You decided to pursue National Board Certification. You went to NBPTS.org, ready to begin. And then… nothing made sense.

Where do you pay? What do you buy first? When do the mater...

Last week I spent a day in one of those small downtowns you slow down for just to take it all in. Brick storefronts, hand-painted signs, the kind of place where the person who owns...

Here's the thing about Component 4: most candidates walk in thinking the assessment section is where they prove their students learned something. Show the test. Report the scores. ...

Okay — can I be honest with you for a second?

The professional learning part of Component 4 trips up more brilliant teachers than almost anything else. And here's what I want you ...

I know. I said it out loud.

I love Component 4.

Say that in a room full of National Board candidates and watch what happens. Somebody's eye starts twitching. Somebody else says, ...

Most teachers open the National Board materials for the first time and come away with the same impression: this is going to ask me to teach differently.

It isn't. That is the t...

You already know who you'd pick.

If someone stopped you in the parking lot today and asked you to name a teacher worth watching, you wouldn't need long. A face would come to mind....

You have questions. That's the first thing I want to say to you, because most people won't.

You have a running list — maybe not written down, but you carry it. Why did that lesson...

You don't start at the beginning. That's the first thing that surprises people. The National Board doesn't march you 1-2-3-4 — most candidates walk it the other way, starting where...

Here's what that work actually looks like — not in a rubric, but in your Tuesday.

You already know which student needs thirty seconds at the door before they can learn anything at...