Posted on October 7th, 2009 by arodden
In a new report from the Committee for Economic Development (CED), SMHC is noted for helping to increase public understanding of the importance of strategically aligning all elements in the human resource system with the common goal of improving student learning. The report, Teacher Compensation and Teacher Quality, argues that to increase student achievement, we [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2009 by arodden
On Wednesday, October 7, SMHC Co-Director Jim Kelly will meet with Delaware legislators, business leaders, and district superintendents to discuss human capital management. Kelly will also deliver a presentation to education practitioners to kick off the Delaware Department of Education’s Leadership for Learning series. In his presentation, Kelly will advise practitioners on the best practices [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2009 by jkelly
SMHC Task Force member Denis Doyle stresses the importance of HR alignment and strong school leadership in this recent post on The Doyle Report. According to Doyle, the success of Montgomery County MD schools is largely due to its management of human capital. Doyle writes, “One of the lessons that cannot be stressed enough is [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2009 by arodden
In “Obama’s Stealth Education Reformer,” Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift reports on U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s presentation at the SMHC Task Force meeting on August 4. Clift writes, “Duncan turned heads when he entered the Ritz-Carlton in Washington early this month in part because he’s so tall (6-foot-5), and because he is offering the kind of [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2009 by jkelly
Raymond Pecheone, co-executive director of the Stanford University School Redesign Network and director of the Performance Assessment for California Teachers, and Ruth Chung Wei, director of Assessment Research and Development at the Stanford University School Redesign Network, recently reviewed The New Teacher Project’s report The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on [...]
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Posted on August 6th, 2009 by arodden
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan met with the SMHC Task Force on Wednesday to discuss talent and human capital management from the federal perspective. Educator effectiveness has been at the crux of the education reform dialogue, and the recently released guidelines for the Race to the Top grant competition prioritize the development of “Great [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by jkelly
The SMHC District and State Reform Networks are a critical focus of the ongoing SMHC project. Task Force Vice-Chairs Carl Cohn and Michelle Rhee, along with Janet Knupp, Task Force member, and Betsy Arons, consultant, Gates Foundation, updated the Task Force on the work of the District Reform Network. Launched in 2009, the District Reform [...]
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Posted on August 5th, 2009 by arodden
The SMHC National Task Force reconvened yesterday and today. Responding to the recent national focus on systems to measure teacher effectiveness, SMHC Co-Directors Allan Odden and Jim Kelly, along with SMHC Senior Policy Analyst Anthony Milanowski led a discussion on approaches to measuring teaching practice. Odden, Kelly, and Milanowski unveiled the findings of the new SMHC paper, [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by jkelly
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 [...]
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Posted on July 8th, 2009 by arodden
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 [...]
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