Ann Ertl, Interim Director of Innovation, Design, and Learning at Hopkins Public Schools describes the district’s shift to providing school leaders with increased autonomy around school-based budgets.
A document outlining a job description for a Student Support Specialist, also listed as a Paraprofessional, at Hopkins Public Schools.
This blog post provides highlights from the Outcomes-Based Contracting Summit co-organized by Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research and Third Sector. Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri was a part of the summit.
Ector County Independent School District partnered with Harvard University researchers to explore how to structure a performance-based contract for virtual tutoring.
Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how the district has brought in virtual coaches who are able to observe classrooms using cameras and provide real-time coaching to teachers.
Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how the district is shifting away from a one-size-fits-all for teacher professional development and towards personalized professional development tailored to each individual.
Building Teacher Pipelines Type: Topics: Professional Development & Learning, Visioning, Talent Systems Sub-topics: Professional Development, Coaching, Strategy Development, Teacher Pipeline
Ector County Independent School District Superintendent Scott Muri shares how the district is investing in the teaching workforce through an investment in teacher development through coaching and personalized professional development. The school district also has a high number of teacher vacancies so is developing teacher pipelines and building in incentives to attract teacher candidates.
Dr. Jeanette Westfall, Assistant Superintendent- Instructional Design, Liberty Public Schools, explains how she established a two-way channel between herself at the district leadership level and with coaches and teachers at the school level so that the perspective of school-based practitioners could inform district-level decisions.
This guide unpacks the relative benefit of buying external resources and services versus building internal capacity and offers examples of the way systems across the country have managed this tension.
