Maryland
Maryland Specific Incentives: NBCTs actively teaching in Maryland public schools will earn a salary increase of $10,000 dollars. Teachers staying or moving to a low performing school will receive an additional $7,000 added to their salary. Initial and maintenance candidates for National Board Certification who qualify for the Incentive Program for Certification can receive fee…
Texas
Texas Specific Incentives: Through the Teacher Incentive Allotment, NBCTs who are classroom teachers will receive a “Recognized” Designation from the department of education and will therefore be eligible for an annual payment of between $3,000 and $9,000, depending on their school. These payments go directly to an NBCT’s school and usually are transferred to the…
California
California Specific Incentives: The National Board Certification Incentive Program in California went into effect July 1st, 2021, and grants up to $25,000 to teachers who have achieved National Board Certification and who agree to teach at a high priority school for at least five years $2,500 can also be granted to teachers who initiate the…
Policy Change for Certification Requirements
Q:What is the policy change? A:The National Board is changing the eligibility requirements to begin the process of National Board Certification. We are opening up access to educators interested in the Board certification process by allowing candidates to begin the process of Board certification before completing three (3) years of successful teaching (or counseling for…
Being an NBCT comes with an obligation to equity
By: Megan Jenny, NBCT and Lauren Jewett, NBCT There have been more than a few documented instances of lawmakers excluding classroom teachers from discussions and deliberations—including the No Child Left Behind legislation of 2001. And we all know how disastrously that turned out, ushering in an era of excessive standardized testing, commodification of education, and…
The Importance of Building Relationships…and Repairing Them
So this happened. Generally, I am relatively easy to get along with – people like me. Not so much last week when a confrontation with a student escalated to a point where I lost my cool. It happens – in the classroom, in my office, in any work environment, and in relationships. The problem in…
Teaching in the Pandemic is like Eating Noodles Without Chopsticks
By: Lory Walker Peroff, NBCT I recently attended a virtual professional development on a sunny Saturday morning. I was still hungover from a rough week at school. Despite a brief moment of elation when, for the first time in four months, I had all of my students in attendance, the week was overwhelming as usual.…
One Step Away from Crisis
By: Michelle Morgan, NBCT As we start this new year, both educators and students are doing their very best every day to just to show up. Moving into the third year of the pandemic, teachers are twice as likely to feel stress and three times as likely to be depressed as they were in 2019. …
It’s time to think beyond the curriculum
By: Jonathon Medeiros, NBCT An essay I read recently talked about the importance of drama in learning, and its usefulness to us as teachers. The author made sure to delineate between “drama” and “theater,” explaining that drama is participant centered and theater is audience centered. The former is for the people acting, working through the…
National Board Networks Honors Program Recognizes 21 Networks
Today, the National Board is recognizing 21 National Board Networks that model excellence in support of the National Board’s mission. The 76 National Board networks play a key role in building and sustaining National Board certification, supporting educators who wish to challenge themselves and prove they teach to the profession’s highest standards. The networks also…
