The Kent School Board recognized 23 district staff members at its Feb. 24 meeting who have received the National Board Certification.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Recipients include 17 teachers and counselors who recently achieved certification through the National Board Certified Teachers. Six staff members received certification as Educational Support Associates (ESAs), which includes speech and language pathologists and school psychologists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
ESA certification required completion of a rigorous program in their area of expertise.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The certification process for teachers involves a demonstration of the candidate’s teaching practice through a two-part assessment: a portfolio of videotaped classroom teaching and lesson plans. They also submitted student work samples to show the teacher’s impact on student learning and a demonstration of subject-area knowledge, classroom practices, curriculum design and student learning through a written assessment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Candidates typically invest 200-400 hours in portfolio activities. The school district partners with the Kent Education Association to provide support for teachers who pursue the certification process.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
With the addition of 23 recipients this year, the district has 247 national board certified staff members.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
CERTIFICATION RECIPIENTS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Teachers<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Shawna Behrens, Kentlake High Schoool<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Brandi Bielefeld, Meadow Ridge Elementary<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Celeste Borowiak Timulak, Scenic Hill Elementary<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Linda Buchanan, Springbrook Elementary<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Sara Den Herder, Daniel Elementary<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Breanne Devlin, Kent-Meridian High<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Alison Fraiman, Glenridge Elementary<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Amy Gerdes, Mill Creek Middle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 David Moore, Kentlake<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Kristine Murphy, Meridian Middle<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Jessica Pizzalato, Kentlake<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Stephen Rush, Kent-Meridian<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Adam Skagen, Kent-Meridian<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Gaylene Smith, Meadow Ridge<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Brenda Transier, Kentwood High<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Cynthia Vangor, Kent Phoenix Academy<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Counselor<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Deborah White Price<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Speech and language pathologist<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Emily Reiley<\/p>\n<\/p>\n School psychologists<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Meridith Cubbin<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Shana Heavey<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Rebekah Hereth<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Kaitlin Hudson<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 Todd Paavola<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Kent School Board recognized 23 district staff members at its Feb. 24 meeting who have received the National Board Certification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}