The Power of Accomplished Teaching

We're happy to announce that ecgen.org is operating at full force once again! Our elementary school National Board Certification candidates (EC/MC Reading/Language Arts, EC-GEN, or MC-GEN) are chatting in our Chat Rooms and posting in our Forums! After a snafu that kept us apart for four days (seemed like an eternity!), the Forums lit up today like a Christmas tree all over again!

If you've been looking for that help you thought you'd never find, your search is over. We're here. We're chatting every night – checking in and checking up on one another. Weekly chats on Saturday have NBCTs helping out. Our Library is chock full of resources about cutting the fluff out of your writing – about how to proof-read your own entry – about the unifying concepts and inquiry science – tips on how to write to the NBPTS "Architecture of Accomplished Teaching" (a must for ANY classroom based entry in ANY NBPTS certificate area!). We have it all – right here! All for less than the price of some NB help books – and THIS is interactive!  Come on in – join now!

As soon as the portfolios are submitted we will begin our famous "Assessment Center Focus Chats"! We've NAILED the Assessment Center preparation! Don't miss it!

Kelly M

TROUBLE IN WEBSITE LAND at ecgen.org!

Yes – we are experiencing difficulty on this National Board Certification website. The website is controlled by two operating systems. One controls the Forums, the Chat Rooms, and the Membership pages. That system's vendor performed an update last Wednesday night (February 15), and in doing so, wrecked some sort of havoc that they have yet been unable to resolve. It is NOT something that our own web designer (Courtney) can just jump in and fix, or believe me, she would have! It is something that the vendor has to undo/redo/whatever (I think those are technical terms!). Believe me, I know this is nothing to make light of. This weekend – your three-day weekend in the heat of the candidate season – Murphy's law is alive and well – showing up with the website experiencing this right now!

For some unknown reason a handful of people seem to have been able to access the Forums (and the Chat Room – two or three were actually in there for the Saturday chat!). I do know one person wrote to me to let me know she changed her password and immediately gained access! PLEASE TRY THAT and see if it gets you back in! Courtney and I still have access because our membership files are set up differently as owner and web designer – so if you get in and post, I can try to respond to your questions! Otherwise, if you need help, please send questions to info@ecgen.org. Those go straight to my home in-box. I am trying my best to keep up with the emails coming there.

My heartfelt apologies to all for this inconvenience. Thank you for your patience as we wait for this vendor to make right whatever it is they have done to cripple this site. Stay tuned. I will post a message here when we are back up and running (but of course by then you would know because you could click on the Forums and get in). BY THE WAY – the Library is on a different operating system – you are still able to access it!

Thank you again for your patience. As always, you're the best!

Kelly Mueller