Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h49G0IC05262; Fri, 9 May 2003 12:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 12:00:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1f1.86b6ef7.2bed29dd@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2318] community role map X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 39 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1991 Lines: 58 To all who have an interest in community education: This article appears in the Pen Weekly News Blast from Pen@PublicEducation.org. It seems to have a relationship to the EFF Community Role Map. We might look to the map for ideas when we want to address the important issue of quality teaching in our communities. COMMUNITY ACTION GUIDE TO TEACHER QUALITY What is the community's vision for quality teaching? What role can the community play in ensuring that all of its children are taught by highly qualified teachers? How can the community provide the conditions and supports that teachers need to be successful? This guide is designed to help communities better understand teachers and teaching, as well as the community's role in achieving high-quality teaching. It is based on the experiences of eight local education funds (LEFs) -- independent community-based advocacy organizations working to improve public schools and build citizen support for quality public education in low-income communities across the nation -- that engaged their communities in an exploration of the quality of teaching in their public schools. These eight LEFs were supported in this important work by a grant from the US Department of Education administered by Public Education Network. While teachers, administrators, and policymakers bear much of the responsibility for the quality of teaching, they cannot and should not do it alone. In a democratic society, teaching is a public act. If teaching is to be strengthened and supported, it needs public understanding and it must have public action. The guide offers step-by-step procedures on the use of data to assess teacher quality, on ways to create school and community environments that support teacher quality, and, most importantly, on ways to engage the community in support of teacher quality. http://www.publiceducation.org/tqguide.asp Meta Potts, 4-EFF List Moderator/Facilitator FOCUS on Literacy Glen Allen, VA.
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