Licensure Renewal-Susan Collins

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Licensure
Renewal/Registration
Spring 2014
Check the Educator Licensure
Information System (ELIS) to
review your credentials.
If you have never been in ELIS, you
will need to create an account. Go to:
http://www.isbe.net/ELIS/default.htm
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Click on “Educator Access.”
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Click on “Former ECS Users Click Here for First
Time Access to the ELIS System.”
 Enter personal info and create a login/password to create your account.
 Continue to your Home Page in ELIS.
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On your home page, click on “View Your
Credentials” to access all of your credentials online.
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Be sure the registration of your
license(s) is/are correct.
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Be sure your certificate endorsements
properly transferred over to your license.
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Check your license
registration carefully.
If anything is incorrect in your
file, email licensure@isbe.net
with details of the inaccuracies.
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If your old Standard Teaching
Certificate (now a Professional
Educator License-PEL) was
due to be renewed in 2014,
you will need to complete the
old certification renewal
process in ELIS.
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For PEL’s with teaching
endorsements expiring
June 30, 2014:
Option 1: CPDU’s
With a Bachelor’s Degree, you need 120 CPDU’s.
With a Master’s Degree, you need 80 CPDU’s.
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PEL’s (teaching) expiring in 2014:
(con’t)
 Option 2: Course work
 With a Bachelor’s Degree, you need 8 semester hours.
 With a Master’s Degree, you need 6 semester hours.
 Option 3: Other options, examples:
 Additional Endorsement
 National Board Certification
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Professional Development activities
must be entered into ELIS.
 Click on “View My Credentials” on the home page. Then click
on “Educator” and then “Professional Development.”
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Click on the link “Click Here to Add
Professional Development Hours.”
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Enter Professional Development
on this screen.
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Add professional development
activities one at a time.
 Show the category of professional development in
the “Activity Name” field.
 i.e. Enter “CPDU” or “College Course” in this field.
 Be sure to label each activity with the appropriate
“Purpose.”
 i.e. A, B, C, D, or E.
 Add number of CPDU’s or semester hours in the
“Hours” field.
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PEL’s (teaching) expiring in 2014
(con’t)
CPDU Option only:
 Regular Ed. teachers: 20% of your CPDUs must
address Purpose E.
 Special Ed. Teachers: 50% of your CPDUs must
address Purpose E.
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When all of your professional
development (PD) activities have been
entered, click on “Submit Professional
Development.”
 Indicate that you want the professional
development submitted to KANE ROE-31.
 Watch the status of your PD in ELIS. The ROE will
return the PD back to you if corrections need to be
made.
 Make the suggested corrections and re-submit the
PD to the ROE.
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When your PD has been
approved, you are able to pay to
register your license for the next
5 year period.
 Click on “Registration” near the top of
the screen.
 Click on “Click Here to Register
These Licenses.”
 There is a $50 fee to renew.
 See pages 27-28.
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Educators should enter PD
activities into ELIS as they
participate in the activities.
 Under the new law, effective July 1, 2014, all PD
will have to be entered into ELIS within 60 days of
completion.
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KNOW YOUR RENEWAL
DATE.
 You MUST complete your renewal process by
June 30th of the year your registration expires.
 Effective July 1, 2014, you will have only 60 days
to renew an expired license.
 Licenses not renewed by September 1 of the year
in which they expire will LAPSE.
 To reinstate a lapsed license you will need to pay a
$500.00 penalty or take 9 semester hours of
course work.
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For those with the old Initial
Teaching Certificate (Now a
Professional Educator
License-PEL):
The next several slides explain what
happened during the exchange for those
with these certificates.
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If you had an initial certificate in
the old certification system,
check the registration expiration
date of your new
Professional Educator License
(PEL).
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You will NO LONGER move to
a Standard Certificate.
Initial and Standard Certificates were
eliminated with the new licensure system
that became effective July 1, 2013.
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The new validity period for
these PEL’s is from July 1,
2013 through June 30, 2018.
 The registration from your old initial teaching
certificate was transferred to your new PEL.
 If your registration expires in 2014, 2015, 2016, or
2017, you’ll need to pay to register your license
until 2018.
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Here is an example of the exchange of
an initial certificate to a license:
 Notice that your “Registered Thru” date is different than your
“Expires” and “Renews” date.
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You won’t need to show any professional
development (PD) to register your license at
this time.
 When you renew your license in 2018, you will be required to
show professional development activities.
 Begin or continue participating in PD.
 Enter it into ELIS as you complete it.
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To register your license, click on
“Registration” on your home page.
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On the next screen click on “Click
Here to Register these Licenses.”
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Follow the instructions to
pay to register your license.
Once it is registered, your license should
then show a “Registered Thru” date of 2018.
Verify that this has occurred.
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For educators whose licenses
expire beyond June 30, 2014,
we are waiting for the rules to
be written by ISBE regarding
the details of licensure renewal
requirements.
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