A group of seven Tahoma School District educators joined a growing list of teachers in the district that are Nationally Board Certified.

Crystal Hess, Abigail Durrett and Pete DeBolt, who are teachers at Tahoma High, Tiffany Sanyang and Sandra Gren from Shadow Lake Elementary, Melissa Flatt from Rock Creek Elementary and Vasili Andrews from Tahoma Middle School, are the seven new board certified educators.

Tahoma now has 32 teachers with national certification.

National Board certification requires teachers to submit a four-part portfolio and a six-exercise content and pedagogy assessment.

The 10 entries document a teacher’s success in the classroom as evidenced by his or her students’ learning. The portfolio is then assessed by a national panel of peers.

Washington state has the fourth-highest number of National Board Certified teachers in the United States.