THE CENTER FOR STRENGTHENING THE TEACHING PROFESSION
“Teaching Quality IS the Answer”
from Mitchell 20, a film about teacher leaders and National Board Certification
“Teaching Quality IS the Answer”
from Mitchell 20, a film about teacher leaders and National Board Certification
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Coaching refers to the release of exemplary teachers on a full or part-time basis to work in partnership with experienced colleagues to accelerate professional learning. The spotlight is on content development and the instructional strategies used to enhance student learning and achievement.
Coaches partner with principals, teachers, specialists and para-educators to support instructional improvement in a wide variety of professional development activities.
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This group of mentors comes together once a month to share their challenges and build their skills.
"Mrs. G. I need your help NOW. I tried the science lesson and the kids just destroyed it!"
Without the quality teachers we hire and train, we wouldn't be seeing the improvement in student achievement scores we've had since 1994. Doesn't everyone on the committee - everybody in the distri Read more »
The three other classsrooms are just fine. Why is Sarah's classroom management not improving?
With support from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession formed the New Teacher Alliance in 2006. In collaboration with Washington State's Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, seven school districts and two educational service districts committed to improve their practice in five areas of teacher induction: hiring, orientation, mentoring, professional development and assessment of teacher learning. Read more »
Coaching refers to the release of exemplary teachers on a full or part-time basis to work in partnership with experienced colleagues to accelerate professional learning. The spotlight is on content development and the instructional strategies used to enhance student learning and achievement. Read more »
The writing shared in these two volumes is insightful, reflective, and thought-provoking. These teachers have made valuable contributions to our profession. Click on an image to view Teachers' Voices.
As other college students learned to play racket ball or joined a sorority, I was driven by a need to leave campus and get into the city, that city being Philadelphia. Part of the pull to the people was probably a longing to make up for lost time, a longing to understand who America was, to know the people I had been so loosely connected to living as an ex-patriot in Europe for most of my childhood. And so I made daily treks my junior and senior years of college from my nice little women's college in Bryn Mawr to the University of Pennsylvania located in the heart of downtown Philadelphia. From there, I often continued on to a church in the heart of one of the worst ghettoes in North Philadelphia or one of several schools. Read more »
I didn't appreciate all the things my parents had imparted to me until I began to have my own children. Suddenly it was important to think about what I wanted them to know and be able to do. There were other things I wanted them to avoid like the plague. With my first son, we were careful to talk to him in the womb and read to him regularly, everything from children's books to passages from the Bible. Growing up, language acquisition was a critical skill. My parents read to us as small children. They read for hours to themselves and encouraged us to do the same. To be honest, as one son became a toddler and the other was born, I could think of no skill greater than that of communication in both the written and spoken word. Read more »
Our family is headed to a party to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the liberation of the Republic of Liberia. As my daughter heads out the door, I call her back, "What are you wearing?" I ask with a note of frustration in my voice. She has on a bright orange pair of men's basketball shorts, a blue t-shirt, a black headband with skulls-and-crossbones and a green pair of flip-flops. I think she's covered just about every color of the rainbow. Read more »
