The financial planning summary provides an overview of the ways that schools and their teachers can simultaneously reach more students with excellent teaching, expand teachers’ career opportunities, and sustainably fund higher pay and other priorities.
Beverley Tyndall
Model Summaries
What can schools do, now, to reach many more students with excellent teachers year after year and help all teachers improve and contribute to excellence? This report provides brief descriptions of more than 20 school models that extend excellent teachers’ reach by using job redesign, technology, or both.
Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction
In Fordham’s new book Education Reform for the Digital Era, Bryan C. Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel’s opening chapter proposes that “digital education needs excellent teachers and that a first-rate teaching profession needs digital education.”
Improving Conditions & Careers
This white paper, written in collaboration with Getting Smart and Digital Learning Now!, is the seventh installment of the DLN Smart Series. The paper and accompanying infographic explain how blended learning can help create better teaching conditions and expanded career opportunities for teachers.
Reformers: We Must Be Much Bolder to Reach Every Child with Excellent Teachers
As ESEA talk heats up, reform groups are tossing ideas on the table (e.g., see here and here). We can debate the details, but most have some merit. Here’s the problem: even if our nation fully implemented most of the recommended legislation in the next decade, we still would be far behind other nations that made bolder changes years ago. In contrast, of course, many conservatives want to leave education up to state legislators, on whose watch K-12 education has plateaued and declined.
Is there a bolder alternative that might actually induce our nation to achieve widespread learning excellence?
Reformers: We Must Be Much Bolder to Reach Every Child with Excellent Teachers
October 14, 2011 - Here’s a simple idea: put excellent teachers, the top 20 to 25 percent who achieve well over today’s “year of learning progress,” in charge of every child’s learning—consistently. In this Education Next blog, Bryan and Emily Hassel propose "a bolder...
Teacher Quality – What’s Next for the U.S.?
September 28, 2011 - Bryan Hassel spoke at the 2011 PIE Network Summit: Taking Stock on Teacher Quality Reforms: What's been accomplished in 2011? What's next? When asked about the biggest gains made over the past five years, Hassel said there has been a huge...
Shooting for Stars
When high-performing teachers across the country leave our classrooms each year, 750,000 children find themselves assigned to a less-effective teacher in each subsequent year. How could education leaders reduce this outflow? In this report, we examine the research and case studies outside education to reveal four key strategies organizations successfully use to boost high-performer retention.
How digital learning can (and must) help excellent teachers reach more children
Thanks to Michael Horn for letting us add onto his noteworthy post “Why digital learning will liberate teachers.” Here we want to second his point and add another: schools – and nations – that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students access to excellent teachers.
And not just in the obvious ways. Yes, directly through digital instruction. But also by freeing excellent teachers to reach more students in-person.
Today, only about 25 percent of U.S. classrooms have teachers whose students learn enough to close achievement gaps in a few years and make further progress like the world’s top students. Another 25 percent have lagging teachers whose students end up further behind. The rest have solid teachers – students on track stay on track, but students starting behind stay behind, and few get ahead. Overall, U.S. students end up pretty much where they started out in life, the antithesis of the American dream.
How Digital Learning Can (and Must) Help Excellent Teachers Reach More Children
September 13, 2011 - Schools - and nations - that excel in the digital age will be those that use digital tools both to make teaching more manageable for the average teacher, and to give massively more students access to excellent teachers. In this blog post, Bryan...