Congratulations on becoming a Student Teacher with Stockton Unified School District! As a student teacher, you will gain valuable experience working with our students, teachers, and staff while applying your skills and knowledge in a real-world setting. In order to complete your Student Teaching on our campuses, you will need to complete the fingerprint process as well as a background check to ensure the safety and security of our students and staff. Please review the following instructions to ensure a smooth transaction when coming in to complete your prints. We appreciate the additional help you are bringing to our classrooms.
All Student Teachers must register on beamentor.org/stockton
For step by step on how to register, click here.
Once an applicant submits their application they will wait to receive an acceptance email with the following steps. If this email has not been received, please notify your professor so they can contact SUSD’s student teaching department.
Fieldwork Students whose universities/colleges do not have a contract with SUSD Student Teaching department will need to follow the regular volunteer procedure. Click Here: (link to Volunteer)
After the acceptance email has been received, applicants are welcome to come to the fingerprint department, located on 640 N. San Joaquin St. Stockton, Ca 95202. Applicants are to bring a completed physical copy of their livescan form, their valid Govt ID, and a valid TB test dated within the last 3 years.
** Photos of these documents are not accepted, in order to proceed with prints, all documents must be present.
A sex offender search will also be completed at the time of printing. Once prints have been completed, they will be sent out to the DOJ and FBI for background review, results can vary anywhere from same day to up to 6 months to come back.
Once an applicant has been cleared, results will be updated via the Be a Mentor portal for the applicant and Student Teacher department to see, additionally, a badge can be provided if instructed a badge will be needed). If an applicant is denied, please visit our Denial Review/Expungement.
For questions or concerns regarding your fingerprint process, please refer to your Be a Mentor portal or contact your professor to reach out to our Student Teacher department for further assistance.
**Student Teachers must specify which category they fall under so fingerprint knows where to send results once an applicant has cleared. Please see sample livescan form for clarification of what is needed: click here.
