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Trusting Teachers: About the Authors
Kim Farris-Berg and Edward J. Dirkswager designed and led this investigation as senior fellows of the Center for Policy Design (CPD). They were assisted by Amy Junge at Education Evolving. […]
California Governor Jerry Brown Decries Testing: “Distant Authorities Crack the Whip”
CTQ authors appear in Phi Delta Kappan
Q&A: Dana Goldstein, Author, ‘The Teacher Wars’
Minnesota Charter Authorizers Call for Teacher-Powered School Proposals
Charter schools have a reputation of being the vehicle for corporate makeovers of public schooling. But what if they could be a vehicle for a teacher-powered makeover of public schooling? […]
Ideas for Getting Involved: School Districts & Charter Authorizers
In American public education, school district leaders (including school boards, superintendents, and other district administrators) and charter school authorizers are charged with ensuring that quality public education is available to […]
Give them power and they will stay
An educator’s perspective on teacher-powered schools The vast majority of teachers go into education because they want to postively impact young people’s lives. This enthusiasm is often dampened by unrealistic […]
Teacher Evaluation Reimagined
This is the second of a two-part set of articles on Teacher Evaluation. See the first entry here. Contact Greg Fisher at schoolempowerment@gmail.com. Is there more than one way to design […]
Autonomies
A core component of the teacher-powered model is that educator teams have secured autonomy to—collectively, as a team—make decisions in at least one of 15 areas of autonomy. Those areas […]