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Carolann Wade, WCPSS Coordinator for National Board Certification, will be speaking in Miami, Florida this month on a report she helped author about the effectiveness of National Board Certification on teacher leadership and on student achievement. She works with National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) and with teachers who are pursuing the certification from the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.
As one of ten National Board Certified Teachers who wrote Measuring What Matters: The Effects of National Board Certification on Advancing 21st Century Teaching and Learning for the Center for Teaching Quality, Wade synthesized research on the impact of National Board Certification on teachers as instructors and as teacher leaders. As part of the ten member Teacher Solutions team, Wade joined in the call to action urging National Board Certified Teachers to build the profession by:
- Establishing and growing local and state networks dedicated to educational problem-solving and innovation.
- Adding to the knowledge base about effective teaching through classroom-based research that documents and spreads ideas about practice.
- Becoming informed and active participants in the discourse about educational policy matters, from the building level to the national arena.
- Serving in mentoring, peer coaching and other instructional leadership roles that support colleagues who are striving to improve their practice.
- Speaking out on key questions and issues, from a teaching perspective.
- Designing collaborative experiences for professional learning and leadership development, creating a robust vision of what it means to be an effective teacher leader and pursuing that vision together.
You can read the full report here.
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