National Board Certification for Educational Leaders

A New Way to Develop, Recognize and Retain Top School Leaders

To Advance the Quality of Teaching and Student Learning by:

Mission

• maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do,

• providing a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards, and

• advocating related education reforms to integrate National Board Certification® in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Teachers®.

Hypothesis

Standards

PrincipalLeader

TeacherLeader

Educational Leader

Educational LeaderCore Propositions

National Board Certification

Teach

er

•Accomplished Teacher•Works directly with students and other adults

Teache

r Leader

•Accomplished Teacher Leader•Works directly with teachers and other adults

Principal Leader

•Accomplished Principal Leader•Works directly with teachers, staff, and other adults

Professional Roles

Five Core Propositions1. Teachers are committed to students and their learning.

2. Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those subjects to students.

3. Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring student learning.4. Teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from

experience.5. Teachers are members of learning communities.

Standards25 Standards Documents

(16 Content Areas across 7 Developmental Level Groupings)

Core Propositions Frame the Standards

•Outstanding Response •Nearly 5,000 Respondents

•Great Representation•47.0% Title I Schools•86.7% (4154) School Building Level•25.5% (1220) District Level• 4.9 % (235) Regional Level• 6.8% (327) State Level and • 1.1% ( 55) Federal Level

Core Proposition Public Review

Core PropositionsEducational Leaders

StandardsPrincipal Leaders

Assessment

Scoring Rubric Score

Integrated System

Core Propositions

Core PropositionsEducational Leaders

StandardsPrincipal Leaders

AssessmentPrincipal Leaders

Scoring Rubric Score

Integrated System

Accomplished Principal Standards Development Process

Hosted stakeholders meeting Conducted inclusive national committee

member search process Selected standards committee members to

ensure strong representation Members came from 17 states Members included principals, assistant principals, lead

teachers, National Board Certified teachers, researchers and policy experts, professors of higher education, and representatives of professional associations and teacher unions

Hosted 7 standards committee meetings, June through September

Core PropositionsEducational Leaders

StandardsPrincipal Leaders

AssessmentPrincipal Leaders

Scoring Rubric Score

Integrated System

Eligibility Requirements Bachelor’s Degree Three full years as principal leader Hold valid license where applicable

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Pathways Two separate developmental pathways—Primary

and Secondary

Principal Certification Policies

Coming in 2011National Board Certification for Principals

Coming after 2011National Board Certification for Assistant

PrincipalsNational Board Certification for Teacher Leaders

Additional Information

Projected Development Timeframe

Toll-free phone number:

1-800-22TEACH

NBPTS Web site:

www.nbpts.org/principals

or

www.nbpts.org/teacherleaders

Additional Information