Politicians and school superintendents recognize that unless they can recruit top-notch teachers, they will not be able to restore faith in the schools.
In addition to providing for competitive salaries to attract and retain top-notch teachers and executives, Mr. Bloomberg must insist on new working arrangements to deregulate the schools and ensure that principals have the authority to make decisions.
I only wish to highlight the need for top-notch teachers who are willing to forego larger paychecks and recognition for the sake of the next generation.
Over the last several months, the Commission has examined the critical question of what more we can do as a state to ensure our English Learners have the top notch teachers they deserve.
I saw top-notch, enthusiastic teachers dismissed before they reached the next salary step or their tenure year.
We had a carefully cultivated support network: a school we loved, a top-notch doctor, a teacher of the deaf, a speech therapist and three (yes, three) audiologists: one for the implant, one for the hearing aid, one from the board of education to service his school.
It's up to them, just as it's up to them to ensure they're providing top-notch, over-qualified teachers, physical classroom or co-working-style space to learn in and curricula that actually help students get jobs.
Teresa Buchanan served Louisiana State University (LSU) for nearly 20 years as a tenured professor who inspired her students, won millions of dollars in grant money for the university, and developed a top-notch early childhood education teacher training curriculum.
It recommends spending $360 million a year to create 1000 new STEM-focused elementary, middle, and high schools, $325 million a year to boost the salaries of some 22,000 top-notch math and science teachers around the country, and up to $200 million a year to create a new agency that would fund research on new educational technologies and "deeply digital" classroom materials.
There's definitely a market for this kind of live marketplace for video-based classes, of course it's all about ensuring users that its teachers are top-notch and providing enough of a diversity in classes and subjects to keep people interested and returning to the site.
