Work on Minnesota's new state accountability plan, as required under ESSA, continues. Questions remain around which school quality/student success indicator(s) will be chosen, what weights will be assigned to all indicators, as well as how graduation and dropout rates will be measured.
In teacher-powered schools, how does accountability work if there’s no single person in charge? How can a group be held accountable? Ted Kolderie recalls the advantages of group accountability over single-leader accountability he learned first-hand during his time in the military.
See, hear and feel what it's like to be inside a school where teachers are calling the shots. Check out these captivating short videos from the soon to be released film, Good Morning Mission Hill: The Freedom to Teach.
Education Evolving announces the release of Trusting Teachers with School Success, a book depicting how schools could be improved if we trusted teachers to call the shots in both the classroom and in decisions influencing whole school success.
Our current strategy for improving schools is focused on controlling teachers. A new E|E book advocates the opposite – that trusting teachers is the key to school success
Two E|E senior associates have written a new book which argues that, in the position to collectively call the shots, teachers can create school cultures of success and high performance that we so desperately need.
