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High-Poverty Schools With No Trouble Attracting Great Teachers
Higher pay is one currency, but hope is just as powerful for attracting great educators to serve in the schools that need them most.
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How a State Could Achieve Major Gains in Learning, Pay, Economy
Redesigning jobs to extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students by having them work in collaborative teams will bring benefits to teachers, students, and the state as a whole.
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Refreshing the Vision of an Opportunity Culture—for All
New school models that allow all teachers to succeed in teams increase the odds of widespread improvement in teaching and learning.
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How One Leading Educators Fellow Extends Her Reach
How can schools redesign jobs and use technology to reach more students with excellent teachers? And how can they offer teachers more pay, within budget?
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Teachers Say ‘Yes!’ to Opportunity Culture
A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.
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Authorizers: See What Replacing Failing Charter Schools, Replicating Great Ones Can Do
How could cities see their charter school sectors take off in quality, matching or besting the performance of their district schools, and the state?
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How to Pay Teachers Dramatically More, Within Budget
Schools could free funds to pay excellent teachers in teaching roles up to 40 percent more and teacher-leaders up to about 130 percent more, within current budgets and without increasing class sizes.
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Class Size Just One Way to Extend Reach of Best Teachers
For those of you who missed it, David Brooks’ February 28 column touted the money-saving potential of extending the best teachers’ reach, by increasing their class sizes – in exchange for more pay. We’re encouraged to see more talk about this concept. But adding more kids to a great teacher’s class, or broadcasting that teacher’s lessons over the Internet, are just the most immediately available and straightforward forms of reach extension.
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Current Strategies Won’t Solve Our Teacher Quality Challenges
In our new report, Opportunity at the Top: How America’s Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I 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 answer: No. Even if these reforms were wildly successful, most classrooms still would not have great teachers.