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I have been a middle school English teacher for 5 years and in a high-need urban school district. If you know me, you know I go hard for my kids and take being great at my work very seriously. Kids only get to spend a year in each grade and I want them to leave knowing they are unquestionably prepared for the next grade and to live a choice-filled life.
National Board Certification is "the Gold Standard in teacher certification" for teachers who "maintain high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do" in the classroom. Around 112,000 teachers nation-wide have this distinction, but they are often from more affluent school districts. Students in all districts deserve excellent, professionally engaged teachers who are actively reflecting on and building their practice.
This project is to fund my National Board Certification. In many more affluent districts, the district itself will contribute to a teacher's certification and provide logisitical support to the cohort of teachers trying to attain certification that year. My district provides NO FUNDING AND NO COHORT. So I have taken things into my own hands (and hopefully yours too) to request funding for the certification and signed up to be a part of the Stanford National Board Research Center's Candidate Support Group. Being a part of this group means that I will recieve expert, targeted support throughout the process and will be much more likely to attain certification.
Please contribute to my project and help support high quality, reflective instruction for all students!
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