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Professional certification: certify or petrify?(Association News)
In 2003 when I was preparing for our Utah MTA state conference, our Certification Chair Molly Wilhelm made a chart to display at the Conference. It read "Certify or Petrify!"
Her slogan created some laughter, some thought, some talk and then some action. As I finished my year as state vice president and prepared for the office of state president, I made Certification a primary focus. A plan was devised to invite and inspire our Utah MTA members to become certified because that process had greatly influenced my private teaching after I joined Utah MTA.
Three months before becoming state president (June 2004) I contacted all of the Nationally Certified ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Professional certification: certify or petrify?(Association News)