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| Teacher Professional Partnerships: A Different Way to Help Teachers and Improve Teaching
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| Speakers:
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Joe Graba, Senior Policy Fellow, Hamline University
Cris Parr, Teacher, Milwaukee Public Schools
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Moderator:
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Catherine Walcott, Director, Strategic Initiatives, WestEd
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Strand(s):
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Incentives to Attract High-Quality Teachers to Hard-to-Staff Schools
Retaining and Investing in High-Quality Teachers: Creating the Conditions that Support Success
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| Description: | This session examines an innovative, evolving model in which teachers form a partnership to operate a school. The model follows examples established by professionals such as architects, physicians, lawyers, and engineers wherein the group collectively directs the enterprise and administrators work for the group. Ideally, the teacher-partners contract with a local school district to operate a school program designed to meet specified objectives. The partnership has the authority to direct school operations and is accountable for results.
Inquiry Questions:
- What is a teacher professional partnership? What are its benefits and costs?
- What are the implications of this model for various stakeholders (e.g., teachers, district administrators, school board members, students, teacher unions, teacher preparation programs)?
- What systemic conditions and policies must be in place for a professional teaching partnership to operate successfully?
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