Teaching Quality Summit Review
For Accomplished California Teachers, the highlight of our month was going to Sacramento to put on an event titled “Teaching Quality and California’s Future” (sponsored by the Stuart Foundation). I’ve had some prior opportunities to write about the event and its goals, in an op-ed for the Sacramento Bee, and in a blog post that provided a preview of the event. Interestingly, the Bee chose to title the op-ed “Let educators help improve teacher quality” – a title I’m not crazy about for two reasons. First, “Let” makes us sound a bit too suppliant. Of course we would need the support of legislators and policy makers to enact teacher evaluation and career pathway reforms aligned to our recommendations, but we weren’t going to Sacramento in an asking mode as much as we were going in a telling mode: that is, if you want policies that will work, let us tell you, based on both research and the collective experience of teacher leaders, what those policies should look like. We were
