• Facilitate professional learning opportunities to help educators master of the North Carolina
Professional Teaching Standards, often by demonstrating a lesson, co teaching, or observing and giving
feedback
Please submit the form at the following link for the salary analysts to certify NBPTS pay for instructional
coaches: www.ncpublicschools.org/fbs/finance/forms/
See the Guidelines for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) Pay Differential
document on the FBS website at
www.ncpublicschools.org/docs/fbs/finance/legislation/salarypersonnel/nbptsguidelines.pdf.
It is the responsibility of the LEA central office to ensure that the teachers receiving NBPTS pay meet the
above criteria. DPI may request documentation and a letter from the central office, substantiating the
criteria for NBPTS pay. In the event that DPI concludes that a teacher is not appropriately paid, the LEA
will be required to refund the State for the entire amount of the exception.
2. Salary schedules
NBPTS certified personnel serving as teachers who meet the criteria above are paid from the NBPTS
certified salary schedules.
3. Budget codes
The same budget codes are used for NBPTS certified teachers as used for non-NBPTS teachers.
4. Pay Indicator
Individuals with salaries certified on the NBPTS salary schedule will have an ‘N’ in the seventh digit of
the pay level.
EXAMPLE: Mary Smith is a teacher with NBPTS certification, ‘M’ license, and ten years of experience.
Her pay level will be assigned by DPI as M 10 N.
5. Effective Dates
For pay purposes, the effective date is July 1 of the school year that NBPTS certification is earned. NBPTS
certificates will expire according to the expiration date listed on the NBPTS certificate.
EXAMPLE: Mary Smith is notified in November of 2007 that she has become NBPTS certified. She will be
paid from the NBPTS salary schedule effective July 1, 2007. Her certificate will expire in November of
2017 and will need to be renewed as of this date in order to continue to receive payment for NBPTS in
the 2017 school year after the November expiration date.
6. NBPTS Candidate Funding
Beginning in 2010-2011, assessment fees will no longer be funded by the state. Candidates may receive
a loan through the State Education Assistance Authority for the NBPTS assessment fee. Eligibility for
receiving a loan and the three days (3) days of paid leave is based on the candidate:
(1) Having completed three full years of teaching in a North Carolina public school; and