Disseminate Information on Local Inequities
Create and disseminate a fact sheet or infographic that describes inequities in your region or state.
Collaborate With Regional Support Centers
Collaborate with your regional center, regional equity assistance center, regional educational laboratory, or the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders on these strategies.
Consider All Stakeholder Perspectives
Listen to a variety of perspectives on this issue, including the concerns of stakeholders who disagree that inequitable access to great teachers and leaders must be addressed, and consider the validity of their concerns.
Convene Stakeholder Meeting
Convene Stakeholders in Equity Workgroup
Highlight Best Practices
In the states with which you work, inquire about school districts that are leaders in equity issues, and highlight and celebrate their work.
Hold Annual Stakeholder Meetings to Review Equitable Access Issues
With program faculty and staff, share and discuss annually collected data on the placement, retention, and performance of the program’s graduates, especially those graduates placed in high-need schools. If equitable access problems are evident from the review, determine the sources of high attrition and poor performance.
Host a Conference on Equitable Access to Great Teachers and Leaders
Plan and host a conference on equitable access to great teachers and leaders.
Integrate Equitable Access
Integrate a focus on equitable access to great teachers and leaders, emphasizing the root causes, and potential solutions into your educator preparation program curriculum.
Leverage Communication Channels
Leverage support through effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders for successful completion of the plan.
Stay Informed
Join the conversation at the Great Teachers and Leaders for All Learners blog!
Resources
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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. Two officials from the Tennessee Department of Education lead the webinar and released the results of a new study on equity.
http://sites.edvantia.org/publications/arccwebinar/EqDist_032007.htmlEnsuring Equitable Access to Great Teachers and Leaders
Summary
Under the federal Excellent Educators for All initiative, state education agencies—in consultation with district leadership, school leadership, teachers, parents, and community stakeholders—are charged with developing comprehensive statewide educator equity plans to ensure that all students have equitable access to effective educators.
This webinar describes:
- An overview of the Excellent Educators for All initiative
- Information on how the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center) and its partners can support regional centers and state education agencies in the design of their equity plans
- An introduction to resources for equitable access planning and engaging stakeholders in the process
- Insights from Laurel Horn, an award-winning teacher and GTL Center Practitioner Advisory Group member, on effective ways to engage teachers
Webinar
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:
- Monitor implementation and continued progress of the 68 strategies contained in Ohio’s 2006 Teacher Equity Plan.
- Design a methodology to successfully complete the new strategies.
- Ensure that all 68 strategies are successful and ongoing and that effective programs, initiatives, and incentives positively influence student achievement.
- Leverage support through effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders for successful completion of the plan.
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:
- Provides data on teaching conditions in hard-to-staff Ohio schools by implementing a working conditions survey. This survey focuses on issues such as time, facilities, resources, leadership, instructional practices, student behavior management, community support, professional development, and new teacher support.
- Shares results through an online dashboard and provides reports with benchmarking data for educator consideration.
- Provides schools and districts with direct technical assistance to use the survey results and research best practices.
In a collaborative effort among stakeholders, ODE, the Ohio Education Association, and the Ohio Federation of Teachers recently announced the 2013 TELL Initiative, which is part of the Race to the Top initiative. It begins with an online, anonymous school survey and is an ongoing process for using the results from the survey in annual school improvement planning. TELL Ohio will provide educators in the state’s Race to the Top schools with data, tools, and direct support to facilitate school improvement planning and equitable access.
http://www.tellohio.org/