PECS Certification

BJA PD 

Excel files (will download) to add to your personal log; see additional info under “Keep Documentation” below

• 22-23 PD Master List
• 23-24 PD Master List
•  24-25 PD Master List
• 25-26 PD Master List

PECS Certification

Review PECS Book 2018 for full details–below for the key elements.

Get enough professional development: average 15 contact hours or 1 semester hour of college work per year

• Contact hours (in general)
  • At least 10 of the contact hours must be live training (including livestreamed) from other (credible) organizations
  • Up to 5 (annual average) may be non-live training or in-house training*
• Contact hours (additional considerations)
  • *When someone has presented a session for another organization (e.g., SCACS), that session is considered as external even when they present it during training at their own school.
  • A session leader receives twice the contact hour credit for each session presented.
  • Sessions such as CPR count only for PE teachers and coaches.
  • MinistrySafe training counts only once for this purpose even though BJA requires a regular review of that training.
  • Extra hours completed during a certification period? Up to 15 contact hours from one period may be used for the next one instead.

Keep the documentation

• CEU training certificates from training/convention
  • Note: For conventions, when you have a training certificate for the full convention, you can put the full training event on your log without listing sessions separately (e.g., SCACS 2023, 10 CEU’s …).
• Updated college transcript (original from college)
• BJA PD: When the title includes “BJA PD,” list each training on your log, but you won’t submit a training certificate. (PECS is using their documentation of their approvals for our sessions in lieu of having teachers submitting training certificates.) See top of page for the BJA PD.

Keep a log of that documented PD

• PECS Log (Excel)
• PECS Log (fillable PDF)
• PECS Log (write on paper)

Apply/Renew

• See details in PECS Book 2018 (from this book for your printing convenience: application & transcript request; application only)
  • BJA reimburses the cost of the initial certification and standard renewal: contact Sarah Fleming for reimbursement (include copy of receipt or credit card payment).
  • Use slow mail or call 803-798-7558 to pay over the phone using your credit card and to arrange to email PDF’s.
• When not renewed before expiration
  • Late fees may apply.
  • If expired for more than a year, additional contact hours/college credits are required for recertification.

Specific questions about your situation? Contact South Carolina Association of Christian School directly

Email or call Kendra Meyer, who manages the PECS program

803-798-7558

South Carolina Association of Christian Schools
615 St. Andrews Road
Columbia, SC  29210