What is?
Let Me Use What I Know
What does S.L.C stand for?
Who is the director of the Children Literacy Initiative?
Jen Welker
According to the "star teacher criteria", what was one of the things they looked at when rating teachers?
How long they stayed in their jobs.
What is the author's name?
Dana Goldstein
What does C.L.I. stand for?
The Children Literacy Initiative
Who broke up their high school into "small learning academies"?
Alex Caputo-Pearl
According to the chapter, what does the Memphis Teacher Residency do?
Recruits career changers into high-poverty classrooms.
The title of the Epilogue?
Lessons From History For Improving Teaching Today
What does M.E.T. stand for?
Measures of Effective Teaching
Who created the Measures of Effective Teaching project?
Thomas Kane, The Bill, and the Melinda Gates Foundation
According to the author, Dana Goldstein, she states that the one ingredient all successful schools have in common is having a "respected leader who articulates a clear mission teachers believe in and strive to carry out". Who does she refer to?
Principals
What is one of the important reasons men and individuals of color enter the teaching force?
It allows children to see their reflection in their teachers.
What is "plural professionalism"?
Communities of practice form around specific pedagogical schools of thought, such as project-based learning; "no excuses".
Who was the superintendent who complained that 99.5 percent of teachers were being evaluated as "good"?
William Maxwell