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Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; city will host pilot certification program for principals
By: Rebecca Harris / December 16, 2009
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards today released the names of Illinois’ 732 new National Board Certified Teachers, including 302 from Chicago Public Schools – the most newly certified teachers of any district in the nation.
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards today released the names of Illinois’ 732 new
National Board Certified Teachers, including 302 from Chicago Public
Schools – the most newly certified teachers of any district in the
nation.
The announcement brings the total number of National Board Certified
Teachers serving in CPS to 1,310. Those who succeeded – about 40
percent of the candidates who applied – will be rewarded with a $1,750
pay raise from the district, as well as $3,000 a year from the state
during the 10-year life of their certificate.
Soon, administrators will be able to pursue a national certification,
as well. Chicago will host a pilot project that will offer national
certification to principals. Announced last week, the project may accept candidates as early as December 2011, says Joan Auchter,
chief program officer for the National Board of Professional Teaching
Standards.
The principal program will evaluate nine “core propositions,” or
characteristics, including skills like leadership, vision, management,
learner development, instruction, ethics, and advocacy, as well as
their ability to create a “culture of learning” and equitable learning
opportunities for all students. Down the line, a leadership credential
for teachers will include similar criteria.
But it isn’t yet clear how the principals will be scored on such
intangibles. The evaluations could include videos, evidence of teacher
effectiveness, student data, or other components, Auchter says. Field
testing to make sure the measures are reliable will likely begin in
July 2010. The Chicago Public Education Fund committed $1 million to
the program in fall 2008.
About 500 applicants are in the pipeline for teacher certification next
year. A number of them are teachers who failed to receive
certification this year, says Nancy Schwartz, the Midwest
regional outreach director for the National Board of Professional
Teaching Standards. She says the organization is trying to provide
specific feedback to rejected candidates, and encourage them to stay in
the process.
Here is a list of the 302 new National Board Certified Teachers in CPS. Certification lasts until Nov. 20, 2019.
Denise Abad
Generalist/Early Childhood
Robyn Adams
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Joy Aguado
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Shama Aleemuddin
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Maria Alejandro
Generalist/Early Childhood
Mariam Ali
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Year Achieved: 11/20/2009
Jamie Annunzio
Career and Technical Education/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Lidia Arriaga
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Angela Arrington-Brown
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Mangayarkarasi Arumugam
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Amanda Babb
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Mykie Bailey
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Sally Baker
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Jacqueline Baker-Doyle
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Rebecca Bancroft
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Joel Barr
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Carol Battaglia
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Shanna Baumgarten
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Linda Becker
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Diane Bell
Career and Technical Education/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Marilyn Benjamin
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Alice Benko
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Anne Berenguer
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Michael Beyer
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Susan Bialk
Generalist/Early Childhood
Angelica Bigelow
Generalist/Early Childhood
Regina Biros
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Kelly Bodkin
Art/Early and Middle Childhood
Carla Boe
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Jennifer Bowman
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Kimberly Bowman
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Rebecca Braun
Generalist/Early Childhood
Lauren Bray
Generalist/Early Childhood
Melissa Brenkus
Generalist/Early Childhood
Jennifer Brennan
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Mitchell Brookins
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Steven Bruehl
Social Studies - History/Early Adolescence
Margaret Burns
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Michael Buss
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Anne Calhoun
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Chaniqua Calloway
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Amy Caplis
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Nicholas Caputi
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Melissa Caref
Generalist/Early Childhood
Nicole Catinella
Science/Early Adolescence
Vorice Causey
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Katherine Cervenka
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Kiwana Chatman
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Norma Chinn
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Robin Clemmons
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Tricia Colsant
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Kay Connley
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Roseanne Conrad
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Rosanna Console
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Carol Cook
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Alicia Corona
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Rosa Cortez-Cruz
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Keith Cox
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Emily Cozzie
Generalist/Early Childhood
Kimberly Crawford
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Matthew Crye
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Joyce Culkin
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Catherine Dalber
Generalist/Early Childhood
Dayna Darby
Generalist/Early Childhood
Marta Datwyler
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Laura Delgado
English as a New Language/Early and Middle Childhood
Michael Diaz
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Barbara Dillon
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Bridget Doherty Trebing
Art/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Mary Dolan
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Elizabeth Doran
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Pamela Duff
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Sandra Duignan
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Paula Dunn
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Pierrette Dupont
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Felix Egharevba
Career and Technical Education/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Betty Elias
Art/Early and Middle Childhood
Jennifer Elsebaie
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Elena Esman
English as a New Language/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Renee Estes
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
John Fanning
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Heidi Farrand
Music/Early and Middle Childhood
Kelly Farrell
Generalist/Early Childhood
Rosalind Faulkner
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Francis Feeley
Library Media/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Mona Fell
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Kathleen Fergus
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Alejandra Ferrer-Dailey
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Megan Finn
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Anastasia Flesor
Science/Early Adolescence
Marietta Fletcher
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Verna Flores
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Kelly Flowers
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Rashida Foluke
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Arlene Garcia
Science/Early Adolescence
David Garst
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Emily Gary
Generalist/Early Childhood
Miroslawa Gawron
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
John Genell
Career and Technical Education/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Jason Gil
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Emily Gill
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Jada Gilleylen
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Emily Glenn
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Danielle Glover
Generalist/Early Childhood
Allyson Goddard
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Rosanna Gomez
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Susan Greer
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
David Gregg
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Renee Grogg
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Marcie Gutierrez
Generalist/Early Childhood
Katie Hallberg
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Ginta Harrigan
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Kati Hart
Physical Education/Early and Middle Childhood
Amy Hasapis
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Vicki Hayes
Generalist/Early Childhood
Michele Hendricks
Art/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Lauren Henley
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Cheryl Henry
Generalist/Early Childhood
Maria Hernandez
Generalist/Early Childhood
Cheryl Hill
Generalist/Early Childhood
Andrea Hixson
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Bonnie Hoffman
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Lindsay Holmes
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Margaret Hoover
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Theresa Insalaco
English as a New Language/Early and Middle Childhood
Lajuana Jackson
Science/Early Adolescence
Roger Jaklin
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Rosela James
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Ayanna Jenkins
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Lauren Jensen
Generalist/Early Childhood
Matthew Johnson
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Tumara Johnston
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Anglense Jones
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Kelicia Jones
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Joanne Kajmowicz
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Jennifer Karkazis
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Deanna Kelly
Art/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Dena Kelly
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Thomas Kennedy
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Erin King
Music/Early and Middle Childhood
Marcia Kipnis
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Jessica Klink
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Cheryl Kodl
English as a New Language/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Elyn Koentopp-Vanek
Art/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Julie Kolkmeyer
Generalist/Early Childhood
Yvette Laboy
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Courtney Langston
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Jennifer Larsen
Generalist/Early Childhood
Holly Lauzze
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Meri Leblanc
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Raymond Lesniewski
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Shari Levine
Generalist/Early Childhood
Keith Lewis
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Christopher Lin
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Malisa Listowski
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Sarah Lohman
Generalist/Early Childhood
Brigitte Louis
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Natalie Loverde
Generalist/Early Childhood
Allison Lowenstein
Health/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Teresa Luna
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Kathleen Lynch
Library Media/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Mindy Mack
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Paula Madden
Physical Education/Early and Middle Childhood
Crystal Mallory
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Maria Mancini
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Barbara Manjarrez
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Carmen Marcano
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Rachel Marcotte
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Irma Marks
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Carmen Marquez
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Nancy Marseille Jones
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Matsuo Marti
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Darcy Maxim-Otterbacher
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Kelly Mccollom
Music/Early and Middle Childhood
Patricia Mcevoy
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Margaret Mcilvain
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Ellen Mcnamara
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Patricia Meagher
Social Studies - History/Early Adolescence
Timothy Meegan
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Apryll Mendez-Gaskew
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Kathleen Menyhart
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Jennifer Millatti
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Margaret Mitchell
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Dorothy Monahan
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Leslie Monk
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Rudi Monson
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Dins Morelli
Art/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Michelle Mowery
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Pamela Moy
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Margaret Murray
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Amanda Nadig
Art/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Mark Nelson
Art/Early and Middle Childhood
Kathleen Newport
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Bridget Nicholson
Generalist/Early Childhood
Elizabeth Nickels
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Richard Niebaum
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Monique O'Connor-Lyn
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Aaron O'Neill
Physical Education/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Rachele Oleksy
Art/Early and Middle Childhood
Robert Olszewski
Career and Technical Education/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Giuseppina Oppice
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Irma Orozco
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Robert Oseid
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Josefina Otero
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Maribel Ouielle-Silva
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
M. Patricia Paganelli
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Debra Pallante
Generalist/Early Childhood
Bradley Parker
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Maria Patino
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Juanita Paulinski
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Ana Perez
Generalist/Early Childhood
Michael Pestich
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Julia Phelps
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Joel Piotrowski
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Alicia Pollard Gee
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Destiny Puente
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Aida Quintana
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Diane Ranos
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Brenden Ratterman
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Marilou Rebolledo
Generalist/Early Childhood
Elizabeth Reed
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Kathleen Reiff
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Kymberlee Ricke
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Claudia Rivas
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Diana Rivas
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Patricia Roby
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Brenda Rodarte
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Ada Rodriguez
English as a New Language/Early and Middle Childhood
Cande Rodriguez
English as a New Language/Early and Middle Childhood
Paloma Rodriguez
English as a New Language/Early and Middle Childhood
Wynter Rose
Library Media/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Janet Ruff
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Lynell Ruiz Johnson
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Tammy Ruta-Kreydick
Generalist/Early Childhood
Jeanine Saflarski-Minauskas
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Neji Sakly
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Raymond Salazar
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Raquel Sanchez-Valenzuela
Generalist/Early Childhood
Yolanda Sanders
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Colleen Scampini
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Susan Schlitz
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Katie Schneider
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Ruth Seidner
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Megan Shea
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Nicoline Shoffer
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Ida Joyce Sia
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Audrey Simmons
Generalist/Early Childhood
Jason Simons
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Cheryl Sirabian
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Moira Slattery
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Bethanie Smith
Generalist/Early Childhood
Sherilyn Snopek
Library Media/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Elisa Soto
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Dr. Emilia Span
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Kara Stalzer
Generalist/Early Childhood
Nikenya Stewart
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Lisa Streff
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Jill Sullivan
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Margaret Sullivan
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Nicole Sullivan
Generalist/Middle Childhood
David Suominen
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Meredith Swanson
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Melissa Swartz
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Brenda Tate
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Laura Taube
Generalist/Early Childhood
Tamika Taylor
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Jazo Teresa
Music/Early and Middle Childhood
Deborah Thompson
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Kahinde Thompson
Generalist/Early Childhood
Danielle Thompson-Davis
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Keia Thompson-Wyatt
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Jaclyn Thornton
Social Studies - History/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
April Tondelli
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Cara Torhan
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Hilda Torres
English as a New Language/Early and Middle Childhood
Janet Torres
World Languages Other than English/Early Adolescence through Young Adulthood
Marlene Tyler
Generalist/Early Childhood
Kristina Utley
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Jeff Vacek
School Counseling/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Lynn Veldhouse
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Vanessa Villalobos
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Antoniette Walden
Generalist/Early Childhood
Mary Walters
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Jerry Weissbuch
Social Studies - History/Early Adolescence
Rachael Wenz
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Laura White
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Maria Whitfield
Generalist/Early Childhood
Dayna Wieczorek
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Sarah Willey
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Dawn Williams
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Gertrude Williams
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Daniel Wills
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Glenn Wilson
Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Lanetta Wilson
Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood
Theresa Winters
Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood through Young Adulthood
Anne Witt
English Language Arts/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Sheila Wong
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Robert Wood
Mathematics/Early Adolescence
Kamton Woodard
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Linda Worley
Generalist/Middle Childhood
Kristin Wynkoop
English Language Arts/Early Adolescence
Monica Zaremba
Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
That 8,900 is the national number of new NBCTs, not the number for Illinois!
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
Congratulations to our Chicago teachers who put in hundreds of hours of work to attain NBC. I know our students will benefit from such intense examination of teaching strategies and effectiveness.
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
Thanks! Hope the board doesn't pull the replace-the-carrot-with-the stick trick by reducing the promised stipend. Before this happens they should look at the latest compensation report of CPS administrators http://www.cps.edu/About_CPS/At-a-glance/Documents/CompensationReport.pdf - they should be able to find a few thousand to keep their promise to us.
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
The Board is obligated, via the 2007-2012 Agreement, to pay a $1750 stipend to CPS NBCTs. (Of course, they are obligated to do many things they don't actually do, but that's a different story I think.)
The $3,000 annual stipend from the state is the one that is at risk - state legislators may reduce or eliminate it at their leisure. This concerns me because in my case the financial rewards for Board Certification were significant. And those incentives were never explained to me as provisional or in any other way temporary.
I planned ahead and took out a 2nd $30,000 mortgage when purchasing my home knowing that I planned to pay it off over those 10 years with my state and CPS stipends. If either of those disappear I will be seriously pissed - and may lose my house.
not welcomed in cps
all nbct teachers i know have been fired or released from their scholls either due to budget issues or becaue the school did not want them around.
not part pf the plan to privatize minority schools
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
I know a ton of NBC teachers and all have retained their jobs and their principals definitely want them around because they are part of a team of teachers producing results.
I don't know who you are Kugler, but do you ever say anything nice or helpful or encouraging on this site?
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
I come here for better coverage of reform education in Chicago. I would like to know more about the impact of National Board Certified teachers in minority schools. Those minority school teachers who go through this rigorous program and choose to remain in minority schools upon achievement certainly are the most deserving of our support and particularly of that stipend. I certainly hope minority school principals encourage their staff to consider this program and also consider the principal's program for themselves.
Does CPS consider this special area of teaching vital enough to put in place the kind of support these teachers and principals need to achieve? I'm not in any way looking for the negative answer - I'm just curious how it plays out in this tough area of teaching.
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
I have taught with NBCTs and have not been impressed with their work. It seems showy and all about them, not their students. For the most part , they seem to be the staff who view themselves as superior and wish it to be broadcast loudly. I have yet to meet a NBCT that I would want to teach my children.
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
The Board and the Union Chief talk all about NBCT as the solution without talking or addressing the BIGGEST PROBLEMS: DALEY!!! Daley has no conception of what good education is and what it takes to get there, hires incompetent leadership like Duncan and Huberman, who have no management experience running a large urban school district. It is unthinkable and madness to hire inexperienced top administrators, who's resume is so lacking. What is necessary is for school districts to follow what other high performing public school districts are doing and not INVENT crap and call it "innovative". What successful school districts are doing is building strong professional capacity and leadership of teachers as an organization and individually. We need to build and support STRONG PROFESSIONAL Communities in every school. Every citizen should read the watershed technical report by the National Staff Development Council.
“Most states and districts are still not providing the kind of professional learning that research suggests improves teaching practice and student outcomes,†says Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education at Stanford University, who wrote the report along with a team of researchers from Stanford’s School Redesign Network. “The research tells us that teachers need to learn the way other professionals do—continually, collaboratively, and on the job. The good news is that we can learn from what some states and most high-performing nations are doing.â€
The report is part of a multi-year effort that will track state’s progress over time and identify model policies and practices.
http://www.srnleads.org/press/prs/nsdc_profdev.html
Chicago leads nation in new National Board Certified Teachers; c
people need to start taking direct action(complaints, organizing, informing politicians, protest, boycotts, etc....) against the corrupt mayor and the corrupt teachers union otherwise they just laugh and threaten more people while firing anyone they want when they speak out against them.
Look at the parking meters we got ripped off right in front of our faces and the mayor just laughs with his buddies all the way to the bank every-time they raise the rates.
John Kugler
kuglerjohn@comcast.net
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