Perry County teacher recognized for hard work, dedication
Perry County teacher recognized for hard work, dedication By Branden Walker | January 29, 2021 at 9:24 PM CST - Updated January 29 at 10:22 PM
New Augusta, Miss. (WDAM) - Perry Central High School teacher Andrea McSwain earned the Woman of Distinction Award for 2021.
McSwain was awarded the honor by the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, an organization that promotes professional and personal growth of women educators.
“We are essentially chosen by other members to join the society based on what they kind of see in us, that spark, who maybe exhibit almost like the ideal of what it means to excel in education,” McSwain said.
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: January 22, 2021
The Edmonds School District announced that eight teachers recently received their National Board Certification.
This brings the total number of National Board Certified teachers in the district to 224.
The teachers are:
Emily Turner, VOICE Transition
Meaghan Veysey, Scriber Lake High
National Board Certification involves an extensive series of performance-based assessments that include teaching portfolios, student work samples, videos and analysis of classroom teaching and student learning. Teachers also complete a series of written exercises that probe the depth of their subject-matter knowledge, as well as their understanding of how to teach those subjects to their students. The entire process can take up to 400 hours.
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Shannon Schroeder, Caroline Risum and Kelly Klosak earned their NBT from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. (Shutterstock)
Press release from Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C:
Jan. 21, 2021
Three Homer 33C teachers have earned their National Board Teacher Certification (NBT) from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).
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Shannon Schroeder teaches 8th grade English Language Arts (ELA) at Homer Jr. High. She holds a bachelor s degree in Secondary Education and Composition from DePauw University and a master s degree in Secondary Education and English from Indiana University. She recently finished a second master s from Olivet Nazarene University in Curriculum and Instruction & School Leadership. Mrs. Schroeder co-sponsors the Natural Helpers club, serves on the School Leadership Team, and is a District Instructional Technology Coach.
Superintendent of Floyd County Schools, Danny Adkins, congratulates South Floyd Elementary School’s Stephanie Lawson as the county’s newest National Board Certified Teacher.
Superintendent Adkins comments, “Congratulations Mrs. Stephanie Lawson! We are very proud of Stephanie for attaining this prestigious certification. We’re also proud of her level of commitment to her students and to her profession, especially as she has attained this in part during a pandemic. It’s an arduous process during normal school circumstances and we are quite simply impressed that she was able to complete her certification at this time in our world.”
National Board Certification for teachers consists of written assessment of content knowledge, reflection on student work samples, video and analysis of teaching practice, and documented impact and accomplishments as a teaching professional. Teachers have up to three years to complete this process.
Aspen Elementary School teacher Katie Fox recently earned her National Board Certification, a long and rigorous process that few educators nationwide complete. (Courtesy photo)
Katie Fox didn’t dwell on the negative when the coronavirus pandemic forced students into a virtual classroom last spring. The Aspen Elementary School teacher immediately found a silver lining and used it to better herself as an educator.
Last month, Fox learned she had earned her National Board Certification
, joining a small percentage of teachers across the country to hold such recognition.
“It feels like an honor to be part of a big group of teachers nationwide that have gone through this process and just have the best interests of their students at heart,” Fox said. “When COVID hit and we all shut down, we had been in different parts of our certification process and I felt ready to just sit down and write. So I used that time when kids were remote and I had a little more time stuck at home to