Pupil literacy: administrative services credential program standards and professional development: instructional materials.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact criteria for the professional development programs, nor does it detail what happens if schools do not comply with the bill's requirements.

Improving Literacy Education for Young Students

AB-1194 requires the State Department of Education to create and maintain a list of professional development programs for teaching literacy, sets standards for administrative services credentials that include literacy support training, and mandates adoption of specific instructional materials for English language arts.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the State Department of Education to post online by September 1, 2026, a list of in-service professional development programs for teaching literacy in specified grade levels that may be used by school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools.
• Ensures that these programs are offered both in-person and virtually and meet certain criteria.
• Makes funds available to schools so they can provide literacy training to teachers using the posted professional development programs.
• Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to update standards by September 1, 2027, for administrative services credentials to include preparation on how to support teachers in delivering instruction through effective means of teaching literacy.
• Directs the State Board of Education to adopt instructional materials for English language arts and development for kindergarten and grades K-8 by June 30, 2027.

Who It Names or Affects

• Teachers who teach reading in transitional kindergarten through grade 5
• School districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools
• The Commission on Teacher Credentialing

Terms To Know

Professional development programs

Training sessions for teachers to improve their skills in teaching literacy.

Administrative services credential

A type of certification that school administrators need to have, which now must include training on supporting literacy instruction.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill's provisions are contingent upon funding from the Legislature.
• It does not specify what happens if schools do not use the posted professional development programs or adopt the required instructional materials.

Official Summary Text

AB 1194, as amended, Muratsuchi.
Pupil literacy: administrative services credential program standards and professional
development.
development: instructional materials.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Education, under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and assigns to the department numerous duties relating to the financing, governance, and guidance of the public elementary and secondary schools in this state.
This bill would require the department to, no later than September 1, 2026, identify and post on its internet website a list of inservice professional development programs for effective means of teaching literacy
in specified grade levels
that may be used by school districts, county offices of education,
and
charter
schools, and state special
schools for training teachers. The bill would require the department to ensure that the list includes programs offered in different modalities, including in-person and virtual formats, and
shall
ensure that the programs meet specified criteria.
The bill would require the department to make specified funds available and the Superintendent to apportion those funds to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools to provide opportunities for professional development for teachers who teach pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 5, inclusive, using one or more of the above-described professional development programs, as provided.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law sets forth the minimum requirements for a preliminary services credential with a specialization in administrative services, which include, among other requirements, completion of an entry-level program of specialized and professional preparation in administrative services or a one-year internship in a program of supervised training in administrative services, subject to approval by the commission, as provided.
This bill would require the commission to, no later than September 1, 2027, ensure that the program standards for the professional preparation of candidates for a preliminary services credential with a specialization in administrative services meets specified criteria, including, among other things, that the program standards include
preparation on how to support teachers in delivering instruction through effective means for teaching literacy, as provided. The bill would require the commission to, no later than September 1, 2029, certify that all professional preparation programs and internships for candidates for a preliminary services credential with a specialization in administrative services approved by the commission meet those program standards.
Existing law requires the state board to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for governing boards of school districts and county boards of education, subject to specified provisions, including, among others, that the State Board of Education adopt at least 5 basic instructional materials for all applicable grade levels in each of the specified subject areas, including, among others, language
arts, including, but not limited to, spelling, reading, and English language development.
This bill would require the state board, on or before June 30, 2027, and in adherence with specified provisions related to followup adoptions, to adopt instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, in English language arts and English language development, as provided. The bill would require the state board to ensure that instructional materials adopted pursuant to these provisions adhere to specified criteria.
This bill would make implementation of its provisions, as described above, contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature.

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