The purpose of this New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) Teacher Residency Program (TRP) Request for Applications (RFA) is to partially or fully fund master’s degree or teacher certification programs for graduate-level K-12 teacher candidates who complete a two-year residency program within a public New York State (NYS) school district or Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) program. Funded programs would involve the State University of New York (SUNY), the City University of New York (CUNY), and/or NYS private colleges and universities partnering with public school districts/BOCES.

Residency program requirements under this RFA include that the residency must:

• Be two (2) academic years in length and include at least 1,000 hours of clinical experiences for candidates, enabling them to experience the full range of a teacher’s annual responsibilities, in alignment with the daily schedule and annual calendar of the educational setting. For the definition of clinical experiences, please see Section VII. of the RFA;
• Be designed to provide candidates with opportunities to practice teaching skills identified in the NYS Teaching Standards in an educational setting in the subject area and grade level of the master’s degree sought, co-supervised by an IHE-based teacher educator and a district/BOCES-based teacher educator who meet certain requirements;
• Include a certified district/BOCES-based teacher who has official responsibility for the class during the residency placement(s) for the master’s degrees sought;
• Address each of the applicable general and program-specific academic core requirements for the program(s); and
• Require residency graduates to commit to teaching within their school district for at least two (2) years after the completion of their residency.

Link to solicitation: https://dol.ny.gov/funding-opportunities-0 .