In this age of political disagreement, most would agree that the main purpose of newly adopted teacher evaluation instruments is to help teachers improve their teaching effectiveness.
One thing is true for successful school leaders and teachers: both are intentional and explicit about the purpose of their actions, be it a school improvement strategy or a classroom lesson.
Armed with the knowledge that quality teaching matters most for student learning, policymakers from state to state are racing to adopt new educational accountability measures that seek, among other
Ten years ago, the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership embarked on a journey to support school and teacher leaders in the challenging work of eliminating the achievement gap
With so much of the nation’s attention caught up in partisan and intra-partisan arguing and brinksmanship, it is rare these days to find widely shared agreement on any national issue.
Two foundational ideas guide our work at the Center for Educational Leadership. First, we believe that quality teaching matters: if students are not learning, they are not being afforded powe
Some may wonder why we would dedicate an entire newsletter to central office transformation. For one, given the recent draconian budget cuts that have descended on public education from coast
As I listen to the national education conversation, recently heightened and hyped by the movie Waiting for Superman,
I am troubled that the current conversation has set up a false
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Earlier this summer I was interviewed by a Seattle Times newspaper reporter who was writing a story about the Seattle Schools Superintendent who just completed her second full year on the job.
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