{"id":10830,"date":"2018-06-27T10:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:50:20","slug":"education-leaders-conference-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/education-leaders-conference-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Leaders &#8211; it&#8217;s conference season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year when I hit the road to meet with fellow education leaders to hear what is working, what is not working and how we can do more to improve education. It is a veritable alphabet of conferences between now and mid-August:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NASDTEC &#8211; National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification<\/li>\n<li>ECS -Education Commission of the States<\/li>\n<li>CCSSO &#8211; Council of Chief State School Officers<\/li>\n<li>NCSL -National Council of State Legislators<\/li>\n<li>ALEC &#8211; American Legislative Exchange Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are especially interesting times in education and I hope to engage in lengthy discussions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/teacher-shortage-infographic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher shortage<\/a> continues to impact schools and students<\/li>\n<li>How the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/06\/27\/606208436\/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-government-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supreme Court ruling on Janus<\/a> has a significant impact on teacher unions &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/teacherbeat\/2018\/06\/teachers_unions_after_janus_members_money_voice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$50M budget cuts <\/a>and the possible loss of over 300,000 members announced already<\/li>\n<li>The Gates Foundation very expensive foray into <a href=\"https:\/\/chalkbeat.org\/posts\/us\/2018\/06\/21\/the-gates-foundation-bet-big-on-teacher-evaluation-the-report-it-commissioned-explains-how-those-efforts-fell-short\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teacher evaluation research<\/a> &#8220;finds scant evidence that those changes accomplished what they were meant to: improve teacher quality or boost student learning.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/diversity-teaching-workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diversity in teaching<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Teacher testing\u00a0 &#8211; is it working?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately &#8211; most of these topics are not discussed as I scan the agendas &#8211; so I guess we will just have to keep pushing since teaching does have the greatest impact on student success.<\/p>\n<p>However I am very encouraged to be a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccsso.org\/blog\/ccsso-launches-effort-foster-diverse-and-culturally-responsive-teaching-workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCSSO working group on diversity in teaching<\/a> with a very distinguished and focused group.\u00a0 And I will continue to push on the teacher shortage at every event with a laser focus on the teacher licensing issues that impact shortages and diversity!<\/p>\n<p>If you are at any of these conferences, hit me up on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dave_Saba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twitter<\/a> and let&#8217;s solve the worlds education problems over a beverage or two!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year when I hit the road to meet with fellow education leaders to hear what is working, what is not working and how we can &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[46,23,41],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/ToT-Logo.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-12 03:34:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10833,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions\/10833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}