EDUCATOR LICENSE RENEWAL
Educator license renewal opened on April 1 and will continue until June 30. Currently, 17,551 out of the 115,000 licenses have been renewed.
ROEs can help educators renew by:
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Checking that professional development hours have been satisfied.
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Making sure employment status is accurate.
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Accessing ELIS from a laptop or desktop and utilizing Firefox or Google Chrome as the browser.
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Renewal FAQ
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Renewal webpage
APPROVED PD PROVIDER RENEWAL
All approved professional development providers are required to renew their registration on an annual basis. Renewal opened on April 1 and closes June 30 in PD+. All districts and Regional Offices of Education/Intermediate Service Centers will access their PD+ account from ELIS for Administrators in IWAS. Providers who fail to renew by June 30 will be removed from the approved provider list, and educators will not be able to enter PD from those providers until the provider renews. Please be sure that your ROE/ISC has renewed its registration and please remind your districts to do so as well.
PD+ FOR EDUCATORS
PD+ was released to all users on Aug. 29, 2022. The system is synced with the Professional Development page in an educator’s ELIS account. Educators are encouraged to begin familiarizing themselves with the PD+ page in their ELIS account by entering new PD on that page. An icon that helps you navigate to the PD+ page is at the top of the ELIS screen. PD will be reflected on both the PD+ page and the existing Professional Development page.
PD+ UPDATE
PD+ is currently in phase II of development, which is the integration of the Illinois Administrator Academy Management System. Phase I is open and ready for use. Please be sure you are sharing PD+ with all districts in your region. We recommend all ROEs/ISCs provide training and helpful resources from the ISBE PD+ webpage to their districts.
SPRING 2023 ROE/ISC TOUCHPOINT
Thank you to all who attended the Spring 2023 ROE/ISC Touchpoint. Post-training materials, including the presentation, a copy of the recording, training materials, and an FAQ document, were sent to all attendees.
DIVERSE EDUCATOR RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT
ISBE is partnering with American Institutes for Research (AIR) to provide leadership, facilitation, and content expertise pertaining to diverse educator recruitment and retention to the agency and educator preparation providers (EPPs). Fifty-two percent of students in Illinois are students of color, yet 83% of teachers are White. ISBE Strategic Plan Goals 3.1 and 3.4 prioritize building partnerships to result in a diverse teaching corps that better match the demographics of our state’s children. Specifically, AIR will assist EPPs and ISBE with developing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and revising plans for diverse educator recruitment and retention. ISBE led a pilot with a subset of Illinois EPPs during the 2021-22 school year to develop diverse educator recruitment and retention plans. This project will build upon the work of the pilot. IHE and ROE AIR will partner with ISBE for two years to accomplish project goals. All EPPs will receive an invitation in the near future for a kickoff event to be held in August.
ILLINOIS APPROVED PD PROVIDERS
Professional development is vital to the growth and success of teachers in Illinois. The Illinois approved provider list is extensive and reaches a wide variety of interests. We would like to highlight a few of the providers available for services related to young children in general and children with autism in particular.
See the complete list of Illinois-approved professional development providers.
PROFILES IN IMPROVEMENT: HOW ILLINOIS DEVELOPED A DATA SYSTEM TO ADVANCE TEACHER PREPARATION
New America recently published a research brief on the IEPP. The brief describes the work by ISBE and the Partnership for Educator Preparation to develop the platform and shares lessons learned for state and federal policymakers, as well as for advocates looking to support similar efforts across the nation.
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