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...

There's a quiet story a lot of accomplished teachers tell themselves about National Board Certification. It goes something like this: "It's a personal thing. A way to prove somethi...

You've been searching for the next step. Maybe not out loud. Maybe just in the quiet moments — driving home after dismissal, scrolling job boards you have no real intention of appl...

You didn't stop loving teaching. But something about it stopped feeling the way it used to.

The behaviors in your classroom look different than they did five years ago. The worklo...

Most NBPTS candidates believe the hardest part of certification is the writing. But after guiding countless candidates through the NBPTS process, I’ve seen something very different...