Wisconsin Now Has 33 Nationally Certified Teachers
Wisconsin now has 33 teachers who have attained National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification. Thirty-one of
them are WEAC members.
On Thursday (November 30, 2000), the NBPTS announced
that 4,694 teachers from throughout the country, including 23 from Wisconsin,
earned national certification for the 1999-2000 school year.
National certification is a voluntary process involving
rigorous performance-based assessment that takes nearly a year to complete.
"WEAC and the education community are very proud of
our newly certified teachers," WEAC President Terry Craney said. "Certification
is a very difficult and challenging process. People who achieve this goal
are to be congratulated for their hard work and dedication to the teaching
profession."
Wisconsin's newly certified teachers are:
- Kim Barlament, Appleton
- Jean Seitz, Appleton
- Mary Lee Powell, Appleton
- Tina Wallner, Auburndale
- Annya Fahey, Edgerton
- Rebecca Marine, Elk Mound
- Richard Cole, Evansville
- Terese Karsten, Cochrane-Fountain City
- Cecilia Schliepp, Hartland
- Sharon Bedford, Pecatonica
- Gloria Meyer, Lomira
- Wendy Rowley, Milwaukee
- Jean Gumina, Milwaukee
- Mary Staten, Milwaukee
- Connie Everson, New Richmond
- Matthew Friedl, New Richmond
- Angela Vessey-Booth, Rosendale
- Valerie Herman, Strum
- Barbara Johnson, West Allis
- Paul Hambleton, Baldwin-Woodville
- Stephen Vessey, Beaver Dam
- David Dentinger, Milwaukee
- Debra Dosemagen, Milwaukee
All except Dentinger and Dosemagen are WEAC members.
Resource page
on National Board certification
Posted November 30, 2000