Teaching Profession

Measuring What Matters: NBCTs on National Board Certification

More than 150 research studies have examined the impact of National Board Certification for teachers. Now, for the first time, a team of NBCTs have revealed their analyses of the research — from the perspective of highly accomplished teachers who...

The Big Jump to Pedagogy 2.0

Future learning environments must capitalize on the potential of Web 2.0 by combining social software tools with connectivist pedagogical models. That’s the argument put forth by Catherine McLoughlin and Mark J. W. Lee in their article “Future Learning Landscapes,” published...

Inspiring Work of Considerable Genius

A quick note from Claus von Zastrow, executive director of the Learning First Alliance and keeper of the LFA blog site Public School Insights: All three installments of our Dave Eggers interview are now online. The last of these installments...

Teacher Trek: The Next Generation

A “clash of the generations” is taking place in schools across the country, “as more and more Millennials —those born in 1978 and later —move into the teaching ranks.” So says this story from the Tools for Schools newsletter (May...

Good luck, Jake -- and good luck, kids

In the wake of an upbeat Urban Institute report on the performance of Teach for America high school teachers (or rather the performance of their students on end-of-course tests in North Carolina)… …and the news that TFA, after a year...

The Teaching Penalty

We can’t recruit and retain excellent teachers on the cheap, says a new report from the Economic Policy Institute. The authors’ analysis of professional pay scales (to no one’s great surprise) finds that “public school teachers earn considerably less than...

ASCD's Take on Incentive Pay

A new InfoBrief from ASCD (the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) explains the Association’s position on teacher incentive pay: (L)ocal school districts should have this option to attract the best and brightest educators. We believe schools should have the...

Still Risky After All These Years

It's the silver anniversary of what was arguably the most influential education report in modern US history -- A Nation at Risk. You'll find no shortage of commentary this week about the 25-year old Mayday call from a national blue-ribbon...

Building a High-Quality Teaching Force in Challenged High Schools

A new policy brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education examines the persistent problem of providing low-performing high schools with a consistent high-quality teacher workforce. Improving the Distribution of Teachers in Low-Performing High Schools (made possible with the support of...

Leadership Listening Post

Would you like to chat for a bit with leadership guru Roland Barth, professional development wizard Stephanie Hirsh, or Gloria Ladson-Billings, renown for her work in culturally responsive teaching practices? Drop by Podcasts for Collaborative Leadership in Education, where two...

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