This report offers a new vision of teacher career pathways that holds promise for recruiting and retaining excellent teachers who further student learning, providing
consistent access to excellent teachers.
We think the federal government must focus states and districts on giving every
student access to excellent teachers and transforming the teaching profession into a high - impact, highly paid profession.
As part of guaranteeing all young
people access to excellent teachers in these subjects we are supporting a number of schools to recruit up to 650 teachers to return to the classroom in September 2016.»
With Hansen's paper adding evidence that students can benefit from
increased access to excellent teachers, we hope teachers and school leaders everywhere will start adjusting schedules and roles to make it happen.
On March 28th, 2016 the first - ever Educator Equity Lab was held at Jackson State University in Mississippi, where more than one hundred education stakeholders made commitments to ensuring
equal access to excellent teachers for the state's students of color and students from low income backgrounds.
Here we want to second his point and add another: schools — and nations — that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more
students access to excellent teachers.
The scheme is part of a wider government initiative to ensure all schools have
access to excellent teachers.
In this blog post for the Innosight Institute (now the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation), Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel argue that «schools — and nations — that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students
access to excellent teachers.»
In a brief we wrote with Christen Holly and Gillian Locke for the Center for American Progress, Giving Every Student
Access to Excellent Teachers: A Vision for Focusing Federal Investments in Education, we suggest four ways the federal government can dramatically increase access to excellent teaching and transform the profession:
Giving all students
access to excellent teachers, and the teams that they lead, could also transform teaching, as we've begun to show through our Opportunity Culture pilot schools.
But if they do, the nation will miss out on the enormous opportunity created by digital learning: the opportunity to give all students
access to excellent teachers, while transforming teaching into a high - paying, high - impact profession.
Access to a free, public education is the right of all US residents, but the authors go a step further: making
the access to excellent teachers a new civil right.
By redesigning roles and using technology, schools could give all students
access to excellent teachers — not in 10 years, but right now.
This June, in an effort to give more students
access to excellent teachers, the United States Department of Education required states to submit «educator equity plans,» meant to identify the root causes of why poor and minority kids receive more inexperienced teachers and fix the problem.
An «excellent teacher» is described as one who produces well over today's typical year of learning growth, and the authors emphasize that it is the duty of policymakers to ensure that every child has
access to excellent teachers every year.
«These countries are also very good at attracting the most talented teachers in the most challenging classrooms, so that every student has
access to excellent teachers.»
As a board member of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she authored the controversial Public School Choice Resolution, which created an annual process to identify and address the lowest performing schools in LAUSD, as well as the Teacher Effectiveness resolution to ensure that all students have
access to an excellent teacher.
I am committed to supporting this work by faithfully implementing the ESEA, as amended by the ESSA, which will help ensure that all students have
access to excellent teachers and positive, safe learning environments with necessary supports to prepare them for success in college, a career and life.
Technology can give all students, regardless of where they live,
access to excellent teachers — but changes must be made wisely.
Every child will learn if they have
access to excellent teachers and schools.