Harvard Education PR Learning from the Experts: Teacher Leaders on Solving America's Education Challenges

Product Description Learning from the Experts offers an intimate look at the ways education policies collide with everyday classroom practices and illustrates how thoughtful, solutions-oriented and results-driven teachers are reframing debates in education today. Early career teachers now make up a “new majority” (52 percent) of the workforce. Their ideas about the profession are often radically different from the previous generation’s but are not often heard in education reform. Learning from the Experts draws on the work of the nonprofit organisation Teach Plus to address this divide. In this lively collection, emerging teacher leaders in dialogue with seasoned leaders weigh in on the most difficult challenges in education today. Topics include the appropriate use of data, teacher effectiveness, retaining talented teachers in high-needs schools, reforming teacher unions, supporting teacher leadership, and strengthening the teaching profession itself. From the Back Cover <div>In <i>Learning from the Experts</i>, emerging teacher leaders&#8212;in dialogue with seasoned leaders&#8212;offer an intimate look at the ways education policies collide with everyday classroom practice. This lively collection of essays illustrates how thoughtful, solutions-oriented and results-driven teachers are reframing debates in education policy.<br><br> &#8220;Securing a world-class education for our students demands the contribution of a world-class teaching force. This volume contributes to this goal. <i>Learning from the Experts</i> captures the insights and ingenuity of our best and brightest teachers. The essays presented in these pages bolster my conviction that teachers can be architects of a stronger educational future.&#8221; &#8212; <b>Mitchell D. Chester</b>, commissioner of elementary and secondary education, Massachusetts<br><br> &#8220;<i>Learning from the Experts</i> should be required reading for policy makers, school officials, and would-be reformers who imagine that they can save public education. Our schools will be in good hands if teachers like these inspire more teachers like these to speak out and step up.&#8221; &#8212; <b>Susan Moore Johnson</b>, Jerome T. Murphy Professor of Education, and director, The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, Harvard Graduate School of Education<br><br> &#8220;This book highlights the lessons we can learn from our very own teachers in the realm of best policy and practice. In doing so, it elevates the status of teaching as a profession. <i>Learning from the Experts</i> is a celebration of collaboration for the betterment of teachers and the students they serve.&#8221; &#8212;<b> John E. Deasy</b>, superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District<br><br><div><b>Celine Coggins</b> is the founder and CEO of Teach Plus. <b>Heather G. Peske</b> is the associate commissioner for educator quality at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. <b>Kate McGovern</b> is the communications manager at Teach Plus.</div></div> About the Author Celine Coggins is the founder and CEO of Teach Plus. Heather G. Peske is the associate commissioner for educator quality at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, USA. She previously worked as the vice president of programmes at Teach Plus. Kate McGovern is the communications manager at Teach Plus.