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Strengthening the Assessment Trajectory: Engaging Educators in the Policy Process
This case study captures advice from teacher leaders who reviewed the quality of tests used to measure student learning and discusses how the experience affected their teaching. This brief also offers input on how states can engage educators in similar reviews.
Strengthening the Assessment Trajectory: Engaging Educators in the Policy Process
This case study captures advice from teacher leaders who reviewed the quality of tests used to measure student learning and discusses how the experience affected their teaching. This brief also offers input on how states can engage educators in similar reviews.
Investing in What it Takes to Move From Good to Great
The third in a three-part study series, this paper focuses on the findings resulting from a survey of National Board Certified Teachers on the professional supports that they had across their career that resulted in their excellence in teaching practice.
The Good to Great Study Series
This three-study series examines the views of excellent educators in regard to how professional learning contributes to their acquisition of expertise. Working with organizational partners and American Institutes for Research, this series captures the voices of expert educators in examining the impact of professional learning across a theoretical career continuum.
From Good to Great: Exemplary Teachers Share Perspectives on Increasing Teacher Effectiveness Across the Career Continuum
In this first study, we asked a group of State and National Teachers of the Year and Finalists to reflect on the professional learning experiences that they had engaged in across four stages of career.
Great to Influential
This second study in the series is a deep dive into teacher leadership and the lessons learned about leadership by exemplary educators.
Investing in What it Takes to Move From Good to Great
The third, and final, study in the series replicates the first study with a larger group of outstanding educators – National Board Certified Teachers.
The Right Trajectory Study Series
This series of studies was conducted for the High Quality Assessment Project and consists of three different studies of the two consortia assessments – Smarter Balanced and PARCC. Through these studies, outstanding educators were able to examine live test forms and offer insights.
The Right Trajectory
In this first study, we asked expert educators to examine the two consortia assessments and four, previously-used state specific assessments, all at the fifth-grade level.
Still on the Right Trajectory
The second study in this series focused on the Smarter Balanced assessment in comparison to two previously used state assessments, all at the fifth-grade level.
Beginning a Higher Trajectory
The final study in the series asks expert educators to examine the grade 11 Smarter Balanced assessment.
Career Continua Studies
In these two studies, Pearson and NNSTOY examined the current state of existence of career continua in education.
Creating Sustainable Teacher Career Trajectories: a 21st Century Imperative:
This study offers a new vision of teacher career pathways that holds promise for recruiting and retaining excellent teachers who further student learning, providing consistent access to excellent teachers.
Teacher Career Advancement Initiatives
This companion study to Creating Sustainable Teacher Career Trajectories examines eight existing models of career continua in teaching and extrapolates lessons learned through implementation.
Engaged: Educators and the Policy Process
Re-Imagining Teaching: Five Structures to Transform the Profession
NNSTOY Social Justice Booklist
Recognized educators across the nation recommend books that they use to teach various aspects of social justice.
The Model Code of Ethics for Educators
The Model Code of Ethics for Educators (MCEE) serves as a guide for future & current educators faced with the complexities of P-12 education. The code establishes principles for ethical best practice, mindfulness, self-reflection, and decision-making, setting the groundwork for self-regulation & self-accountability. The establishment of this professional code of ethics, by educators and for educators, honors the public trust and upholds the dignity of the profession.
The Teacher Leadership Competencies
Katherine led a team of educators in developing these competencies for use in the Teacher Leadership Initiative for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the National Education Association, and the Center for Teaching Quality.
Teacher Leader Model Standards
Teacher Leader Model Standards: used by over 20 countries and numerous states, institutions that prepare educators, and school districts in the United States, the Teacher Leader Model Standards were developed by a consortium of over 30 leaders. They form a foundation for thinking about, implementing, and growing teacher leaders.
Katherine won the contracts listed below and led the development and implementation, where applicable, of these performance assessments; used Evidence Centered Design methodology in all assessment development activities.
Kansas KEEP teacher, principal, superintendent evaluation rubrics;
Kansas Performance Teaching Portfolio;
California Teaching Performance Assessment;
Hawaii Principals’ Performance Contract (not operationalized);
Washington ProTeach Portfolio
Developed the following assessments as part of ETS or client programs, leading the development and piloting work, working with clients to ensure that needs were met: