The NEA encourages its members to use Assessment Advisor to rate the assessments they’ve used in their classrooms! 4,000 teachers in 40 states have checked out the site so far. Have you?
Read the NEA Today article.
Survey: Today’s teaching force is less experienced, more open to change
By Jackie Mader
Hechinger Report, October 23, 2012
Teacher-Leader Corps Helps Turn Around Schools
By Stephen Sawchuck
Education Week, April 20, 2011
New Teachers are the New Majority
By Celine Coggins & Heather Peske
Education Week, January 19, 2011
Lesson Plan in Boston Schools: Don’t Go It Alone
By Mike Winerip
New York Times, August 8, 2010
Teach Plus works with teachers to help them advocate for proposals that will value teachers and transform the teaching profession. Teachers have written policy briefs and op-eds, provided feedback to superintendents, mayors, U.S. Senators, and other policymakers, sat on advisory panels other decision-making bodies, and much more. We seek to amplify an informed, independent voice. Examples of teacher impact include:
Teach Plus helped Memphis City Schools in designing a new Teacher Effectiveness Model. Learn about how Teach Plus is helping Memphis use teacher input in key reform decisions.
Boston Teaching Policy Fellows designed a unique staffing model for underperforming schools. Read their proposal, "Ready for the Next Challenge: Improving the Retention and Distribution of Excellent Teachers in Urban Schools." Subsequently, Teach Plus partnered with the Boston Public Schools to implement this program, now called the T3 Initiative. The program’s early success was featured in Education Week.
Indianapolis Teaching Policy Fellows helped to transform teaching policy and eliminate quality-blind layoffs in Indiana. Read their policy brief, “The Domino Effect: How Seniority-Based Reassignment Impacts Teachers and Students” and Policy Fellow testimony for the Indiana legislature.
Key policy papers include:
Teachers’ Views on Measuring Effectiveness: Principles for Implementation of State and District Reforms
A report commissioned by the Aspen Institute and New Leaders for New Schools by Christina Porter, Boston Teaching Policy Fellow, and Jim Larson, Indianapolis Teaching Policy Fellow
New Teachers are the New Majority
An article in Education Week co-authored by Teach Plus Founder and CEO Celine Coggins and Teach Plus National Director of Programs Heather Peske on the rise of the new majority in the American teaching profession.
The Cost of Loyalty: Teachers' Stay-or-Leave Decision in the Indianapolis Public Schools
A report on how to change the disincentives for building a teaching career in the Indianapolis Public Schools by the Indianapolis Teaching Policy Fellows 2009-2011 cohort and Teach Plus Staff
