1.1.................... moves to amend S.F. No. 170, the first engrossment, as follows:
1.2Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert:

1.3    "Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.09, subdivision 4, is amended to
1.4read:
1.5    Subd. 4. License and rules. (a) The board must adopt rules to license public school
1.6teachers and interns subject to chapter 14.
1.7(b) The board must adopt rules requiring a person to successfully complete pass a
1.8skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics as a requirement for initial teacher
1.9licensure. Such rules must require college and universities offering a board-approved
1.10teacher preparation program to provide offer remedial assistance to persons who did not
1.11achieve a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English is
1.12a second language. Persons needing remedial assistance must be successfully remediated
1.13before receiving an initial teaching license.
1.14(c) The board must adopt rules to approve teacher preparation programs. The board,
1.15upon the request of a postsecondary student preparing for teacher licensure or a licensed
1.16graduate of a teacher preparation program, shall assist in resolving a dispute between the
1.17person and a postsecondary institution providing a teacher preparation program when the
1.18dispute involves an institution's recommendation for licensure affecting the person or the
1.19person's credentials. At the board's discretion, assistance may include the application
1.20of chapter 14.
1.21(d) The board must provide the leadership and shall adopt rules for the redesign of
1.22teacher education programs to implement a research based, results-oriented curriculum
1.23that focuses on the skills teachers need in order to be effective. The board shall implement
1.24new systems of teacher preparation program evaluation to assure program effectiveness
1.25based on proficiency of graduates in demonstrating attainment of program outcomes.
1.26(e) The board must adopt rules requiring candidates for initial licenses to successfully
1.27complete pass an examination of general pedagogical knowledge and examinations of
2.1licensure-specific teaching skills. The rules shall be effective by September 1, 2001.
2.2The rules under this paragraph also must require candidates for initial licenses to teach
2.3prekindergarten or elementary students to successfully complete pass, as part of the
2.4examination of licensure-specific teaching skills, test items assessing the candidates'
2.5knowledge, skill, and ability in comprehensive, scientifically based reading instruction
2.6under section 122A.06, subdivision 4, and their knowledge and understanding of the
2.7foundations of reading development, the development of reading comprehension, and
2.8reading assessment and instruction, and their ability to integrate that knowledge and
2.9understanding.
2.10(f) The board must adopt rules requiring teacher educators to work directly with
2.11elementary or secondary school teachers in elementary or secondary schools to obtain
2.12periodic exposure to the elementary or secondary teaching environment.
2.13(g) The board must grant licenses to interns and to candidates for initial licenses.
2.14(h) The board must design and implement an assessment system which requires a
2.15candidate for an initial license and first continuing license to demonstrate the abilities
2.16necessary to perform selected, representative teaching tasks at appropriate levels.
2.17(i) The board must receive recommendations from local committees as established
2.18by the board for the renewal of teaching licenses.
2.19(j) The board must grant life licenses to those who qualify according to requirements
2.20established by the board, and suspend or revoke licenses pursuant to sections 122A.20 and
2.21214.10 . The board must not establish any expiration date for application for life licenses.
2.22(k) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
2.23their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation in
2.24the areas of using positive behavior interventions and in accommodating, modifying, and
2.25adapting curricula, materials, and strategies to appropriately meet the needs of individual
2.26students and ensure adequate progress toward the state's graduation rule.
2.27(l) In adopting rules to license public school teachers who provide health-related
2.28services for disabled children, the board shall adopt rules consistent with license or
2.29registration requirements of the commissioner of health and the health-related boards who
2.30license personnel who perform similar services outside of the school.
2.31(m) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
2.32their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further reading
2.33preparation, consistent with section 122A.06, subdivision 4. The rules do not take effect
2.34until they are approved by law. Teachers who do not provide direct instruction including, at
2.35least, counselors, school psychologists, school nurses, school social workers, audiovisual
2.36directors and coordinators, and recreation personnel are exempt from this section.
3.1(n) The board must adopt rules that require all licensed teachers who are renewing
3.2their continuing license to include in their renewal requirements further preparation
3.3in understanding the key warning signs of early-onset mental illness in children and
3.4adolescents.

3.5    Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.18, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
3.6    Subd. 2. Teacher and support personnel qualifications. (a) The Board of
3.7Teaching must issue licenses under its jurisdiction to persons the board finds to be
3.8qualified and competent for their respective positions.
3.9(b) The board must require a person to successfully complete pass an examination
3.10of skills in reading, writing, and mathematics before being granted an initial teaching
3.11license to provide direct instruction to pupils in prekindergarten, elementary, secondary, or
3.12special education programs. The board must require colleges and universities offering
3.13a board approved teacher preparation program to provide offer remedial assistance that
3.14includes a formal diagnostic component to persons enrolled in their institution who did not
3.15achieve a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those for whom English
3.16is a second language. The colleges and universities must provide offer assistance in the
3.17specific academic areas of deficiency in which the person did not achieve a qualifying
3.18score. The board must issue a one-year license to teach in Minnesota to an otherwise
3.19qualified person who completed his or her teacher preparation program outside the state of
3.20Minnesota, during which time that person must take and pass the state skills examination
3.21in reading, writing, and math. School districts must provide similar offer, appropriate, and
3.22timely remedial assistance that includes a formal diagnostic component and mentoring to
3.23those persons employed by the district who completed their teacher education preparation
3.24program outside the state of Minnesota, received a one-year license to teach in Minnesota
3.25and did not achieve a qualifying score on the skills examination, including those persons
3.26for whom English is a second language. The Board of Teaching shall report annually to
3.27the education committees of the legislature on the total number of teacher candidates
3.28during the most recent school year taking the skills examination, the number who achieve
3.29a qualifying score on the examination, the number who do not achieve a qualifying score
3.30on the examination, the distribution of all candidates' scores, the number of candidates
3.31who have taken the examination at least once before, and the number of candidates who
3.32have taken the examination at least once before and achieve a qualifying score.
3.33(c) A person who has completed an approved teacher preparation program and
3.34obtained a one-year license to teach, but has not successfully completed the skills
4.1examination, may renew the one-year license for two additional one-year periods. Each
4.2renewal of the one-year license is contingent upon the licensee:
4.3(1) providing evidence of participating in an approved remedial assistance program
4.4provided by a school district or postsecondary institution that includes a formal diagnostic
4.5component in the specific areas in which the licensee did not obtain qualifying scores; and
4.6(2) attempting to successfully complete the skills examination during the period
4.7of each one-year license.
4.8(d) (c) The Board of Teaching must grant continuing licenses only to those persons
4.9who have met board criteria for granting a continuing license, which includes successfully
4.10completing passing the skills examination in reading, writing, and mathematics.
4.11(e) (d) All colleges and universities approved by the board of teaching to prepare
4.12persons for teacher licensure must include in their teacher preparation programs a common
4.13core of teaching knowledge and skills to be acquired by all persons recommended
4.14for teacher licensure. This common core shall meet the standards developed by the
4.15interstate new teacher assessment and support consortium in its 1992 "model standards for
4.16beginning teacher licensing and development." Amendments to standards adopted under
4.17this paragraph are covered by chapter 14. The board of teaching shall report annually to
4.18the education committees of the legislature on the performance of teacher candidates
4.19on common core assessments of knowledge and skills under this paragraph during the
4.20most recent school year.

4.21    Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 122A.23, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
4.22    Subd. 2. Applicants licensed in other states. (a) Subject to the requirements of
4.23sections 122A.18, subdivision subdivisions 2, paragraph (b), and 8, and 123B.03, the
4.24Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license or a temporary teaching license under
4.25paragraphs (b) to (e) to an applicant who holds at least a baccalaureate degree from a
4.26regionally accredited college or university and holds or held a similar out-of-state teaching
4.27license that requires the applicant to successfully complete a teacher preparation program
4.28approved by the issuing state, which includes field-specific teaching methods and student
4.29teaching or essentially equivalent experience.
4.30(b) The Board of Teaching must issue a teaching license to an applicant who:
4.31(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
4.32required by the Board of Teaching; and
4.33(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field and
4.34grade levels if the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less
4.35than a similar Minnesota license.
5.1(c) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.2one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who holds or held an out-of-state
5.3teaching license to teach the same content field and grade levels, where the scope of the
5.4out-of-state license is no more than one grade level less than a similar Minnesota license,
5.5but has not successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.6required by the Board of Teaching.
5.7(d) The Board of Teaching, consistent with board rules, must issue up to three
5.8one-year temporary teaching licenses to an applicant who:
5.9(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.10required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.11(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license to teach the same content field
5.12and grade levels, where the scope of the out-of-state license is no more than one grade
5.13level less than a similar Minnesota license, but has not completed field-specific teaching
5.14methods or student teaching or equivalent experience.
5.15The applicant may complete field-specific teaching methods and student teaching
5.16or equivalent experience by successfully participating in a one-year school district
5.17mentorship program consistent with board-adopted standards of effective practice and
5.18Minnesota graduation requirements.
5.19(e) The Board of Teaching must issue a temporary teaching license for a term of
5.20up to three years only in the content field or grade levels specified in the out-of-state
5.21license to an applicant who:
5.22(1) successfully completed all exams and human relations preparation components
5.23required by the Board of Teaching; and
5.24(2) holds or held an out-of-state teaching license where the out-of-state license is
5.25more limited in the content field or grade levels than a similar Minnesota license.
5.26(f) The Board of Teaching must not issue to an applicant more than three one-year
5.27temporary teaching licenses under this subdivision.
5.28(g) The Board of Teaching must not issue a license under this subdivision if the
5.29applicant has not attained the additional degrees, credentials, or licenses required in a
5.30particular licensure field."
5.31Amend the title accordingly