What's the Expiration Date on Your Certificate?

Hi friends, it's a rare bit of non-budget related news! :-)

There's a bulletin that was just put out by OSPI....

You can access it here

....that has a tidbit we should all keep in mind:

Our certification office appreciates school districts past efforts to encourage early certification renewal of their employees. Due to the volume of certificates to process and our current operating system, we maintain nearly an eight- to twelve-week processing time for issuance of certificates. With current fiscal restraints and budget shortcomings, this peak season will burden our certification office to its limits. We are asking school districts to continue promoting the early renewal process of certificates by communicating to their employees the importance of submitting applications as early in May as possible.

You'd be well advised to take a few minutes to double-check your certificate and make sure that your credit/clock-hour requirements are met. For those of you who are National Board Certified I know that the re-certification process is a bit different, so if you've gone through the process and could educate me I'd appreciate it.

Thanks, and Happy Easter!

--Ryan--