If your educator certificate expires 6/30/2025 or after and you have one of the subjects listed below on your certificate, you must complete the new 40-point reading course requirement. This 40-point course is included in the total 120 required renewal credits.

7/2024: Updated List of Courses meeting 40 hour Reading Requirement

You can take Exploring Structured Literacy (ESL) through the FDLRS-BEESS Portal to meet this requirement. This facilitated ESL course also meets the 20-point SWD requirement (total of 40 points, not 60).

Courses taken for the reading endorsement do not count towards this renewal requirement.

Applicants who are renewing their certificates in the coverage areas below must take two credit hours (or 40 hours of professional development) in the use of explicit, systematic, and sequential approaches to reading instruction, developing phonemic awareness, and implementing multisensory intervention.

• Elementary Education (K-6)

• Prekindergarten/Primary Education (age 3 through grade 3)

• Elementary Education (grades 1-6)

• Primary Education (grades K-3)

• English (grades 1-6)

• Middle Grades English (grades 5-9)

• Middle Grades Integrated Curriculum (grades 5-9)

• English (6-12)

• Reading (K-12)

• Reading (Endorsement)

• English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) (grades K-12)

• Exceptional Student Education (K-12)