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Teacher Center

Everything a New York teacher needs around the lessons: how evaluation and observation work, how to plan and teach, how to co-teach, and your rights and duties, written simply, with the official source for every rule.

📚 Example: ELA + ENL co-taught class, The Midnight Library. Teachers: the co-teaching guide (co-planning, roles per lesson, scaffolds by English level, family letter). Students: the student course (28 lessons) is in the High school courses library.

🖥️ Smart Board Academy: every capability of your classroom interactive board, in 3D with practice games: inputs, casting, pens and annotation, timers, split screen, freeze, troubleshooting, and Goal100 on the board. Open Smart Board Academy

General information, not legal advice. Your district's evaluation plan, its Code of Conduct and your union contract decide the details for you. When something matters for your job, ask your building union representative and your district (principal, human resources or the special education / ENL office). Facts here were checked Nov 7, 2026 from the official sources listed at the bottom.

⏰ Time-sensitive (NYSED): every mandated reporter, including teachers who already took the training, must complete the Second Updated Child Abuse Identification and Reporting workshop by November 17, 2026 (it adds identifying abuse or maltreatment of children with intellectual or developmental disabilities). Only NYSED-approved providers count, and the provider reports it to your TEACH account. NYSED workshop page · NYSED notice (checked Nov 7, 2026). Details on Rights and responsibilities.
Big change to know: New York now has two teacher evaluation laws side by side. Older plans run under Education Law §3012-d (Subpart 30-3) and can continue through the 2031-32 school year; new NYS-STEPS plans run under §3012-e (Subpart 30-4, adopted by the Board of Regents on March 11, 2025) and every district must use STEPS by June 30, 2032. Ask which one your district uses. NYSED comparison · NYSED Office of Counsel (checked Nov 7, 2026).
New: your career and money, explained. Teachers often mix up what the state law decides, what the union contract decides and what a benefit plan decides. Five new pages sort it out with the official source for each point: your contract, benefits, retirement (NYSTRS), certification and CTLE and money and time savers.

Portrait of a Graduate in my subject

60 minutes, free: three classroom examples, one move for next week, a certificate of completion (not CTLE).

Substitute plan packs

A printable 40-minute plan for every lesson. A substitute runs it with the lesson's 3D video and Movie.

Professional development (CTLE)

The 100-hour rule, required workshops, where to earn hours (all 37 BOCES and more), a private hour tracker and scenarios.

Co-teaching: the full guide

Six models with room diagrams, NY ICT and Integrated ENL rules, planning template, 8 worked examples.

Observation and evaluation

APPR and NYS-STEPS in plain words, the observation cycle, what observers look for, and printable planning, checklist and reflection forms.

Lesson and unit planning

Backward design, objectives and success criteria, I do / We do / You do, checks for understanding, differentiation, UDL, printable templates.

Teaching styles and strategies

Explicit instruction, inquiry, cooperative learning, retrieval, spacing, interleaving, dual coding, worked examples: when to use each, with research.

Co-teaching

Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) and Integrated ENL basics, the six co-teaching models, roles, a planning protocol and a weekly co-planning form.

Classroom culture, relationships and SEL

First weeks, routines, relationships, calm responses to behavior, family contact, SEL (NYS benchmarks, CASEL) and CR-S Education.

Your rights and responsibilities

Evaluation rights, improvement and support plans, tenure basics, mandated reporting, DASA, student data privacy, ethics, certification and CTLE.

Free resources (license checked)

Free sources with the license checked: which ones are commercially usable, which are classroom-only, and which are read-and-link.

How Goal100 helps teachers

Student codes, Teacher pages, the two games in Required lessons, mastery and spaced review, and how to use them as observation evidence.

Your contract, explained

What a union contract is under the Taylor Law, what each section means, how to read a salary schedule (worked example), and where approved contracts are posted.

Benefits explained

Health plans, 403(b) and 457(b), leaves (FMLA, Paid Family Leave), Social Security, PSLF and Teacher Loan Forgiveness: who sets each one and where to check.

Retirement (NYSTRS)

NYSTRS tiers, contribution rates, vesting, final average salary, the pension formula with worked examples, the 2024 and 2026 Tier 6 changes.

Certification and CTLE

Initial, Professional and Permanent certificates, five-year registration, the 100 CTLE hours, what counts, approved sponsors and a printable CTLE log.

Money and time savers

Official education discounts, free tools, a yearly money-and-paperwork calendar, grants and tax notes, and Goal100 evidence for your evaluation.

AI Prompt Library

222 ready prompts for teachers and 121 for school staff. Fill the blanks, copy, paste into your district-approved tool. Never paste student names.

AI workshops

Six free self-paced AI workshops for NY teachers, counselors and administrators: how AI works, privacy and the law, lesson prep and academic honesty.

Workshops and trainings

Every workshop a NY teacher needs: once for the certificate, every 5 years, every year at work, plus optional technology and AI workshops. Private checklist.

Teacher Template Studio

87 editable templates, 126 classroom graphics, 13 Python tools and 62 ready texts. Free, on this device.

Smart boards from zero

Which board do I have, what plugs in where, how to show my laptop or phone, file types, Wi-Fi and security, and 1-minute fixes.

Board check (30 seconds)

Test sound, full screen, 3D and touch on the classroom panel.

Quiz builder

Write your own question sets for the Quiz Show, Pass and Play and the Solo Arcade. Saved in this browser; students play the sets you open.

English language learners and students with disabilities

Step-by-step pages on ENL supports, IEPs and 504 plans live in the Support Center. Co-teaching (ICT and Integrated ENL) is covered here: the full guide, 8 worked examples and an optional real-book example. See the Co-teaching page.

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New to the building? Start with these five

  1. Find your evaluation plan (STEPS or §3012-d) and the rubric it uses. Ask your principal or union rep. How
  2. Book or confirm your mandated reporter, DASA and data privacy trainings. Checklist
  3. Read the IEP and ENL level of every student you teach (ask the special education chair and the ENL teacher). Why
  4. Plan your first two weeks of routines. Plan
  5. Print the pre-observation planning form and keep it with your plan book.

Sources

  1. NYSED: Child Abuse Identification and Reporting (Mandated Reporter) Workshop (checked Nov 7, 2026)
  2. NYSED Office of Teaching Initiatives: Second Update, Child Abuse Identification Workshop (checked Nov 7, 2026)
  3. NYSED: Overview of requirements, §3012-d plans compared with §3012-e (NYS-STEPS) plans (PDF) (checked Nov 7, 2026)
  4. NYSED Office of Counsel: Subparts 30-3 and 30-4, Evaluation of Classroom Teachers and Building Principals (checked Nov 7, 2026)

Teacher Center · written for New York State teachers · last checked Nov 7, 2026. Robert Frost Middle School and Deer Park UFSD do not publish every local procedure online, so always confirm local steps with your building.

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