Please review DDOE’s website on Graduate Salary Increments here: Licensure & Certification / Graduate Level Salary Increments (doe.k12.de.us)

Specific guidelines can be found on the Graduate Salary Increment Flyer Graduate Salary Increment Guidelines

Graduate Salary Increments (GSI’s) - all movement on the pay scale must be approved by DOE. 

To Submit a GSI Application:

1.            Login to DEEDS 3.0 through Classlink
2.            Select “Apply for PreK-12 Public School” in the upper right-hand corner 
3.            Select “Graduate Salary Increment”
4.            Complete all sections of the application and submit 
5.            Request Official Transcript from University or College and send directly to julie.Gonzalez@redclay.k12.de.us  
6.            Transcripts sent from an applicant will not be accepted.

Instructions can be downloaded here Graduate Salary Increment Instructions DEEDS

Important Information Regarding  Graduate Salary Increment (GSI’s)
Recently, many IHEs have begun to offer Professional Learning coursework that appears on an official transcript as a graduate course. These Professional Learning credits are not equivalent to official graduate course credits. They are offered at a significantly reduced cost, and they are not always offered by the parent college or university. Often, they are offered from a third-party vendor or satellite company or campus. Accreditation does not extend from the IHE to the PD provider, and therefore the courses are not acceptable. To ensure that credits submitted for a Graduate Salary Increment are, in fact, for completed graduate courses, DOE Licensure and Certification researches the IHE’s course catalogs. Professional Learning courses are not listed in the IHE’s academic course catalogs.

Defining Official Documentation
All documents, with the exception of copies of out-of-state and/or national certificates (if applicable), must be official, meaning they must be sent directly from the appropriate third party (e.g., the college/university, testing organization, former employer, independent credentialing agency) to the Department by mail or electronically to deeds@doe.k12.de.us, or forwarded unopened to the Department by the candidate.  Applicants submitting test scores should be sure to review the Testing Guidelines for test-specific submission procedures. 

As a candidate, you may choose to have all necessary documents sent to your home address so that you can forward them to the Department as a single package provided that the documents remain unopened until their arrival at the Department. Employed candidates should forward their documents to the Department via their district office or charter school. Documents submitted by districts and charters must have met the standard of official documents when received at the district- or school level.

All photocopies submitted must be in document format.  Photographic and/or jpg images are not accepted.  Photocopies may be submitted via email to DEEDS.