Teaching Career Pathways: Leadership Certification
Promoting Quality Teaching: New Approaches To Compensation and Career Pathways
Note: In 2012, Accomplished California Teachers published Quality Teaching in Every Classroom: New Approaches to Compensation and Career Pathways. Our team of teacher leaders from diverse regions and types of schools recommended that California policy makers should pursue means to give talented and motivated teachers expanded, formal opportunities to contribute to school improvement. We advised policy makers to consider a higher level license or certification for teachers who demonstrate teaching excellence and the skills and desire to lead. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson convened an Educator Excellence Task Force last year as well; their comprehensive report Greatness by Design cited the ACT report in making similar recommendations about the trajectory California should follow to strengthen the teaching profession. This