Bill Text: TX HB4064 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to staff development and continuing education requirements for public school educators regarding digital education methods.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-26 - Returned from the House for further action [HB4064 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4064-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to staff development and continuing education requirements for public school educators regarding digital education methods.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-26 - Returned from the House for further action [HB4064 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4064-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Bohac | H.B. No. 4064 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 4064: | |||
By: Bohac | C.S.H.B. No. 4064 |
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relating to staff development and continuing education | ||
requirements for public school educators regarding digital | ||
education methods. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 21.001, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.001. DEFINITIONS [ |
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(1) "Commissioner" [ |
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person designated by the commissioner. | ||
(2) "Digital learning" means any type of learning that | ||
is facilitated by technology or instructional practice that makes | ||
effective use of technology. | ||
(3) "Digital literacy" means having the knowledge and | ||
ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. The | ||
term includes the capacity to use, understand, and evaluate | ||
technology for use in education settings. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 21.044, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (c-2) to read as follows: | ||
(c-2) Any minimum academic qualifications for a certificate | ||
specified under Subsection (a) that require a person to possess a | ||
bachelor's degree must also require that the person receive, as | ||
part of the training required to obtain that certificate, | ||
instruction in digital learning, including a digital literacy | ||
evaluation followed by a prescribed digital learning curriculum. | ||
The instruction required must: | ||
(1) be aligned with the International Society for | ||
Technology in Education's standards for teachers; | ||
(2) provide effective, evidence-based strategies to | ||
determine a person's degree of digital literacy; and | ||
(3) include resources to address any deficiencies | ||
identified by the digital literacy evaluation. | ||
SECTION 3. Sections 21.054(d) and (e), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) Continuing education requirements for a classroom | ||
teacher must provide that not more than 25 percent of the training | ||
required every five years include instruction regarding: | ||
(1) collecting and analyzing information that will | ||
improve effectiveness in the classroom; | ||
(2) recognizing early warning indicators that a | ||
student may be at risk of dropping out of school; | ||
(3) digital learning, digital teaching, and | ||
integrating technology into classroom instruction; and | ||
(4) educating diverse student populations, including: | ||
(A) students with disabilities, including mental | ||
health disorders; | ||
(B) students who are educationally | ||
disadvantaged; | ||
(C) students of limited English proficiency; and | ||
(D) students at risk of dropping out of school. | ||
(e) Continuing education requirements for a principal must | ||
provide that not more than 25 percent of the training required every | ||
five years include instruction regarding: | ||
(1) effective and efficient management, including: | ||
(A) collecting and analyzing information; | ||
(B) making decisions and managing time; and | ||
(C) supervising student discipline and managing | ||
behavior; | ||
(2) recognizing early warning indicators that a | ||
student may be at risk of dropping out of school; | ||
(3) digital learning, digital teaching, and | ||
integrating technology into campus curriculum and instruction; and | ||
(4) educating diverse student populations, including: | ||
(A) students with disabilities, including mental | ||
health disorders; | ||
(B) students who are educationally | ||
disadvantaged; | ||
(C) students of limited English proficiency; and | ||
(D) students at risk of dropping out of school. | ||
SECTION 4. Subchapter B, Chapter 21, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 21.0543 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 21.0543. CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT FOR INSTRUCTION | ||
RELATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. The board shall propose rules | ||
allowing an educator to receive credit toward the educator's | ||
continuing education requirements for completion of education | ||
courses that: | ||
(1) use technology to increase the educator's digital | ||
literacy; and | ||
(2) assist the educator in the use of digital | ||
technology in learning activities that improve teaching, | ||
assessment, and instructional practices. | ||
SECTION 5. Section 21.451, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (d-3) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(d) The staff development: | ||
(1) may include training in: | ||
(A) technology; | ||
(B) conflict resolution; | ||
(C) discipline strategies, including classroom | ||
management, district discipline policies, and the student code of | ||
conduct adopted under Section 37.001 and Chapter 37; [ |
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(D) preventing, identifying, responding to, and | ||
reporting incidents of bullying; and | ||
(E) digital learning; | ||
(2) subject to Subsection (e) and to Section 21.3541 | ||
and rules adopted under that section, must include training that is | ||
evidence-based [ |
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defined by Section 8101, Every Student Succeeds Act [ |
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(A) relates to instruction of students with | ||
disabilities; and | ||
(B) is designed for educators who work primarily | ||
outside the area of special education; and | ||
(3) must include suicide prevention training that must | ||
be provided: | ||
(A) on an annual basis, as part of a new employee | ||
orientation, to all new school district and open-enrollment charter | ||
school educators; and | ||
(B) to existing school district and | ||
open-enrollment charter school educators on a schedule adopted by | ||
the agency by rule. | ||
(d-3) The digital learning training provided by Subsection | ||
(d)(1)(E) must: | ||
(1) discuss basic technology proficiency expectations | ||
and methods to increase an educator's digital literacy; and | ||
(2) assist an educator in the use of digital | ||
technology in learning activities that improve teaching, | ||
assessment, and instructional practices. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act applies beginning with the 2017-2018 | ||
school year. | ||
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |