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AEI's "Teacher Quality 2.0" series seeks to reinvigorate our now-familiar conversations about teacher quality by looking at today's reform efforts as constituting initial steps on a long path forward. As we conceptualize it, "Teacher Quality 2.0" starts from the premise that while we've made great improvements in the past ten years in creating systems and tools that allow us to evaluate, compensate, and deploy educators in smarter ways, we must not let today's "reform" conventions around hiring, evaluation, or pay limit school and system leaders' ability to adapt more promising staffing and school models. |
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From teacher education to student progress: Teacher quality since NCLB In the first of four "Teacher Quality 2.0" papers, Arnold Schober of Lawrence University puts the series in context, explaining how the definition of teacher quality has changed over time. In the past, teachers were deemed qualified if they had the proper certification before entering the classroom. Today, a teacher's quality is assessed by their performance in the classroom. |
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The hangover: Thinking about the unintended consequences of the nation's teacher evaluation binge In this second installment of the series, Sara Mead, Andrew Rotherham and Rachael Brown of Bellwether Education Partners draw out the key tensions and trade-offs associated with our sprint to legislate and build educator evaluation systems. While we can take pride in the progress we have made, the authors call for some humility in thinking about the practical limits of such statutes and processes, and remind us that such rigid structures might unintentionally stifle future innovation. |
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New pathways for teachers, new promises for students: A vision for developing excellent teachers If we are serious about significantly improving academic outcomes for children in America, teaching must be reconceptualized to focus on student learning, and schools must offer teachers opportunities to teach, lead, and innovate throughout their careers. Pragmatic steps at each stage of the pipeline, leveraging existing resources, can help us get there. |
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Anticipating innovation in teacher evaluation systems: Lessons for researchers and policymakers This paper considers how teacher evaluations may likely evolve in the near future, which will have implications for state and district policy adoption. |
