This reminder is for Professional Development Councils (PDCs) in preparing professional development transcripts. 

If an educator needs college credit hours for renewal of a license, please be sure that the college/university is listed on the professional development transcript, along with the course name and number of credit hours earned. 

Please be advised that not all colleges/universities are on the semester credit hour calendar system. If an educator has completed credit hours at a non-Kansas institution, especially based in the west coast or pacific northwest, they may be on the quarter-credit system where one (1) quarter credit is equivalent to .67 semester credit hours.  

Please ask staff members to double check before taking what they think are semester credit hours from these institutions and that the institution is regionally accredited with transcripts that come from the registrar’s office. 

Additionally, submitting an official college/university transcript for renewal courses to the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) is no longer required, but PDCs should still require educators to submit these documents to the PDC to verify any college credit hours that are to be listed on an official professional development transcript. 

For more information or questions, email TLALicense@ksde.org.