North Carolina

Easy steps for renewing a teaching license in North Carolina:

1. Get information about state renewal requirements and the staff professional development process for teachers in NC.
   
   
2. Find and take classes online for teachers:
CEU/Renewal Credit/Clock Hour (watch a quick FAQ video)
Get a Certificate of Completion
Semester Graduate Credit (watch a quick FAQ video)
Get an official transcript from a regionally accredited university


3. Record hours
   Free PD tracker included at no cost with all courses.


4. Save or submit your total hours for renewal.

• NC K-5 Relicensure Package #1 (80 Hours)

  

  Topics: Literacy, Science of Reading, Academic Content Subject Area, Pedagogy, Standards, Ethics, Cultural Competency, Reading Instruction, Cognitive Skills, and more.

  $460 for 80 Hours
  SAVE $120!
  6 Courses (10 or 30 hours each)
• NC K-5 Relicensure Package #2 (80 Hours)

  

  Topics: Literacy, Science of Reading, Academic Content Subject Area, Apps, Pedagogy, Literacy, Standards, Reading Instruction, Technology in the Classroom, and more.

  $460 for 80 Hours
  SAVE $120!
  8 Courses (10 hours each)
• NC 6-12 Relicensure Package #1 (80 Hours)

  

  Topics: Academic Content Subject Area, Ethics, Reading Instruction, Cultural Competency, Literacy, and more.

  $460 for 80 Hours
  SAVE $172!
  8 Courses (10 hours each)
• NC 6-12 Relicensure Package #2 (80 Hours)

  

  Topics: Academic Content Subject Area,

  $460 for 80 Hours
  SAVE $172!
  8 Courses (10 hours each)
• NC School Administrator Relicensure Package (80 Hours)

  

  Topics: School executive’s role as instructional, human resources, and managerial leader, ethics, boundaries, science of reading, hybrid and online teaching, and more.

  $540 for 80 Hours
  SAVE $135!
  4 Courses (10, 20 or 40 hours each)
• NC Student Service Personnel Relicensure Package (80 Hours)

  

  Topics: Professional Discipline, Mental Health, Child Abuse Prevention, Internet Safety, Suicide Prevention, Anti-Bullying Strategies, Cultural Competency, and more.

  $460 for 80 Hours
  SAVE $172!
  8 Courses (10 hours each)
• Special Education Package (40 Hours)

  

  Topics: Autism, ADHD, Diverse Learners, Accommodations, Adaptations, IEPs, Differentiated Education, Gifted Learners, Differentiation and more. The Special Education Package contains 4 online PD courses, adding up to a total of 40 hours. The courses help teachers gain confidence in integrating and teaching students with special needs in the classroom. The package includes tools to help teachers make classroom adaptations, modify lesson plans, tests and assignments, and communicate effectively with students who have special needs.

  $250 for 40 Hours
  SAVE $66!
  4 Courses (10 hours each)
• Standards Package (30 Hours)

  

  TOPICS: Academic Intervention, Understanding RTI, Standards in Teaching, Integrated Curriculum, Literacy, Effective Grading, STEM, and Formative Assessment, and Mathematics.

  $185 for 30 Hours
  SAVE $52!
  3 Courses (10 hours each)
• Student Safety Package (30 Hours)

  

  Topics: Internet Safety, Staying Safe Online, Child Abuse Prevention, Child Protection Protocols, Mandatory Reporters, Reporting Child Abuse, Bullying, Suicide Prevention, Ethics in Education and more. The student safety package contains 3 online PD courses, adding up to a total of 30 hours. The courses help teachers keep students safe in classrooms and schools. The package includes strategies, templates and tools to help teachers integrate technology in a safe manner, address bullying, create policies to identify signs of abuse and suicide and introduce ethical codes of conduct in schools.

  $185 for 30 Hours
  SAVE $52!
  3 Courses (10 hours each)
• Technology Package (50 Hours)

  

  Topics: Technology in Education, Mobile Technology, iPads in the Curriculum, Online Teaching, Hybrid Classrooms, Videos, Flipped Classrooms and more. The technology package contains 5 online PD courses, adding up to a total of 50 hours. The courses help teachers integrate technology into the curriculum. The package includes easy tools to help teachers design the best lesson plans and technology based activities across the curriculum. The courses are full of ideas and strategies that help teachers use technology as a learning tool and prepare students for the real world.

  $300 for 50 Hours
  SAVE $95!
  5 Courses (10 hours each)
• Science of Reading Package (12 Graduate Professional Development Credits - Unive…

  

  Topics: Reading Foundations, Reading and Writing in Content Areas, Instructional Practices in Reading, Assessment Strategies for Reading

  Pay $1,025 Today
  Pay $660 University Credit
  Total Price = $1,685
• Science of Reading Package (12 semester credits - Cal Poly Humboldt)

  

  Topics: Reading Foundations, Reading and Writing in Content Areas, Instructional Practices in Reading, Assessment Strategies for Reading

  Pay $1,025 Today
  Pay $1,020 University Credit
  Total Price = $2,045
• Science of Reading Package (12 semester credits - Ashland University)

  

  Topics: Reading Foundations, Reading and Writing in Content Areas, Instructional Practices in Reading, Assessment Strategies for Reading

  Pay $1,025 Today
  Pay $1,680 University Credit
  Total Price = $2,705
• Apps in the Classroom (10 Hours)

  

  Successfully integrate iPads and apps to ensure higher levels of student engagement and learning. The pedagogy of using iPads in the classroom is presented, with ways for teachers to tap into recent app developments to fully examine their learning potential.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Assessment and Evaluation (10 Hours)

  

  Successfully evaluate and assess the various facets of your teaching practice by seamlessly integrating standards along with effective formative assessments and productive reflection practices. The approaches presented here equip teachers to make accurate assessments of their students’ learning needs and levels, and then plan targeted interventions based on the results, culminating in greater student achievement.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Bullying and Suicide Prevention in Schools (10 Hours)

  

  Topics: Bullying Prevention, Policies, School Safety, Suicide Prevention, Emergency Protocols and more. Healthy classroom and school communities are the foundation of an effective learning environment where students feel safe and can focus on education and growth. What are ways in which teachers can help students to learn communication skills, and be both assertive and compassionate? How can we teach students to respect and treat classmates as equals? This online PD course for teachers is full of intervention ideas, policies and protocols for schools to adopt, emergency plans that can be put in place at school, and other strategies to make classrooms safe and welcoming for all students.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Classroom Management (10 Hours)

  

  Manage the various facets of teaching responsibilities efficiently, by seamlessly integrating the common core and curriculum standards into instruction, enforcing positive behavior interventions, and utilizing the physical classroom space to complement teaching. The strategies presented here build on extensive research, real experiences of teachers, observations of hundreds of classrooms and the most innovative ideas in practice; to enable teachers to manage their classrooms effectively and thus optimize students’ learning experiences.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Communication for Special Education and Behavioral Health in Classrooms (10 Hour…

  

  With a focus on autism and assistive communication, teachers benefit from behavioral health training that is culturally responsive and trauma and evidence informed, increasing awareness of laws and practices relating to educating students with disabilities in the classroom, including but not limited to Child Find and inclusive learning environments.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Core Academic Intervention (10 Hours)

  

  Explore successful strategies to make interventions in teaching practices, including effective ways to evaluate and examine students’ performances, with the ultimate goal of enhancing students’ mastery of the Common Core Standards.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Cultural Competency and Reflective Teaching (10 Hours)

  

  This cultural competency and responsiveness training helps teachers assess their own cultural lens and examine potential bias that impacts the classroom framework with equitable sensitivity to all learners across languages, genders, religions, races, cultural backgrounds, and special needs.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Differentiated Instruction (10 Hours)

  

  Better understand gifted and talented education by learning how to identify, instruct and assess these students. You will have a greater understanding of the various learning styles and will be equipped with ideas and strategies to reach and support every student.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Digital Learning Strategies (10 Hours)

  

  Educators today have to prepare themselves to teach in online and hybrid classrooms. This course on digital learning strategies will help teachers gain confidence in using a range of tools to present information, engage with students, and assess performance using technology. Teachers will learn skills that help them teach online including understanding learning management systems, and other classroom engagement tools. Explore new strategies to present and engage with content thru virtual field trips. As teachers build these skills, they prepare to teach in a range of hybrid and online learning contexts.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Digital Technology in the Classroom (10 Hours)

  

  Using technology to help students achieve specific classroom goals can be a challenge, not only because of the sheer variety of tools, but also because of innumerable safety concerns. Technology tools and video resources in the classroom can be used to help students grasp key concepts, retain information, and enjoy learning. This course is designed to help teachers learn to use existing videos as well as record, edit, create, embed and share their own video lectures in the classroom. It looks at a range of mobile technology apps and assesses their safety. Full of strategies, tutorials, and tips- this course, gives teachers resources that they implement right away.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Enhancing Classroom Instruction (10 Hours)

  

  Equip teachers with essential tools and successful strategies to integrate standards and student portfolios to enhance instruction and benefit students’ learning.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Enhancing the Classroom Learning Environment (10 Hours)

  

  Create effective learning environments for your students by focusing on engaging bulletin board design and meaningful parent relationships.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Ethics for Educators (10 Hours)

  

  Bring and maintain high standards of ethics into our schools. Includes a variety of topics to explore practical ways of addressing ethical decisions in our lives. We all have an innate ethical sense that urges us to make choices. Most people believe that their actions are guided by logic and reason. The information tools provided here are focused on enabling teachers to broaden their understanding of ethical issues while at the same time helping them to better understand the ideas of others. Teachers explore growth in ethical areas of academic excellence, boundaries and academic integrity. From protocols for social media, reporting abuse, transference and plagiarism, these course issues are where ethics and education meet. It is full of practical strategies, resources and guidelines for teachers to implement in their particular teaching situations. Through reflection and introspection, teachers develop an understanding of their ethical self and are given a range of tips to bring high ethical standards into every stage of their educational practice.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Facilitated Learning Strategies (10 Hours)

  

  A teacher’s day is full of tasks including guiding students, organizing classroom activities, monitoring behavior, maximizing learning outcomes, designing lesson plans and assessing student work. It can be overwhelming and challenging. This course provides teachers with practical tips to manage their stress, organize assessments, arrange classroom environments, plan activities and coordinate events. The section on rubrics helps make assessment effective, individualized and easy. Printable templates, web tools, sample rubrics and ready-to-use resources help teachers bring effectivity and organization into daily schedules.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Integrated Classrooms (10 Hours)

  

  Make teaching ALL students a real possibility, by acquiring an in-depth understanding of Individualized Education Programs (IEP) and implementing Universal Design of Learning (UDL) frameworks, where learners’ strategic and affective networks are considered to determine the best teaching methods.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Integrated Curriculum (10 Hours)

  

  Successfully address a range of mathematics and STEM learning needs with strategies designed to benefit teachers at various levels of expertise, in the successful integration of STEM and CCSS into classroom learning.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Learning Strategies for the 21st Century (10 Hours)

  

  Transform teaching practice through Inquiry-based, Collaborative learning climate within classrooms. Building on a strong research base, teachers are empowered to understand and implement effective practices of investigative learning and collaboration, incorporating technology to reach the 21st century learner most effectively.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Preparing Students for College and Careers (10 Hours)

  

  Transform your students’ learning experience by equipping them to be truly ‘college and career ready’, in today’s world. Using the tools and strategies provided in this course, teachers can equip students with skills like Project Management, enabling them to make a successful transition to university and work environments.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Reading Resilience (10 Hours)

  

  Reading and writing are crucial skills, not just within the confines of a classroom, but in life. The ability to read helps children communicate, comprehend their course curricula, become independent learners, and have access to career opportunities.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Research-based Curriculum and Instruction (10 Hours)

  

  Empower students by implementing novel ideas in curriculum development, within classrooms. With this framework, teachers are equipped to integrate research-based instructional strategies with successful curriculum development practices, that cater to teachers’ own professional development as well as students’ learning needs.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• School Mental Health (10 Hours)

  

  Create and maintain safe learning environments for students with trauma-informed teaching strategies. Learn how trauma and bullying impacts learning behaviors, and the strategies they can adopt to help students regulate their emotions, build resilience, and thrive both within and beyond the classroom.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Special Education and Behavioral Health (10 Hours)

  

  Behavioral health training that is culturally responsive and trauma and evidence informed, increasing awareness of laws and practices relating to educating students with disabilities in the classroom, including but not limited to Child Find and inclusive learning environments.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Standards in Teaching (10 Hours)

  

  Untangle what turns out to be the not-so-mysterious language of today’s teaching and learning and put successful strategies, including the Common Core, into practice.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Student Safety and the Technology-rich Classroom (10 Hours)

  

  Discover ways in children’s safety is threatened in today’s world, and learn strategies that can help keep students safe, through a range of resources, signs, characteristics, scenarios, and indicators of threats.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Teachers in Leadership (10 Hours)

  

  Transform teaching practice by using strategies like action research and school-wide initiatives to explore the intricacies of the educational context, and implement corresponding, well-designed interventions for holistic change. The approaches presented here allow teachers to build professional learning communities, enhance school improvement, and is an excellent way to prioritize student learning.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Teaching English Learners (10 Hours)

  

  Improve cross-cultural understanding and examine cultural influences on school practices while coming away with greater insight on how second languages are acquired.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Teaching with Internet Technology (10 Hours)

  

  Gain confidence in navigating the Internet and using technology in teaching and learning, by exploring the concepts and ideas behind using technology in the classroom, to understand the skills needed to use technology to support learning most effectively.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Technology in Learning (10 Hours)

  

  Explore how you can use technology to enhance students’ competence in reading and ‘flip’ your classroom to expand learning experiences. Through a wealth of resources, educators are empowered to create efficient technology-integrated classrooms, while collaborating effectively with students and educators.

  $79 for 10 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Substitute Teaching 101 (15 Hours)

  

  Designed to train and introduce new substitute teachers to a range of topics and skills generally required for teaching in the classroom. Topic area sections covered include overviews of the following: Professionalism: Conduct, confidentiality, and legal responsibilities. Honoring diversity: Basic terminology and appropriate actions. Foundational classroom management techniques: Ways to control a classroom and diffusing conflict. Basic instructional strategies: Effective questioning, assessment methods, and lesson plans. Supporting students with special needs: Basic terminology of disorders and characteristics and appropriate strategies. Working with at-risk youth: Learning traits, characteristics, and appropriate strategies.

  $119 for 15 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Educational Leadership Essentials (20 Hours, includes reflections)

  

  Educational leaders effectively manage school environments through evidence-based practices, ethical decision-making, and school improvement strategies. Includes interactive lessons, practical assignments, sample data analysis activities, real-world projects and a leadership action plan framework.

  $159 for 20 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Implementing SCIENCE of READING for Administrators (20 Hours, includes reflectio…

  

  Strong literacy instruction starts with effective leadership. Principals and administrators play a key role in aligning instruction with the Science of Reading and fostering student success. This professional development equips school leaders with the tools to evaluate, improve, and sustain evidence-based literacy programs.

  $159 for 20 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Hybrid Classroom Planning (30 Hours, includes reflections)

  

  Topics: Designing hybrid lesson plans, online and hybrid teaching strategies, shared rubrics, technology safety, online PLCs, multi-faceted assessments, and more.

  $280 for 30 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Literacy in Learning (30 Hours)

  

  3 Literacy CEUs
  This course helps teachers meet the standards North Carolina State Board of Education related to Literacy including evidence-based assessment, diagnosis, and intervention strategies for students not demonstrating reading proficiency, grounded in the Science of Reading, as defined in G.S. 115C-83.3.

  $185 for 30 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Hybrid School Planning for Administrators (40 Hours, includes reflections)

  

  Seamlessly blend in-person and remote education to create dynamic learning environments through hybrid and hy-flex models. Master five domains: online teaching strategies, technology infrastructure, safety protocols, parent partnerships, and professional development. Includes self-assessment tools to evaluate current capabilities, plus a proven implementation framework for immediate action. School leaders develop customized growth plans and deploy strategies ensuring smooth transitions between learning formats while maintaining excellence.

  $370 for 40 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• Online Teaching Skills (45 Hours, includes reflections)

  

  Topics: Online and hybrid teaching strategies, implementing asynchronous and synchronous lessons, recording a teaching video, student engagement, online assessments, and more.

  $420 for 45 Hours
  1 Certificate
  3 Year Access
• SCIENCE of READING: Assessment Strategies for Reading (60 Hours, includes reflec…

  

  Assessment is a key aspect of teaching methodologies. It helps teachers monitor their students’ progress over time, identify the strengths and weaknesses in their understanding and skills, evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching practices and curriculum materials, and inform important educational decisions. It is not without its challenges: time constraints and the need to avoid biases in student evaluations and align them with standards can make it difficult for teachers to properly assess their students. The new research on the Science of Reading (SoR) is shaping literacy education across the country. As teachers start using these approaches to instruction, we need assessments that align to those approaches. This course introduces reading assessments in all areas of the Science of Reading.

  $375 for 60 Hours
  1 Certificate
  1 Year Access
• SCIENCE of READING: Instructional Practices in Reading (60 Hours, includes refle…

  

  Mastery of instructional practices in reading provides teachers with the necessary tools to deliver high-quality instruction. New research on the Science of Reading (SoR) is shaping how schools are approaching literacy education. Emphasis on explicit and systematic teaching methods is now a core aspect of teaching students to read. By understanding these methodologies and strategies, teachers create engaging and effective lessons that cater to the diverse needs of all students. Proficiency in reading is also foundational to academic success across all subjects. When teachers hone their evidence-based structured literacy practices, they can better support students in developing essential literacy skills, which are fundamental for comprehension, critical thinking, and communication.

  $375 for 60 Hours
  1 Certificate
  1 Year Access