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Forms to use when applying for an extension on your teaching certificate:

If you were certificated after March 2005, your current certificate is probably UNDATED and called a "Provisional Residency" certificate.  What you will do, after you’ve completed Provisional Status (usually your first two years teaching in the district), is send your certificate in to Olympia to get it replaced with a DATED certificate, which will have an expiration date five years from the time you complete Provisional Status.   Here is the form you need.  


If you were certificated between September 2000 and March 2005, your certificate is probably DATED.  You are eligible for an extension of five years from the time you complete Provisional Status in the district, which may give you a little more time.  Here is the form you need.
    

NOTE: IN EACH OF THE CASES ABOVE, YOU WILL SEE THE FORM ON PAGE TWO OF THE LINK.  YOU WILL COMPLETE SECTION I OF THE FORM AT THE TOP ONLY, AND THEN SEND IT TO Human Resources TO COMPLETE SECTION II FOR YOU. THEY WILL SEND IT BACK TO YOU TO SEND TO OLYMPIA. HR has a new system of Teams, which means that you will need to check which team covers your school, and send your form to the proper person. For Team 1 it would be Beverly Johnson; Team 2: Donna Hansen; Team 3: Evelyn Lutz; Team 4: Elizabeth Ameola-Tialavea; and Team 5: Amy Valenti. Here is the link to see which Team your school is under. Send your form to the proper person, at mailstop 33-157. http://inside.seattleschools.org/area/humanresources/directory.xml            

 

If your certificate is DATED, AND you have not yet completed Provisional Status (i.e., if you are in P1 this year and will be in P2 next year; or if you've been substituting or on leave, etc.), we recommend that you go ahead and send your certificate in to Olympia to get an UNDATED ("Provisional Residency") one.  If you have not completed two consecutive years of teaching, you only need to complete the top section I, and send it in to OSPI yourself (no need to have HR complete the bottom section II.) Then, you will use the same form after you do complete Provisional Status in the district, to get a dated certificate back, which will give you an expiration date five years later (following the directions above).  Here is the form to get an UNDATED Residency certificate.


**NOTE: WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR NEW CERTIFICATE, YOU NEED TO BRING IT IN TO REGISTER THE ORIGINAL WITH HR RIGHT AWAY!***

And finally, if you have already gotten your “free” extension from the State (certified Sept. 2000-March 2005); and you have a firm expiration date on your certificate, and have also already gotten the reissuance described above (five years from the time you completed provisional status); AND you enroll in a ProCert program, you can get an additional 2-year “Institutional Extension” from the university you are with, to be sure you have enough time to finish your ProCert program.  Contact your university to help you with this.

Many times individual circumstances not covered above determine what needs to happen with your certification. When in doubt, ALWAYS check with OSPI to be sure you are doing what you need to do! (cert@k12.wa.us or 360-725-6400)

 

 

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