COVID-19
The guidance on this page is for candidates pursuing National Board certification during the COVID-19 pandemic and has been put in place to provide flexibility for successfully completing and submitting components during the pandemic. The guidance on this page is for candidates pursuing National Board certification during the COVID-19 pandemic and has been put in place to provide flexibility for successfully completing and submitting components in 2020 and 2021.
National Board has issued some changes to requirements for portfolio submissions and candidacy. However, the Five Core Propositions, certificate-specific Standards, scoring rubrics used to assess your work all remain unchanged. Unless otherwise specified in the guidance specific to COVID-19 found on the pages linked below, component instructions remain the same. The variety of evidence requirements, found in both the General Portfolio Instructions and certificate-specific portfolio component instructions, also remain the same and apply to all candidates, whether you are teaching in person or in a virtual environment.
If you would like to view all exceptions for all candidate groups during the pandemic, please visit this page.
- Pursue Board Certification in 2021-2022 (who did not defer)
- Candidates pursuing Board Certification who deferred in 2019-2020 and/or 2020-2021
- NBCTs pursuing Maintenance of Certification in 2021-2022 (who did not defer)
- Maintenance of Certification candidates who deferred in 2019-2020 and/or 2020-2021
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Candidates who submitted components(s) in October 2020
Flexible options for initial certification — 2020-21