Teacher Mentorship

Mentoring NJDOE Regs.

Requirement

New Jersey school districts must annually certify to the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) that they are complying with the state’s requirements for the school district professional development plan, including requirements for the district mentoring plan (N.J.A.C. 6A:9B-8.9; N.J.A.C. 6A: 9C-4.2(b)6; N.J.A.C. 6A: 9C-5.3).

Who must certify their compliance with the district mentoring plan regulations?

• All public school districts

• All charter schools

o Except those that exclusively hire novice teachers under the Charter School Certificate of Eligibility

• Approved Private Schools for Students with Disabilities (APSSDs)

• Nonpublic schools and other state-approved schools who require New Jersey certification for their teachers

What is the process for annually certifying compliance with these regulations?

• Certification is made in the Provisional Licensure Registration Management System (PLRMS).

• The PLRMS is an application within the New Jersey Department of Education’s Homeroom Portal.

• When a school district logs into the PLRMS, a screen will appear requiring the chief school administrator (or designee) to attest to meeting the requirements for the district mentoring plan by checking off the appropriate box on the screen.

• Certification is only required once each year.

• Once the certification has been completed, the user will be free to access the PLRMS application, as necessary.

Submission deadline

• September 1 for each year

• Certification will be open after July 1 each year.

For more information

• On mentoring and induction: TeachPD

On the provisional teacher process (PTP): Provisional Teacher Process

Mentoring Duration Requirements

• One-to-one mentoring that includes planned, in-person contact time between the mentor teacher and the novice provisional teacher holding a CE or CEAS must occur over the course of the academic year (a minimum of 30 weeks), or proportionally longer if the novice provisional teacher holds a part-time teaching assignment.

Administrative Mentor Payments

• Central office will withhold a portion of the mentee’s paycheck throughout the school year to pay the mentor at the end of the school year

• Central office will periodically send emails to mentors and mentees to remind them of their roles and responsibilities

• At the end of the year, all mentoring logs will be collected by Central Office

• Once the mentoring logs have been checked, the office release the payment of mentorship funds to the mentor

• As of now, the fees are the following:

  • The fee for CE teachers is $1,000.

  • The fee for CEAS teachers is $550.

• Regulations require that all payments to mentors by candidates are paid through the district and no payments should be made directly from novices to mentors.