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A00119 Summary:

BILL NOA00119 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRRivera, Kelles

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3006-a, Ed L

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Requires teachers and library media specialists to complete professional development related to media literacy education; directs the department of education to develop model media literacy education and CTLE requirements related to media literacy education.

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01/08/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 119

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, RIVERA, KELLES -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring teachers and
 library media specialists to complete professional development related
 to media literacy education

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3006-a of the education law, as
 2 added by section 2 of subpart C of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of
 3 2015, is amended and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
 4 2. a. During each five-year registration period beginning on or after
 5 July first, two thousand sixteen, an applicant for registration shall
 6 successfully complete a minimum of one hundred hours of continuing
 7 teacher and leader education, as defined by the commissioner. The
 8 department shall issue rigorous standards for courses, programs, and
 9 activities, that shall qualify as continuing teacher and leader educa-
 10 tion pursuant to this section. For purposes of this section, a peer
 11 review teacher, or a principal acting as an independent trained evalu-
 12 ator, conducting a classroom observation as part of the teacher evalu-
 13 ation system pursuant to section three thousand twelve-d of this article
 14 may credit such time towards [his] such peer review teacher's or [her]
 15 principal's continuing teacher and leader effectiveness requirements.
 16 b. During each five-year registration period beginning on or after a
 17 date which shall be determined by the commissioner, any teacher who is
 18 an applicant for registration shall successfully complete a minimum of
 19 five hours of professional development related to media literacy educa-
 20 tion and any library media specialist shall complete a minimum of
 21 fifteen hours of professional development related to media literacy
 22 education, as defined by the commissioner. Such professional develop-
 23 ment related to media literacy education shall be counted toward the one

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00606-01-5

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 1 hundred hours of continuing teacher and leader education required by
 2 paragraph a of this subdivision. The commissioner shall require that:
 3 (i) professional development related to media literacy education
 4 incorporates the principles and practices of the department's culturally
 5 responsive-sustaining framework;
 6 (ii) professional development related to media literacy education is
 7 provided by or in coordination with a library media specialist or an
 8 employee from a school district's library system in every school
 9 district;
 10 (iii) library media specialists in every school district receive
 11 specific training in how to provide professional development related to
 12 media literacy education to teachers of all grade levels and subject
 13 areas contained in such library media specialists' schools, which shall
 14 include instruction on how to effectively integrate media literacy
 15 education into such teachers' curricula; and
 16 (iv) the department creates and provides model curricula, teaching and
 17 professional development resources on its website, which incorporate
 18 media literacy education.
 19 c. Nothing in this section shall limit the ability of local school
 20 districts to agree pursuant t