This essay looks at the efforts in a handful of states that are moving to simultaneously reform and expand how they oversee the preparation and certification of teachers and leaders.
Teachers and leaders are critical to the learning experience.
Systems across the country are rethinking how they manage teacher and leader talent. To inform these management efforts, CRPE examines pressing problems and new approaches related to how districts and schools find, develop, and retain their workforce.
This essay looks at the efforts in a handful of states that are moving to simultaneously reform and expand how they oversee the preparation and certification of teachers and leaders.
This essay was written for the PIE Network 5th Annual Policy Summit, September 2011. The authors note that state education agencies have been tasked with increasing student outcomes on fewer funds and examine whether they...
Drawing from the experiences of high-performing charter school networks, this white paper examines why districts struggle to close the achievement gap, what portfolio district leaders can find when they look outside the traditional system for...
This brief examines why policies known as “last in, first out” may disproportionately affect schools receiving federal School Improvement Grants.
This paper examines charter school leaders’ deliberate strategies to hire teachers who will boost student achievement and contribute to a thriving school culture.
Washington State is set to spend nearly $100 million in the next two years on pay bonuses for teachers who receive national board certification. This brief explores whether this investment makes a difference in improving...
This final report from the four-year Inside Charter Schools initiative examines how charter schools differentiate themselves from traditional public schools to attract students and families and how they recruit and manage their staff.
This brief provides a summary of the four-year Inside Charter Schools project’s final report, Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success.
This brief summarizes the findings and recommendations from a larger report, which finds that many charter schools are unprepared when it comes to leadership turnover.
This brief describes how a different method of supplying benefits to employees might work for districts: cafeteria plans. While typical school district plans offer a one-size-fits-all package of benefits to employees, cafeteria plans allow employees...
