Education Research:
Information, research, and reports on issues impacting education across the state and around the nation
Colorado Surveys and Reports
We Know What Works April 2009: CEA’s strategies and commitments to Student Learning and Quality Teaching
TELL Colorado Survey: Results from the first biennial TELL Survey of Colorado teachers and principals (Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning) -- TELL captures the perceptions of all teachers about their working environment through an anonymous online survey. By documenting and analyzing how educators view critical teaching and learning conditions, the TELL Survey provides each Colorado school with its own data that can contribute to school improvement planning.
NEA Reports, References, and Tools
NEA Priority Schools Campaign: NEA’s national effort to turn around low-performing schools by leading permanent changes in these schools that will transform the lives of thousands of students by significantly raising their academic achievement
Our Association on ESEA (No Child Left Behind): NEA's statements of principle for rewriting and improving the law, plus research and references
Our Association on Closing the Achievement Gaps: Positions, research, and references
Our Association on Dropout Prevention: Positions, research, and references
NEA Policy Briefs: Backgrounders on topics of Association policy, 2008-10
NEA Promising Practices: Information on effective methods and techniques for educators
NEA Tools on the Web or in Print: Web sites, books, resources, and free materials
Public Education Reports
Common Core State Standards: Progress and Challenges in Implementing Common Core Standards – Center on Education Policy (Jan 2011)
Effective Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness:
Children of Poverty Deserve Great Teachers: One Union’s Commitment to Changing the Status Quo – NEA and the Center for Teaching Quality (Sept 2009)
Closing the Achievement Gap by Closing the Teaching Quality Gap: Reframing the Debate – NEA Visiting
Scholars Research Brief by Barnett Berry, Southeast Center for Teaching Quality (2005)
Improving Teacher and School Leader Effectiveness: Designing a Framework for Colorado – Colorado Legacy Foundation (Aug 2009)
Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET) – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation initiative (includes Denver Public Schools)
Working with Teachers to Develop Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching (2010)
Learning about Teaching: Initial Findings from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (Dec 2010)
Blended Learning: Best of Both Worlds (Feb 2011)
High School Exit Exams: State High School Tests: Exit Exams and Other Assessments - Center on Education Policy (Dec 2010)
National Board Certification for Teachers:
A Research Guide on National Board Certification of Teachers – Research on student achievement and certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
Teacher Evaluation:
Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn from Research – National Education Policy Center (Dec 2010)Teacher Evaluation 2.0 – A report by the New Teacher Project that proposes six design standards that any rigorous and fair teacher evaluation system should meet (Oct 2010)
Teacher Mentoring and Induction:
Teachers are the Center of Education: Mentoring, Teaching and Improving Student Learning – The College Board, New Teacher Center, and Phi Delta Kappa International on the importance of mentoring (Dec 2010)
New Teacher Excellence: The Impact of State Policy on Induction Program Implementation – The New Teacher Center on teacher induction programs (Nov 2010)
The Teaching Profession:
Teaching 2030: What we must do for our students and our public schools, now and in the future – A book by the Center for Teaching Quality about a vision for what students need and the teaching profession they deserve by Barnett Berry and 12 educators (Jan 2011)
The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness - New Teacher Project on how teachers are treated as interchangeable parts, not individual professionals (2009)
A Smarter Teacher Layoff System – New Teacher Center on “quality-based layoffs” replacing “quality-blind” layoffs based on seniority (Mar 2010)