The Carson City School District is celebrating two
new National Board Certified Teachers (NBCT) from the National
Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). The teachers to be
recognized earning certification are Patricia
Ababio, Graphic Arts teacher in the Career and Technical Education (CTE)
program at Carson High School, and Rhonda
Holloway, English teacher at Carson Middle School.
NBCT is widely considered to be the highest
professional recognition for educators and includes a five percent pay increase
in acknowledgement of accomplished teaching.
Carson City School District, Northwestern
RPDP and the Nevada State Education Association
have partnered together to encourage educators to be a part of the National
Board Certification program. National Board Certification was developed by
teachers to retain and recognize accomplished teachers and to generate ongoing
improvement in schools nationwide.
Both of these accomplished educators earned the
profession’s highest mark of achievement through a rigorous process,
demonstrating their proven impact on student learning and achievement.
These teachers join 14 other board certified
teachers in the district: Christina
Bourne, music teacher at Mark Twain Elementary School; Lacey Carey, Literacy Specialist ELA at Fritsch Elementary School; Jenny Chandler, AP Government/AP Art
History teacher and Social Studies department chair at Carson High School; Rachel Croft, STEM coach at Bordewich
Bray Elementary; Debra Crozier,
second grade teacher at Mark Twain Elementary School; Jessica Daniels, principal of Carson Montessori School; Jeff Hendricks,
special education teacher with Student Support Services; Leah Hampton, math teacher at Carson High School; Amy Jensen, fifth-grade teacher and
GATE coordinator at Bordewich Bray Elementary; Nicolas Jacques, music and band teacher at Carson High School; Joanna Kaiser, GATE Implementation
Specialist; Molly Martin, first-grade
teacher at Mark Twain Elementary School; Nicole
Medeiros, second-grade teacher at Bordewich Bray Elementary and Pamela Shank, fourth/fifth-grade
teacher at Fremont Elementary.
Certification is a one-to-five-year process
that includes taking an assessment and assembling three portfolios. According
to the NBPTS, each of these accomplished educators earned the profession’s
highest mark of achievement through a rigorous, performance-based, peer-review
process, demonstrating their proven impact on student learning and achievement.
Completing the certification shows that each teacher knows and practices “the
definitive standards of accomplished teaching.”
The Carson City teachers are among 906 National
Board Certified educators in Nevada and nationwide, there are 122,000. In the
next year, National Board is hoping to grow those numbers to over 150,000
educators. More than a decade of research from across the country confirms,
students taught by Board-certified teachers are one to two months ahead of
their peers taught by non-board-certified teachers. Christina Bourne, NBCT
credits National Board Certification as one of the best professional
development processes available.
The National Center for Education Statistics
projected that more than 3.6 million teachers are employed in public and
private elementary and secondary schools. Carson City teachers interested in
pursuing board-certification are invited to contact Jaci McCune, [email protected],
775-283-1796, or Candidate Service Providers Rachel Croft, [email protected],
and Jenny Chandler, [email protected].