How many credits do I have to complete for my 5-year renewal?
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LICENSURE RENEWAL PROCESS
North Carolina Standard Professional 2 licenses must be renewed every five years. The renewal process ensures that licensed school personnel continually update their professional knowledge. Each license holder is responsible for knowing and satisfying license renewal requirements. Failure to renew your North Carolina Standard Professional 2 license makes one ineligible for employment unless a validation of your expired license is requested by the employing school system. A school system can only validate after a fiscal school year of unemployment as a teacher.
Renewal and Reinstatement Guidelines:
• 10 semester hours or 15 units of renewal credit. Course work must be directly related to an individual's professional responsibilities as a public school educator or to his or her area(s) of licensure. Teachers of grades K-12 must complete three renewal credits in their academic subject areas, including strategies to teach those subjects, during each five-year renewal cycle effective July 1, 2009.
• A unit of renewal credit is equivalent to one quarter hour or one in-service credit from a North Carolina public school system. Generally, a unit reflects ten contact hours.
• One semester hour is equivalent to 1.5 units of credit.
• Individuals teaching in grades K-8 in a NC public school system or a NC school that has an approved license renewal plan must earn 3 units of renewal credit in reading methods during each five-year renewal cycle.
• Effective July 1, 2007, principals and assistant principals in a NC public school system or other NC school that has an approved license renewal plan must earn 5 units of renewal credit during each five-year cycle focused on the principal's role in teacher effectiveness, teacher evaluations, teacher support programs, teacher leadership, teacher empowerment, and teacher retention.
• For a license to remain current, all credit must be earned by the expiration date of the existing license.
• To renew an expired license, 10 semester hours or 15 units of renewal credit must be earned within the most recent five-year period.
• Each full year of teaching counts as one CEU credit. The teaching years must be during the 5 year cycle.