In this episode of Building the Bridge, we interview Mike Anderson, an award-winning educator, author, and education consultant.
Frank Schargel discusses how competitive teacher salaries would lower the attrition rate of nearly one in ten teachers leaving the classroom last year.
In this episode of Mind the Gap, Tom and Emma speak with John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley, co-authors of Putting Staff First, about creating school environments that result in happy, healthy, motivated, well-trained, expert staff.
Discover why new teachers leave the profession and how schools can break the cycle by providing support, mentorship, and better working conditions.
If education is to thrive again, universities must rebuild teacher training—and restore the mission to serve every child.
In this edCircuit conversation, author and educator David Greene shares candid insights on the state of teaching today—examining policy and politics.
Teach For America (TFA) has faced criticism in recent years. Brewer and Greene recommend collaboration with TFA for school districts.
Comedy Central’s viral “TeachingCenter” sketch imagines a world where teachers sign million-dollar contracts and students wear their jerseys.
Emily Davis, ASCD Emerging Leader, is the New Teacher Center Program Director, Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project. Davis is also the author of Making Mentoring Work. Davis stalks about her work and the topics currently driving education. Summary of Making Mentoring Work (published by Rowman and Littlefield): Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth. Each chapter provides background research as well as practical steps and tools to make mentoring work in a school environment. At the end of each section, readers will find discussion guides that support program leaders in making the next steps; organizing conversations with stakeholders that will transform and streamline new teacher support programs; and increase new teacher retention and practice.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, headed by one of the most visible critics of teacher-education programs, is creating its own graduate school and research center in the field in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Read the rest of the story at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
David Greene shares that former NY Governor Cuomo’s education policies fly in the face of what experts cite as elements for successful schools.
Nancie Atwell’s advice for young people to “work in the private sector” reflects how testing and mandates have drained public education’s spirit.