To assist staff with meeting professional development requirements and to maintain certification or a particular license, it is recommended that professional development provided by the school district be submitted for the appropriate continuing education provider approval.
Effective Instructional Leadership Act (EILA)
Principals, Assistant Principals, Directors of Special Ed., Instructional Supervisors, Guidance Counselors, other positions deemed by the EPSB to require an administrative certificate
Instructional leaders, as defined by KRS 156.101, annually complete 21 hours of intensive training “designed to improve and maintain the quality of effectiveness of instructional leadership in the public schools of the Commonwealth.”
Kentucky Department of Education
EILA Provider Application Form
Continuing Competence Unit (CCU)
Occupational Therapists
According to 201 KAR 28:200, occupational therapists must obtain a minimum of twelve (12) CCUs of qualified activities during the preceding annual renewal period for maintaining continuing competence. Six hours of CCUs in suicide prevention, treatment and management are also required every six years.
Kentucky Board of Licensure for Occupational Therapy
Application for Continuing Ed. Program Approval
Continuing Competence Unit
Physical Therapists
According to 201 KAR 22:045, physical therapists must complete 30 hours of continued competency activities (20 hours for physical therapist assistants) prior to renewing their credentia
Kentucky Board of Physical Therapy
Single Course Provider Application
Continuing Ed. Hours
Speech Therapists: Kentucky Licensure
201 KAR 17:090 states, "(1) A minimum of thirty (30) continuing education hours shall be accrued by each person holding licensure as a speech-language pathologist, speech-language pathology assistant, or audiologist during the biennial period for renewal."
Kentucky Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Application for Continuing Ed. Program Approval
Certification Maintenance Hours
Speech Therapists: ASHA Certification
ASHA Certification Maintenance Standards require that all certificate holders (CCC-A and CCC-SLP) must accumulate 30 Certification Maintenance Hours (CMHs) of professional development during each 3-year certification maintenance interval in order to maintain their ASHA Certificates of Clinical Competence (CCC)
American Speech Language Hearing Association
Approved CE Provider Application
Continuing Ed. Hours
Educational Interpreters
201 KAR 39:090 directs a fully licensed educational interpreter to earn a total of fifteen hours during the fiscal year, prior to license renewal on June 30th. A minimum of three total hours must be related to ethics. The Kentucky Board of Interpreters (KBI) approved PD is required to satisfy these fifteen hours. A temporary licensed educational interpreter needs to earn a total of eighteen hours prior to renewal or extension of the license on June 30th. A minimum of three total continuing education hours shall be related to ethics.
Kentucky Board of Interpreters for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing