EHHS Local Professional Development Committee (LPDC)

Local Professional Development Committees (LPDCs) were created under Ohio law to review coursework and professional development activities completed by educators to determine if state certification and licensure requirements have been met. The primary responsibility of the LPDC is to review educators’ Individual Professional Development Plans (IPDPs) and ensure that the identified goals and strategies are relevant to the needs the educator and the audience they serve.

Who must work through the LPDC?

All educators (teaching, non-teaching, and associate personnel, including interpreters and treasurers) who:

Hold a certificate, professional or an associate or career technical workforce development 5-year license; and
Are employed full- or part-time in the school, school district, agency or institution the LPDC represents; and
Wish to fulfill the license renewal requirements

Who is exempt from working through the LPDC?

These individuals are exempt from working through an LPDC:

Resident Educators and Alternative Resident Educator license holders
Provisional Career Technical Workforce Development license holders
Alternative Administrative Educator license holders
Supplemental or 1-Year Out-of-Sate license holders
Professional Pupil Services license holders (including school nurses, school social workers and school speech-language pathologists)
Permanent certificate license holders

The Individial Professional DEvelopment Plan (IPDP)

An IPDP is a document prepared by the educator as a record of personal professional development goals and as a document of their achievement.

IPDP Template

Requirements include:

A total of 18 CEUs are required for renewal (10 clock hours = 1 CEU)
6 graduate credit hours
or a combination of both
- CEU Conversation Chart
Documentation of Professional Development Activities
- Professional Development Log

Professional development must be completed after the issue date of the license to be renewed.