SANTA
MONICA-MALIBU UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
PRESS RELEASE
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CONTACT: Susan Samarge-Powell
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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
09 FEB 2007
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SMMUSD TEACHERS ACHIEVE
NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School
District (SMMUSD) and Board of Education are proud to announce to the community
that among its staff of outstanding teachers, five elementary and secondary
school teachers have achieved National Board Certification in 2005 -
2006. The following teachers have successfully completed the
rigorous National Board certification process: Robert Seymour and
Stefanie Suffolk at Lincoln Middle School, Adam Panish at Malibu High School,
Ken Harris at Point Dume Marine Science School, and Irma Lyons who is currently
principal of Will Rogers Learning Community.
Our new NBCT’s will receive recognition at the Board of Education Meeting on
February 15th at Santa Monica City Hall.
National Board Certification is the highest credential in the teaching
profession. A voluntary process established by the National Boards for the
Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), certification is achieved through a
rigorous, performance-based assessment that typically takes more than a year to
complete. This process requires teachers to demonstrate how their
activities, both inside and outside of the classroom, improve student
achievement.
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District now has a total of 54 National
Board Certified Teachers. In California, 293 teachers achieved certification
this year, for a total of 3,659, which helps make California fourth in the
nation in the overall total of NBCTs.
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is an independent,
nonprofit, nonpartisan and nongovernmental organization governed by a board of
directors, the majority of whom are classroom teachers. Its mission is to
establish high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should
know and be able to do. For more information about NBPTS, please visit http://www.nbpts.org.
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SANTA
MONICA-MALIBU UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
1651 16TH
Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
ph:
310.450.8338, fax: 310.581.1138
www.smmusd.org