NEA - Leading the Profession

NEA - Leading the Profession:

Leading the Profession: An NEA Agenda for Action

NEA President Dennis Van Roekel lays out a new action agenda to transform teaching. Photo by Gary Dwight Miller.

 

National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel has announced a new action agenda that will help advance the Association’s goals of transforming the teaching profession and accelerating student learning.

Incorporating proven best practices from thousands of leading teachers from around the country, and input from an independent Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching, Van Roekel detailed three major strategies that will guide the union’s efforts to increase the quality of teacher candidates before they ever reach the classroom, to make sure that teachers remain at the top of their game throughout their careers, and to improve student learning by improving the teaching profession.

“It’s about the kids,” Van Roekel said. “NEA aims to ensure that every student has a qualified, caring and effective teacher. And NEA will support a stronger profession of teaching."

NEA's Three-Point Plan for True Education Reform

NEA President Announces New Three-Part Action Agenda to Strengthen Teaching Profession and Improve Student Learning 

Transforming Teaching: Connecting Professional Responsibility with Student Learning Report of the Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching.

Comments by Maddie Fennell, the chairperson of the Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching