/2005 P-12 Retired Educators as Mentors S.B. 163 Adds a new section that reads: "(r)  For purposes of the State educator mentoring program, a retired educator engaged in mentoring activitie... More... HI Signed into law 06/2005 P-12 Postsec. Teacher Recruitment and Education H.B. 844 Section 1: Establishes need for improvement in teacher recruitment, compensation, support and peer mentoring. Section 2: Creates a new sect... More... AZ Issued 06/2005 P-12 Governor's Committee for Teacher Quality and Support Executive Order 2005-11 Creates and defines membership of the Governor's Committee for Teacher Quality and Support, the purpose of which is to: (1) develop teacher ... More... OK Signed into law 05/2005 P-12 Teacher Mentors H.B. 1235 Revises mentor teacher selection process. A mentor teacher is to be selected by the principal from a list of qualified teacher volunteers wh... More... ID Signed into law 04/2005 P-12 Teachers H.B. 315 Enhanced mentoring during the first two years of teaching, deleted the requirements for mentoring and urged the State Board of Education to ... More... KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Postsec. Community College Committee for Mathematics Achievement H.B. 93 (Section 2) Defines terms, including "mathematics coach," "mathematics diagnostic assessment," "mathematics intervention program," "mathematics leader,"... More... KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Postsec. The Center for Mathematics H.B. 93 (Section 4) Creates the Center for Mathematics to make available professional development for teachers in reliable, research-based diagnostic assessment... More... KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Role of Department of Education in Achieving State Educational Goals H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraph 4) Mandates that the Kentucky Department of Education provide assistance to schools and teachers, including publicizing professional developmen... More... KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Roles of School Councils, Local Boards and Superintendents in Achieving State Education Goals H.B. 93 (Section 1, paragraphs 8-10) (8) School councils at all school levels are encouraged to identify and allocate resources to qualified teachers to become coaches or mentor... More... KY Signed into law 03/2005 P-12 Education Professional Standards H.B. 183 Allows a one-year certificate to be granted an individual bearing all other qualifications except the assessments and selected as an assista... More... CA Signed into law 08/2004 P-12 Postsec. Beginning Teacher Induction Requirements A.B. 2210 Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to determine that a candidate has fulfilled the induction program requirement if the candid... More... NY Vetoed 08/2004 P-12 Omnibus Legislation S.B. 6059 One new section (83-A) of this large bill authorizes the state commissioner to award additional 2004-05 grants for teacher mentors, not to e... More... DE Rule Adoption 07/2004 P-12 Educator Mentoring 14 DAC 1502 Establishes regulations concerning the duties and responsibilities of educator lead mentors, mentors, and new educators. All educators servi... More... FL Signed into law 06/2004 P-12 Education Personnel S.B. 2986 Relates to education personnel; provides for expunging of criminal history records of applicants for employment at certain education related... More... IL Signed into law 07/2003 P-12 Teacher Induction and Mentoring Program S.B. 533 Provides a public school that has an existing teacher induction and mentoring program that does not meet program requirements may have two a... More... CT Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 Regional Educational Service Centers S.B. 1093 § 3 Allows the department of education to fund (within available appropriations) in cooperation with one or more regional educational service ce... More... MO Signed into law 06/2003 P-12 S.B. 296 (multiple provisions) Specifies that all valid teaching certificates issued prior to September 1988 are exempt from the professional development requirement that ... More... IA Signed into law 05/2003 P-12 Exemption from Beginning Teacher Mentoring and Induction Program H.B. 549 (omnibus bill) Eliminates provision that the three years of successful teaching experience that exempts a teacher who previously taught in an accredited no... More... NM Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Educational Requirements for Licensure H.B. 212 (Omnibus Bill) Amends Section 22-10A-6 to require the state board to set requirements that provide a reasonable period of time for teachers to comply with ... More... IA Adopted 03/2003 P-12 Beginning Teacher Mentoring and Induction Program and Non-Beginning Teacher Evaluation and Individual Teacher Career Development Plan 281 IAC 83.2 thru 83.6 Amends rules regarding the Teacher Quality Program. Includes preschool teachers in "beginning teacher" definition for purposes of beginning ... More... KY Signed into law 03/2003 P-12 Pilot Teacher Internship Program S.B. 95 Authorizes the education professional standards board to conduct a two-year internship pilot program for new teachers between July 1, 2003 a... More... UT Adopted 11/2002 P-12 Entry Years Enhancements (EYE) for Quality Teaching R277-522 Establishes rules relating to assistance for entry level teachers to increase their expertise and confidence in their beginning teaching yea... More... IA Signed into law 05/2002 P-12 Teacher Induction, Evaluation, Early Retirement Incentives, Administrator Preparation and Certification, Minimum Teacher Salary Requirements, Statewide Career Path Pilot Program H.B. 2549 Requires state board to establish standards for district and area education agency career development programs and for individual teacher ca... More... MS Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Nontraditional Teacher Education, Certification, Inservice and Mentoring; Transitional Bilingual Teacher Certification; Qualifications of Nontraditional Administrator Certification Candidates S.B. 2370 Establishes requirements for nontraditional teacher preparation and licensure through the Teach Mississippi Institute (TMI), as well as ment... More... KY Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Provisional Teacher Certification and Kentucky Professional Standards Board S.B. 192 Permits the Education Professional Standards Board to issue a conditional one-year certificate to a teacher who has completed teacher prepar... More... HI Signed into law 04/2002 P-12 Rehire of Retired Teachers as Instructors and Mentors H.B. 2163 Allows the Department of Education to rehire retired teachers who have been retired for at least one calendar year to work in teacher shorta... More... SD Signed into law 02/2002 P-12 Teacher Mentor Program S.B. 5 Establishes a Teacher Mentor Program in school districts which elect to participate; establishes duties and qualifications for mentor teache... More... CA Signed into law 01/2002 P-12 Omnibus Bill - Peer Assistance Portion A.B. 804 Not more than 5 percent of the funds received by a school district for the Peer Assistance and Review Program for Teachers may be expended f... More... OR Signed into law 05/2001 P-12 National Board Certification, Mentoring S.B. 250 Directs Department of Education to award grants to school districts to support teachers in obtaining national board certification; expands t... More... NM Signed into law 04/2001 P-12 Teacher Mentorship Program H.B. 47 Requires a statewide 1 to 3 year mentorship program for certain beginning teachers.... More... NM Vetoed 04/2001 P-12 Omnibus Bill--Teacher Mentorship Program S.B. 308 Section 36, mandates a statewide mentorship program for beginning teachers, including those entering the system with an alternative teaching... More... CA Signed into law 09/2000 P-12 Gender Equity Training A.B. 908 Establishes the gender equity train-the-trainer grant program for the award of grants from funds available for that purpose to the governing... More... KY Signed into law 06/2000 P-12 Teaching Quality S.B. 77 Requires statewide teacher recruitment plan; requires state department to establish teacher academies in core disciplines; makes funds avail... More... KS Signed into law 05/2000 P-12 Incentives for National Board Certification; Mentoring S.B. 432 Concerns schools and school district; relates to employment of personnel; includes incentives for national certification and mentoring of fi... More...