The Wallace Foundation's has released a new 2013 report titled: Districts Matter: Cultivating the Principals Urban Schools Need. According to the report, great principals are key to turning around urban schools and effective school leadership should be cultivated by school districts.
This week in Chiefline: Wallace Foundation releases new report on Principal Effectiveness; PARCC Releases new tool to prepare schools for new assessments.
Deborah Delisle, assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, is focusing her attention on altering the way the department interacts with states. "We are designing a very robust technical assistance program to support states," she says.
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s District and School Transformation (DST) division has developed The Professional Development for School Leaders program. The program is designed to foster peer collaboration among the leaders of high- and low- preforming schools.
The Wallace Foundation has issued an expanded version of its report, "The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning," which details the key practices of effective school leaders - and why such leadership is important to teachers.
State Teachers of the Year from across the country gathered together in Scottsdale, Arizona last week, to engage in conversations and activities focused on professional development and the National Teacher of the Year program.
Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan says to attract more mathematicians and scientists into the teaching profession, teacher salaries should be increased to $100,000 or more.
The Hawaii Department of Education and the Hawaii Government Employees Association, which represents public school principals in the state, recently reached an agreement on evaluations to rate principals on student outcomes and leadership.
Vermont has joined 13 other states in the Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) Alternative Assessment Consortium headed by the University of Kansas' Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation. The consortium -- which also includes Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin -- is creating a computer-based assessment for K-12 public school students with significant cognitive disabilities.
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) teacher prep task force issued a variety of recommendations to improve the way colleges prepare teachers for their first post-graduation jobs.
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