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Fast, flexible, and fully-approved professional development courses designed to maximize your Hawaiʻi teacher salary within the Hawaiʻi Department of Education (HIDOE).
Only $240 per 3-Credit Graduate Level Course
Increase your lifetime earnings by hundreds of thousands of dollars
Courses designed for the busy teacher. No portfolios - just practical implementation
Satisfy your HIDOE SIQ (Sheltered Instruction Qualification) requirements while advancing your salary reclassification
Complete up to 5 courses each semester to move on the HIDOE salary schedule
Upward is kamaʻāina owned and operated. As active partners with HIDOE—and former students and employees ourselves— we know the system.
Select from HIDOE-Approved Reclassification Courses and get verbal approval from your principal (no form needed in HIDOE anymore)
Complete the checkout process on this website. Refer friends and take multiple courses to earn gift cards at hundreds of retailers
We'll email you your welcome packet, and you're all set! Complete coursework between one and six months (not earlier or later) from the date of your registration.
HIDOE requires that all teachers complete their Sheltered Instruction Qualification (SIQ) before the start of SY 2026-2027.
Satisfy your six-credit SIQ requirement with the two courses below, which can also be used for salary advancement.
HIDOE Salary Reclassification Guidelines & Steps
Hawaiʻi public school educators need to accumulate 15 qualifying credits to successfully advance to the next class on the HIDOE salary schedule. Our fully online professional development courses are designed to provide the rigorous academic credits accepted by the Department of Education’s Teacher Reclassification Unit.
When you complete a course, your graduate-level credits are transcripted through UMass Global, our accredited university partner, and can be submitted alongside your standard OTM 200-005 form to trigger your next permanent salary tier jump.
While Upward gives you a generous window of 1 to 6 months to complete your coursework, the HIDOE Teacher Reclassification Unit formally processes salary step upgrades twice a year.
Your university transcripts must reflect course completion dates before the start of the HIDOE semester in which you hope to reclassify.
No. Because you are earning fully accredited, graduate-level academic semester hours through our university partner (UMass Global), your credits are tracked on an official university transcript.
You simply email your official transcript and form OTM 200-005 to teacher.reclassification@k12.hi.us .
Yes! Whether you are a newer educator looking to cross your very first salary class landmark or a senior teacher pushing your placement from Class VII to Class VIII, our university credits are an accepted mechanism for pay tier advancement across the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) bargaining unit framework.
