Teacher Quality, Education & Training

Briefs

06/26/09

Rethinking Professional Development: Comprehensive Approaches to Ensuring Effective Teaching: As teacher quality is the number one factor affecting student achievement, improvement in teacher effectiveness is a top federal priority. This forum showcased two comprehensive models that have been implemented in school districts that use continuous professional development that have proven effects on student achievement and the quality of instruction in the classroom. The Long Beach Unified School District is exemplary in its use of internal resources to improve teacher effectiveness through year-round professional development linked to school improvement strategies. The Urban Teacher Residency program of the Academy for Urban School Leadership in Chicago ensures continuous improvement of teaching through intensive pre-service training, classroom residency, induction coaching, use of student-level data to inform instruction, and mentoring for teachers in urban schools that have been targeted for school turnaround. Speakers included Stephanie Hirsch, Executive Director of the National Staff Development Council, Dallas (TX); Chris Steinhauser, Superintendent of the Long Beach Unified School District, (CA); and Michael Whitmore, Director of the Teacher Residency Program, Academy for Urban School Leadership, Chicago (IL).  (Forum Brief)

1/26/2007

Results from A National Study of Mathematics in Career and Technical Education with Jim Stone, Prinicpal Researcher, University of Minnesota, Joe Fullerton, Program Development Specialist, Lenape Technical School, Ford City, PA, and Jeff Linko, Teacher, Lenape Technical School, Ford City, PA. (Forum Brief)

2/27/2004

Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Requirement of NCLB and IDEA: Alternative Routes for Special Education Teachers, with Paul Sindelar, Center on Personnel Studies in Special Education, University of Florida; William Fink, Director of Exceptional Student Education, Volusia County Schools, Daytona Beach, FL; and Eric Carlton, President, Banner Schools LLC, Chicago, IL. (Forum Brief)

6/14/2002

America's Teachers: Innovations in Recruitment, Retention, and Professional Preparation, with David Haselkorn, Dean of National Education Programs and Policy at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, Art Wise, President, National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, and Emily Feistritzer, President of the National Center for Education Information. (Forum Brief)

3/8/2002

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Promoting Well-Trained Teachers and Research-Based Instruction in the Face of a Chronic Shortage of Special Education Faculty, with Deborah D. Smith, Research Professor of Special Education at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; Sue Gamm, Chief Specialized Services Officer for the Chicago Public Schools (CPS); and Douglas Palmer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A & M University. (Forum Brief)

2/23/2001

Improving Teacher Quality Findings from Three New Studies, with Drew Gitomer, Senior Vice President, Statistics and Research, Educational Testing Service (ETS); and Harold Wenglinsky, Research Scientist, Policy Information Center in the Center for Teaching and Learning, ETS.(Forum Brief)

7/27/2000

New Activity on the Education of Teachers, with Patricia Maloney, American Council on Education. (Salon)

11/5/1999

Reforms and Challenges in Teacher Education Programs: Perspective of Policy Makers, College Presidents, and Practitioners, with Patricia Maloney, Assistant Director, Center for Policy Analysis, ACE, Mary Futrell, Dean, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University (GWU), and Gary Galluzzo, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. (Forum Brief)

10/15/1999

The Content of Teacher Licensing Examinations, Patte Barth and Ruth Mitchell, The Education Trust. (Forum Brief)

11/20/1998

What You Always Wanted to Know About the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, with James A. Kelly, President and Chief Executive Officer, NBPTS. (Forum Brief)

9/19/1997

New Partners in Teacher Preparation: How "Scientific Work Experience Programs for Teachers" Help Students, with Jay Dubner, Program Coordinator, Columbia University Summer Research Program for Secondary School Science Teachers; Second-year participant Sausen Silmi, a science teacher at Canarsie High School in Brooklyn, NY; and Tamra Busch-Johnsen, Business-Education Compact/Oregon Industrial Initiatives for Science and Mathematics Education. (Forum Brief)

Trip Reports

09/29/08-
09/30/08

High School Redesign in Long Beach, California: Investing in Human Capital and Professional Development: The Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD) is able to boast high-performing schools in every section of the district. Its stellar accomplishments have earned it a number of national honors. LBUSD is the 2003 national winner of the Broad Prize for Urban Education and is a finalist for the 2008 Broad Prize, to be awarded in October 2008. Earlier this year, Newsweek magazine named six of Long Beach’s high schools to its list of top U.S. high schools. (Field Trip)

 

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