Education Licensure Information for Texas

You could complete an initial teacher licensure program from ACE and apply it to Texas’s out-of-state licensure requirements to obtain your Texas teaching license.

Texas requires teacher candidates educated at an out-of-state school to hold an out-of-state teaching license before applying for a Texas license. As such, Texas residents who complete ACE’s initial teacher licensure programs will first be licensed in ACE’s home state of Indiana.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) conducts credential reviews to determine whether an applicant’s certification, teaching experience and exams align with Texas standards. Applicants with no teaching experience will be required to submit Texas exams for certification. For information about test exemption criteria, please visit TEA’s out-of-state educator test exemption page.

For the most current information about becoming a teacher in Texas, please check the Texas Education Agency website. 

Our M.Ed. in Educational Leadership program has been approved by the TEA as a preparatory program leading to an administrator/building principal certification in Texas.

You must satisfy additional requirements, including: 

• Providing official transcripts documenting all applicable coursework 
• Holding a valid classroom teaching certificate and two years of creditable teaching experience 
• Passing two required certification exams: Principal as Instructional Leader (268) and Performance Assessment for School Leaders (368)

Our Certificate in Texas Educational Leadership program has also been approved by the TEA as a preparatory program leading to an administrator/building principal certification in Texas. Those who take this program must satisfy all the same additional requirements as above, as well as have a completed master’s degree in another area.

For the most current information about becoming an administrator in Texas, please check the Texas Education Agency website.