Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
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10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. |
Registration |
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12:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Opening Luncheon |
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Teacher Quality: International
Lessons on the Power of Policy
Presider: Steve Cantrell, Executive
Director, REL Midwest
Speaker: Robert Schwartz, Academic
Dean, Harvard Graduate School of
Education |
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1:45 – 2:30 p.m. |
State Working Session |
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Find out who is here from your state, get prepared for how to engage in the forum, and ensure distribution across the strand discussions. |
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• Illinois |
• Minnesota |
• Indiana |
• Ohio |
• Iowa |
• Wisconsin |
• Michigan |
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2:45 – 3:45 p.m. |
Concurrent Content Sessions |
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Strand One—Teacher Recruitment
Panel discussion among a researcher, policymaker, practitioner, and the audience
Getting more people to enter the field prepared to succeed as highly qualified teachers. |
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Strand Two—Teacher Assignment
Panel discussion among a researcher, policymaker, practitioner, and the audience
Challenges to ensuring an equitable distribution of highly qualified teachers. |
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Strand Three—Teacher Effectiveness
Panel discussion among a researcher, policymaker, practitioner, and the audience
Lessons learned about measuring teacher effectiveness. |
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4:00 – 5:15 p.m. |
Concurrent Content Break-Out Sessions |
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Strand One—Teacher Recruitment
Three small-group discussions on topics such as the effectiveness of recruitment strategies, bringing midcareer professionals into teaching, and lessons about targeting recruitment efforts. |
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Strand Two—Teacher Assignment
Three small-group discussions on topics such as the appropriate state role, ideas for staffing hard-to-staff schools and content areas, and the role of collective bargaining in supporting the equitable distribution of highly qualified teachers. |
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Strand Three—Teacher Effectiveness
Three small-group discussions on topics such as lessons from existing teacher pay-for-performance systems, noncompensation strategies to encourage effective teaching, and the promise and limitations of value-added assessment. |
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6:00 p.m. |
Reception and Dinner |
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Improving and Using Research on Education Policy and Teacher Quality
David Dunn, Chief of Staff, The Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Education |
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 |
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. |
General Session |
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Improving State Policy and
Practice
Presider: Sabrina Laine, Director,
National Comprehensive Center for
Teacher Quality
Speakers: Chief State School Officers |
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10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Facilitated State Working Sessions |
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Applying the lessons learned in the first day of the forum to existing state policies and to recommend improvements and applied research.
Reviewing key components of state plans to ensure highly qualified and highly effective teachers are in every classroom; identifying
gaps in goals and current policy; considering areas for potential improvement.
Using templates and rubrics to analyze current plans, policies and implementation strategies; determine gaps; and assess the quality of new ideas. |
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• Illinois |
• Minnesota |
• Indiana |
• Ohio |
• Iowa |
• Wisconsin |
• Michigan |
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12:00 – 1:30 p.m. |
Luncheon |
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Reviewing lessons learned and where we go from here. |
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1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
Affinity Groups |
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2:30 p.m. |
Forum Adjourns |
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