Principle Recommendation P20 WIN should be given a statutory deadline of July 1, 2016 to deliver this data framework to educator preparation programs. Effective teachers boost student achievement.[i] States that…

Principle Recommendation: Restructure an incentive program to attract and retain exceptional teachers in low-performing schools and districts. This program should be restructured to include grants (for education majors in their…

Principle Recommendation Attract teachers who were certified out-of-state through reciprocity. School districts should have the flexibility to hire exceptional teachers without the current regulatory barriers created through time-intensive processes for…

Principle Recommendation To reach children who do not live in school readiness communities, CT should establish an early childhood scholarship program and fund it with surplus school readiness funding. This…

Principle Recommendation Statutory language should be revised so that all low-income children, no matter where they live, are eligible for state-funded, high-quality early childhood programs. Additionally, the OEC should estimate…

Principle Recommendation Connecticut should have universal access to preschool for all low-income children. Creating 1,000 more slots, at a cost of up to $8.7 million, will advance the goal of…

There are three key shifts in the ELA Common Core Standards that influence how curriculum should be developed and instruction redefined. The first shift involves a focus on complex texts and…

Besides the three major shifts in Common Core’s treatment of standards (focus, coherence, and rigor), the Common Core also sets expectations for the processes and proficiencies that students should demonstrate…

The traditional style of teaching math has focused on surveying an ambitious number of topics each year, rather than developing mastery. In America, our teachers have struggled through a long…

Student-based budgeting will be most effective when it is integrated into a larger district-wide strategy for improvement. But changing the manner in which a district allocates funding to schools is…

“The whole point of getting more resources to schools that have students with greater challenges and allocating dollars instead of staff is to empower school leaders to organize resources in…

It may not be apparent at first, but if we want funding to be fair for students, then we actually need to apply different weights for different types of students…