Renew an Indiana license on the Professional Growth Plan route: 90 points, verified in LVIS before you can even finish the application. PGP is one method of renewal, not the only one.
The Professional Growth Plan is one method of renewal, not the whole picture - IDOE's own wording - and this page covers that route. On it, the point total depends on what you are renewing. A 90-point PGP renews a five- or ten-year license, and also covers an Initial Practitioner cycle reset (a third renewal of a two-year IP license). A 40-point PGP converts a two-year IP license to a five-year Practitioner license, and a 40-point PGP is also required for every Career Specialist Permit renewal after the first one. Educational interpreters have their own currency and need 36 PGPEI points.
The math is the easy part: one clock hour qualifies for one PGP point. What catches people is the process. Renewing with a PGP has two separate components, and they are strictly ordered - you enter your PGP points into LVIS and submit them for verification, and the application itself "cannot be completed until you have received an email indicating your PGP has been verified." Leave that to the last week and the calendar, not the points, is what fails you.
Do not apply more than 45 days before your expiration date. IDOE is explicit that this backfires: the issue date of your renewed license is the date you pay, so applying early "will result in a period of loss of validity". There is no penalty for finishing requirements late - the license simply is not renewed until they are met - and any license valid on the first day of the academic year stays valid for that whole year under 511 IAC 16-1-1(e).
IDOE: "The PGP points shall be calculated with one (1) clock hour qualifying for one (1) PGP point." Conferences, workshops, committee work, school improvement work and coursework all count against that rate.
IDOE lists renewal paths that are not a Professional Growth Plan at all - six hours of college coursework, National Board certification, a valid IPLA license, and emergency permit renewal each have their own instructions. Check which applies to you before counting points you may not need.
Valid CPR and AED certification from an IDOE-approved provider is listed among the required documents at renewal, uploaded with the application.
Also listed among the required documents at renewal. All documentation has to be uploaded together - an application short of documents is returned, and one marked Additional Documentation Required is held 90 days and then closed, costing you another application and another fee.
Summaries routinely list these as renewal requirements. IDOE's own pages tie both to initial licensure, which matters because a renewing teacher can waste a cycle chasing them and a new applicant can miss a hard gate.
IDOE's guidance for all PGP types: "PGP Points must be obtained since the issue date of the license being renewed." There is one exception, and it is generous.
IDOE: "Professional Growth Plan (PGP) requirements have changed under SEA 319 (2020). Completion of 15 of 90 PGP points in topics of career awareness is no longer mandatory." Plenty of guidance still in circulation says otherwise. Career-focused activities, including career and technical student organizations, remain a voluntary way to earn points.
The evidence burden is very different in the two cases, and the second one surprises people who have left the classroom.
90 points for a five- or ten-year renewal, 40 to convert an Initial Practitioner license to a Practitioner license, 90 for a third Initial Practitioner renewal, 36 PGPEI points for educational interpreters.
One clock hour is one PGP point. Keep the certificate, transcript or signed verification for each entry - especially if the Office of Educator Licensing rather than your district will be verifying it.
The application cannot be completed until you receive the email confirming your PGP has been verified. This is the step that turns a finished plan into a missed deadline.
Not earlier: your new issue date is your payment date, so applying early loses you validity. Upload CPR and AED certification and child abuse and neglect training together with the application - an incomplete one is returned, and after 90 days it closes and you pay again.
On the Professional Growth Plan route: 90 points to renew a five-year or ten-year license, 90 for an Initial Practitioner cycle reset, 40 to convert a two-year Initial Practitioner license to a five-year Practitioner license, 40 for every Career Specialist Permit renewal after the first, and 36 PGPEI points for educational interpreters. A PGP is one method of renewal - IDOE also lists coursework, National Board certification, a valid IPLA license and emergency permit renewal, each with its own requirements.
They count from the issue date of the license being renewed. The exception is the third renewal of a two-year Initial Practitioner license, where IDOE allows points obtained since the issue date of the original IP license.
One for one. IDOE states the PGP points shall be calculated with one clock hour qualifying for one PGP point, across activities including conferences, workshops, committee work, school improvement work and coursework.
Not to renew. Both are initial licensure requirements: human trafficking training under IC 20-28-5-12.3 is required of educators seeking an initial DOE-issued license or permit prior to initial licensure, and the department may not issue an initial educator license without evidence of suicide prevention training. Separately, IC 20-28-3-6 requires teachers in grades 5-12 to take suicide prevention training every three school years as a condition of the job rather than of the license.
Within 45 days of your expiration date. IDOE warns against applying earlier because the issue date of the renewed license is the date you pay, so an early application results in a period of loss of validity. A license valid on the first day of the academic school year stays valid for that whole school year under 511 IAC 16-1-1(e).
There is no penalty imposed by the Educator Licensing office, but the license is not renewed until the requirements have been met. The practical risk is the verification step: the renewal application cannot be completed until you have received the email confirming your PGP has been verified.
Yes. Select Indiana and the system tracks progress toward 90, 40 or 36 points at one point per clock hour, and keeps the certificates and signed verifications each entry needs before LVIS submission. That record sits alongside the same educator's coaching, evaluations and goals rather than in a separate file.
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