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Redesigning Schools to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teachers: Teacher & Staff Selection, Development, & Evaluation Toolkit
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Public Impact, 2012
This toolkit is a companion to the school models provided on OpportunityCulture.org. The school models use job redesign and technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within budget. Most of these school models create new roles and collaborative teams, enabling all teachers and staff to develop and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Teamwork, Efficiency
Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great. Summary
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Public Impact, 2012
Public Impact asked a simple question: "Will our nation's boldest efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put an excellent teacher in every classroom?" They ran the numbers and discovered the disappointing answer: No. But that's not the end of the story. With a change in schools' strategies, they realized, 87…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Teaching Conditions, Strategic Planning
Redesigning Schools to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teachers: Financial Planning for Time-Technology Swap--Rotation Model
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Public Impact, 2012
This brief shows how teachers in a Time-Technology swap school model may earn more, sustainably. In this model, schools use age-appropriate portions of digital learning (as little as about an hour daily per student) to free the time of excellent teachers to teach more students and potentially to collaborate with peers. By teaching more students,…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Job Development, Models
Seizing Opportunity at the Top: Reaching Every Student with Excellent Teachers--Policymakers' Checklist
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Public Impact, 2012
Research continues to confirm that without "excellent" teachers consistently, most students who start behind stay behind, and too few middling and advanced students leap ahead. Even solid teachers who achieve one year of learning progress leave achievement gaps intact. Schools that "consistently" provide all students with…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Leadership
Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great. Building an Opportunity Culture for America's Teachers. Executive Summary
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Hassel, Bryan C.; Hassel, Emily Ayscue – Public Impact, 2010
Our nation is squandering one of its most important resources--our best teachers--and children are paying the price. Current policy initiatives overlook the most obvious, immediate source of improved teaching effectiveness: The great teachers we already have. The top 25 percent of U.S. teachers--more than 800,000 of them--already achieve results…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Finance, Teaching Conditions
Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great. Building an Opportunity Culture for America's Teachers
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Hassel, Bryan C.; Hassel, Emily Ayscue – Public Impact, 2010
Our nation is squandering one of its most important resources--our best teachers--and children are paying the price. We asked a simple question: "Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?" We ran the numbers and discovered a disappointing…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement