This continuous improvement model for teacher development and evaluation is already showing promise in improving teacher quality in more than 100 school districts across the country.
Only then can we undertake the important job of improving teacher performance.
Improving teacher quality and working to create better schools, like charters, are part of the arsenal.
That framework squarely addresses evaluating teachers, improving teacher practice and removing those who are ineffective.
Vastly improving teacher education, they believe, is critical in fixing that picture.
While speakers generally supported some plans, like improving teacher education, they picked apart many others.
"So improving teacher quality is crucial to raising graduation rates in these inner-city schools".
Most of the proposals for improving "teacher quality" don't deal with these problems.
"We are improving teacher training, expanding Teach First and allowing heads to pay good teachers more.
Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy said the double-digit raises were key to improving teacher quality.
Current reform strategies focus on testing, improving teacher quality, increasing the number of charter schools and other changes.
