{"id":187,"date":"2014-12-04T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=187"},"modified":"2014-12-04T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T22:02:56","slug":"press-release-maryland-gains-new-nationally-board-certified-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/press-release-maryland-gains-new-nationally-board-certified-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Maryland Gains New Nationally Board Certified Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>State Remains One Of Nation&#8217;s Leaders<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore, MD<\/p>\n<p>Maryland this week welcomed 162 new Nationally Board Certified Teachers.\u00a0 The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has now certified 2,760 Maryland teachers with the profession\u2019s top recognition.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s total was 9th among states, and Maryland\u2019s overall total ranks 13th in the nation.\u00a0 Over the past five years, Maryland\u2019s number of Nationally Board Certified Teachers has doubled, one of just a handful of states to grow at that rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational Board Certificated Teachers are educators that have reached the very pinnacle of our profession,\u201d said State Superintendent of Schools Lillian M. Lowery.\u00a0 \u201cCompleting this rigorous program spotlights a teacher\u2019s commitment to their classrooms and their students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Board Certification, a voluntary program established by NBPTS, is achieved through a performance-based assessment that typically takes more than a year to complete.\u00a0 It is designed to measure what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do.\u00a0 The process requires teachers to demonstrate how their activities, both inside and outside the classroom, strengthen student performance and contribute to student achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland has long been supportive of NBPTS and its goals, working with the National Board since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The certification process is open to anyone with a baccalaureate degree and three years of classroom experience.\u00a0 The certificate is valid for 10 years, after which a teacher may seek renewal.\u00a0 For more information on the program, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbpts.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nbpts.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Remains One Of Nation&#8217;s Leaders<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410.767.0486<br \/>\nBaltimore, MD<br \/>\nMaryland this week welcomed 162 new Nationally Board Certified Teachers.\u00a0 The National <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/press-release-maryland-gains-new-nationally-board-certified-teachers\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-newsreleases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}