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Today the Joyce Foundation is releasing Teacher Quality: What You Need to Know, a guidebook to help parents and communities understand the basic human resource practices needed to support great teachers.
The easy-to-read guidebook tells the story of two teachers, one who gets the right support to help her kids succeed and the other who tries hard but doesn’t get the help she needs. The guidebook includes a pull-out “how to” guide with more information on policies, research, and a “Top 12” list of things parents can do to help.
The guidebook is geared toward parents but can be used with many audiences. People are using the guidebook to inform town hall meetings with parents, to train teachers about policy issues, to help school board members and administrators understand and explain new policies, and to help legislators describe new laws they have passed.
Go to www.joycefdn.org/teacherquality to download the guidebook (in English and Spanish) and find more resources on teacher quality.
Public Impact conducted research that helped inform this guidebook.
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For more on hiring, keeping, and effectively deploying great teachers, see Public Impact's series:
Titles in this series include:
Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great [full report or executive summary]
3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best [pdf]
Using Competency-Based Evaluation to Drive Teacher Excellence: Lessons from Singapore [pdf]
Shooting for Stars: Cross-Sector Lessons for Retaining High Performing Educators [pdf]
Shooting for Stars was made possible with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
3X for All was made possible with support from the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.
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