Educator Resources
Mentoring Requirement for Certification
Holders of the Initial and Conditional Initial certificate must receive mentoring in their first year of teaching or school building leadership service in a public school district. An exception to this requirement applies to certificate holders who have at least two years of teaching or educational leadership service, respectively, prior to receiving the Initial or Conditional Initial certificate; they may be exempted from this requirement.
The purpose of the mentoring requirement is to provide beginning educators in teaching or school building leadership service with support in order to gain skillfulness and more easily make the transition to one’s first professional experience under an Initial certificate. Satisfaction of a mentored experience is one of the requirements individuals must meet in order to qualify for the Professional certificate. Public school districts must submit documentation of the mentored experience, or may do so by submitting the form Superintendent Verification of Mentored Experience .
Go to Frequently-Asked Questions for additional information on the mentoring requirement.