2) Developing career long leadership tracks for our district's talented teachers in order to recruit and retain the very best educators.
2) Developing career long leadership tracks for our district's talented teachers in order to recruit and retain the very best educators. In 2010, I began collaborating with leading educators from Finland to understand how they support teachers. We need a board that will adopt the very best policies from around the world (to learn more: http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2011/0317/Next-US-education-reform-Higher-teacher-quality), like those from Finland (to learn more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_cjLfR-T1s) and Singapore (to learn more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHSR5Niv4jU). What do these nations have in common with our own nation's very best schools? They all ensure teachers are always learning and leading. We can do a great deal more to collaborate with local businesses on how they develop their internal leaders. The best assets local companies like Google offer is not their checkbooks but their skills in developing human capital (to learn more: http://qn.som.yale.edu/content/whats-google-approach-human-capital).
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