The Newsroom
Welcome to the newsroom! Below you will find some featured news items, but be sure to also check out recent press releases and our featured Teacher Magazine column.
In The Teachers of 2030: Creating a Student-Centered Profession for the 21st Century (online magazine or PDF format), Barnett Berry invites policymakers and teacher leaders to rethink today's teaching policies by imagining the knowledge, skills and qualities teachers must have in the year 2030 -- just two decades from now. To support this discussion, Berry introduces the voices of 12 accomplished American teachers who are currently writing a book on the future of teaching. This TeacherSolutions 2030 team, supported by Metlife Foundation, has identified four emergent realities that they believe will shape education over the next 20 years:
- A transformed learning ecology for students and teachers
- Differentiated professional pathways
- Seamless connections in and out of cyberspace
- Teacherpreneurism and the global educational marketplace
This monograph discusses these realities and also focuses on levers of change to address them, by building a robust and adaptable teaching profession. With study after study pointing to the powerful effects of qualified teachers and quality teaching on student achievement, it is clear that any effective vision for education’s future must focus on access for all students to excellent teaching.
Read the Future of Teaching blog.
More than 150 research studies have examined the impact of National Board Certification for teachers. But now for the first time, a team of NBCTs - members of CTQ's TeacherSolutions National Board cohort - reveal their analyses of the research from the perspective of highly accomplished teachers who have completed the process themselves and seen its impact first-hand on their practice and students.
- Click here to read their eye-opening investigation and recommendations, including a call for researchers and policymakers to begin putting a much-needed emphasis on Measuring What Matters.
- Click here to read the report's Executive Summary, including a Call to Leadership reaching out to fellow NBCTs.
- Read Education Week's analysis of the report and coverage of a policy briefing on Capitol Hill on July 17, 2008 where TeacherSolutions members shared their findings.
Award-winning California educator Anthony Cody recently joined with Center for Teaching Quality President Barnett Berry for the Retooling Schooling Program, a project of the Commonwealth Club of California.
Click here to access transcripts, videos, and other resources from the event, or jump right to these compelling audio (MP3) pieces:
- "Nebraska Got It Right" Cody explains why teachers are the best resources for demonstrating student success.
- "Five Big Stories about the Future of Teaching" Berry describes five concrete policy proposals to create a true 21st century teaching profession.
- "Teacher Unions Need New Leadership" Berry calls for the voice of teacher leaders to take center stage in the future of education.
One of the nation's premiere education magazines, Educational Leadership, recently devoted an entire issue to the theme of Teachers as Leaders, and we are proud to say that the pages were full of TLN insights!
Click here to access the Teachers as Leaders issue, and be sure to check out the following articles:
- "Lessons from Networking" tells the story of TLN's growth as an innovative virtual learning community for highly accomplished teachers.
- TLN members Carolann Wade and Bill Ferriter reflect on how colleagues boosted their confidence as leaders in "Will You Help Me Lead?"
- "Teachers Weigh In On Performance Pay" discusses the TeacherSolutions performance-pay report, authored by expert teachers.
