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 * Thursday 3/24: 101Tools and Techniques To Improve Teacher Quality**

March 24:  101 Tools

Effective teachers equal improved achievement. We change when teachers change.

Do teachers have an impact on student learning?

Some teachers are underperforming. Teacher evaluation is needed to support underperforming, because teaching requires 1)  Specialized body of knowledge-teaching is rocket science 2) must be able and willing to monitor our own ranks.

School resources do not have much impact on student learning. Heterogeneity has little impact on student learning. Class size has little impact on school success. Relationships and interaction between teacher and student has the greatest impact on student learning 7-8 percent. Research: -they controlled for many variables, but there were many outliers. They found that the quality of the teacher accounted for them. There are more variability in your school than between schools on teacher effectiveness.

There are ineffective teachers in high performing schools. You can high and low growth in high performing schools. Cannot use benchmark skills when using student growth scores. There is a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in low performing schools. They usually have many novice teachers. 3 ways to improve school scores. Don't hire low performers provide professional development for under performing teachers Get rid of those who do not improve.

Average teachers facilitate lower ability kids, higher ability kids are the last to make gains even with effective teachers.

Classroom management and interactions with kids are higher for highly effective teachers. These are the defining qualities of effective teachers. Spill over effect- 10 to 20 percent improvement (student) will happen when an effective teacher is grouped with less effective teacher Highly qualified does not equal highly effective.

Kids learn math in school therefore a highly effective teacher has greater impact in math. Kids in an effective class learn material faster than other. 2years of effective teaching can not remediate achievement loss caused by 1 year with a poor teacher.

Child has most influence (50 percent) on their learning, next is the teacher (30 percent).

Some states are working to get rid of tenure in order to be able to get rid of consistently ineffective teachers. 5 percent of teachers are ineffective. There is .5 percent action to remove (transfer to another school)

Purpose of unions is to protect working conditions and pay for teachers not student achievement! Mentoring can be effective if highly effective teachers are the mentors.

Friday 3/25: 101 Tools and Techniques To Improve Teacher Quality**

Saturday 3/26 1160T Leading Change: More Than The Flavor of The Month

Sunday 3/27 2124T From Conversations to Effective Collaborations

Monday 3/28 3265T Simulating The Future of Learning