Don't let the license you spent years earning quietly expire.
Keep your special education teaching license active — from your living room.
If you're a special education teacher on a career break — for parenting, caregiving, a stint in another field, or anything else — you can keep your license active by tutoring online with us. Five hours a week of real teaching, documented by a real employer, generating real income. Tutoring may help support renewal documentation, but each state licensing board decides what qualifies. We provide employment verification and session records on request.
Why license maintenance matters.
The license you already have is valuable.
A special education teaching license takes years to earn — coursework, student teaching, exams, background checks, endorsements. If you let it lapse, getting it back requires jumping through many of the same hoops again. Some states require additional coursework. Some require you to re-pass the Praxis. Some have waiting periods.
Keeping it active while you're on a career break is dramatically easier than reactivating it after it expires.
Most states require "recency of practice."
Tennessee and Florida (and most other states) require teachers to demonstrate recent teaching experience as part of their license renewal. The specific rules vary, but the pattern is consistent: if you haven't taught in several years, your renewal application gets harder.
Online tutoring with a documented employer may help document teaching experience. It's real instruction, in your endorsement area, with verifiable records.
How tutoring with us keeps your license active.
We're a real employer with real documentation
We're not a tutoring marketplace where you're a contractor. We're a W-2 employer. You're on our payroll. We have records of every session you teach, every student you work with, every hour you log. When your state licensing board asks for documentation of recent teaching experience, we can provide it.
The work is in your endorsement area
You're tutoring special education students — kids with IEPs, learning disabilities, autism, ADHD, and other exceptionalities. The content matches your license endorsement. This isn't general tutoring that a state board might question; it's special education instruction.
The hours add up
Five hours of tutoring per week across a school year is approximately 180 hours of direct instructional time. That may help document ongoing instructional work when a state licensing board reviews your renewal materials.
How much teaching do you actually need? (State by state)
Tennessee
Tennessee teaching licenses are valid for 5 years. Renewal requires either employment verification from a Tennessee school district, OR documentation of teaching experience from another employer (including private tutoring companies) plus completion of required professional development.
We provide employment verification letters and session records on request. Tennessee decides what qualifies for renewal, so you should confirm your exact documentation requirements through TNCompass before relying on tutoring hours.
Last reviewed: June 2026. Tennessee licensing info: Licensed Educators | Tennessee Department of Education
Florida
Florida Professional Certificates are valid for 5 years. Renewal requires 20 in-service points (professional development), AND documentation of "employment in an instructional or administrative capacity" OR completion of college coursework.
Our employment verification documents your instructional work. Combined with continuing education you complete separately, that documentation may help support Florida certificate renewal depending on your situation.
Last reviewed: June 2026. Florida certification info: Florida Educator Certification Renewal Requirements
Other states
If you hold a license from a state other than Tennessee or Florida but currently live in TN or FL, your renewal requirements are governed by your licensing state, not your residence state. Contact your licensing state's department of education for specific requirements. In general, documented teaching experience from a W-2 employer is accepted by most states as evidence of continued practice.
The pay math: you get paid while keeping your license.
This isn't volunteer work. You're earning $23–$25 as a W-2 employee, paid twice monthly on the 5th and 20th. Plus performance bonuses you can earn every pay period — paid on the same 5th-and-20th cycle.
5 hours/week × $24/hr × 52 weeks = ~$6,000/year of supplemental income.
Tennessee and Florida have no state income tax, so your take-home is as efficient as it gets. You're maintaining your license, staying sharp, earning income, and keeping a line on your résumé that shows continued professional practice. All from your living room, on your schedule.
Who this is for.
Parents on a career break
You left the classroom to raise your kids. You plan to go back eventually. Your license is sitting there, ticking toward expiration. Tutoring five hours a week keeps it alive and gives you real teaching experience to talk about in interviews when you're ready to return.
Teachers who moved to a new state
You taught in Ohio for fifteen years, then moved to Florida for family reasons. You don't have a Florida license yet, but you're keeping your Ohio license active in case you move back or want to pursue reciprocity later. Tutoring with us documents continued practice under your Ohio license.
Teachers in other careers temporarily
You left teaching to try something else — corporate training, curriculum development, administration, a totally different field. You're not sure you want to go back, but you don't want to close the door. Tutoring a few hours a week keeps the license active without committing to a full return.
Teachers recovering from burnout
You needed a break. The caseload was too much, the admin was impossible, the paperwork was drowning you. You still love working with kids one-on-one — you just couldn't sustain the classroom role. Tutoring gives you the part you loved without everything else.
Frequently asked questions
Will five hours a week really qualify as teaching for state renewal?
Does it matter that the students are not in my home state?
My license expired six months ago — can I reactivate by tutoring with you?
Can I list this experience on my résumé when I return to full-time teaching?
Do I keep my license while I'm employed by you, even if I'm not in a classroom?
What if I want to tutor more than five hours a week?
What if I need to take time off for a family trip or other commitment?
Your license is an asset. Keep it alive.
Five hours a week, from your living room, on your schedule, getting paid. When you're ready to return to the classroom — or even if you never do — the license is still there, current, documented, yours.