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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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