EPS teachers earn national board certification

Three more Enid Public Schools teachers — Janet Jones, Rhonda Harlow and Cristin Ashcraft — recently attained national board certification, one of the profession’s top honors.

Jones is a fifth-grade teacher at Garfield Elem-entary School. Harlow is a reading specialist at Monroe Elementary School and Ashcraft is library media specialist at Waller Middle School.

EPS has 31 nationally certified teachers and more than 20 other nationally certified professionals including speech and occupational therapists and school nurses.

“EPS has an incredible teaching staff,” Superint-endent Shawn Hime said. “I applaud these teachers for taking this step. It is a well-respected, rigorous process. This distinction is good for them and for the district, but most importantly, it will benefit our students.”

The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards has more than 20 years of experience in developing rigorous standards and corresponding assessments for teachers who want to demonstrate advanced teaching knowledge, skills and practices.

NBPTS is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan and nongovernmental org-anization governed by a board of directors, the majority of whom are classroom teachers.