Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
and
Gifted and Talented Education
NJAGC 26th Annual Conference
March 17, 2017
Michael F. Kaelber, Esq.
Director, Legal & Labor Relations Services, NJSBA
[email protected]
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Every Student Succeeds Act
• P.L. 114-95, Enacted December 10, 2015,
amending:
Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965 (ESEA)
Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994
(IASA)
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB)
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s Retained from NCLB?
• Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Students
Education Program
Provides grant funds for students typically
underrepresented in gifted and talented
programs; minority, economically
disadvantaged, English language learners,
students with disabilities
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s Retained from NCLB?
• Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Students
Education Program
Provides support for the National
Center for Research on Gifted Education
2015 - $ 10,000,000 appropriated; $ 1,000,000 research,
$4,000,000 new, $ 5,000,000 continuation
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s Retained from NCLB?
• Title I Committee of Practitioners – Advises in
State Plan Development
NCLB Advisory Council
NCLB School Improvement Advisory
Council
LEA representatives, Administrators, Principals, Parents, Board of
Education members, Private and Charter Schools
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s Retained from NCLB?
• Title I Committee of Practitioners – Advises in
State Plan Development
– Education Associations and Higher Education Groups no
longer members
– No subcommittees
– Focus on development of ESSA State Plan for 2017-2018
– ESSA Stakeholder Focus Group meetings
– G&T Representative?
LEA representatives, Administrators, Principals, Parents, Board of
Education members, Private and Charter Schools
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s Retained from NCLB?
• Title I Committee of Practitioners – Advises in
State Plan Development
• ESSA Stakeholder Focus Group meetings
Three meetings to date, next meeting
November 16; NJAGC participation
• NJAGC representative meeting with DOE
officials – August 9; Promise article
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s New in ESSA?
• Title I – LEA plans on use of funds may
specifically may include how the LEA will
assist schools in identifying and serving G&T
students
State plan development – advocacy
Local plan development – advocacy
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s New in ESSA?
• Title I – Disaggregation of state assessment
student achievement data at each achievement
level on state and local report cards
May identify need for access to advanced
coursework and gifted education programming
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s New in ESSA?
• Title II – Professional Development
SEA plan shall address how the state educational agency
will improve the skills of teachers, principals and other
school leaders in order to enable them to
identify…students who are gifted and talented … and
provide instruction based on the needs of such students.
Includes teacher preparation programs.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s New in ESSA?
• Title II – Professional Development
LEA plan shall address the learning needs of all
students, including…gifted and talented students
including training in:
Identification; gifted-specific instructional
practices such as enrichment, acceleration,
curriculum compacting and dual or concurrent
enrollment
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Gifted & Talented Education
What’s New in ESSA?
ESSA Federal Regulations
Published in the Federal Register May 31, 2016
“Supporting Excellent Educators” – cites G&T;
SEA, LEA plans; educator preparation
programs
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Gifted and Talented in New Jersey
Board Implementation
N.J.A.C. 6A:8-3.1(a)(5)
• Identification G&T Students, K-12
• Multiple measures – e.g. teacher/parent
recommendation, performance, testing
• Provide Appropriate Instructional G&T
Adaptations and Educational
Services - K-12
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Gifted and Talented in New Jersey
Board Implementation
N.J.A.C. 6A:8-3.1(a)(5)
• Develop Curricular and Instructional
Modifications to NJ Student Learning
Standards – G&T
• Content, Process, Products and
Learning Environment
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Gifted and Talented in New Jersey
Board Implementation
N.J.A.C. 6A:8-3.1(a)(5)(6)
• Consideration of NAGC Standards
New Jersey Commission on Programs for Gifted Students
January 2005
• Actively Assist and Support
Professional Development for
teachers, educational services staff
and school leaders
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Gifted and Talented in New Jersey
Board Implementation
N.J.A.C. 6A:7-1.7(b)(3)
Equality in School and Classroom Practices
• Reducing or preventing the
underrepresentation of minority, female and
male students in all classes and programs
including gifted and talented, accelerated
and advanced classes.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Gifted and Talented in New Jersey
Board Implementation
N.J.A.C. 6A:7-15-1.4(g)
Bilingual Programs for Limited English Proficient
Students
• Additional programs and services shall be designed
to meet the special needs of eligible LEP students
and include, but not limited to, remedial instruction
through Title I programs; special education; schoolto-work programs; computer training; and gifted
and talented education services.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
Gifted and Talented in New Jersey
Board Implementation
N.J.A.C. 6A:30 -1.1 et. seq.
New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum
Instruction and Program # 18
• The district requires and verifies that instruction for all
students is based on the district’s curriculum, instructional
materials, media and school library resources and includes
instructional strategies, activities, and content that meet
individual student needs including Individual Education Plans
(IEP). “All students” includes those students with disabilities,
English language learners, gifted and talented students and
students in alternative education programs.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
• Instructional Certificate – no specific
endorsement required
• Rutgers Continuing Studies Gifted
Education Certificate Program
gifteded.rutgers.edu
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
School Business Administrators
N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-12.7 (i)
The requirements listed in (a) through (h) above shall
not apply to persons who hold standard
administrative certificates with the following
endorsements issued before September 1, 1991:
school business administrator, assistant
superintendent for business, or assistant executive
superintendent with specialization in business
administration. Holders of those endorsements shall
be entitled prospectively to apply for all positions in
the general category of business administration.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
School Business Administrators
N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-12.7 (j)
Board secretaries who lack certification but were
assigned prior to September 1, 1991, to perform
business administration functions as described in
N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-12.3(d) shall be permitted to retain
indefinitely their positions in the districts in which
they were employed prior to September 1, 1991.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
Athletic Directors
N.J.S.A. 18A:26-2.1
To be eligible for appointment as the director of athletics
in any public secondary school an applicant shall
possess a supervisory certificate issued by the State
Board of Examiners.
N.J.S.A. 18A:26-2.2
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 of this act,
any individual who possesses a New Jersey teacher's
certificate and who is employed as a director of
athletics in a public high school prior to the effective
date of this act may continue to be so employed.
“Third school year following enactment”
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
School Athletic Trainer
N.J.S.A. 18A:26-2.4
To be eligible for appointment by a board of education as
a school athletic trainer in any public school, an
applicant shall possess an educational services
certificate issued by the State Board of Examiners.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, any
person who is employed as a school athletic trainer in
a public school prior to the effective date of P.L.1999,
c.87 (C.18A:26-2.4 et al.) may continue to be so
employed pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.18A:28-4.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
Buildings and Grounds Supervisor
N.J.S.A. 18A:17-50
Commencing September 1, 2002, no person shall be employed by a
board of education of a school district as a buildings and grounds
supervisor unless he is a certified educational facilities manager;
except that when a vacancy occurs in a position in which the
duties of a buildings and grounds supervisor are performed, a
board may select, for a period not to exceed two years and
commencing on the date of the vacancy, a person who is not a
certified educational facilities manager to perform on an interim
basis, the duties of a buildings and grounds supervisor.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
Buildings and Grounds Supervisor
N.J.S.A. 18A:17- 49
Certified educational facilities manager" means a person who meets
any one of the following criteria:
i. has served as a buildings and grounds supervisor in a school
district continuously for the five years prior to September 1,
2002; or
ii. is a code enforcement official licensed by the Department of
Community Affairs and is serving as a building and grounds
supervisor on the effective date of P.L.1999, c.337 (C.18A:17-49 et
seq.); or
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
G&T Teacher Certification
Buildings and Grounds Supervisor
N.J.S.A. 18A:17- 49
Certified educational facilities manager" means a person who meets
any one of the following criteria:
iii. has a minimum of two years of experience in the field of
buildings and grounds supervision and has graduated as a
certified educational facilities manager from the New Jersey
Educational Facility Management Program at Rutgers , The State
University or has graduated from an equivalent program offered at
either an accredited institution of higher education or an approved
post-secondary institution located within or outside of the State.
New Jersey School Boards Association – Serving Local Boards of Education Since 1914
ESSA and Gifted and Talented
Education
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