Event Archives
Annual What Works Conferences
Third Annual What Works Conference: "Building Capacity for a Systems Approach to Improving Educator Quality"
The 2008 What Works Conference—Building Capacity for a Systems Approach to Improving Educator Quality—focused on the alignment of teacher quality and school leadership policies across the educator career continuum. Conference themes emphasized how coordination of policies relating to teacher preparation and recruitment, induction and professional development, compensation and working conditions, performance management, and school leadership allow states to leverage resources effectively and to generate policies and practices that are likely to raise student achievement by improving educator quality.
Second Annual What Works Conference
The 2007 conference focused on connections between teacher quality, leadership quality, and student outcomes with an emphasis on teaching and leading in at-risk schools and for students with special needs. The interrelationship between teacher quality and leadership provides a strong foundation for improving student achievement, especially when effective leadership is the linchpin of an effective education system—a system of aligned, coordinated, adaptive, and sustainable policies that work for all learners.
Advancing Student Achievement Through Effective Teaching and Leadership
November 5–7, 2007
First Annual What Works Conference
The 2006 conference was a capacity-building meeting for regional comprehensive centers and other stakeholders that provided information and best practices on teacher quality in at-risk schools.
Increasing Student Achievement in High-Need Schools Through Teacher Quality
November 8–9, 2006
Issue Forums
These local forums focused on building the capacity of regional comprehensive centers to improve teacher quality in low-performing schools.
From Planning to Action: Effectively Using Your Professional Development Resources
March 13–14, 2008
Preparing Special Educators: Critical Issues and Emerging Needs (Roundtable Discussion)
June 27, 2007
From Planning to Action: Implementation of The Highly Qualified Teacher Plans
March 28–29, 2007
Addressing Personnel Shortages and the Recruitment of Special Education, Mathematics, and Science Teachers in At-Risk Schools
May 24–25, 2006
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