Recommendations for Minnesota’s Teacher Standards of Effective Practice

Memo • June 2019

Based on extensive stakeholder engagement, we identified nine areas that we recommend the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) strengthen or add when drafting Minnesota’s new teacher standards.

FAQ: Minnesota’s Tiered Teacher Licensure System and PELSB

Memo • August 2018

The new four-tiered teacher licensure system was created by the legislature during the 2017 legislative session. This FAQ covers the new system and the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board.

A History of Minnesota’s Tiered Teacher Licensure System

Memo • August 2018

This brief provides a historical overview of the impetus for Minnesota’s change to a four-tiered teacher licensure system, as well as the transition to the new system. This is a living document that EE will update as needed.

Summaries of States’ ESSA School Quality/Student Success Measures

Memo • June 2018

The School Quality or Student Success (SQ/SS) indicator was one of the most talked about decisions that fell to the states in drafting their new ESSA accountability plans. This memo summarizes the chosen SQ/SS measures for each state.

Summaries of States’ ESSA Accountability Plans

Memo • April 2017

On April 3, 2017, fourteen states and D.C. submitted their draft ESSA state accountability plans. This memo contains one-page summaries of each state’s plan, focusing on four primary areas or “big decisions” that ESSA requires each state to address.

Status of Education “Innovation Zones” Around the Country

Memo • December 2011

In 2010 and 2011 Education Evolving studied the policy frameworks being used in large cities around the country to encourage innovation in school. Here is a summary of those district and state policy frameworks, as of 2011.

Public comment on first draft of revised Standards of Effective Practice

Memo • January 2020

Competency-Based Education FAQ

Memo • January 2019

Answers to frequently asked questions regarding competency-based education, including a thorough definition of CBE, its advantages over traditional approaches, the role of teachers, and legislation to enable and support CBE.

2017 Innovation Zone Law FAQ

Memo • June 2018

A 2017 law allows districts and charter schools in Minnesota to form an innovation zone in order to try new approaches to learning that will raise student acheivement. The law provides flexibility from state law and rule to try those innovations.

‘Charter Schools’ Is System Change

Memo • June 2017

What most people call ‘charter schools’ is in fact system change. With a new, second, charter sector, public education can be a self-improving system. Success for the district sector might depend on its picking up innovations from the charter sector. Ted Kolderie explains.