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New York Initial certification through National Board certification
Initial Certificate → National Board Certification. This pathway covers 73 certificate titles, and the requirements below apply to every one of them.
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Requirements shared by all 73 titles
- Workshop - School Violence Intervention and Prevention
- Workshop - Child Abuse Identification (Second Update)
- Workshop - Dignity For All Students Act
- Fingerprint Clearance
Your certificate title may require additional subject-specific exams or coursework beyond this shared baseline. Those are attached to the title you apply for, not to the pathway as a whole.
Certificate titles this pathway covers
73 titles are included. A sample:
- Agriculture
- Biology (Grades 5-9)
- Biology 7-12
- Business And Marketing
- Chemistry (Grades 5-9)
- Chemistry 7-12
Where this list comes from
The requirements above are computed from NYSED's own per-pathway requirement table, not written by hand. The page takes the intersection across every certificate title in the pathway, so nothing here is generalised from a single subject.
Source table: I-11 Initial - National Board Certification / I-11 VariationTable.xlsx
Check the requirements for your exact subject
The list above is the shared baseline. Your certificate title adds subject-specific exams and coursework on top, and those differ from title to title — which is why we do not generalise them here. The free assessment returns the checklist for your own title.
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- NYSED teacher certification requirementslink checked 2026-10-30
CertBridge summarizes public NYSED material. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the New York State Education Department, and the issuing agency makes the final determination on every application. Requirements change — confirm specifics on the official pages above before you rely on them.