The InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards will be released at the end of April in conjunction with the Council for Chief State School Officers’ State Consortium on Educator Effectiveness (SCEE) Summit (April 28-30) and the National Teacher Recognition Week. The plan is to use the release of the final updated standards to launch the SCEE Read more about New InTASC Standards to be Released this Month[…]
A new report from the Aspen Institute looks at the teacher evaluation systems of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) and the Achievement First (AF) charter network as a means to help education leaders develop their own teacher evaluation and performance management systems. According to the report, the challenge facing education leaders is to Read more about Teacher Evaluation and Performance Management: Best Practices[…]
When one thinks of virtual field experiences for pre-service teachers, one often conjures an image of teacher candidates watching a video of a teacher presenting a lesson and then talking about his/her practice. But TeachME changes the concept of Virtual Field Experiences entirely! In an article in Education Week’s most recent edition of the Teacher Read more about Virtual Field Experiences[…]
In Customized Schooling (Harvard Education Press, 2011), editors Frederick M. Hess, the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Bruno V. Manno, senior adviser, K-12 Education Reform Initiative at the Walton Family Foundation, lead a group of education experts to look at “how providers might use new tools to deliver Read more about Recommended Reading: Customized Schooling[…]
Hot off the Brookings Institution press is Terry Moe’s magnum opus on teacher unions, Special Interest – Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools. At more than 500 pages, it is deeply informative, profoundly insightful, fundamentally depressing, and yet ultimately somewhat hopeful about our children’s educational futures due to the combined forces of technology and changing politics. Read more about Special Interest – Teachers Unions and America’s Public Schools[…]
Education Week is offering a free live webinar, Recalibrating Professional Development for Teacher Success, on Tuesday, April 12, 3 p.m., EDT. With school systems under pressure to boost achievement and improve human capital management, today’s education leaders recognize that effective teacher staff development is more important than ever. Yet teacher learning programs in many schools Read more about Recalibrating Professional Development for Teacher Success[…]
The latest results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) garnered all the usual headlines about America’s lackluster performance and the rise of competitor nations. And to be sure, the findings—that America’s 15-year-olds perform in the middle of the pack in both reading and math—are disconcerting for a nation that considers itself an international Read more about American Achievement in International Perspective[…]
A $99 million teacher bonus program that Washington legislators designed to lure good teachers into high-poverty schools has not worked as intended, according to a new analysis from the University of Washington Bothell’s Center on Reinventing Public Education. Washington State provides $5,000 bonuses to those teachers who undergo and pass the rigorous national board certification Read more about Questioning the Effects of Bonuses for National Board Certified Teachers[…]
The PIE Network’s most recent report, “Schools in High Gear: Reforms That Work When They Work Together” is a set of essays written by the network’s policy partners, leaders from the five policy organizations that support the network. The policy partners span the ideological spectrum but come together around the core ingredients for education reform. Read more about Alignment of Reform Efforts[…]
What makes teachers effective, and how do you measure and cultivate it, especially in high-minority, high-poverty schools? At the recent Civil Rights Research Roundtable, convened by the Warren Institute, researchers proposed very different answers – and often viewed their theories of action as mutually exclusive. Two major theories of action emerged at the roundtable, as Read more about Theories of Action for Teacher Effectiveness[…]
A new paper from Public Impact titled Teacher Tenure Reform: Applying Lessons from the Civil Service and Higher Education examines lessons from higher education and the civil service and applies fresh thinking to offer new “elite” and “inclusive” tenure designs that could improve student learning and help grow the size and power of an elite Read more about Teacher Tenure Reform: Two Resources[…]
At Hope Street Group, educators work together to develop recommendations for policymakers that will be used to improve teacher evaluation systems. Hope Street has partnered with leaders at state Departments of Education across the country and connected them with teachers in their states to develop evaluation measures and determine feasible and fair accountability standards. As Read more about Teachers get a Voice in Evaluation System Design[…]
Part 2 of the latest MetLife Survey of the American Teacher finds continuing challenges in preparing diverse learners for college and careers, and teachers say success depends on resources to address different student needs. More than 90 percent of all middle and high school teachers surveyed in the new MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Read more about Survey of the American Teacher – Part 2[…]
A Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) white paper links national assessment reform and the need to advance teaching as a results-oriented profession. The paper raises cautions about the use of value-added models (VAMs) as “the preferred method” to estimate the effects of individual teachers on student achievement. Even highly accomplished teachers who embrace accountability, the Read more about New Student Assessments and Advancing Teaching as a Results-Oriented Profession[…]
At the International Summit on the Teaching Profession last week, Stanford University announced that it will collaborate with Pearson for delivery of the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)-a nationally available, performance-based assessment for measuring the effectiveness of teacher candidates. The TPA was developed by a team of Stanford researchers led by Drs. Linda Darling-Hammond and Read more about Stanford University and Pearson Collaborate to Deliver the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA)[…]
There are many things we can’t predict about the future of education, but happily, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has allowed us to look into the future of education statistics. For example, postsecondary enrollment rose by 34 percent between 1994 and 2008; NCES projects that it will increase another 17 percent by 2019. Read more about CES releases “Projections of Education Statistics to 2019”[…]