Job-Embedded Professional Development

What exactly is job-embedded professional development? What types of teacher learning opportunities count as being job embedded? How might job-embedded professional development improve teaching practices and student learning outcomes? What does the research say about it, and how can states and districts implement it well? In this Issue Brief—written in collaboration with the Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive [...]

Priority Schools Campaign – National Conference Materials

NEA invited school/community/district/state teams from across the country to meet with federal officials, NEA leaders and national experts on school transformation. The conference publication is linked below, in a unique booklet format, with a wealth of information about the NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign.
http://print-this.net/nea_priority/

Checklist for an Association President

This checklist gives a step-by-step action plan for Association President’s who have been informed that a school in their state has been designated as low performing.
Checklist for an Association President

Professional Pay Fact Sheet

This document provides preliminary information regarding financial compensation practices for the teaching profession. Teachers are grossly underpaid and in order to effectively recruit and retain quality educators, public schools must ensure that the teaching profession is financial viable to counter their high attrition rate in the public school system. NEA provides strategies to advance the [...]

Teacher Evaluation: Developing Models and Policies to Improve Teacher Practice

This power point presentation titled: Teacher Evaluation: Developing Models and Policies to Improve Teacher Practice provide a medley of information surrounding teacher evaluation processes. This includes common elements need in a teacher evaluation system, teacher evaluation measures, the two components of assessment and evaluation: formative assessment and summative evaluation, fundamental considerations for teachers evaluation measures, [...]

The Union’s Role in School Transformation

Beyond community and school collaboration, the NEA believes that student achievement can improve through district and union collaborations. This document provides examples from across the country of NEA supported initiatives and critical district/union initiatives which have demonstrated student academic improvement.

The Union’s Role in School Transformation