The NBPTS Margins to Center grant is a national project in which established Candidate Support Programs (CSPs) are provided with short-term additional funding and capacity-building support “to investigate the complexity and nuance of the learning environments” that produce current results: low numbers of teachers of color pursuing and achieving board certification. The aim is to experiment with program adjustments or redesign in a way that will:
Improve students’ social, emotional, and academic development.
Improve teachers’ instructional practice.
Increase the number of highly effective teachers, with a preponderance of teachers of color, pursuing and achieving Board certification as an advanced credential.
Improve retention of teachers of color serving high concentrations of high-needs students.
Boston is one of 12 M2C Partner Sites
The project identifies five key design components that partner sites will engage with-- affinity spaces, ATLAS implementation, mentorship, professional learning opportunities, and professional learning facilitator (PLF) community-- and learn from each other over the two yeas of the grant: Oct 2023-Sept 2025. In order to accelerate our ramp-up to this project’s activities, we have established some new one-year roles designed to lay the groundwork and build capacity for an effective and sustainable Candidate Support Program and NBCT Network in Boston from this year onward.
Read below to learn more about these roles
New Roles
Promo Lead
ATLAS Lead
Data Lead
CSP Lead
Reading/Writing Lead
Network Lead
Application is now closed
Must be held by a (current or past) NBCT
Compensation is at the BTU rate
Term is Nov 2024-Oct 2025, not expected to continue past this term
Four Leads may elect to participate in the final M2C convening (Feb 4-6 in Oklahoma City); expenses paid in lieu of hourly rate for those three days; subject to BPS travel approval
All leads expected to check in with Project Manager at least every two weeks through February and monthly through project end: October 2025.