Six SD Teachers Achieve National Board Certification®
Earn Profession’s Top
Honor
Six
classroom teachers from
South Dakota
are among the 8,195 elementary and secondary school teachers nationwide who
achieved National Board Certification in 2003, according to the National Board
for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). This achievement brings the
total number of National Board Certified Teachers®
(NBCTs)
in
South Dakota
to 18; the national total is 32,130.
South Dakota’s 2003
recipients include:
·
Barbara
Desnoyers, Early Childhood/Generalist, Clark School District;
·
Thomas Grode,
Adolescence and Young Adulthood/Social Studies-History, Brandon Valley School
District;
·
Lori Keleher,
Adolescence and Young Adulthood/Mathematics, Wolsey School District;
·
Reva Potter,
Early Adolescence/English Language Arts, Belle Fourche School District;
·
Christle
Robinson, Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Art, Lead-Deadwood School
District;
·
Mary Williams,
Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood/Career and Technical Education,
Wall School District.
National
Board Certification is the
highest credential in the teaching profession. A voluntary process
established by NBPTS, certification is achieved through a rigorous
performance-based assessment that takes between one and three years to
complete and measures what accomplished teachers should know and be able to
do.
The
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is an independent,
nonprofit, nonpartisan and nongovernmental organization governed by a board of
directors, the majority of whom are classroom teachers. Its mission is to
establish high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should
know and be able to do. For more information about NBPTS, please visit
http://www.nbpts.org.
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