The purpose of the ACSI certification program is
to provide qualified Christian school educators with
professional credentials. An applicant must have
a bachelor’s degree from either an accredited,
ACSI-approved, or ACSI-recognized college or
university, and should have or will be required to
complete training in the biblical philosophy of
education, formal Bible instruction, and
appropriate teacher and/or administrator training.

ACSI certification is available to qualified teachers and administrators of all nations. The ACSI certification program for administrators and teachers is a requirement for ACSI school accreditation.

Currently ACSI has between 40,000 and 50,000 teachers and administrators on file in its certification program. Thousands of teachers and administrators are applying each year. At present it takes approximately two to four weeks from the time the application is received, to process, print, and mail a certificate back to a teacher or administrator if all the appropriate materials for evaluations have been submitted.

Effective July 1, 2006, the prices for ACSI teacher certification were increased. Please review the following table:

Initial & Renewal Applications for Teachers	$50
Initial & Renewal Applications for Administrators	$50
Initial & Renewal Applications for Canadian Teachers	$60
Initial & Renewal Applications for Canadian Administrators	$60
Lifetime Certificates	$60
Lifetime Canadian Certificates	$70

Applications are available at Certification Documents.

For indepth information about the various types of certification and all the requirements please open one of the links in the navigation bar at left.

• Telephone: 719-528-1201
• Toll Free (For Certification information only): 888-839-8101
  For Customer Service call 800-367-0798
  For ACSI Headquarters call 719-528-6906
• Fax: 719-867-0246
• Email: Certification@acsi.org
• Mailing address:

ACSI  Certification  
PO Box 65130  
Colorado Springs, CO 80962-5130

If you are looking for ideas to enhance your staff and offer the CEUs needed for certification renewal or upgrade then you may want to consider offering a program similar to the Christian Academy of Louisville. They have a Professional Development Day to give assistance to their teachers’ professional growth and provide the needed CEU credits. See the attached schedule for more ideas.

If you have ideas that you would like to share with the certification department email them to certification@acsi.org.

(The attached schedule was used with permission)