National Board Certified Teachers

CCSD15 boasts 121 of its teachers are certified by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), the highest teaching credential available.

National Board Certification is an advanced teaching credential achieved upon successful completion of a voluntary assessment program designed to recognize effective and accomplished teachers who meet high standards based on what teachers should know and be able to do. As part of the certification process, candidates complete 10 assessments that are reviewed by trained teachers in their certificate areas. The assessments include four portfolio entries that feature teaching practices and six constructed response exercises that assess content knowledge.

National Board certification provides teachers, social workers, psychologists, speech and language pathologists, as well as occupational and physical therapists an advanced level of knowledge, skills, and training toward excellence in their field. For this reason, National Board Certification is recognized as the “gold standard” for professional educators and has a direct impact on the quality of services received by our students, and it gives teachers and schools the tools to define and measure teaching excellence. Similar to certification in fields such as medicine, the National Board Certification is a rigorous, peer-reviewed process to ensure teachers have proven skills to advance student achievement. As part of this process, teachers must analyze their teaching context and students’ needs, submit videos of their teaching, and provide student work samples that demonstrate growth and achievement. Their work must demonstrate:

1. A strong command of content;
2. The ability to design appropriate learning experiences that advance student learning;
3. The use of assessments to inform instructional decision making; and
4. Partnerships with colleagues, parents and the community.

Renewal is a rigorous process that begins in a teacher’s eighth year of certification and takes one to two years to complete. During this time, teachers reflect on their professional growth since originally becoming National Board Certified Teachers. They must demonstrate growth in their knowledge of content and research-based pedagogy, provide evidence of how they have incorporated these into their teaching practice, demonstrate how they have worked as teacher leaders, and demonstrate increased impact on student learning—both direct and indirect.

National Board Certified Teacher Directory

(Search "Community Cons School Dist 15" in the School District box.)

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