What are the responsibilities and job description for the 2025-2026 Certificated Transfer Request position at St. Mary's County Public Schools?
Certificated Transfer Request Directions 2025-2026
As we pass the midpoint of the current school year, we are considering our staffing needs for the 2025-2026 school year. For staffing purposes, it is important to identify possible transfers within the system, as well as anticipated retirements and resignations. Transfer requests will be made through an online transfer request profile.
2025-2026 Certificated Transfer Request Link
You must sign in to your PowerSchool/SchoolSpring account to complete the application. If you cannot sign in, please reach out to PowerSchool because we are unable to assist with logins and passwords. Here is the link to their chat feature.
To fully complete a transfer request, you must:
- Create a transfer request profile, including up to 5 sites for consideration.
- Use your SMCPS email address.
- **Upload your Maryland Teaching certificate. **
- Upload a current resume (not the one with which you were originally hired).
Between January 27, 2025 – June 1, 2025, you may submit a change to your transfer request profile only one time. During that one allowed transfer request profile update, you can revise your selection for up to five sites, but all of those changes would have to be made during the single (one) allowed profile revision submission.
***In order to submit a change to your transfer request profile, please email hrd@smcps.org to be notified when to edit your transfer request profile through the online portal once it has been submitted. If you make a change after your original submission, principals will not receive a notification, and no one will know that you have requested a transfer to their school.
When a transfer request is submitted by June 1, 2025, you will be eligible to be interviewed and considered for vacancies before potential new hires are considered. Please understand that a principal must look at the total needs of the school in making a recommendation to the Department of Human Resources for placement or employment. We seek, therefore, to honor and support such transfer requests when such a request is in the best interests of the school and school system. If you have questions you may refer to Article 16 of the Negotiated Agreement or contact hrd@smcps.org.
If you are planning to not return (resign, retire, request a leave of absence) for the 2025-2026 school year and have not already contacted the Department of Human Resources, please contact Dr. Dale Farrell, dpfarrell@smcps.org, in the Department of Human Resources. According to the Regular Contract, letters of resignation are due in the Department of Human Resources no later than May 1st for non-tenured teachers and no later than July 15th for tenured teachers. Failure to meet these deadlines may impact your teaching certification issued by the Maryland State Department of Education.
** Your current certificate/license information is available through the Maryland Department of Education’s TEACH portal.
Step 1: Go to this site: https://certificationhub.msde.maryland.gov/
Step 2: Log in. If you have not registered already, follow the steps in this link (click here for directions for how to register for the first time)
Step 3: Once you're logged in, you will see your personal dashboard. Scroll down under “Contact Detail” and select the plus ( ) next to “Credential” to expand the area.
Step 4: You will see your certificate/license listed in the “Current Credential” section. You may have to scroll right to see the view and download options. You may preview your certificate/license by clicking on the “Preview” button. If you would like to download or print your certificate, scroll to the bottom of the preview and click “Download PDF.”
Your certificate/license will look very different from any Maryland certificate you’ve seen before! Your certificate/license is not only vertical (page 1) but will also include the renewal requirements (pages 2-4).
