Compensation for National Board Certified Teachers in Georgia
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We the undersigned petition for continued compensation for current National Board Certified Teachers in the state of Georgia. Upon attaining National Board Certification, we were granted a salary increase amounting to 10\% of our base pay for a ten-year period.
Governor Perdue, you are a gentleman of integrity and a friend of education. We therefore would remind you of your comments in the State of the Budget Address (2003):
"What can we not do without, even when times are lean? Georgia is a state that understands [that] investment in education is the cornerstone of economic development and our future quality of life. Let's work together and show the people of Georgia that their trust in us is well placed. Tough times test our character. Let's represent the true character of our state. Let's produce a budget that tells the story of a Georgia that is compassionate and confident ... Bold and optimistic ... A Georgia that sustains its principles in good times and bad."
As recently as 13 January 2009 in your Proposals to Transform Education and Improve Economic Environment, you renewed your commitment to education by proposing the creation of a new merit pay program that will identify and reward teachers who increase student achievement.
Governor, the program is already in place. Your National Board Certified teachers endured a rigorous process to attain certification by being judged by their peers all over our great nation. Certification is not automatic. A minority of teachers who endure the process actually achieve certification. Before, during, and long after the process we are committed to educating our young people with the best strategies. We voluntarily mentor other teachers and share our techniques and our dedication. Your Georgia NBCTs raise student achievement scores. Now it is your turn to honor your promise to award well-deserved compensation.
Remember your assertion that increasing student achievement remains our number one priority.
Remember your teachers with National Board Certification.
God bless you, Governor Perdue, and God bless Georgia.
Governor Perdue, you are a gentleman of integrity and a friend of education. We therefore would remind you of your comments in the State of the Budget Address (2003):
"What can we not do without, even when times are lean? Georgia is a state that understands [that] investment in education is the cornerstone of economic development and our future quality of life. Let's work together and show the people of Georgia that their trust in us is well placed. Tough times test our character. Let's represent the true character of our state. Let's produce a budget that tells the story of a Georgia that is compassionate and confident ... Bold and optimistic ... A Georgia that sustains its principles in good times and bad."
As recently as 13 January 2009 in your Proposals to Transform Education and Improve Economic Environment, you renewed your commitment to education by proposing the creation of a new merit pay program that will identify and reward teachers who increase student achievement.
Governor, the program is already in place. Your National Board Certified teachers endured a rigorous process to attain certification by being judged by their peers all over our great nation. Certification is not automatic. A minority of teachers who endure the process actually achieve certification. Before, during, and long after the process we are committed to educating our young people with the best strategies. We voluntarily mentor other teachers and share our techniques and our dedication. Your Georgia NBCTs raise student achievement scores. Now it is your turn to honor your promise to award well-deserved compensation.
Remember your assertion that increasing student achievement remains our number one priority.
Remember your teachers with National Board Certification.
God bless you, Governor Perdue, and God bless Georgia.
2770 Signatures
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Sue Bell
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- Please ask others to sign this petition. Thanks.
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Wanda D. Zvanut
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- Please consider the fact that our Georgia National Board Certified Teachers continue as leaders dedicated to the improved learning of children. Match your actions to your words that you value educators and our ongoing strategies to be effective educators. Statistics support the direct positive influence of teahcers who are National Board Certified. Don't break the trust. Thank you!
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Deborah Marker
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Nancy Goldie
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Yovonda Loudermilk
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Shirley Marbut
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- NBCTs have proven their worth in the classroom. We were promised the supplement for ten years. If this is discontinued, at least allow us automatic master teacher status.
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C. Wayne Pettett
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Cynthia Foster
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Susan E Dawkins
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- The Master Teacher program is a poor comparison to the rigorous expectations of National Board certification. If you cannot afford to compensate NB, how can you afford to compensate a program that is so much simplier to attain?
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Margaret Aiken
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Karen Martin
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John H. Dawkins
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Karen M. Self, NBCT
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Mary Dawkins
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Heather Bilton
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Deborah Fay Lane
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- I urge you to consider keeping the 10\% NBCT pay. Research has proven that teachers with National Board certification do make a significant difference in the classroom.
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Lesley S. Taylor
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- Please strongly consider this petition.
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Catherine H. Long
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Jill I. Lepo-Wieniewitz
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- I met the requirements and fulfilled the criterion of my committment and would hope the governor would do likewise.
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Debora Lynne Alexander
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Mary Anne Hogan, NBCT M.Ed
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Leslie Nissen
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- The process NBPTS process has vailidity and reliability that far outweighs the GA Master Teacher program. Please either grandfather in the current NBCTs or stop the plan to replace us with Master Teachers. That's an insult and a slap in the face to the teachers who went through a grueling process to help GA become a leading NBCT state.
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Sherry Gray Browning
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- How can you even think of doing away with this incentive? I have dedicated my life to teaching to the best of my ability. I saw a great way to improve my skills through the National Board Certification. I invested my own money to earn it and it took a year of my life. The standards are quite rigorous and I, along with other NBCTs, deserve the incentive that is in place for us.
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Nancy Cope
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- I urge you to strongly consider this petition.
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Amy Povie
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Lorelei Cotton Faucette
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- National Board Certified teachers with TSS endorsement should automatically be considered a Master Teacher under Governor Perdue's plan. It is very disheartening to know that I have worked very hard for both of these credentials and yet my own Governor and State Education Superintendent do not respect and accept these achievements.
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Debbie Buckholts
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- This is working to recognize worthy teachers who have become leaders in our profession.
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Marta Street
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- In my opinion, it would be a travesty to remove the funding for NBCT teachers. We had to meet a rather rigorous set of standards. Part of the plea for NBCteachers was the stipend.
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Bonnie Ward
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Allison Roberts
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Mary Ann Young
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Marc Boese
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Anne Arden
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- NBPTS Certification 2004
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Tracy Campbell
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jose fernandes
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- NBPTS 2002
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Catherine Robbins Olivier
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- National Board Certified Teachers are a nationally certified program with national standards where the new GA Master Teacher program is a state sponsored program. Note that the www.gamasterteachers.org website states, Master Teacher - Be Recognized as Georgias Best. By contrast, past GA Governor, Roy E. Barnes, who served as Chair on the NBPTS Board of Directors, states, Teachers who earn National Board Teacher certification represent the gold standard in teaching, thus identifying the quality of teaching service that NBCTs bring not only to schools in GA, but nationwide. To provide pay incentives for a state sponsored master teacher program while pulling the funding from the National Board of Certified (master) Teacher program that already has documented results showing the improvement that such NBCT teachers make to student achievement in our GA schools seems clearly to be an inequity. Please treat ALL Master Teachers in our great state of Georgia fairly and equitably in recognition and pay.
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Jacquelyn Mesco
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Selina Ruth-Gillans
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Lori Loncon
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Kelli Mahany
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Karen Mahoney
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- Thank you for following up with this commitment - it shows our students that it is important to work hard and that the government works for them and honors and keeps the promises it makes.
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Susan Wallace
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- NBCTs are the "cream of the crop" as far as educators go in this state. Please don't take away what they have rightfully earned!
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Meredith McCorkle
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Sylvia Shealy
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Rebecca Fleming
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- If NBCT teachers take a pay cut, then we should all take a pay cut. This is patently unfair to those teachers who have proven to be the best among us.
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Margaret P. Helmly
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- All I am asking is that when you make the decision not to raise salaries, you do not decrease the salaries of those who are working on the front lines. I am also asking that if the Governor is considering using the Master Teacher program instead of NBCT then he needs to allow all of the educators who work to provide instruction the opportunity to apply. As a media specialist I don't have my own set of CRCT scores but I do affect the scores of hundreds of students at my school.
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Lynda Hill
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Grady K Zittrouer
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Donna Strickland
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Jennifer Long
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- This is unfair to those who have worked very hard to earn these credentials.
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