Overview of licensure process for students completing a Traditional Program:

Here is the link to the NMPED website, download the attached application to apply for initial licensure. (Click first time applicant link)

New Mexico has a job posting board called NMREAP

Overview of licensure process at WNMU:

1. Once you receive your diploma, you are ready to apply for licensure with the NMPED. You need to request an official transcript indicating on the form to " hold for degree." You need to wait approximately two weeks for the official transcripts so you can send all of the documents together to the NMPED. The NMPED will not process your application if you do not send all of the required documents together. Do not open the envelop containing the official transcripts.

The WNMU Registrar's office takes approximately two weeks to update transcript to reflect that degrees have been conferred.

2. Download and fill out the first time application on the NMPED website. Be sure to send a money order or cashier's check for the amount stated on the website.

3. It usually takes 4 - 6 weeks. In the meantime you can go ahead and apply for jobs. Indicate on your applications that you have completed all requirements for licensure and have applied for your level one teaching license.

Overview of licensure process for people completing their Alternative Licensure Program:

1. Once you complete your Alternative Licensure Program, you are ready to transfer your Internship License to a Level 1 license with the NMPED. You need to request an official transcript indicating on the form to " hold for degree." You need to wait approximately two weeks for the official transcripts so you can send all of the documents together to the NMPED. The NMPED will not process your application if you do not send all of the required documents together. Do not open the envelop containing the official transcripts.

2. One week after graduation, you need to send an email to Sylvia Sierra, at the WNMU Registrar's office requesting an Alternative Licensure Program award letter at, sylvia.sierra@wnmu.edu Include your WNMU identification number on the email. Indicate on the email that the award letter needs to be written to the attention of Seana Flanagan at the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED).

3. After you receive a copy of your official transcripts and the award letter, send all of the required documents together to:

New Mexico Public Education Department
Attn: Licensure. Seana Flanagan
300 Don Gaspar
Santa Fe, NM 87501

If you are taking classes and tests this summer in order to complete your Alternative Licensure Program, send me an email requesting a letter to Seana Flanagan for an extension of your Internship License in order to complete your Alternative Licensure Program. You will need this letter plus all of the documents listed on the above list.

If you have questions for Seana Flanagan from the NMPED, call her at: 505 827 6503

Transfer your Level 1 license to a Level 2.

You can apply for Level 2 license in New Mexico after 3 years of being the teacher of record in the classroom.