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All documents submitted to the Office of Teaching Initiatives (OTI) must include:

• Your name as it appears in your TEACH account
• Last four digits of your social security number or date of birth

We recommend adding all of your former names (e.g., maiden name) and listing all of the colleges that you attended in your TEACH account, which provides additional identifying information. To get your maiden name or any previous names added to your account for transcript/documents purposes, you wouldÌýnotÌýneed a name change request. To do so, please follow the directiosn below:

• Login to
• Under "Profile Links", click "Update/Add ÃØÃÜÑо¿Ëù, Employment, and Personal Information"
• Click "Edit Personal Info"
• Add or remove any previous or alternative names in the box provided
• Click "Submit" to save

Please note that applicantsÌýcannotÌýadd their first nameÌýinto the maiden/former name field in TEACH. You may submit supporting documentation (e.g., court documents) to TCERT@nysed.govÌýto reflect a previous first name as necessary.

Please only send a document once to OTI.ÌýSending the same document more than once delays the processing of all documents. It typically takes 2-4 weeks for a document to be entered in TEACH. To see if your document has been processed, go to the "Documents" table within the "Correspondence" section of your TEACH account. If your document is not listen in this table, then OTI has not entered the document into TEACH yet. You could resend the same document if you do not see your document in TEACH after six weeks.

Click on the type of document that you would like to submit to OTI for more information.

For all other documents not listed above, send them to: tcert@nysed.gov.