Friday, December 10, 2004

Three Episcopal teachers earned their national certification this year from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

The newly certified teachers are Latin teacher Nathalie Roy, French teacher Louise Stowell and Spanish teacher Poly Hopkins.

Episcopal now has seven nationally certified teachers. Previously earning national certification were French teacher Lynn Baudrand-Aertker, Middle School math teacher Pam Goodner, Upper School math teacher Kay Fenton and Middle School English teacher Martha Guarisco.

Annually, about 40 to 50 percent of teachers who seek this distinction achieve it. Certification is achieved through a rigorous performance-based assessment that takes between one and three years to complete and measures what accomplished teachers and school counselors should know and be able to do, according to NBPTS.