Credential Review Pathway to Educator Certification

Need to Reissue, Renew or Obtain a New Certification?

The Credential Review Pathway (CRP) can help! CRP provides an avenue for those with extensive experience in a certification area to reissue, renew, or obtain a new certification. This path to educator certification is approved by the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE).

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Who Can Participate?

CRP is for individuals who:

hold an Emergency or Expert Residency Certificate
are fully certified in one area and wish to add an additional certificate
wish to renew a certificate that is more than five years expired

Documentation Needed to Participate

If you can document these prerequisites you are qualified to participate:

you are a current or previously certified educator
you earned a bachelor's degree with a minimum GPA of 3.0*
you have extensive teaching experience** in the desired certification area

*or post-bachelor's coursework with a minimum GPA of 3.0

**Extensive teaching experience is a full semester of supervised student teaching in the desired certification area or 270+ days of full-time teaching in the desired certification area. Work experience as a teacher assistant does not count. You need to be fully in charge of the class. If you are working on an Expert Residency or Emergency Certification, this experience can be included as one of your action items on your CRP Plan of Study.

How to Apply

You will apply through CollegeNET, our application platform.

Please use this evidence organizer as part of your application materials. This completed document will be added to the Document Upload section of your application.

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Please Note: A separate application and fee is required for each certification sought.

What Your Application Will Determine

Your application will demonstrate how you have met each of the professional competencies outlined in the RI Professional Teaching Standards - RIPTS [PDF, 191 KB]; and the professional association standards for your desired area of certification. See RIDE's Professional Association Standards by Certificate Area to find the standards for your certification area.

Understand the Credential Review Pathway Process

Applications are accepted year-round and reviewed on a rolling basis. The review process takes approximately 1 month from date of completed application, including $250.00 application fee.

After the review of your full application with documentation, we will email you a status form indicating met and unmet certification requirements and a Plan of Study. The Plan of Study will include specific actions to help you achieve "unmet" certification requirements. The Plan of Study may list the Rhode Island College coursework or other actions required to achieve professional, pedagogical and content competencies and assessment requirements.

After achieving all certification requirements, the Feinstein School of Education Associate Dean will sign the Credential Review Completion Authorization. RIC CRP will send this signed form to you. You will then apply for your issuance of your certificate at RIDE (including the signed form in your RIDE application materials).

Contact the CRP Office or CRP Co-Directors

Email the CRP Office Call the CRP Office

Dr. Elizabeth Gibbons Holtzman

Professor

Dr. Julie R. Horwitz

Professor