Conferees Mull Best Uses of NBPTS Teachers

Few Now Work in Schools That Are Low-Performing

Chicago

Teachers with national certification could spearhead improvement in many of the most challenged schools, but only if policymakers and principals see the complexity of such an undertaking.

That conclusion was reached at a gathering here last week of school and community leaders from four big-city districts with sizable contingents of teachers who have won certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Cautioned Lori Nazareno, a teacher with the credential at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami, “We can’t expect national board-certified teachers to parachute into the middle of a school that is saying, ‘Save me!’...