Through a Task Force, this Web site, an Annual Conference, Case Studies and a National Reform Network, the SMHC action project will share and implement nationwide effective practices to recruit, train, retain and reward top teacher and school administrator talent. SMHC's core resources: The Odden/Kelly paper defining SMHC, a paper on talent management in the private sector, case studies on leading-edge SMHC practices and a set of papers on teacher compensation.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week put the onus on principals to improve our schools when he called for a “team of warrior principals to leave the easier places and go into the most underserved communities with a chance to build a new team.” Secretary Duncan was addressing approximately 350 principals at the [...]
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A new analysis by the Center on Reinventing Public Education and the Center for American Progress suggests that school districts should rethink paying teachers for receiving master’s degrees. It argued that master’s degrees have little or no relation to student achievement in the classroom, and concluded that strategically, the “master’s bump” makes little sense.
SMHC supports [...]
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On Tuesday, July 14, the Center for American Progress held an event on leveraging compensation reform for school improvement. The panelists included Craig Jerald, president of Break the Curve Consulting. Jerald’s 2009 report, “Aligned by Design: How Teacher Compensation Reform Can Support and Reinforce Other Educational Reforms,” is the best new writing on teacher compensation [...]
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SMHC Co-Director Allan Odden spoke today at the Education Commission of the States’ 2009 National Forum on Education Policy on state strategies for enhancing teacher effectiveness. Odden provided an overview of key findings from the SMHC Case Studies, released in 2008, and how these findings are impacting SMHC’s work in 2009.
State strategies to improve teacher [...]
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In his July 3 Representative Assembly keynote speech, Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association (NEA) and SMHC Task Force member, addressed the economic and social challenges currently threatening education in the United States. He called on NEA’s leadership to focus its energies in three areas:
Leading the efforts to transform public education
Helping to [...]
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In “So Long, Lake Wobegon?,” a recent report from the Center for American Progress, Morgaen L. Donaldson examines the potential of teacher evaluation systems to raise teacher quality. The report specifically focuses on Cincinnati’s Teacher Evaluation System (TES) as a program that addresses many of the problems that afflict present teacher evaluation systems, and may [...]
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November, 2008
