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Florida Department of Education

Educator CertificationOn-line Resources

Sites school officials might need for

navigating Florida certification

2009 DOE Virtual Information Database Workshop

Presented by David C. LaJeunesse, Director of Operations & Technology

Session Objectives

• Introduce participants to the BEC and its on-line information resources• Familiarize participants with Educator Certification in

Florida• Familiarize participants with information provided via

available resources• Instruct participants how to access each resource• Advise participants who is authorized for access to

each resource

• Inform participants of reporting based on certification data

Certification Purpose and Mission

• Purpose: To protect the educational interests of students, parents, and the public at large by assuring that teachers in this state are professionally qualified.

• Mission: To provide timely, accurate and efficient certification services to increase the supply of highly qualified, certified educators, improving achievement for all students.

Florida Certification Authority

• Florida Statutory Authority• Chapter 1012 Florida Statutes

• State Board of Education Rule• Chapter 6A-4, Florida Administrative Code

• No Child Left Behind• Highly Qualified Teachers

Certification Statistics

• Applications received• BEC – average nearly 76,000 annually• Online – 72% and growing

• District – additional 41,000+ annually

• Processing timeliness• Over 90% processed in 30 days or less

• Average ~16-19 days

Certification Home Page

• Certification Home Page (www.fldoe.org/edcert) • Certificate Types and Requirements• Certification Subjects• Steps to Certification• Frequently Asked Questions• Contacts• Certification Pathways in Florida• Request Certification Materials

Public Certificate Lookup

• Certificate Lookup (www.fldoe.org/edcert/public.asp) • Current Florida Certificate Holders

• 292,499 as of May 24, 2009

• Certification Statistics (i.e. by type, by subject)

• Available from all “edcert” Web site pages• Available from “Licensee Search” (

www.myflorida.com/licensee) • Select “Teacher or other Educator

Certification Application & Status

• Integrated Online Application and Status Lookup (https://certify.fldoe.org) • Single secure logon for on-line certification actions• Submit On-line Application for Certification

• Complete except for official transcripts• Immediate upload of submitted application

• View/update current mailing address for certification (RE: §1012.561, F.S.)

• View current application status and certificates issued

• View recent documents received by certification• View accounting of fee payments for certification

• Make credit card payment of outstanding balance

Certification Partnership System

• Partnership Access & Services System (BEC-PASS) (https://bec.doe.state.fl.us/tcs)

• Review applicant certification information• Update educator address (RE: §1012.561, F.S.)

• Review certificates issued by/on behalf of district• Submit electronic Forms

• Process Renewals of Florida Professional Certificates• Process Additions to Florida certificates• Recruit eligible educators by geographic location

Requires authorization for access

Educator Quality

• Educator Standards publications (www.fldoe.org/dpe/publications.asp)• Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct• 21st Century Teacher Competencies

• Empowering Parents, Protecting Students (www.myfloridateacher.com) • Background Screening Requirements• View Education Practices Commission hearing notices• Discipline against Educator Licenses lookup• Parent Resource Center• Teacher/School Administrator Resources

Employment Screening Tools

• Must perform checks on instructional personnel and school administrators

• BEC-PASS• School Districts, University lab schools, and FSDB

• Charter schools via affiliated school district or University lab school

• www.floridaschoolchoice.org• Private schools with scholarship students• Charter schools with authorized access

Employment History Screening Tool

• Authorized user inputs search criteria• ID# (SSN) and/or DOE Number• Name and Date of Birth

• Results display possible matches from Certification database

• User selects candidate from results

• Individual candidate results displayed in single-page, printable format

Educator Quality

• Educator Fingerprinting Application (www.FLprints.com)

• Payment site for processing fingerprints with participating school districts

• Supported by Cogent Systems – statewide vendor for fingerprint processing

• Department of Revenue Child Support Enforcement (http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/childsupport/enforcement.html)

• Valid Certification file uploaded weekly

Certification Testing

• Florida Certification Examinations• FTCE (www.fldoe.org/asp/ftce)

• FELE (www.fldoe.org/asp/fele)

• Florida Examinations Administrator (www.fl.nesinc.com)

• Electronic Score Report upload to BEC• Within 30 days of test administration

Certification Pathways

•Teacher Recruitment and Preparation (www.teachinflorida.com)

• Approved Teacher Preparation Programs (www.fldoe.org/profdev/teachprep/teachprep.asp)

• Florida’s Alternative Certification Program (www.altcertflorida.com)

• Educator Preparation Institutes (www.teachinflorida.com/Preparation/EducatorPreparationInstitutes/tabid/187/Default.aspx)

Certification Pathways

• Dale Hickam Excellent Teaching Program (www.fldoe.org/etp)

• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (www.nbpts.org)

• National Board Certified Teacher Directory (www.nbpts.org/resources/nbct_directory)

• American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (www.abcte.org)

FLDOE Related Resources

• DOE Staff Information Systems• Florida Educator’s Certificate data (

www.fldoe.org/eias/dataweb/) • Subject Codes (formerly Appendix A)

File containing codes at NWRDC

Description: Subject Code Name File

Dataset Name: DPS.DISTRICT.K9.F61707.Yxxxx

FLDOE Related Resources

• DOE Publications & Reports (www.fldoe.org/eias/eiaspubs/default.asp)

• Valid Certification file updated weekly

• Teacher Data including Teacher Shortage Areas (www.fldoe.org/evaluation/teachdata.asp)

• FLDOE Office of Student Financial Assistance – Student Scholarship & Grant Programs (www.floridastudentfinancialaid.org/SSFAD/home/ProgramsOffered.htm)

• Valid Certification and degree information file updated weekly

FLDOE Related Resources

• Course Code Directory and Instructional Personnel Assignments (www.fldoe.org/articulation/CCD/)

• Flat files of the Directory are at NWRDC• DPS.DISTRICT.K9.F62806.Yxxxx• DPS.DISTRICT.K9.CCD.Yxxxx

• Subject Codes Translation file (www.fldoe.org/articulation/CCD/files/xls/SubjectCodesTranslation20080324.xls)

• MAJOR Codes 2008 • Shows current certification subject and instructional level

codes (www.fldoe.org/articulation/CCD/files/xls/MAJORCodes2008.xls)

National Affiliation

• National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) (www.nasdtec.org)

• Jurisdiction Contacts (public access)

• Directory (member access)

• Clearinghouse (member access) (

www.nasdtec.org/clearinghouse/index.tpl) • Knowledgebase/NASDTEC Manual (member

access) (www.nasdtec.info)

State Affiliation

• Florida Association of School Personnel Administrators (FASPA) (www.faspa.net)

• Certification News and Information• Semi-annual Certification Partnership

updates

Electronic Transcripts

• Florida Automated System for Transferring Educational Records (FASTER) (www.fldoe.org

/faster) • Participating Florida colleges/universities submit

transcripts electronically to BEC

• Standardization of Postsecondary Education Electronic Data Exchange (SPEEDE)

(http://registrar.utexas.edu/speede/) • Participating colleges/universities submit transcripts

electronically to BEC

Certification Contacts

• General Public inquiries• Edcert@fldoe.org• (800) 445-6739 or (850) 245-5049

• Certification Partners• EdCertPartnerline@fldoe.org

• Certification Technical Assistance• Applicants: FLCertify@fldoe.org • Partners: BECTechHelp@fldoe.org

Presenter Contact Info

• David C. LaJeunesse• Director of Operations & Technology

Bureau of Educator CertificationFlorida Department of Education325 W. Gaines Street, Room 244BTallahassee, Florida 32399-0400

• David.LaJeunesse@fldoe.org• (850) 245-0615

Follow Up Question and Answer Session

Submit Questions to

dbweias@fldoe.org

Or call

(850) 245-0400