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5 Qualities for Teacher Leaders and Those Who Hire Them
EdNC, June 22, 2018, by Marquitta Mitchell
House Bill 235 outlines credentials that mentor teachers should possess so that they can provide support for new teachers. Those credentials include being an “excellent, experienced, and qualified” teacher who has at least an “accomplished” rating on their NC Teacher Evaluation.
To Personalize Learning, Change School Staffing
Association of American Educators, June 7, 2018, by Melissa Pratt
Personalized learning is one of the buzziest education buzzwords of the moment. Teachers are urged to individualize instruction, to promote mastery learning, and to help students identify with the material. When it comes down to how a…
Teachers Shouldn’t Have to Work Alone – and Now They Don’t Have to
Forbes, May 29, 2018, by Michael Horn
With the rise of online learning in schools—what educators call “blended learning”—what teachers do daily is changing in big and small ways. A central question is what will teaching look like in the future, as online learning can increasingly help…
How Team Teaching (and Other Innovations) Can Impact Blended Learning
eSchool News, May 25, 2018, by Thomas Arnett
Personalized learning’s rationale has strong intuitive appeal: We can all remember feeling bored, confused, frustrated, or lost in school when our classes didn’t spark our interests or address our learning needs. But an intuitive rationale doesn’t clearly translate to…
The One-Teacher, One-Classroom Model Needs an Upgrade. Here’s What’s Next.
EdSurge, May 24, 2018, by Stephen Noonoo
Emerging school models are supposed to ease the transition to personalized and blended instruction—or at least make it possible. But new ways of teaching can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup. According to the authors…
Teachers Kept Quitting This Indianapolis School. Here’s How the Principal Got Them to Stay
Chalkbeat, May 9, 2018, by Dylan Peers McCoy
When Jeremy Baugh took the helm as principal of School 107 three years ago, staff turnover was so high that about half the teachers were also new to the struggling elementary campus, he said. For his first two years,…
Does Opportunity Culture Bring Students More Opportunities to Learn?
National Council on Teacher Quality, April 2018, by Kency Nittler
About 20 school districts have adopted new staffing models known collectively as Opportunity Culture, each designed to maximize the impact of great teachers. In these districts, excellent teachers are given opportunities to reach to more students through leading…
Guilford School Board Wants Flexibility to Help 9 Low-Performing Schools
News & Record, April 11, 2018, by Jessie Pounds
Guilford County school board members are asking the state to give nine schools the kind of flexibility normally reserved for charter schools. They voted to send the state an application for “restart” status at Tuesday night’s Board of…
Providing Good Teachers for All Students Proves to be a Challenge for States
Education Dive, April 10, 2018, by Amelia Harper
Though the “highly qualified teacher” mandates have been scrapped under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states are now tasked with defining an “effective teacher” and making sure that these teachers are being equitably distributed to all demographic…
ESSA Pressures States to Assure All Students Have Good Teachers
EdWeek, April 3, 2018, by Madeline Will
Every student, no matter their race or family income level, should be taught by an effective teacher, the Every Student Succeeds Act declares. Exactly how to define what makes an effective teacher and how to implement this ambitious goal has been…