Empowering Effective Teachers Major Focus Areas
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Five Major Focus Areas of Our Work (more info)
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1. Delivering well prepared teachers to the teaching workplace: The turnover of failure/quitter teachers costs the public schools $2.6 billion each year... (more info)
2. Expanding the teacher pool: With the majority of our new teachers coming to us through an alternative certification route, those programs need to have rigorous standards while also being flexible enough to meet the needs of all kinds of nontraditional candidates... (more info)
3. Identifying effective teachers: To make dramatic improvements in all students’ preparation for college and careers, we need thoughtful, intentional human capital strategies that get the right teachers in the right places in the right subjects... (more info)
4. Retaining effective teachers: Retaining effective teachers requires a multi-pronged approach, but generally the strategy must... (more info)
5. Exiting ineffective teachers: Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey reveal that, on average, districts dismissed or declined to renew 2.1 percent of teachers (tenured and nontenured) for poor performance each year... (more info)
To find out more about Empowering Effective Teachers contact Melanie Patz, Vice President of Community Impact at 904.390.3243
