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Renewal Requirements for Certificates Issued Prior to 1995

Your certificate has considerable information regarding your license to teach. You are encouraged to review the certificate carefully and report any errors by calling the Office of Human Resources at 410-313-6813.
 
If you hold an Advanced Professional Certificate and have not met the following (S) and/or (R) requirements, you would need to do so as a condition of renewal; otherwise no renewal credits are required by the State:

1. If an (S) does not appear on the certificate, you will need an introductory course in special education or mainstreaming. The (S) is not required if you are certified in any of the following areas: Generic Special Education, Visually Impaired, Hearing Impaired, or Severely and Profoundly Handicapped.


2. If an (R) is not printed on the certificate and your area(s) of certification include early childhood, elementary education, secondary English, or any of the secondary social studies areas, you will need a methods of teaching reading course.

Keep Your Certificate in a Safe Place

Keep all documents pertaining to certification in one file in a safe but convenient place (e.g., your certificate, this information document, CPD forms, grade reports, transcripts, etc). Please refer to this file if you have certification questions or have it with you if you need to call Human Resources.

Employment Termination

If you terminate employment with the Howard County Public School System before your certificate expires, you should retrieve official transcripts, grade reports, and CPD forms from your Howard County Public School System certification file for renewal of your certificate.

Documentation of Coursework for Certificate Renewal

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Course

When you complete a CPD course, the Staff Development Center will forward a 3-part form to Human Resources:

• Pink copy - HR will send to you and is your file copy
• Yellow copy - HR retains in your HCPSS certification file
• White copy - HR will forward to the MSDE upon certificate renewal and it will become a part of your official State certification file
  

College/University Course

For all required coursework, official grade reports or transcripts must be on file in HR.

• If you request tuition reimbursement for a course, the official grade report or transcript that you submitted will be placed in your HCPSS certification file.
  
  
• If you do not request tuition reimbursement for a course, submit an official grade report or transcript to HR to be placed in your HCPSS certification file.

Upon certificate renewal, it will be forwarded to the MSDE and will become a part of your official State certification file.

Questions

For more information contact Marianne Livesay at 410-313-6813 or marianne_livesay@hcpss.org or Lois Witte at lois_witte@hcpss.org.