How are you going to recruit the best people to be teachers if fundamental changes aren’t made to how teachers are paid and to the learning environment of the schools in which they work?
This is a very important issue. The new teachers who come out of our partners’ teacher preparation programs will be guaranteed by those partners, so schools will be confident they can make an investment in hiring that teacher. At the same time, we are asking the schools to guarantee that they will support the new teachers with an environment that enables them to be successful. Schools that don’t want to enter into this type of guarantee arrangement will have to find teachers from other programs. Over time, we believe the increased educational achievement of students in classrooms led by teachers who are trained in this new way will be all the evidence schools will need to do whatever is needed to attract these new, effective teachers to their schools.
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