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Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board application

Check your Minnesota teacher application status

Use the state’s private applicant process for a submitted application. The public certificate lookup answers a different question: whether a credential has been issued and appears in the state record.

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You will leave TeachPassport for Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board applicant guidance or sign-in. TeachPassport does not ask for or receive your agency password.

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Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board
Checked
August 2, 2026
How far have you gotten?
Does your state account show a request?

No names, license numbers, passwords or documents are requested.

Who this is for

Who this page is for

An educator who has already started or submitted a Minnesota teacher-certification application and can access the agency's applicant process.

What this page can tell you

Yes. Minnesota's detailed lookup can show application type, the date it was registered, its status and the date of action. A submitted application is not a guarantee that PELSB will issue the license.

Check the file without losing the next step

Your turn

  1. 01Sign in through the agency's official page rather than a link in an unexpected message.
  2. 02Open the application or transaction you submitted and read the exact status shown by the agency.
  3. 03Check for a missing-item, fee, transcript or other document notice before relying on the status label alone.
  4. 04Keep the submission date, latest agency update and any non-sensitive request you need to answer.
Check with Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board

If the portal has no useful update

Stop before guessing

  • Confirm that the application was submitted rather than left as a draft and that the required fee was accepted.
  • Check whether transcripts, test scores, experience forms or other records must arrive from a third party.
  • Use the agency's published contact route when the file is beyond its stated window or the portal asks for something you cannot identify.

Only Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board can decide whether the file is complete or issue the credential. TeachPassport cannot expedite the review or interpret silence as approval or denial.

Official sources

Check again by 2026-11-02