Tomorrow is it.

Finally I know when the National Board Teacher Certification scores will be released. It will be tomorrow.

If I pass, I’ll have to do some paperwork, register with the county and state, and by March I would move up to PhD. on the district system. Everything has been slow so far, so I imagine it will be the same. I would receive a Master Certificate with the state of Illinois and have fulfilled my professional development quota for 10 years. I would also be eligible to be a NB “mentor” and receive pay for that type of work, if the state has the funds. The National Board Teacher Certificate would also last 10 years, after which point I would have to submit a renewal, which is like the orignal portfolio, but maybe a bit less work.

If I don’t pass this time around, I will get to work on re-doing the one or two sections (out of four) that were weaker than the others and resubmit it in April. I don’t feel mentally prepared to do it right now, but I’m sure that sense of incompletion will give me the gumption to get moving again and get it done. At this time last year, I really hadn’t done very much work on the portfolio, so it wouldn’t be too hard to get started in January for making another run at it.

Less than 3% of the teachers in the nation have gone through this process, so just having finished it is pretty satisfying… but I am looking forward to some actual feedback tomorrow.

Here’s a video with Sec. Arnie Duncan talking about NBTC.