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Are you interested in attending the Third Annual What Works Conference?
Please contact us about the What Works Conference:
Third Annual What Works Conference: "Building Capacity for a Systems Approach to Improving Educator Quality"
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) will host its third annual What Works Conference on November 10-12, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel, in Washington, D.C. This annual conference brings together regional comprehensive centers, state education agencies, and other national organizations whose work focuses on educator quality research, policy, and practice.
The 2008 conference will focus on the alignment of teacher quality and school leadership policies across the educator career continuum. The coordination of policies relating to teacher preparation and recruitment, induction and professional development, compensation and working conditions, performance management, and school leadership allows states to leverage resources effectively and to generate policies and practices that are likely to raise student achievement by improving educator quality.
Goal of the Conference. The primary goal of this conference is to build the capacity of participants to make informed and strategic decisions about educator quality. The conference aims to enhance participants' understanding of the interrelationships between the different components of teacher quality and leadership policymaking and to support the creation of actionable strategies to effectively improve the human capital system, both in the aggregate and in the equitable distribution of effective teachers and leaders.
Participants. Attendance at this conference is by invitation only. The conference is targeted to regional comprehensive centers, state education agencies, and organizations committed to supporting and enhancing educator quality.
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If you are interested in attending the conference, please provide your contact information in the form to the right.
CREATE to Host Second Annual Conference on Middle School English Language Learners
The Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE) will host its second annual conference October 6–7, 2008, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This year's topic is "Math, Science, and Social Studies: A Focus on English Language Learners in Middle School."
Conference information is available.
Recent Events
ARCC Webcast on Highly Effective Teachers
The Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center (ARCC) hosted a free webcast, "Highly Effective Teachers: More Than Highly Qualified," on June 26, 2008. The webcast addressed the issue of teacher effectiveness and shared the perspectives of Sabrina Laine, Ph.D., director of the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, and Heather Peske, Ed.D., director of Teacher Quality at The Education Trust, as national leaders in teacher preparation, policy, and practice. View the archived video of the webcast.
TQ Connection June 2008 Discussion
In June, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality held its fifth monthly TQ Connection online discussion forum on the topic of Response to Intervention: Prevention/Early Intervention Strategies for Challenging Behavior. Frank Gresham, Ph.D., psychology professor from Louisiana State University, facilitated this interactive dialogue and responded to participant questions. The TQ Connection online discussion board currently has 108 members and is growing. Please stay tuned as our interactive discussion forum will break for the summer and return in September with a brand new topic.
The TQ Center Presents at the AERA Conference
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality presented "What the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality Has Learned in the First Three Years: Implications for Policy on Teacher Preparation, Teacher Quality, and Teacher Distribution" at the 2008 Annual AERA Conference in New York City, on March 27, 2008.
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