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% para for Professional Teachin gaol ; 9 Stan ‘sh NATIONAL BOARD dang, for Professional Teaching Standards’ hereby recognizes Amy Norris for completing rigorous work connected to the National Board's pilot and field study on principal certification which led to the first standards of accomplished practice for principals, and for helping define and create environments in which teaching and learning thrive forall students and teachers. Bt Be Sey Chal oud ef Dice Priest nd CEO NATIONAL BOARD for Professional Teaching Standards pil 12,2014 Amy Norris 12482 Sint Pal Ra Clear Spring, MD 21722 Dear Amy, 1 2008, the National Board decide wo extend its work on teacher cetiation to include prin ‘erifietion, For more than two yeas, the Bead worked with principals nd other educators to develop the standards of scomplishod practioe andthe cor propesitions hat define the Work of effetive principals In September 2010, 673 principal areed wo arial inthe fis piled testing. year later another (623 principals became the scond coort. From these individuals largely roruited thnks tothe strong efleets of NASSP, NAESP, and oer advocates fr principals only 127 principal fromthe ist cot nd only 103 principals fom the ssond cohort complete the races, You were ne ofthe Few who had ‘he commitment stamina to sbi al porto, ‘Asm sure you understand inorder fr assessments to be valid and reliable they must be created ‘sccording to conan psychometric practices, Not only does the plod test group have o be of ‘certain size, fr example, bu the individuals must be rpresenative of the general population targeted by theasesment. The disappointingly low completion rate makes impossible cant the ‘psychometric liability and vali ofthis auessnet. Further, because final assessments usally Jnclade changes made sa result of lessons Iaraed during the pov tests, oly on rae octsions are people who partisan thse tess able tobe certified based on those assessments. Those who Brave {he unknown and participate inthe develops of such assessinons havea Teg up in pursuing cetieaton once the ial proces is established, but they often must zo trough the process aan, In ts communications with you ovr the pst fw yeas, the National Board was not lea enough that it ‘vas unlikely participant inthe pile/ol tests could bocomecetfed based solely om that experience “Tha ouicos was technically possible only ithe final asseasnet was hentia or had only minor

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