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Teacher-Led Restructuring Plans Lead to Student-Achievement Gains, Paper Says

An education-improvement grant program in Oregon has led to higher student achievement scores, a narrower achievement gap, and increased job satisfaction among teachers, according to a new white paper authored by the Chalkboard Project, a state think-tank.

The key component of the program: Teachers are at the table, leading the process to draft and implement improvement plans for their school district.

Nationally, teachers have increasingly felt like their voices are not heard—a recent survey showed that a mere 19 percent of teachers feel like their voices are considered at the district level (compared to 32 percent of teachers in 2013). But this teacher-led school-improvement plan—called the Creative Leadership Achieves Student Success, or CLASS, Project—aims to systematically change school culture by elevating teacher voice and building a collaborative environment among teachers, administrators, the school board, union representatives, and district officials.

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2016/06/a_teacher-led_education_reform_plan.html

 

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