Oregon counts PDUs at 25 per year of your license term. One semester hour of college credit is worth 30 of them.
Oregon counts 25 Continuing PDUs per year of licensure term, which OAR 584-255-0010 spells out as 75 PDUs during the life of a three-year license and 125 PDUs during the life of a five-year license. The arithmetic is unusually kind: one hour of professional development activity is one PDU, one semester hour of college credit is 30, and one quarter hour is 20.
The temporary reduction has expired. Educators renewing a license "through 06/30/2026" could complete the required total minus 37 PDUs, once only. That window closed at the end of June 2026, so a renewal now works from the full 75 or 125.
Promotion is a separate currency. Moving to the Professional Teaching License or Professional CTE Teaching License takes 150 advanced PDUs, tailored to the teacher's performance goals, based on the core teaching standards, and completed while holding the Preliminary license.
One hour of advanced or continuing professional development activity equals one PDU. One semester hour of college credit equals 30 PDUs. One quarter hour of college credit equals 20 PDUs.
Educators employed as faculty at universities or colleges may use their course presentation hours toward the continuing PDU requirement, at one hour of presentation to one PDU.
Educators holding dual licensure with other state professional licensing boards are encouraged to fulfill their continuing professional development by completing the PDUs provided by those areas, speech language pathologists being TSPC's own example.
Licensed educators may carry over 25 PDUs of excess Continuing PDUs, and only those obtained in the previous reporting period. Banking further ahead does not work.
Completing any of these waives continuing professional development requirements for the renewal period during which the certification is completed and the following licensure renewal cycle - two cycles from one certification, which is worth planning around.
OAR 584-255-0010(5)(a)(C) let licensees renewing "through 06/30/2026" complete the required total minus 37 PDUs, applied one time only. That date has passed, so it no longer helps a renewal today.
The continuing professional development requirement covers a long list of licenses, so an educator who has moved roles should not assume it stopped applying.
In EX in Education, the PDUs you track in Oregon sit beside new-hire onboarding, walkthroughs, coaching cycles, goals, evaluations, staff surveys and recognition. Leaders see how every educator is doing from their first week onward, not only whether they are current, and the renewal record builds out of the growth work already happening.
Start a conversation about Oregon75 PDUs on a three-year license, 125 on a five-year. The full total now applies: the 37-PDU reduction covered renewals through June 30, 2026.
One hour of activity is one PDU. One semester hour of college credit is 30 PDUs, one quarter hour is 20. College faculty may count course presentation hours at one to one.
NBPTS, NASP, NSCC, C-SSWS or ASHA certification waives the continuing requirement for the cycle in which you complete it and the following one.
Up to 25 excess PDUs carry over, and only from the previous reporting period. Anything older does not travel.
Twenty-five Continuing PDUs per year of licensure term. OAR 584-255-0010 states this as 75 PDUs during the life of a three-year license and 125 PDUs during the life of a five-year license.
One hour of advanced or continuing professional development activity equals one PDU. One semester hour of college credit equals 30 PDUs. One quarter hour of college credit equals 20 PDUs.
No. The rule applied it to licensees applying to renew a license through June 30, 2026, and allowed it one time only. That window has closed, so a renewal now works from the full 75 or 125. Guidance published during the window is still circulating, which is why it is worth stating plainly.
It waives the continuing professional development requirement for the renewal period during which the certification is completed and the following licensure renewal cycle. The same applies to NASP, NSCC, C-SSWS and ASHA certification.
Up to 25 excess Continuing PDUs, and only those obtained in the previous reporting period.
Continuing PDUs renew most active licenses. Advanced PDUs are for promotion: an Advanced Professional Development Program of 150 advanced PDUs, tailored to the teacher's performance goals, based on the core teaching standards, and completed while holding the Preliminary Teaching or Preliminary CTE Teaching License.
Yes. Select Oregon and the system tracks toward 75 or 125 depending on your term, applies the semester and quarter hour conversions, and keeps the advanced PDUs for promotion separate from the continuing PDUs for renewal, because they are different currencies with different rules.
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