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National Board Certification Overview
LOTE Job Alikes DayRound Rock Independent School
DistrictFall 2010
National Board: Mission Statement
The mission is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by:
maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do;
providing a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards;
advocating related education reforms to integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of NBCTs.
Nuts and Bolts
There are 27 certificate fields including specializations in Art, Music Languages other than English, Career and Technical Education, Health, Physical Education, Special Education, and Library Science.
Candidates are required to submit 4 portfolio entries with video components.
Nuts and Bolts
Candidates have three years to work toward certification, but it is possible for a candidate to certify their first year
Certification lasts for 10 years.National Board Certified teachers in RRISD earn a $2500 stipend the year they certify and a $1000 stipend each year of their certification.
RRISD Cohort for National Board
RRISD Cohort Information Meetings:Spring – TBA These dates will be announced by the Professional Development Office and forwarded to LOTE chairs for dissemination.
Candidates must have five years of teaching experience to apply with financial support of RRISD.
RRISD Cohort for National Board
Applications for National Board Cohort are available on the RRISD Professional Development website—due in the spring semester (last year’s due date was May 24th).
Cohort members meet monthly beginning in June.
RRISD supports candidates for National Board Certification with substitute days, compensation for application fees upon certification, certified mentors, and other helpful information.
Current LOTE NBCTs in RRISD
Ginny Jones, Spanish, Round Rock High School
MilyBett Llanos-Gremillion, Spanish, Westwood High School
Additional Information - District
RRISD Cohort Information: Emily Reichert, Professional [email protected]
Sheryl Whited, National Board Cohort Facilitator [email protected]
Additional Information - NBPTS
Toll-free phone number: 800-22TEACH
NBPTS Web site: www.nbpts.org
Access the following online at no charge:Standards for each certificate
Portfolio entry instructions
Scoring Guides and retired prompts
Online assessment center tutorial
Assessment center information
Panel Discussion
NBCTsGinny Jones, Spanish, Round Rock High
School
MilyBett Llanos-Gremillion, Spanish, Westwood High School
Candidates in WaitingJudith Kemp, Spanish, Westwood High School
Marie Douglass, French, Cedar Ridge High School