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HomeRequirements for Administrative Certificate Renewal
• Process for Administrative Certificate Renewal• Requirements for the first cycle renewal
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• ISBE Certificate Renewal Page
- Requires a professional development plan for each individual building
and district administrator, including principals, assistant principals,
district superintendents, assistant district superintendents, school
business officials, special education directors, regional superintendents
of education, etc.
- Ensures that all professional development activities for administrators
are aligned to the Illinois Professional School Leader Standards.
- Focuses professional development on: 1) improving administrators'
knowledge of instructional practices and administrative procedures;
2) maintaining the basic level of competence required for initial
certification; and 3) improving mastery and knowledge regarding the
improvement of teaching performance and student achievement.
- Requires 100 hours participation in 5 locally approved professional
development activities during the 5-year validity period of the certificate.
- Requires the completion of one Administrators' Academy course annually
during each five-year certificate registration period (in addition
to the 100 hours of local professional development).
- Requires that administrators communicate, disseminate, or otherwise
apply what is learned in professional development activities.
- Requires that some portion of the activities address the district
or local School Improvement Plans.
- Requires ROEs and ISCs to deliver a broader range of high quality
professional development for administrators.
- Supports the concept of life-long continuous improvement and learning, and the Governor's Initiative on Educator Quality.
- Beginning July 1, 2003, Administrators create a professional development
plan with 3 individual improvement goals.
- School administrators submit plans to district superintendents for
review.
- District Superintendents submit plans to a peer review panel for
review.
- Regional Superintendents submit plans to ISBE.
- Administrators engage in Administrators' Academy courses annually
(totaling at least 36 hours) and five local professional development
activities totaling at least 100 hours.*
- Administrators maintain a portfolio of documentation containing
dates of each activity, instructional time, duration of activity,
Illinois Professional School Leader Standard addressed, and the communication/dissemination/application
component.
- Near the conclusion of the 5?year period of validity, each administrator
completes and signs an ISBE form verifying that all professional development
activities were completed.
- Regional Superintendents recommend renewal of administrative certificates
to the State Superintendent of Education.
- If renewal of an administrative certificate is denied by a regional superintendent of education, the certificate holder may appeal to the State Superintendent of Education for consideration.
*For each year that the administrative certificate holder is not employed as an administrator in Illinois, a proportionate reduction may be claimed. A reduction of one Academy course and 20 hours of local professional development activities may be calculated for each year of exemption.
RESOURCES
Division of Certificate Renewal web site: www.isbe.net/recertification/default.htm
Certificate Renewal Tracking System (CeRTS): https://isbes2.isbe.net/certs/
Discussion Group: http://www.isbe.net/certrenewdiscuss/Default.html
Division of Certificate Renewal Phone: 1-866-238-2738 or 217-557-8393
Professional Development Providers: http:
//206.166.105.12 8/PDP/provHome.asp?
| The year your current administrative
certificate registration renews next (aligned to your Standard teaching certificate). |
2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
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| You must create and submit a professional
development plan in 2003. |
YES
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NO
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NO
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NO
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YES
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| You must complete one Administrators'
Academy course annually for each year that you are employed as an
administrator during the period of validity of your certificate. |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| You must complete this number of local
professional development hours during the period of validity of
your certificate. |
100
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20
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40
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60
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80
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- For each 5-year validity period of your Administrative Certificate,
you must complete 5 Administrators' Academy Courses and 100 hours
of local Professional Development.
- For each year that you are NOT employed as an administrator, you may take a proportionate reduction of 20 hours from the required 100 hours of local professional development, and you may deduct 1 Administrators' Academy course.
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