This Course Is Right for You If…
You are ready to take ownership of your Component 4 portfolio and grow through the process — not just get through it.
This Signature Class is designed for teachers who want a clear, step-by-step path for understanding, planning, organizing, analyzing, and writing Component 4 for the NBPTS Initial Certification process.
Do you want to:
- Understand Component 4 from start to finish without trying to guess your way through the process.
- Learn how to reverse engineer the requirements so you know what your assessments, student learning needs, professional learning needs, collaboration, and written commentary need to show.
- Use a concept-mapping approach to move from the Group Profile Form into meaningful instructional decisions.
- Connect formative, summative, and self-assessment strategies to instruction in a way that shows clear impact on student learning.
- Determine a professional learning need and student learning need that can be meaningfully showcased within your Component 4 portfolio.
- Stay focused on collaboration, growth over time, assessment-informed instruction, and leading with student needs.
- Connect your NBPTS Standards to your C4 evidence, instructional decisions, collaboration, and written commentary.
- Use templates, charts, and guided tools created with the rubric in mind.
- Strengthen your Written Commentary responses with more clarity, evidence, and purpose.
- Learn how to assess your own writing for rubric-based evidence before submission.
You Bring the Evidence. Tracey Brings the Roadmap.
You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin. You do need to be coachable, committed, reflective, and willing to follow the process.
Tracey gives you the roadmap, structure, coaching, examples, templates, and process — but your Component 4 portfolio must come from your students, your assessments, your instructional decisions, your collaboration, your reflection, your evidence, and your writing.
If you are ready to grow big, think deeply about how assessment informs instruction, and build a Component 4 portfolio that clearly represents your accomplished practice, this course was built for you.
*Members will have access to the program for 365 days after date of purchase.