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Requirement to receive reciprocity in another state
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IMPORTANT NOTE TO PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES: Each state is responsible for its own certification/licensure requirements, which may change without notice to NASDTEC or your university's certification officers or your state's office of certification. You must contact the office of certification in any state to which you may be relocating to get the most accurate information on certification requirements. Reciprocity is often (though not always) easier if you completed the certification requirements and obtained your certification in the state where you completed your program requirements.
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Alabama - AL Website
Must hold NE certification for reciprocity
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Bachelors or more advanced degree from a state-approved teacher education program
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State and Federal background check
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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Alaska - AK Website
Must hold NE certification for one-year Initial Certificate
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Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official transcripts required
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Program Verification Form
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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Within two years of AK initial license, must take and pass 3 semester hours of an approved Alaska studies course and 3 hours of an approved Alaska multicultural studies class.
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Completion of four mandatory trainings
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America Samoa - AS Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official transcripts required
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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Arizona - AZ Website
The Arizona Department of Education Certification Unit may issue a comparable teaching, administrative, or professional non-teaching certificate to an applicant who holds a valid, comparable certificate in another state and is in good standing in that other state. Applicants may also qualify to add additional approved areas or endorsements to existing teaching certificates if they hold a valid, comparable approved area or endorsement in another state.
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Copy of Arizona Department of Safety Identity Verified Prints (IVP) fingerprint clearance card
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Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official transcripts required
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Valid, comparable education certificate from another state or completion of an approved teacher preparation program
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If you do not obtain a NE teaching certificate then you must take and receive a passing score on the NES or AEPA exam
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Arkansas - AR Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official transcripts required
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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Fingerprint BG Check
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ECE, Elementary, & Secondary Social Studies must also complete an Arkansas history course
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California - CA Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official transcripts required
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Fingerprint BG Check
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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Applicants will need to have English Language Authorization or ESL endorsement to move to a full credential
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Colorado - CO Website
Fingerprint BG Check
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Transcripts from institutions outside the US must be in English or include an authentic English translation and have been evaluated by an established credential evaluation service as selected by CDE for course equivalence. CDE currently only accepts evaluations completed by a NACES member.
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Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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A completed Approved Program Verification Form OR three or more years of full-time, licensed teaching experience within the past seven years in the state of licensure. 
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( Download the Verification Form )
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Out-of-state alternative applicants must also obtain an official signed letter from your State Department of Education confirming that you completed a state-approved program and the program requirements for the alternative program you completed.
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Submit the results for any CDE-accepted PLACE or PRAXIS exams you have passed
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Employment history: Include employer/business name, dates of employment, reason for leaving, work addresses, supervisor names, and contact information.Include teaching experience from more than 5 years ago, if you have it.
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If applicable, obtain all copies of active or expired teaching licenses covering the years of experience you have had as an educator. 
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Connecticut - CT Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Completed Statement of Preparing Higher Education Institution
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If prior teaching experience, Completed Statement of Professional Experience
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Official transcripts sent to the Bureau of Certification directly from the university to teacher.etranscript@ct.gov
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Completed Verification of Out-of-State Educator Certification Tests
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Delaware - DE Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official Transcripts
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Passing of required exams; Praxis, Praxis Subject Exam, & performance assessment
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Verification of teaching experience (if applicable)
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District of Columbia - DC Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official Transcripts
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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FBI Identity History Summary Check
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Provide copy of NE state certification
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Florida - FL Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official Transcripts
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Provide copy of NE state certification
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Fingerprint - background clearance
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Georgia - GA Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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FBI Background Check
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Provide copy of NE state certification OR
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Submit Approved Program Completion Form
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Official Transcripts
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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A passing score on the Georgia Educator Ethics Assessment - Program Exit (Test Code 360)
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Guam - GU Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official Transcripts
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Provide copy of NE state certification
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Within initial 3 year teaching period you must complete a one year mentorship and take a college / university level course in Guam History or Guam culture
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Records of Praxis Exam Passing Scores: core and subject exams
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Hawaii - HI Website
HI honors reciprocity across all 50 states
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Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official Transcripts
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Elementary: At least 36 semester hours in
the content field, at least 15 of
which must be upper division
level; (including nine semester
hours in each core content
area; at least three semester
hours in each core content
area must be upper division
level)
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OR Pass Praxis Elementary Content Exam
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Pass Praxis Subject Exam
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Submit Educator Preparation Program Recommendation
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OR if already certified in NE, Submit Licensing Agency Confirmation of Licensure
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Pass Professional Fitness Questions
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Idaho - ID Website
Bachelors or more advanced degree from an accredited institution
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Official Transcripts
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Provide copy of NE state certification