Colorado Teaching (K-12) CE category requirements

How the 90 CE hours every 7 years breaks down by category for professional teacher licenses in Colorado, sourced from the official board.

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Required categories

Specified required learning for licenses expiring on or after June 30, 2025 (including at least 1 hour behavioral health and 1 hour educating students with disabilities) (conditional)
10h

Colorado uses native contact hours: 90 contact hours (or 6 semester hours) per seven years. The 10-hour specified-learning distribution, including the 1-hour behavioral-health and 1-hour students-with-disabilities minimums, applies to licenses expiring on or after June 30, 2025. A one-time 45-hour culturally and linguistically diverse education requirement applies to some endorsement holders from September 1, 2025; see the official source.

Official source: Colorado Department of Education, educator license renewal requirements

⚠️Board rules change. Verify every figure against the official source before relying on it.

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