ANNUAL STATE BOARD APPROVAL

For The Educator Preparation Programs in Nebraska Colleges and Universities

INCLUDING:

Nebraska Approved Programs Report 2023-2024

Application for Approval for Specific Programs of Educator Preparation (20-004 Report) for 2023-2024

APPLICATION FOR ANNUAL STATE BOARD APPROVAL PROCESS:

Institutions are required, on an annual basis, to submit to the NDE a completed form entitled Application for Approval for Specific Programs of Educator Preparation (NDE 20-004 Report). The information on this form indicates the endorsement areas each institution of higher education offers in their Educator Preparation Programs, including any new or revised endorsement areas.  Instructions for filling out this form are below.

Institutions are also responsible for including the necessary Rule 24 matrices for any new and revised endorsement areas that are included in their Application for Approval for Specific Programs of Educator Preparation (20-004 Report).  The current Rule 24 matrices files for Nebraska endorsements are also listed below.

Pre-Approval for a new or revised endorsement must be done prior to inclusion on the Application for Approval for Specific Programs of Educator Preparation (20-004 Report).  A guidance document explaining the Pre-Approval process is below.

Once all institutions have submitted their applications, a final report, the Nebraska Approved Programs Report 2022-2023, comprised of all the information submitted by Nebraska’s educator preparation programs, will then go to the State Board for approval.

If you have questions, please contact:

Marlene Beiermann at 402.480.0036 marlene.beiermann@nebraska.gov

Kelly Heineke at 402.314.4432 kelly.heineke@nebraska.gov

Instructions and Form for the Application for Specific Programs of Educator Preparation (NDE 20-004 Report):

• Instructions – for NDE Pre-Approval Guidance for New Endorsements

• Instructions – for Application for Approval for Specific Programs of Educator Preparation (NDE 20-004 Report)

• Application Form – for Application for Approval for Specific Programs of Educator Preparation (NDE 20-004 Report)

New or Revised Matrices for Approved Endorsements

New or revised matrices are required for the following endorsements if the program is
offered by the institution for 2023-24:

• None at this time

*NEW*

Link for Matrices Using Excel Format

If you would like to use the new Excel format when completing the matrices, please click on this hyperlink or the link above.  Please remember to SAVE a copy of each file and DO NOT edit the original documents or this will alter the original with your information.  Please reach out to Kelly Heineke at  kelly.heineke@nebraska.gov if you have questions.

Matrices for Administrative Endorsements – Traditional Format

• Principal
• Superintendent
• Special Education Supervisor

Matrices for Teaching Endorsements – Traditional Format

• Adapted Physical Education
• Agricultural Education
• Anthropology
• Art Education
• American Sign Language – Subject
• American Sign Language – Supplemental
• Assessment Leadership – Eliminated in 2019
• Basic Business – Eliminated in 2018
• Bilingual Education
• Biology
• Business, Marketing, and Information Technology
• Chemistry
• Coaching
• Driver Education
• Early Childhood Education
• Early Childhood Inclusive
• Earth and Space Science
• Economics
• Elementary Education
• English as a Second Language
• English Language Arts
• Family & Consumer Sciences-Occupational
• Geography
• Health
• Health and Physical Education
• Health Sciences – Supplemental
• Health Sciences Education – Field
• High Ability Education
• History
• Horticulture – eliminated in 2018
• Information Technology
• Instructional Technology Leadership
• Journalism and Media Education
• Mathematics
• Middle Level Education – Professional Education Courses
  • Middle Level – English Language Arts
  • Middle Level – Mathematics
  • Middle Level – Science
  • Middle Level – Social Science
    • Middle Level – Agricultural Education
    • Middle Level – BMIT
    • Middle Level – Family & Consumer Sciences
    • Middle Level – Health & Physical Education
    • Middle Level – Industrial Technology
    • Middle Level – World Language
• Music
• Orientation and Mobility Specialist
• Physical Education
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Reading and Writing
• Reading Specialist
• Religious Education
• Reserve Officer Training Corp – ROTC
• School Counselor
• School Librarian
• School Psychologist
• Science
• Secondary English
• Skilled & Technical Sciences Education
• Skilled & Technical Sciences Education – Skilled Specific
• Social Science
• Sociology
• Special Program – Subject and Supplemental
• Speech
• Speech Language Pathologist
• Theatre
• Vocal Music
• Work Based Learning
• World Language

Matrices for Special Education Teaching Endorsements

• Behavior Intervention Specialist
• Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Early Childhood Special Education
• Early Intervention Specialist
• Functional Academic Skills and Independent Living Specialist
• Inclusion and Collaboration Specialist
• Secondary Transition Specialist
• Special Education Generalist
• Visual Impairment

Resources

Annual Board Approval Report Archive

Rule 20 – Regulations for the Approval of Teacher Education Programs – 2014

Rule 24 – Regulations for Certificate Endorsements – 2018

• Rule 24 Guidelines – 2018 Version

Rule 24 – Regulations for Certificate Endorsements – 2017

• Rule 24 Guidelines – 2017 Version

Rule 24 Endorsement Status Updates