A High Stakes Training Program

Imagine on your first day of work walking into a board room filled with 30 of your company’s most important clients. You’re expected to present on the company’s core products.  Sounds scary, right?
Ironically, this is what new teachers experience on their first day.  They enter a classroom filled with our community’s most important clients: students.
After [...]

A Matter of Urgency for Minnesota

Education Trust’s Kati Haycock pointed out that sustaining teachers is a greater challenge than recruiting them to the field, particularly for teachers working in the most challenging schools.
This is particularly problematic given that in the next 10 years, 25,000 new teachers will be needed in this country to fill vacant positions due to retirement [...]

Leave Nothing to Chance

Recruiting and retaining high quality teachers is a high risk game. We all make mistakes at work from time to time.  I know there have been times where I have felt overwhelmed or unclear about making the most strategic decision, but the risk was relatively low.  Everything was fixable. However, for teachers, the risk impacts the 30 [...]