Straight Talk on Teaching Quality: Six Game-Changing Ideas and What to Do About Them

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Teaching quality is one of the most intensely discussed and debated themes in education reform today. This guide, prepared by AISR with support from the Schott Foundation for Public Education, offers six game-changing strategies that both our own experience and our survey of the field have shown to be powerful supports for the quality of instruction. For each strategy, we outline the problem; what needs to happen; an example of best practice; what readers can ask about and advocate for in their own communities; and further resources. 

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"Who Is Doing Something Good?" Further Examples of Best Practice Our research surfaced many more exemplar sites and organizations than we could include in the publication. Below are some further examples for each strategy. Follow Your Bliss: Career Pathways for Teachers Evaluation Nation: Multiple Ways of Measuring Performance Supports for Teachers, Not Just Rewards and Sanctions: Why Firing Teachers Won’t Lead to Large-Scale Improvement Environmentally Friendly: Why School Culture and Working Conditions Matter No Teacher Is an Island: The Importance of In-School Partnerships and Teacher Collaboration No School Is an Island: Partnerships with Parents and Community

We also encourage you to submit your own examples of best practices to Joanne_Thompson@brown.edu.

References Complete references from the publication for each  strategy