Not exact matches
Kim Farris - Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, and Amy Junge originally identified ten potential areas in which
teachers could secure collective autonomy in schools, when conducting research for the book Trusting Teachers with School
teachers could secure
collective autonomy in schools, when conducting research for the book Trusting
Teachers with School
Teachers with School Success.
Specifically,
teachers who reported having less classroom
autonomy and lower levels of
collective faculty input in school decisions were more likely to leave their schools, the report states.
This resource features all the known K - 12 public schools where
teachers have
collective autonomy to make decisions influencing school success.
Trusting
Teachers with School Success is a book about the practices teachers embrace when they have collective autonomy to make the decisions influencing school
Teachers with School Success is a book about the practices
teachers embrace when they have collective autonomy to make the decisions influencing school
teachers embrace when they have
collective autonomy to make the decisions influencing school success.
In Trusting
Teachers with School Success: What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots, Kim Farris - Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, and Amy Junge found that when teachers have collective autonomy to design and run schools, they make decisions that emulate the nine cultural characteristics of high - performing organi
Teachers with School Success: What Happens When
Teachers Call the Shots, Kim Farris - Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, and Amy Junge found that when teachers have collective autonomy to design and run schools, they make decisions that emulate the nine cultural characteristics of high - performing organi
Teachers Call the Shots, Kim Farris - Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, and Amy Junge found that when
teachers have collective autonomy to design and run schools, they make decisions that emulate the nine cultural characteristics of high - performing organi
teachers have
collective autonomy to design and run schools, they make decisions that emulate the nine cultural characteristics of high - performing organizations.
Collective accountability coupled with collaborative
autonomy attracts great
teachers to MSLA — and helps keep them there.
The first line in the NEA Commission on Effective
Teachers and Teaching report, Transforming Teaching: Connecting Professional Responsibility with Student Learning, is, «We envision a teaching profession that embraces
collective accountability for student learning balanced with collaborative
autonomy that allows educators to do what is best for students» (2011).
Teachers should seek
collective autonomy to make big - picture school and program level decisions — such as those about budget allocation, selecting colleagues, discipline policy, and more.
There are many ways to secure
collective autonomy to run a
teacher - powered school.
Traditionally this
autonomy has taken the form of greater freedom in hiring (and firing)
teachers and school leaders (in most states charter school employees are not required to be part of the district
collective bargaining unit), developing budgets, choosing curriculum, procuring supplies and contracting with vendors, and shaping the school calendar (through longer days and / or extended school years).23
Providing
teachers greater
autonomy and influence over important decisions will help to build
collective efficacy.»
While most ongoing sensemaking occurs through individual reflection, when
teachers feel that their legitimacy is threatened (as when faced with a policy that they believe stifles their creativity, takes their
autonomy away, or threatens their professional judgment), they are more likely to engage in
collective sense - making.
According to the Shanker Institute report, attrition is «the most significant impediment to increasing the diversity of the
teacher workforce,» with minority
teachers» strongest complaints related not to being concentrated in urban schools serving high poverty, high - need communities, but because of «a lack of
collective voice in educational decisions and a lack of professional
autonomy in the classroom.»