Recently convened national campaigns like TeachStrong, a coalition of 60 education organizations and teacher Ambassadors dedicated to elevating the teaching profession, are a sign that now is the time to
demand more support for teachers.
Not exact matches
In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that
teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire
more well - prepared and nationally certified
teachers, modernizing our schools
for the 21st century,
supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion,
demanding greater accountability from students and
teachers, principals and parents.
In a new book, An Empty Curriculum: The Need to Reform
Teacher Licensing Regulations and Tests, (Rowman and Littlefield: 2015), I make the case, with empirical support wherever possible, that the revision of the licensing system for each stage in a teaching career and the construction of new or more demanding teacher licensure tests contributed significantly to the long - lasting effects of the state's first - class sta
Teacher Licensing Regulations and Tests, (Rowman and Littlefield: 2015), I make the case, with empirical
support wherever possible, that the revision of the licensing system
for each stage in a teaching career and the construction of new or
more demanding teacher licensure tests contributed significantly to the long - lasting effects of the state's first - class sta
teacher licensure tests contributed significantly to the long - lasting effects of the state's first - class standards.
Public assessments of local schools would shift in a
more skeptical direction;
support for universal voucher initiatives, charter schools, and the parent trigger would increase; limits to
teacher tenure would gain greater public
support; and both
teachers unions and
demands for increases in
teacher salaries would confront greater public skepticism.
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.
A quick look at the main party manifestos shows that the Conservatives suggest that the way forward on
teacher recruitment is to
support teachers by reducing the time they spend on paperwork, introducing bursaries
for the most in -
demand subjects, and paying good
teachers more.
Republicans who control both the House and Senate spurned proposals to enact several other
demands by striking
teachers, including giving raises to
support staff, shrinking class size and adding money
for more school counselors.
Over a thousand parents,
teachers, school
support staff and head
teachers will be bringing the message to MPs that schools are seriously underfunded and will ask them to join us in
demanding that the Chancellor release
more funds
for our schools, at today's School Cuts mass lobby of Parliament.
Staffing & development: The potential to work in teams with on -
demand support will improve working conditions
for teachers and make most blended schools
more responsive to all students, especially those with special needs.