Continuing Education Materials

St. Clair Continuing Education and Relicensure Committee

Purpose The purpose of the St Clair School District Continuing Education/Relicensure Committee is to approve clock hour requests and to recommend relicensure.

Clock hours are the number of hours of actual participation in planned professional development. Clock hours are granted for experiences that help maintain and improve professional skills and abilities. Clock hours will be denied for activities that are primarily for personal development.

St Clair teachers apply for clock hours by either: filling out the appropriate form and attaching appropriate documentation; or by signing in at a district staff development in-service.

Philosophy The committee’s goal is to encourage you to improve your professional practice through meaningful and purposeful continuing education activities in a variety of professional growth categories. The committee will not grant clock hours for experiences that are primarily for personal rather than professional improvement, or for experiences that duplicate experiences without new or enhanced professional development value. (Minnesota rule 8710.7200)

To download committee guidelines, meeting dates of the committee, clock hour rules, examples, a list of the state-mandated requirements, click on "Continuing Education Document Downloads" in the menu below.

Check your Clock Hours at the MN Department of Education:

• Beginning January 1, 2018, all licensing information, including educator lookup, will be transferred to a new website https://mn.gov/pelsb/

• Beginning January 1, 2018, the current phone numbers for educator licensing will be disconnected. The new PELSB phone number is 651-539-4200.

See BELOW for Downloading Forms and Requirements.