Sorgho Elementary School 4th-grade teacher Jill Hayden recently earned the designation of National Board Certified Teachers. Six other district educators have renewed their certifications, which recognize exemplary standard of teaching excellence.
Hayden is in her ninth year of teaching. She earned her certification in Literacy: Reading/Language Arts at the Early Middle Childhood level.
“Completing my National Board Certification has been a goal I am very thankful to have accomplished,” Hayden said. “It has allowed me to advance the quality of my teaching to better impact my students through reflective and responsive teaching. I will continue to improve and grow as a teacher to better the experiences of my colleagues and my students.”
The board sponsors a national certification process that measures a teacher’s practices against high standards of excellence. This involves an extensive series of performance-based assessments that includes teaching portfolios, student work samples, videotapes and a thorough analysis of the candidates’ classroom teaching and student learning.
In the state of Kentucky, NBCT certification is one pathway to qualify a teacher for a Rank II or Rank I professional certificate.
Six other Daviess County Public Schools educators earned recertification.
Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Jana Beth Francis was renewed for Generalist/Middle Childhood. Francis was one of the first in the system to achieve the certification more than 20 years ago.
Daviess County High School agriculture teacher Chad Askins was recertified in Career and Technical Education/Early Adolescence Through Young Adulthood. He is in his 20th year of teaching.
Michelle Pagan was renewed for Mathematics/Adolescence and Young Adulthood. Pagan is in her 18th year of teaching and teaches math and computer science at Apollo High School.
Olga Payne, a 7th-grade science teacher at Daviess County Middle School, maintained her Science/Early Adolescence certification. She is in her 23rd year of teaching.
Natalie Coleman renewed her Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood certification. Coleman is a 3rd-grade teacher at Southern Oaks Elementary School and this is her 24th year teaching.
Angela Lindsey, a kindergarten teacher at Tamarack Elementary School, renewed her Literacy: Reading-Language Arts/Early and Middle Childhood certification. She is in her 24th year of teaching.
