Renewal of Professional License

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Renewal of Professional License

• Springfield Public Schools
• Springfield, Massachusetts

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Who needs to renew?

• Yes
• Professional/Standard
• licensed educators
• are required to renew
• their license every five
• years.

• No
• Provisional or Initial/
• Provisional educators
• with Advanced
• Standing licenses
• should be moving to
• next level of licensure.

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Reasons for Licensure Renewal

• Its the law!
• Professional Development
• Knowledge in the Content Areas
• Decision-Making at the School District Level
• Professional Development Plans Align with
  Districts
• Highly Qualified Teachers

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Status of Professional License

• Active Five years or less since DATE
• OF ISSUE or most recent RENEWAL
• Inactive Five years or less since expiration
  date
• Invalid Not renewed after five years Inactive
  First license(s) to become invalid on June 17,
  2004

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Inactive License

• A certificate that is not renewed is deemed
  inactive for five years.
• Educators must renew within two years if newly
  employed or assigned under an inactive license

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Invalid License

• A certificate that is not renewed within the five
  year validity period and that is not renewed
  within the five year inactive period is invalid.
• An educator may not be assigned nor be be
  employed to work under an invalid certificate.

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Restoring Inactive Invalid Licenses

• Educators must fulfill all Professional
  Development requirements for recertification.

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Primary Additional Licenses

• Educators with more than one Active Professional
  License designate one as their primary license
• Usually educators will choose the license of
  their current assignment as their primary, but
  need not.

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Individual Professional Development Plans

• All educators must design implement a
  professional development plan.
• Educators issued a license between 10/1/94
  6/17/99 educators not employed in a public
  school are not required to have their plans
  approved.
• The educators supervisor/designee approves
• Criteria PD Plan meets 80 of school district
  goals

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IPDP Approval

• Appropriate supervisor
• 80 of the PDPs (Primary License) are aligned
  with school district goals - Individual
  chooses goals
• Approval may not be unreasonably withheld
• - Appeals Process

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How many PDPs do I need?

• First time renewal - Group -3
• Primary Area 150 - Content/pedagogy 120 min.
  Content 90 10 hours
  in a topic Initial Final Plan
  Approval

Most educators - no real changes- Group 2
Primary Area 120 Outside
Content/pedagogy 120 max Initial Plan
Approval by 7/1/00 Content
4 hours in a topic/ 10 hours in a topic
06-17-99
12-01-98
10-01-94
12-01-99
Date of Issue or Renewal -Group - 3 Primary Area
150 total Content/Pedagogy
120
min. Min. Content 90
10 hours in a topic Plan
Approval
Date of Issue -Group 1 Primary Area 120
Content/Pedagogy
60 min. Content 00
4 hours in a topic
Plan Approval Recommended
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How does one allocate PDPs?

I. Content Covers Competency I
II. Professional Skills or Pedagogy Covers
Standards II-VII Methods, evaluation, equity,
professionalism, communication, instructional
practice, etc.
III. Electives Cover general education topics
IV. Content-based Pedagogy Covers Standards
II-VII, emphasizes specific content area
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Professional Development Activities Their Point
Values (PDPs)
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PDPs Required to Renew Primary License

• 120 PDPs Date of issue/most recent renewal
  before December 1, 1999
• 150 PDPs Date of issue/most recent renewal
  December 1, 1999 or later
• 150 PDPs - Inactive

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Content Requirements for Renewal of Primary
License

• General Rule (of PDPs in approved IPDP)
• At least 60 content
• At least 80 content and instructional skills
  directly related to the content
• These are minimums There is no such thing as
  too much content

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Required PDPs to Renew Additional License(s)

• 30 PDPs in the content and skills of each
  additonal license
• Must have an active Primary License in order to
  renew an additional license

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What Professional Development Counts?

• Virtually all legitimate professional development
  activities can be credited toward
  recertification, provided that
• - the activities are appropriately aggregated
  
• into topics
• - there is a pre- and post-assessment
• - there is an observable demonstration of
• learning and
• - the content requirements are met.

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PD ActivitiesInstitutional Providers

• Colleges Universities
• MA Department of Education
• School Districts/Collaboratives
• Registered Providers
• - Professional Associations
• - Museums
• - Anyone who wants to apply

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Undergraduate Graduate Courses, Seminars or
Institutes

• Undergraduate Course
• 1 semester hour 15 PDPs
• Graduate-Level Course
• 1 semester hour 22.5 PDPs
• Audited Course
• 1 semester hour 7.5 PDPs
• Teaching graduate-level course
• (1st time in a 5-year cycle)
• 45 PDPs

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PD ActivitiesEducator-Designed PD

• Publication
• Presenter/Trainer
• Curriculum Development
• School-Based Activities
• Extension of learning from a professional
  conference

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Topic

• Topic is a single or tightly integrated area
  of study within an academic discipline or related
  to a particular method of teaching or
  administration.
• In general, PDPs must be aggregated into topics
  of at least 10 PDPs
• - PDPs earned between 6/18/99 and IPDP
• approval (6/30/00, 10/13/00) may be 4
• PDPs per topic.

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DOE Sponsored Initiatives

• Professional Development 1.5 PDPs that
• a.) total at least 10 hours
• b.) include a product or pre- and
• post-content assessment and
• c.) include a follow-up component.

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Department-Sponsored Initiatives

• 1.5 PDPs per clock hour for district-
• designed professional development that
• a.) totals at least 10 hours
• b.) includes a product/pre- and
• post-content assessment and
• c.) includes a follow-up component.

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District Initiatives 1 hour 1 PDP

• Mentoring 15 PDPs
• Peer Coaching 15 PDPsPeer Assistance Review 15
  PDPs
• Cooperating Teacher 15 PDPs
• National Board of Professional Teaching Standards
  120 PDPs (30 content 60 pedagogy 30 elective)
• Accreditation/Inspection Teams 30 PDPs in a
  five-year cycle

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Educator Designed Activities(Must Result in a
Product)

• No PDPs for Attendance at a Conference
• Professional Conference Presenter 30PDPs for the
  first presentation in a 5 year cycle
• Product derived from attendance at a conference
• 1. School-based curriculum/activity, or
• 2. Publishing written material

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DOE Examples

• Mentor Training Institutes 30 PDPs
• Summer Content Institutes more than
• 30 PDPs up tp 67.5 PDPs for successful
• completion
• No PDPs for one-day workshops, conferences,
  informational sessions, or meetings

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School-Based Activity

• Develop implement an activity based on the MA
  Curriculum Frameworks standards with students,
  parents, or teachers as audience
• 1 PDP per clock hour in content if directly
  related to the content
• Examples

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Examples

• Design Coordinate Math Nights, extended
  learning activities for students, or a series of
  seminars for teachers and/or parents
  
• Standards-Based Units
• Standards-Based Instructional Practices
• Supporting SPED/TAG in Standards-
• Based Classroom

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Curriculum Development

• New published curriculum unit formally shared,
  i.e., student text, book, software, professional
  resource, etc.
• 15 PDPs with a maximum of 60 in a five-year cycle

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Presenters/Trainers

• Three separate sessions in a professional
  development series twice the PDPs given to the
  participants (minimum of 10 maximum of 24 PDPs
  in one five-year cycle)

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License Renewal Cost

• 100 for Renewal of Primary License
• 25 for Renewal of each Additional License

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Visit the DOE Website

• www.doe.mass.edu/recert
• On-line application
• Recertification application download
• Regulations, guidelines, FAQS
• Sample Professional Development Plan
• Upcoming DOE-sponsored Content Institutes

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