Walk the NEPF a-LINE-ment
Political Percussion
Show Me the Money
Tuning Up the Teachers
100

This standard supports rigorous, interactive classrooms with discourse as a focus in order to promote higher achievement.

What is Standard 3?

100

The policy of mass dismissal of veteran teachers is based on a faulty premise that they are to blame when schools experience many years of low test scores was suggested by this competitive grant in 2012.

What is Race to the Top?

100

The cost of replacing a teacher costs a district this approximate amount for recruitment and training fees?

What is $10,000.00?

100

Developer of a prescriptive lesson design system where principals look for whether a teacher's lesson includes several key components.

Who is Madeline Hunter?

200

Principals are now expected to perform their old managerial jobs and oversee instruction due to the five requirements embedded in the most recent performance framework.  This growing bucket of responsibilities is often an untenable load.

 What is the Teacher Instructional Practice Standards and Indicators of the NEPF?

200

Institutional memory is lost when many teachers resign at these high turnover schools each year.

What are urban at-risk schools?

200

This initiative used a $26 million grant from the Obama administration to provide teachers in Newark, NJ Elementary schools an expert teacher at each school as a model for observation.

What is the Children's Literacy Initiative of CLI?

200

 She developed a popular and detailed classroom observation model in the late 1960's that is still in use today.

Who is Charlotte Danielson?

300

This standard suggests that as student assessment is integrated into instruction, so should teacher assessment be embedded in their individual instruction.

What is Standard 5, Indicator 4?

300

This is an age old problem in American education reform.

What is ONE SIZE FITS ALL reform imposed from above?

300

With its 14% acceptance rate, this recruitment model has made teaching in high poverty schools an elite and sought after position for college graduates as it pays for their Master's Degree in education .

What is Teach for America?

300

Observation technique in which a group of individuals contribute value-added ratings based on the effectiveness of high performance teachers.

What is Peer Review?