Hiring Assistance
Application Process
Application Process
- Review job postings
- Apply online via RecruitFront
- Administrators will conduct screening of applications
- Selected candidates are contacted for interviews
- Interviews completed
- References will be checked
- Candidates recommended to move forward in the process by administrator
- Final interviews with Assistant Superintendent for HR & Superintendent of Schools and candidate notified of anticipated starting date
- Candidate responsible for completing pre-employment paperwork and other identified items required for employment and appointment
- Recommendation for Board of Education appointment
NYSED Fingerprinting Requirements for
Teacher & Pupil Personnel Certification
Who needs to be Fingerprinted?
- New York State requires applicants for new teaching or pupil personnel certificates to be fingerprinted for a criminal history background check. In addition, anyone who will be a new employee in any New York State school district, BOCES, or charter school is required to satisfy the fingerprint investigation. If you have been fingerprinted by the New York City Department of Education, you may not need to be re-fingerprinted – see information available at http://www.highered.nysed.gov/tcert/ospra/index.html.
When to get Fingerprinted.
- You may complete the fingerprinting process at any time during your teacher preparation program, but no later than 2 months before you graduate and expect to apply for certification. We recommend that you complete the fingerprint process as early in your program as possible, especially if you have ever been convicted of a crime. Applicants for certification may be barred from employment if the fingerprinting process is not initiated soon enough to qualify for the certificate before your new job begins.
Overview of Fingerprinting Process
- The fingerprinting process may be completed online or by mail. The online process is highly recommended – it is more efficient and reliable, and provides online results much faster. The mail process is much slower and requires the completion of a paper NYSED fingerprint application.
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Effective August 3, 2015, all fingerprinting for employment clearance will be completed through MorphoTrust. As a reminder, costs associated with fingerprinting are the responsibility of the employee and clearance must be received prior to beginning employment. The approximate cost is $100.
Book an appointment or obtain additional information: IdentoGO
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NYS Education Department Fingerprinting Information
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Identogo.com
Certification Information
CTLE Requirements
The CTLE requirement pertains to all Professional Certificate Holders (not permanent or initial), as well as all Level III Teaching Assistants, and requires 100 hours of professional development for each five-year registration period.
The district is no longer responsible for reporting this information to NYSED. Certificate holders need to maintain their own completed certificates, and hold them for no less than three years following the end of their five-year registration period.
- The district will offer CTLE approved courses in MLP. District-wide courses that meet the requirements for CTLE eligibility will be entered into MLP by the Office for Instructional Services.
- Employees who wish to register for CTLE hours, must register in MLP.
- Upon completion of an approved course/workshop in MLP, the presenter will need to verify your attendance. If you do not sign in at scheduled conferences/workshops/courses, you will be marked absent, and subsequently not eligible for CTLE hours.
- Once attendance has been verified, you may log into MLP and print a certificate, which will contain all the pertinent information including the district’s CTLE Sponsor Number, the Course/Workshop Title, the number of hours, Superintendent’s Electronic signature, etc.
- While MLP has informed us that all course information will be archived and maintained in MLP, it is recommended that you download your certificate and save it as PDF on your computer and/or a flash drive as a back-up. Consider a folder name such as CTLE Requirement 2016-2021 for each five-year cycle and house the electronic certificates in that folder.
From the NYSD Website:
Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Recordkeeping Requirements:
CTLE certificate holders shall maintain a record of completed CTLE, which shall include: the title of the program, the total number of hours completed, the number of hours completed in language acquisition addressing the need of English language learners, the sponsor's name and any identifying number, attendance verification, and the date and location of the program. Such records shall be retained for at least three years from the end of the registration period in which the CTLE was completed and shall be available for review by the Department upon request. Completion certificates are not to be submitted to the Office of Teaching Initiatives unless they are requested.
NYSED. GOV
Additional Information regarding CTLE requirements can be found at the link below.
NYSED Suggest Record Keeping Form
An example of the NYSED suggested record keeping form is available from the link below.