Kristin Hamilton is an NBCT from Prince William County, Virginia.  She is taking a one-year leave of absence from her position as a high school English teacher at Battlefield High School to serve as this year’s National Education Association Teaching Fellow.

Kristin sees NBC as one of the few school-based opportunities that empowers us to have respect for our professional judgment and encourages us to apply it to situations within and beyond our own classrooms.  The process of achieving NBC, experience as a team leader, and mentoring new teachers led her to an interest in supporting and advocating for teacher leadership opportunities at various policy levels.  Her work at in the NEA Teacher Quality Department involves supporting state and local National Board and teacher-leadership training programs.  She is also serving on the Common Core State Standards Initiative Validation Committee.

Driving her goals is her belief that, to improve teaching and learning, teachers should be at every table—school, district, state, and national—around which policy decisions are made.  At the conclusion of her Fellowship, she hopes to begin a Ph.D. program and ultimately advocate for teacher leadership via research and “ground-level” initiatives.