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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

Education News