This book contains dozens of strategies designed to guide candidates' toward successful National Board Certification. It reflects the most recent updates and provides a roadmap showing ways to provide evidence of the National Board Teaching Standards. This book explains the National Board Certification process and how to approach it. There is information covering how to plan instruction to elicit the data required, choose a group to feature, interpret and respond to the prompts, plan and video lessons, as well as how to collect, interpret, and discuss assessment data for a unit taught. There is also guidance for discussing your professional development and collaboration with colleagues. This book contains information that clarifies what candidates are expected to do for each component as well as dozens of writing tips to support writing in the National Board writing “style.” You'll find writing examples, sentence stems, and many more writing tips for writing clearly, consistently, and convincingly.