Teacher Induction in California
California has a two-tiered credentialing system for teachers. Preliminary programs prepare candidates to obtain an initial teaching credential through successful completion of required coursework, fieldwork, and a performance demonstration of their knowledge, skills, and abilities. The second tier of preparation is a two-year job-embedded individualized induction program that is focused on extensive support and mentoring to new teachers in their first and second year of teaching.
Commission Resources for Teacher Induction Programs
**Teacher Induction Resources Related to COVID-19**
Teacher Induction Program Preconditions and Standards Program standards delineate the requirements an institution must meet in order to sponsor that program for candidates. Once approved by the Commission, programs maintain that approval through cyclical Accreditation cycle activities.
California Standards for the Teaching Profession (CSTP) and the Individual Learning Plan (ILP) Professional teaching standards provide the foundational expectations for the teacher induction program, with the expectation that candidates will progress towards mastery of the CSTP during their participation in induction. With mentor-based support candidates develop their individual learning plan (ILP) goals addressing areas within the CSTP standard categories. Within the ILP candidates practice and refine effective teaching practices through focused cycles of inquiry cycles, professional support, and the practice of reflection.
Continuum of Practice 2010 (COP) A companion document to the CSTP, the COP presents descriptions regarding what a teacher’s practice would look like on a six-level proficiency scale. Candidates, mentors, and program leaders may choose use the COP mentoring instrument as tool to measure candidate growth throughout program participation.
Transcript Equivalency Review for Out-of-State and Out-of-Country Level I Education Specialist Credential Holders This document provides a list of institutions that have notified the Commission that they are willing to do the review of an out of state/country prepared special educator.
Special Education Induction FAQs Responses to commonly asked questions about teachers clearing their education specialist credentials through Teacher Induction programs.
Teacher Induction Program Support
Teacher Induction Program and Performance Assessment Office Hours
The following office hours have changed to bi-monthly sessions on alternating weeks, held on the first and third Thursdays of each month.
Audience | Office Hours | Link to Meeting |
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CalTPA PS-VTW and EO Candidates | 4:15-5:00pm Every Wednesday | Zoom |
Teacher Induction (TIP) Faculty & Staff | 9:00-9:45am 1st & 3rd Thursdays | Zoom |
TPA Support
TIP Coordinators’ CalTPA Meeting PowerPoint 2.22.2021
Performance Assessment Online Teaching Support Webinars Archived on CTC’s YouTube Channel
CTC offered a series of Online Teaching Support Webinars to support performance assessment faculty and candidates. Please share these
webinar links with faculty and candidates who may be interested.
All webinars have been recorded and are now posted on the Commission’s YouTube Channel.
Please find the CalTPA support videos and March
and April Virtual Think Tanks (VTT) here.
ED TPA Support:
ED TPA Contacts:
lori.kroeger@pearson.com
kendylls@stanford.edu
Please find the edTPA support video here.
edTPA Checkpoint Meetings Resume
The Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) and Evaluation Systems (ES) has resumed monthly meetings for edTPA Coordinators (at Preliminary Programs) and individuals serving
as the edTPA primary point of contact (at Induction Programs). Meetings are held the first Thursday of every month at 1pm PT through June 2, 2022. If your program will be supporting teacher candidates as they complete edTPA this academic year,
you are invited to join the monthly meetings for updates, resources, support, and to connect with the CA edTPA Community. The Zoom meeting link below will serve for each monthly meeting.
If you are new to edTPA and wish to be included
on the email distribution list or have questions about edTPA, or need resources/support please contact Dr. Lori Kroeger, Lori.Kroeger@pearson.com.
Join Zoom Meeting
Phone only: 669.900.9128
Meeting ID: 940 4005 5779
Special Education edTPA Informational Sessions and Field Test
The Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE) and Evaluation Systems (ES) will be providing opportunities for programs to learn about the edTPA
Special Education Handbook for use with candidates seeking the Education Specialist credential in Mild to Moderate Support Needs (MMSN) and the Education Specialist credential in Extensive Support Needs (ESN) throughout the coming months.
edTPA Coordinators (Preliminary Programs) and primary points of contact (Induction Programs) can learn about the assessment and upcoming field test and ask questions of SCALE and ES during the monthly CA edTPA Checkpoint meetings. If you wish to join these meetings, please contact the edTPA Coordinator/primary contact person at your program for the meeting information and link. We will also be hosting webinar presentations for faculty and staff within CA Preliminary and Induction programs throughout the fall semester. Dates for those meetings will be shared in the coming weeks. Please check the PSD e-News and with your edTPA Coordinator/primary contact person for additional information.
A field test of the edTPA Special Education Handbook for the Education Specialist MMSN and ESN credential areas will be conducted in Spring 2022. We invite all active programs approved for MMSN and ESN Educational Specialist credential areas to join us to learn more about the edTPA Special Education Handbook and the upcoming field test. If you have questions about the Handbook or field test, please contact Lori Kroeger, Lori.Kroeger@pearson.com or Nicole Merino, nmerino@stanford.edu
RICA Support
The following RICA supports are available for Teacher Induction programs with candidates who need to complete the RICA exam:
RICA Examination Preparation
San Diego COE with Point Loma Nazarene University: A free RICA prep course for candidates who have not passed the RICA at https://www.sdcoe.net/human-resources/teacher-prep/Pages/RICA-Preparation.aspx to enroll at no cost.
Program Support for RICA
The webinar by Tulare COE on "Strategies for Coordinating Induction Support for RICA” is available here:
Slide Deck from Meeting:
bit.ly/NTLDRICAslides
Tool link: bit.ly/NTLDRICAtool
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRjaJuIbamw&feature=youtu.be
Links to the RICA preparation materials available on the Examinations website here:
Some of these are very helpful to understanding how the exam is structured, what is covered, sample questions, the
weighting given to various topics, and what the score represents (available on the Test Results Explanation).
Institutions Sponsoring Teacher Induction Programs
Cluster One (Sacramento/Bay Area to Northern State Border)
- Antioch Unified School District
- Brentwood Unified School District
- Butte County Office of Education
- Davis Joint School District
- El Dorado County Office of Education
- Elk Grove Unified School District
- Fairfield/Suisun Unified School District
- Lodi Unified School District
- Marin County Office of Education
- Napa County Office of Education
- Placer County Office of Education
- Sacramento City Unified School District
- Sacramento County Office of Education
- San Juan Unified School District
- Sonoma County Office of Education
- Stockton Unified School District
- Sutter Superintendent of Schools
- Tehama Department of Education
- Tracy Unified School District
- Vallejo City Unified School District
- Washington Unified School District
- West Contra Costa Unified School District
Cluster Two (Bay Area to Santa Barbara, Coastal)
- Aspire Public Schools
- California School for the Deaf
- Campbell Union School District
- Conejo Valley Unified School District
- Contra Costa County Office of Education
- Cupertino Union School District
- Evergreen Elementary School District
- Fremont Union High School District
- Fremont Unified School District
- Hayward Unified School District
- Milpitas Unified School District
- Monterey County Office of Education
- Mt. Diablo Unified School District
- New Haven Unified School District
- Newark Unified School District
- Oak Grove School District
- Oakland Unified School District
- Palo Alto Unified School District
- Pleasanton Unified School District
- REACH (Bay Area School of Enterprise)
- Redwood City School District
- San Francisco Unified School District
- San Jose Unified School District
- San Luis Obispo County Office of Education
- San Mateo County Office of Education
- San Mateo-Foster City School District
- San Ramon Valley Unified School District
- Santa Barbara County Education Office
- Santa Clara County Office of Education
- Santa Clara Unified School District
- Santa Cruz County Office of Education
- Sequoia Union High School District
- South San Francisco Unified School District
- Summit Public Schools
- Ventura County Office of Education
Cluster Three (Central Valley)
- Bakersfield City School District
- Central Unified School District
- Ceres Unified School District
- Clovis Unified School District
- Fresno County Superintendent of Schools
- Fresno Unified School District
- Greenfield Union School District
- Hanford Elementary School District
- Kern County Superintendent of Schools
- Kern High School District
- Kings County Office of Education
- Los Banos Unified School District
- Madera Unified School District
- Manteca Unified School District
- Merced County Office of Education
- Merced Union High School District
- Modesto City School District
- Panama-Buena Vista Union SD
- Sanger Unified School District
- Selma Unified School District
- Stanislaus County Office of Education
- Teachers College of San Joaquin
- Tulare City School District
- Tulare County Office of Education
- Turlock Unified School District
- Visalia Unified School District
Cluster Four (Greater Los Angeles area)
- Alhambra Unified School District
- Animo Leadership/Green Dot Schools
- Antioch University
- Arcadia Unified School District
- Baldwin Park Unified School District
- Bellflower Unified School District
- Burbank Unified School District
- CalState TEACH
- Claremont Graduate University
- Compton Unified School District
- CSU Dominguez Hills
- CSU Los Angeles
- CSU Northridge (SpEd only)
- Culver City Unified School District
- El Rancho Unified School District
- Glendale Unified School District
- Hacienda La Puente Unified School District
- Hebrew Union College
- Loyola Marymount University
- Long Beach Unified School District
- Los Angeles County Office of Education
- Los Angeles Unified School District
- Montebello Unified School District
- Mount Saint Mary’s University
- Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District
- Paramount Unified School District
- Pasadena Unified School District
- Pomona Unified School District
- PUC Schools
- San Gabriel Unified School District
- Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District
- Saugus Union School District
- Torrance Unified School District
- UCLA
- Walnut Valley Unified School District
- West Covina Unified School District
- William. S. Hart Union High School District
Cluster Five (Orange County)
- Anaheim City School District
- Anaheim Union High School District
- Capistrano Unified School District
- Concordia University
- CSU Fullerton
- Fullerton School District
- Garden Grove Unified School District
- Irvine Unified School District
- Orange County Department of Education
- Orange Unified School District
- Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District
- Saddleback Valley Unified School District
- Santa Ana Unified School District
- Tustin Unified School District
Cluster Six (Inland Empire—Northern LA, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Inyo Counties)
- Antelope Valley Union High School District
- Chaffey Joint Union High School District
- Corona-Norco Unified School District
- CSU San Bernardino (Special Education only)
- Etiwanda School District
- Fontana Unified School District
- Keppel Union School District
- Lancaster Elementary School District
- Murrieta Valley Unified School District
- Ontario-Montclair School District
- Palmdale Elementary School District
- Rialto Unified School District
- Riverside County Office of Education
- Riverside Unified School District
- San Bernardino City Unified School District
- Westside Union Elementary School District
Cluster Seven (San Diego and Imperial Counties)
- Chula Vista Elementary School District
- Del Mar Union School District
- Escondido Union School District
- Escondido Union High School District
- Grossmont Union High School District
- High Tech High School
- Imperial County Office of Education
- King-Chavez Academy of Excellence
- National University (Special Education only)
- Poway Unified School District
- San Diego County Office of Education
- San Diego State University
- San Dieguito Union High School District
- SIA Tech Schools
- Sweetwater Union High School District
- UC San Diego
- Vista Unified School District