Publications Issue All Student-Centered Learning DesignsEducator Talent PathwaysOutcomes That MatterAutonomy and Shared Power District Public Schools + Chartered Public Schools Memo • March 2016 Public education now has two sectors: a district sector and a chartered sector. Chartering—and this two-sector arrangement in general—needs to be thought of as a strategy for change, not just a set of schools. Given flexibility, the chartered sector can and does generate the needed innovation, the necessary improvements in learning. In Minnesota, We Must Think Broadly About School Integration Article • December 2015 The face of Minnesota is changing, and so must our integration policy. A Commentary for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Success with Innovation Is the Key to Improving Learning—and to ‘Closing the Gap’ Speech • November 2015 The Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs invited Ted Kolderie to discuss how innovation is key to systemic change in public education and how schools must resist ‘the pressure for sameness’. Kolderie called upon the ‘alternative’ sector to share its accomplishments in innovation—thus validating the sector and making clear that what is happening there is essential for change and improvement in the mainline district sector. This is his speech. Reimagining Teacher Preparation Report • October 2015 Recommended essential elements and best practices for a new, different, better sort of teacher preparation program. Developed through interviews, focus groups, and a best-practices literature review. The Split Screen Strategy: How to Turn Education Into a Self-Improving System Book • September 2015 For three decades now, the course of action has been to accept the system as it stands and to push its schools and teachers to deliver ‘better performance’. Perhaps not surprisingly, that effort to get an inert system to do-better has not proved an outstanding success. The theory of action should instead be to turn public education into a self-improving system. A Framework for a Taxonomy of Schools Report • August 2015 Much of the discussion about ‘what’s working’ suggests that students learn because the school is district, charter, parochial or whatever. This is bizarre. Clearly, students learn from what goes on in the school; from its curriculum, pedagogy, materials and teachers. This report begins to sketch a taxonomy that gets at these more meaningful school properties. Fifteen Areas of Autonomy Secured by Teacher-Powered Schools Memo • July 2015 A description of areas of autonomy, assembled while consulting literature and visiting schools during the writing of the book Trusting Teachers with School Success. And, examples of how schools have used those autonomies. The Central Problem with Big, Urban School Systems Like Minneapolis Article • April 2015 A big district like Minneapolis has dozens of schools, and all of them could be innovating. That is, in fact, the strategic plan. But the big brain — the central office — gets in the way. How might the state usefully intervene? A Sunday Commentary for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. E|E Response to Proposed Federal Charter Grant Regulations Memo • January 2015 In November, 2014 the U.S. Department of Education proposed a set of priorities, requirements, and criteria for the federal charter grants to state education agencies. Here is the response of three senior E|E associates, to that proposal. Education Policy & the California Chartered Sector Meeting Notes • November 2013 For close to two decades, Eric Premack has been working in California education policy. He formed and now runs the Charter School Development Center in Sacramento. In November 2013, E|E invited Premack to Minnesota to talk about education policy, chartering in California and the state’s decision to stop trying to control and regulate its school districts so tightly. Here are notes on Premack’s visit from E|E’s Ted Kolderie. Post navigation ← Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 … 18 Next → Stay In Touch Get updates, new publications, fresh analysis, and event invitations in your inbox. First Name Last Name Email Address State What do you want to receive? Monthly newsletter (once per month) Blog posts by email (about two per month) See past newsletters in the archive.