«The results in our report confirm that New Jersey
charter school leaders and teachers show a commitment to addressing the needs of Black and Hispanic students in poverty,» said Devora Davis, Research Manager and co-author of the New Jersey report.
Southern California
charter school leaders and teachers are invited to attend the Curriculum and Instruction Network for Public Charter Schools Symposium.
«The results in our report confirm that New Jersey
charter school leaders and teachers show a commitment to addressing the needs of black and Hispanic students in poverty,» said Devora Davis, one of the report's authors.
Thanks to your donations, we have been able to assist 135 charter schools overcome legislative hurdles impeding their flexibility and autonomy, provide training and support services to
charter school leaders and teachers which in turn benefits the 71,000 + students attending charter schools throughout the state!
As such, charter schools operate under a much less stringent regulatory environment in which results matter but inputs do not —
charter school leaders and teachers have the freedom to run their schools and classrooms as they see fit, and are held accountable only for their students» academic outcomes.
Charter school leaders and teachers across the state are delivering results for the communities they serve.
As part of our ongoing effort to explore and promote citizenship education at AEI (see, for instance, here), we had the pleasure of convening an array of terrific
charter school leaders and teachers in San Francisco yesterday.
Therefore, it's up to
charter school leaders and teachers to prove to parents that their children are getting a high - quality education and laying the foundation for a life of opportunity.
Not exact matches
Once again, Eva Moskowitz, the ferocious founder
and leader of the Success Academy
charter school network,
and a coalition of
charter operators
and advocates will bus thousands of kids, parents,
and teachers to the state capitol for a noisy rally.
Now, those
leaders are beginning to craft their legislative priorities, which will include eliminating the state's cap on
charter schools, increasing funding for established
charters,
and establishing more accountability measures for district
schools and teachers.
After a video of a
charter school teacher angrily scolded a student was reported by The New York Times, Success Academy
leader Eva Moskowitz blasted the paper
and defended the incident as an «anomaly.»
Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward
teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests
and the reviews of principals.
The union
leaders said the talks were not unusual
and insisted they were not pulling back on their TV ads
and social - media outreach attacking the governor's proposals to strengthen
teacher evaluations, streamline disciplinary hearings
and expand
charter schools.
Thousands of parents,
teachers, children
and supporters of New York City
charter schools gathered at Foley Square on Oct. 2nd to call on city
and state
leaders to address what they call a «failing
school crisis.»
«It is unfortunate that DOE is trying to stifle the autonomy of
charter schools when their time would be better spent on evaluating what great
teachers and leaders in the very best
charter schools, traditional district
schools and nonprofit providers are doing to make pre-kindergarten an investment that pays off in increased student achievement,» Merriman said.
The book profiles heroic
charter school teachers and leaders and chronicles their 80 - hour work weeks, their meetings in
teacher's homes to retool instruction because of new data,
and their personal commitment to taking students to visit colleges.
My hope is that somewhere along the task force's multicity tour, it'll get to hear from
charter -
school leaders,
teachers, parents, students
and graduates.
In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New
Charter With Experienced
Leader Learns From Extending
Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online inst
Teachers» Reach, we look at how this
teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the
school's
teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online inst
teachers in their focus on literacy,
and how the
school combined her leadership with online instruction.
AITSL's Professional Growth team supports
teachers and school leaders, systems and sectors, to implement the Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework and the Australian Charter for Professional Learning of Teachers and School
teachers and school leaders, systems and sectors, to implement the Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework and the Australian Charter for Professional Learning of Teachers and School Le
school leaders, systems and sectors, to implement the Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework and the Australian Charter for Professional Learning of Teachers and School L
leaders, systems
and sectors, to implement the Australian
Teacher Performance
and Development Framework
and the Australian
Charter for Professional Learning of
Teachers and School
Teachers and School Le
School LeadersLeaders.
In Spring 2009, EdNext published a look at the earliest days of KIPP,
and at the lives of these superstar
teachers and leaders in great
charter schools.
Our alumni are
teachers, principals, superintendents, CEOs, state commissioners of education, founders of
charter schools, education entrepreneurs,
and college
and university
leaders.
Institutional players —
teachers unions,
school boards,
and state
and district administrators — frequently petition state
leaders for
charter caps
and reduced
charter funding
and vigorously oppose alternative authorizers
and facilities aid.
«Hall of Fame members include
school teachers and leaders, thinkers, policy experts,
and funders that have paved the way for the success
and growth of public
charter schools.
So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources
and experiences over time
and around the world, ideas from inspectors
and their reports, leadership training course tutors
and candidates,
school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty
leaders, headteachers
and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex
and retired
teachers, in the public, private, Academy,
Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary
and charitable sectors.
What makes these programs particularly interesting is that their founders were
leaders from the
charter school sector who created their own
teacher certification
and master's degree programs after concluding that the
teachers who graduate from most traditional
teacher education programs lack the skills needed to teach successfully.
Likewise, many of the ideas we regard today as education reform's conventional wisdom - linked standards
and assessments, consequences for poor performance, testing new
teachers, paying some teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of T
teachers, paying some
teachers more than others, and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a teacher union leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of T
teachers more than others,
and charter schools - were given prominent public voice by a
teacher union
leader, the late Albert Shanker of the American Federation of
TeachersTeachers.
The American public shows growing support for online learning
and merit pay for
teachers and continued support for accountability, standards, testing,
and charter schools — education innovations that have been endorsed by
leaders in both major parties.
Mathematica's survey of online
school leaders gives important insight as to why students may not be making gains: online
charter schools offer only 3 to 6 hours of «synchronous» (
teachers and students in «live» contact online) instruction per week;
school leaders say they struggle the most with student engagement;
and it's clear that parents are expected to play an active role in instruction
and in making sure that students stay on track.
Inspired by a lecture from Albert Shanker, the longtime president of the American Federation of
Teachers (whom Reichgott Junge heard describe
charter schools as «the best answer so far» to the ills of the American education system) she worked with civic
leaders and fellow representatives to draft
and implement a bill granting greater autonomy for a subset of the North Star state's
schools.
Telia Kapteyn Learning
and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high
school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school English
teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary
school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school teacher at a KIPP
school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade
teacher at Brooke
Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clas
School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort
leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare
teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms
Charter schools keep improving as well due to the efforts of talented teachers and leaders, and the charter board's aggressive closing of low perf
Charter schools keep improving as well due to the efforts of talented
teachers and leaders,
and the
charter board's aggressive closing of low perf
charter board's aggressive closing of low performers.
-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty
School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent
Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student
Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Teachers Earn, Learn,
and Support
Teacher -
Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM
Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids —
and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid
Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on
Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst
and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning,
and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County
Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent
Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on
Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte
schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best
teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity
teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning
charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y.,
schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity C
schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do
teachers say about an Opportunity
teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?
Pay
Teachers More
and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great -
Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay
Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough
Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent
Teachers — Selection, Development,
and More — May 31, 2012 New
Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic
and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New
Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top
Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report:
Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based
Charter Strategies: New White Papers
and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top
Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011
Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011
School Turnaround
Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing
Schools: Building Family
and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost
School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making
Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the
Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports
and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring
Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New
Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010
Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing
Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing
Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education
and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth
and Designing PD That Works — May 29.
Ask the
Teacher -
Leaders — October 1, 2015 Indy
Teachers Union Votes for High - Paid Opportunity Culture Roles — September 9, 2015
Charter School Lessons in New Orleans, Nashville — September 1, 2015
Teacher Evaluation for
Teacher - Led, Team - Based
Schools: Free Guide & Policy Brief — August 27, 2015 Early Lessons from Newark's
Charter School Sector — August 20, 2015 New, Free Training Materials for Teaching - Team
Leaders — August 4, 2015 Higher Growth, Pay at Early Opportunity Culture
Schools: Results
and Lessons — July 21, 2015 Syracuse
Schools Build on First Opportunity Culture Year — June 16, 2015 How to Build an Opportunity Culture: New, Free Toolkit — June 9, 2015 Hire Great
Teacher -
Leaders, Blended - Learning
and Team
Teachers: Free Toolkits — June 2, 2015 Texas First to Launch Statewide Opportunity Culture Initiative — May 19, 2015 RealClearEducation.com Launches Opportunity Culture Series — May 15, 2015 Indianapolis Public
Schools Begin Opportunity Culture Initiative — May 07, 2015 What Could YOU Do in an Opportunity Culture?
This toolkit helps district,
school,
and charter management organization
leaders select
teachers and staff members for the
school models of an Opportunity Culture.
The expansion of
charter schools, less university - based
teacher preparation,
and putting digital technology before superb teaching as a way to personalize learning for students do not characterize the policies of international educational
leaders like Canada, Finland, or Singapore.
Academic Gains, Double the # of
Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom
Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to
School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning
Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter
Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround
Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth,
Teacher Pay
and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great
Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture
Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State
Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for
Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within
School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered
Teacher -
Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering
Teacher -
Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of
School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia
Schools Join Movement to Extend Great
Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every
School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality
Charter Schools — April 15, 2016
School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use
Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?
The campaign is a collaboration between DPS, Denver - based
charter management organizations (CMOs), the Denver Mayor's Office,
and local foundations to accelerate efforts to substantially increase the number of
teachers and leaders of color hired
and retained in Denver's
schools.
The Secretary specifically invites advice
and recommendations from State
and local education administrators, parents,
teachers and teacher organizations, principals, other
school leaders (including
charter school leaders), paraprofessionals, members of local boards of education, civil rights
and other organizations representing the interests of students (including historically underserved students), representatives of the business community,
and other organizations involved with the implementation
and operation of title I programs.
Dana has worked as an assistant principal, special education
leader,
and special education
teacher for a public
charter school in Georgia serving K — 8th grade students.
With more autonomy to provide flexibility to
school leaders and teachers,
charter schools generate innovative
and individualized - learning environments that meet the unique needs of their
school community
and foster student achievement.
Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill touted DeVos» visits to 12 public,
charter, private, religious
and military
schools — «an average of one per week» — as evidence that «the Secretary is engaging with students, parents,
teachers and leaders to deliver the President's vision of ensuring every child in America has the equal opportunity to receive a world - class education.»
In this white paper, Public Impact explores how New Orleans
and Indianapolis are developing robust talent pipelines to expand the supply of effective
charter school teachers and leaders in their cities.
That's much of the genius behind
charter schools, which, when state laws get it right, allow
school leaders true autonomy
and allow
teachers to choose
schools that align with their personal philosophies.
Trains
and mentors public, public -
charter and private
school teachers and school leaders, through both on - site
and online programming.
Because of that, in 2009, Rep John Benson, a former Edina
teacher union
leader along with strong support from Mpls district union
leaders Louise Sundin
and Lynn Nordgren sponsored legislation that enabled districts to access the same flexibility
and autonomy provisions of
chartering without actually
chartering a
school.
He has served as a mentor, instructor,
and adviser for various
teacher and leadership development programs including NYC Teaching Fellows, New
Leaders for New
Schools,
and the NYC
Charter Center's Emerging
Leaders Fellowship.
David Greenberg has been at the Audubon Center of the North Woods since 2012
and brings to his role broad
and deep experience in
charter schools as a
teacher,
school leader,
and authorizer.
That's why I'm now working to mobilize
charter school teachers, parents, board members
and community supporters to stand up
and demand a solution from Governor Cuomo
and state
leaders.
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