All NYS professional and/or permanent certification holders are required to register with NYS TEACH every five years to keep their certification current.

If you are a certificate holder of a:

Permanent or Professional

• Classroom teacher certificate
• Educational leadership certificate
  • School Administrator/Supervisor
  • School Building leader
  • School District leader
  • School District Administrator,
  • School District Business Leader
  • School Business Administrator
• Level III Teaching Assistant certificate

please log into your TEACH account and choose a registration status.  Registration and CTLE Requirements Chart.

As part of the registration process, those who hold a professional certificate will be asked to certify they have completed 100 Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) hours. Administrators, teachers and teaching assistants are responsible for completing their hours and maintaining the appropriate CTLE records. In order for hours to be counted towards CTLE, the professional development event must be sponsored by a CTLE approved provider (https://www.highered.nysed.gov/tcert/resteachers/ctlesponsors.html). The professional development event must include appropriate general pedagogy, language acquisition or content related to one’s certification(s).

Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Regulations and Record Keeping Requirement

Little Flower Union Free School District maintains records related to CTLE activities as an approved sponsor offered to faculty and staff, which may include Superintendent's Conference Days, internal workshops and trainings, collegial circles/PLCs, serving as a mentor, and serving as a cooperating teacher. CTLE certificates are issued upon completion of acceptable activities. Also maintained are out-of-district conferences, graduate and in-service course requests, approval and attendance confirmations for all educators.

Completion certificates are available through Frontline for all District and Teacher Center CTLE Hour events for staff members to print once they have confirmed their attendance in Frontline and the appropriate paperwork has been submitted to the Curriculum Office.  

All educators are required to retain their CTLE records for at least three years from the end of the registration period in which the CTLE was completed and be available for review by the Department upon request. Teachers and teaching assistants are not required to send documentation of their CTLE clock hours to the NYSED Department for the re-registration process.

Activities permitted for CTLE Hours include:

• Superintendent Conference Days
• Teacher Mentors/Mentoring Program ( up to 30 hours every 5 years)
• District Workshops that focus on: Pedagogy, Language Acquisition and/or content related to their certification area.
• Teacher Center Workshops/Courses related to Pedagogy, Language Acquisition and/or content related to their certification area.
• Colleges/University that are approved CTLE Sponsors
• BOCES if an approved CTLE Sponsor
• Out-of-District Approved CTLE Sponsors

Additional Resources

Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Requirement

Approved Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Sponsors