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Vicksburg-Warren School District is transforming their teaching and learning experience & seeing results with far-reaching benefits for individuals, families, and the community.
Countries around the world are grappling with the reality of climate change and what it will mean for the next generation. Singapore and Finland have responded with national plans to rethink how their citizens use resources to foster greater sustainability, including actions that schools can take to better prepare students to take on the challenges ahead of them.
In this interview, Anthony Mackay talks to Tracey Burns about her latest paper “What schools for tomorrow? Futures thinking and leading for uncertainty.”
By Nathan Driskell A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) finds that professions that require similar education and credentials as teaching pay about 40 percent more, on average, than teaching. In other words, teachers only make 70 percent as much as similarly educated professionals. This finding suggests that the ...
Providing meals for all students, and using meal times as a way to promote learning, is a policy many top-performing systems use to ensure that all students are healthy and ready to learn.
California’s new plan of providing funds for low-income students to save for post-secondary education is a strategy used by some top-performing countries such as Canada.
In this interview, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Jal Mehta argues that our current system of schools—designed in the early 20th century industrial era—need to become modern organizations capable of supporting deeper learning for all students.
By Monica Pfister While the top performers vary in the approaches that have led to their high performance to-date, they share a common commitment to continuous improvement. This includes a willingness to re-examine and revise existing practices, even those central to the structure of their current education system, with an eye toward creating ...
By Jennifer Craw Estonia has an exceptionally low rate of students who perform poorly on all three subjects tested by PISA (mathematics, reading and science). In fact, with only 4.7 percent of students performing below Level 2 on all three subjects, Estonia has the lowest rate of low-performers of any European country, well ...
By Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their support of all students. Hong Kong has worked to significantly reduce the impact of poverty and social background on student success. In Hong Kong, social background—which includes things like relative income, parents’ education levels and parents’ occupations—explains ...
By Jennifer Craw Read more about the impact of a professional work environment which includes time for collaboration and teacher feedback in CIEB’s Empowered Educators: Teacher Appraisal and Feedback brief. And for more on Japan’s teaching force, see the Teacher and Principal Quality section of CIEB’s profile of Japan’s education system. ...
By Bob Rothman Building systems that can produce levels of achievement found in top-performing countries will require policy changes at the state and federal levels. But there is much districts can do—even in states where the policy environment is constricting—to create high-performing systems. That was the message that Marc Tucker, the founding president ...
By Jennifer Craw High-performing education systems like Ontario, Canada understand that teachers are not fully prepared for all they will encounter on Day One, and that teacher burnout in the first several years is a major risk factor when trying to build a world-class teaching force. These systems have developed intensive programs of ...
By Jennifer Craw Like doctors, who intern following their medical school training, new teachers need additional support to develop the broader repertoire of strategies and problem-solving skills they need for their complex jobs. As a result, most high-performing systems have developed intensive programs of mentoring and induction for new teachers that provide helpful ...
By Jennifer Craw While Finland’s highly intellectual and deeply clinical preparation for teachers is a notable example, many top performing education systems have much higher standards for preparing teachers than are found in US programs. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if we required this kind of preparation of our prospective ...
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By Monica Pfister While the top performers vary in the approaches that have led to their high performance to-date, they share a common commitment to continuous improvement. This includes a willingness to re-examine and revise existing practices, even those central to the structure of their current education system, with an eye toward creating ...
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By Jennifer Craw Estonia has an exceptionally low rate of students who perform poorly on all three subjects tested by PISA (mathematics, reading and science). In fact, with only 4.7 percent of students performing below Level 2 on all three subjects, Estonia has the lowest rate of low-performers of any European country, well ...
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By Jennifer Craw This month we look at high-performing education systems which are also notable for their support of all students. Hong Kong has worked to significantly reduce the impact of poverty and social background on student success. In Hong Kong, social background—which includes things like relative income, parents’ education levels and parents’ occupations—explains ...
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By Jennifer Craw Read more about the impact of a professional work environment which includes time for collaboration and teacher feedback in CIEB’s Empowered Educators: Teacher Appraisal and Feedback brief. And for more on Japan’s teaching force, see the Teacher and Principal Quality section of CIEB’s profile of Japan’s education system. ...
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By Bob Rothman Building systems that can produce levels of achievement found in top-performing countries will require policy changes at the state and federal levels. But there is much districts can do—even in states where the policy environment is constricting—to create high-performing systems. That was the message that Marc Tucker, the founding president ...
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By Jennifer Craw High-performing education systems like Ontario, Canada understand that teachers are not fully prepared for all they will encounter on Day One, and that teacher burnout in the first several years is a major risk factor when trying to build a world-class teaching force. These systems have developed intensive programs of ...
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By Jennifer Craw Like doctors, who intern following their medical school training, new teachers need additional support to develop the broader repertoire of strategies and problem-solving skills they need for their complex jobs. As a result, most high-performing systems have developed intensive programs of mentoring and induction for new teachers that provide helpful ...
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By Jennifer Craw While Finland’s highly intellectual and deeply clinical preparation for teachers is a notable example, many top performing education systems have much higher standards for preparing teachers than are found in US programs. What would the U.S. teaching force look like if we required this kind of preparation of our prospective ...