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The Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) is committed to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and promote the wellbeing of Oregon’s educators, agency employees, and the public.  To this end, TSPC will focus its customer service efforts through virtual correspondence.  Beginning Tuesday, March 24, 2020 the TSPC office was closed to the public, and assistance by telephone permanently discontinued.  All licensing transactions can be completed through the TSPC Online Licensing Application System.  Educators and the public are encouraged to contact TSPC with any questions or customer service needs via email at contact.tspc@tspc.oregon.gov.  TSPC thanks you for your understanding as we work together with you to do our part to support the health of our community.


Important Notice to Oregon's Licensed Educators

PDU reduction due to COVID-19

In March of 2020, and again in September of 2020, the Commission responded to Governor Brown's Executive Order regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. The Commission's response reduced the number of PDUs required for renewal and reinstated the licenses, dependent on the valid term of the license being renewed.

As the COVID restrictions were lifted, the Commission slightly revised the COVID guidance for ease of calculation of PDUs in the coming years. Please review the following document for further information. 

Guide to Continuing PDUs rev 7-2021.pdf


Ethical Guidance for Educators in the Distance Learning Environment

Ethical Guidance for Distance Learning


 

Flexibility with Fidelity: Classroom Teaching Assignments

During the month of July in 2020, Dr. Rosilez met with multiple stakeholders expressing concern about the reopening of schools and how to best serve Oregon’s students. Those meetings resulted in a Commission temporary rule and resolution for adopting that rule to guide districts in “misassigning” teachers in certain circumstances for the 2020-2021 school year. This flexibility was in no way permission to assign any teacher to any classroom. Schools and districts had to carefully consider the information in these documents, and reported these misassignments to TSPC (Elizabeth.keller@tspc.oregon.gov) on the provided spreadsheet template by October 31, 2020.

The COVID Temporary Misassignment Guidance is not valid for the 2021-2022 school year.