National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards’ mission is to advance the quality of teaching and learning through a voluntary advanced certification process that acknowledges accomplished teaching practice within the teaching profession and larger education community. The board is focused on embedding its five core propositions and content-specific standards into the fabric of the teaching profession through the certification process and mobilizing teachers to elevate the profession. This is a general operating support grant. (Substrategy: Educator Capacity)

The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning through a voluntary advanced certification process that acknowledges accomplished teaching practice within the teaching profession and larger education community. The board is focused on embedding its five core propositions and content-specific standards into the fabric of the teaching profession through the certification process and mobilizing teachers to elevate the profession. This grant will support the recruitment and retention of minority teachers in Mississippi and increase the number of Board Certified teachers in Mississippi.

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) was created in 1987 to develop standards of accomplished practice for pre K-12 educators and a process that reliably assesses when a teacher has met those standards. With Hewlett Foundation support, NBPTS will compare its standards with deeper learning competencies to determine whether NBPTS’s teacher support materials could be a conduit for moving knowledge of the competencies into the teaching workforce in a systemic and sustainable way.