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[quote=Anonymous]I have mine.  I am from Virginia and the extra money has been great; I received $5,000 from the state and then $2,500 a year from my District for the certification.  However, it has been worthless to me in terms of my practices.

I thought the process was a joke and reflective of practically every bad teaching practice you can think of in terms of laying out projects and using rubrics.  The components are poorly written, with directions that often times are conflicting, and the rubrics provide no value.  There are no exemplars.  The components need to be written in a specific style, and once you master it, the writing of the components is very easy.

In my District, we use a cohort approach and each person has a mentor.  Having a mentor (mine was from another school) was helpful in terms of networking within the District.

I am glad I did it because of the extra money, about $30k over 10 years.  Otherwise, the certification is an embarrassment because I know what phooey goes into it.[/quote]

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