Nineteen teachers in San Diego Unified schools earned national certification this year, more than triple the number of teachers who met the standard last year, according to the district:
The dramatic increase — among the best in California — comes as a result of far more San Diego teachers preparing to meet the highest national standards of their profession as NBCT’s — National Board Certified Teachers. … San Diego’s large gain eclipsed this year’s record 8.6 percent increase in the U.S.
The news brings the total of nationally-certified teachers in San Diego Unified to 166.
To gain national certification, teachers submit a portfolio of classroom teaching, documented in videos or student work, and take tests gauging their subject knowledge. Nationally certified teachers may be eligible for a pay boost in some school districts, and can more easily find work in other states, according to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
The newly certified teachers are:
1. Wyvona Barrett, Generalist/Middle Childhood, Whitman Elementary
2. Lucinda Bernardino, English as a New Language/Early Adolescence
through Young Adulthood, Roosevelt Middle
3. Alys Braun, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood, Marshall Elementary
4. Michael Cook, Science/Early Adolescence, Memorial Academy Of
Learning and Technology Charter
5. Antoniette Curtis, Generalist/Middle Childhood, Audubon
Elementary
6. Sharon Fargason, Generalist/Early Childhood, Jackson Elementary
7. Heather Harris, Generalist/Middle Childhood, Edison Elementary
8. Aida Hernandez, Generalist/Middle Childhood, Ibarra Elementary
9. Nicole Hyde, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood, Knox Elementary
10. Colleen Keefe, Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle
Childhood, Joyner Elementary
11. Alice Mcclintock, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood, Marshall Elementary
12. Glenn Morgan, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood, Lincoln High
13. Renee Oswald, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood, Marshall Elementary
14. Jeannine Pugliese, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood, Balboa Elementary
15. Darciann Samples, Exceptional Needs Specialist/Early Childhood
through Young Adulthood, Knox Elementary
16. Molly Stewart, Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle
Childhood, Hamilton Elementary
17. Janet Styres, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood, Darnall E-Campus Charter
18. Kristina Teesdale, English as a New Language/Early and Middle
Childhood Jackson Elementary
19. Erin White, Generalist/Middle Childhood, Ibarra Elementary