“Issue a clarion call to the young people in this nation to become teachers”
Dr. Ernie Fleishman is the Senior Vice President, Education and Corporate Relations for Scholastic, the global children’s publishing and media company.
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“Pay attention to overall child welfare”
George H. Wood is principal of Federal Hocking High School in Stewart, Ohio and serves as the Executive Director of The Forum for Education and Democracy.
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“Encouraging [teachers] to stay”
Margaret Gaston is president of the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning.
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“Call upon people from all backgrounds”
Wendy Kopp is founder and president of Teach for America, the national teaching corps.
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“Remember the ABCs: acknowledge, build, change”
Renee Moore is an English instructor at the Mississippi Delta Community College.
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“Focus attention on the research and development infrastructure for the improvement of teaching”
Anthony S. Bryk is the ninth president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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“A common language on what excellent teaching and learning looks like”
Mike Feinberg is Co-Founder of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Foundation and the Superintendent of KIPP Houston.
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Quality and Student Learning Communities: Doing does more
You can’t make a tomato bigger by weighing it and you won’t make kids smarter by constantly measuring a few of the things they may have learned through tests.
Education must do a better job of speaking to the why and how changing our schools and classrooms into QSLC’s – Quality Student Learning Communities through the creation of a positive and student-centered learning environment. This is perhaps more essential now than ever. The educational discussion needs to be about how educators will be encouraged to change their school and classrooms, as well as their own teaching focus. The focus needs to be on the quality of support, type [Read more...]
Nationalize Standards
As a teacher, I have embraced our fairly well designed state standards. They provide a framework for each subject area that lays out in a logical way what students should have mastered by the end of each grade level. I realize that these standards are the floor, not the ceiling, and I know that I can teach the concepts in the way that I feel is most appropriate and best for my kids. Thank you to NCLB for standards, now, lets further benefit kids by making them standard from state to state - one set of standards, and one really USEFUL assessment tool. We have a [Read more...]
Return the Teaching Profession to the Teaching Professionals
Historically, the federal government has played two distinct roles in public education: supporting people to go to college or to work and supporting students who live in poverty by providing funding for additional services. Both are considered as positive and supportive.
What teachers have experienced from the federal government since NCLB was enacted has been the opposite of support. Since 2002 we have been told that we cannot use our professional judgment. We have been told that we must teach with fidelity to programs, that we are not allowed to modify these programs by using our professional knowledge and the methods and materials we have at our disposal. [Read more...]
