Provisional Teacher Program-Conversion to Standard Process

It is the responsibility of your position to initiate conversion to a standard for all educators through the NJEdCert. Before initiating a conversion to standard, you must confirm the following has been completed:

• Teachers: Completed 30 weeks of mentoring, received wo years of effective or highly effective final summative ratings and completed required coursework, if applicable.
• Administrators: Completed one-to-two-year residency.
• Ed. Services: Completed a 6-month residency, received an effective or highly effective rating and completed coursework, if applicable.
• SLMS (School Library Media Specialist): Completed a one-year residency, mentoring, received an effective or highly effective rating and completed coursework, if applicable.

To Initiate a Conversion:

• Log into the NJEdCert
• At the Home page, click on the box Initiate Conversion to Standard
• Follow the prompts.

• Once this has been completed, notify the educator that you initiated the conversion.
• Check back every few weeks to see if the Standard certificate has been issued.

Once the Standard Certificate(s) has been issued:

• Login to NJEdCert
• Click on the Lookup Educator Certificates
• Type in the First Name and Last Name of the educator and then click Search.
• Print the page that comes up by holding the control key and tapping the p key. Print Layout should be Landscape.
• Enter the Standard certificate(s) into alio, scan into Archive and file in the employee’s personnel file.
• You should email a copy of this print-out to the employee as well.