How policymakers can support...
Provide resources for future teacher programs.
Provide funding for improved professional salaries throughout the career.
Amend/improve policies to end negative impacts on teacher working conditions and career stability.
Work to develop funding for salaried teacher residency programs and forgivable loans to open opportunities to excellent teacher preparation programs to all promising candidates.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Ensure that every PreK-12 student — regardless of socioeconomic status, geographic location, race, gender, or other personal characteristic — has access to a challenging and broad curriculum that includes: access to upper-level coursework; specialized programs of interest to individual students; and 21st century skills that foster creativity and problem solving, and open a full range of postsecondary opportunities.
Recommended collaborators: Teachers, NEA and Affiliates, Schools/Districts, TPPs, External Partners/Community
Ensure that teaching and learning experienced by PreK-12 students engages them with authentic experiences, community connections, opportunities for choices about content and kinds of demonstrations of mastery that best represent their individual learning styles.
Recommended collaborators: Teachers, NEA and Affiliates, Schools/Districts, TPPs, External Partners/Community
Require all TPPs to be accredited by CAEP.
Require all TPPs to provide full-year clinical experiences.
Provide financial support to candidates during clinical practice and compensation for teacher leaders serving as cooperating teachers.
Ensure policies are not gatekeepers to become teachers prior to participating in a TPP.
Require successful completion of a profession-developed performance assessment to determine candidate “profession readiness” prior to initial licensure.
Provide funding to allow for bargained compensation for cooperating teachers as teacher leaders.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Work to develop funding for salaried teacher residency programs and forgivable loans to open opportunities to excellent teacher preparation programs to all promising candidates.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Provide resources to allow staffing needed to fully implement quality, two-year new teacher induction programs using well trained and compensated experienced peers with release time to perform mentoring and coaching duties.
Institute policies requiring locally bargained research-based teacher evaluation systems.
Require successful completion of a performance assessment (as described under the NEA and affiliates column) developed by the profession to achieve candidate readiness for full licensure.
Implement teacher license renewal policies with flexibility for teachers to identify and pursue goals both to improve their performance as teachers and to develop knowledge, skills, and dispositions as teacher leaders.
Provide resources to fund job-embedded professional growth with the characteristics described here.
Provide funds to assist with pursuit of measures of accomplished practice (e.g. National Board).
Institute policies requiring locally bargained research-based teacher evaluation systems. (From Emerging Teachers career phase.)
Provide resources to develop and implement virtual networks.
Support hybrid roles and release time during the school year to allow teachers to participate in extended training, networking, and leadership roles beyond the school.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Support efforts to bargain compensation systems that recognize teachers who demonstrate accomplished practice through fair, objective measures of their knowledge and skills.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Provide funding to address the extensive need for teacher leaders in schools.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Support bargained salary enhancements for a lattice of teacher career opportunities that address needs for their expertise in varied roles.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Support hybrid roles and release time during the school year to allow teacher leaders to engage in additional responsibilities and to participate in extended training, networking, and leadership roles beyond the school.
Recommended collaborators: External Partners/Community
Adopt endorsement standards for teacher leadership and use performance assessments developed by the profession.
