Options for Renewal of a Lapsed Five-Year Teaching or Related Services License
If your five-year teaching or related services professional license has lapsed or if you are not residing in Minnesota, you have the following options:
1. You can apply for a five-year short call substitute license, valid to teach no more than 15 consecutive days in a single classroom assignment.
2. Provide evidence that you have completed 125 clock hours of approved continuing education earned during the five-year period immediately preceding the application. Your local Minnesota continuing education committee must verify your clock hours. Contact your school district office for information concerning the relicensure committee.
3. If you have not been employed by a Minnesota school district in the past year, you can submit official transcripts verifying completion of college credits related to the teaching field earned in the five-year period immediately preceding the application. (One-quarter credit equals 16 clock hours/one semester credit equals 24 clock hours.)
4. An extension for the balance of the school year may be issued if you provide evidence that you have been offered a position in Minnesota contingent upon holding a valid license. At the end of the extended licensure period, you must meet renewal requirements for the continuing license.
There is no penalty if your license has expired. However, anyone who substitutes or has a teaching position in a Minnesota elementary or secondary public school must hold a valid Minnesota teaching license.
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