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...

Someone recently asked me a very honest question:

“Why do you charge money to help people with the National Board process?”

And honestly, I’m glad they asked.

My journey with Na...

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...