Building a Coalition

Convene Stakeholder Meeting

Hold a stakeholder meeting to lay the foundation for and discuss priorities in developing actionable strategies and timelines to address equitable access to great teachers and leaders. 

Convene Stakeholders in Equity Workgroup

As you set priorities, select state partners to invite to participate in your efforts to tackle equitable access to great teachers and leaders in your state. Consider representatives from key groups, including teachers, principals, unions, community members, parents, state education agency staff, educator preparation programs, and district administrators. Ask departmental stakeholders, including division leaders and their deputies, to participate in an equity workgroup. 

TELL Ohio

The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and the Office of Educator Equity and Talent (OET), in partnership with the New Teacher Center, piloted a three-year program called TELL (Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning) to provide educators in Ohio with data, tools, and support to facilitate school improvement planning and address issues of inequitable access. As a part of the initiative, Ohio is doing the following:

Ohio Office of Educator Equity

The Office of Educator Equity was created within the Center for the Teaching Profession at the Ohio Department of Education to do the following:

Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center Webinars

The Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center—in partnership with the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality—hosted two webinars for state officials in Tennessee who were committed to addressing the state’s equity problem. The first webinar, which took place in March 2007, highlighted strategies used by other states and the challenges and opportunities they encountered in collecting and analyzing equity data. The Tennessee Department of Education’s study of equity also was discussed. A follow-up webinar was held a month later.

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