N.C. Teachers Offer Ways to Draw NBPTS Teachers Into Poor Schools

Greensboro, N.C.

In what organizers hope will be a model for other states, more than 500 highly credentialed teachers from across North Carolina gathered here to give policymakers their ideas on how to get more accomplished teachers like themselves into the schools that need them most.

The Aug. 17 event generated recommendations for bringing more resources to the most troubled schools, giving teachers a greater voice in how their schools are run, and increasing the role nationally certified educators play in training both new classroom teachers and principals.

With such measures in place, the teachers suggested, more skilled and experienced teachers would sign on to work at low-performing schools, and more teachers already in those schools would achieve certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The Arlington, Va.-based NBPTS was started in 1987 as a way to foster...