Tammy Kirkland has been an NBCT since 2008 and renewed her certification in 2017. She is an Instructor at the School of Education and the Coordinator of the World Class Teaching Program at the University of Mississippi. At the World Class Teaching Program, Ms. Kirkland strives to make National Board Certification achievable for all teachers by providing high quality candidate support to all candidates; she has developed national partnerships and collaborations that have led to the state’s first online candidate support program. In 2018, she was chosen as a National Board Fellow. Additionally, Ms. Kirkland teaches the math methods course and classroom assessment to senior education students. Prior to her work at the University of Mississippi, Kirkland taught for 12 years in New Albany, Mississippi, where she was selected as a Teacher of the Year and District Teacher of the Year.