Learning Point Associates
We HELP the people who work in education find the LEARNING POINT FASTER, more often and for more students.
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Educator Quality
It sounds simple enough—schools need to hire good teachers and keep them, and principals and administrators need to motivate staff and lead the charge for school-wide achievement.
But if accomplishing these imperatives were easy, then superintendents would not lie awake at night worrying about leadership at the school level, education blogs would not be full of stories about teacher burnout, and state officials would not debate how to evaluate teacher performance.
Learning Point Associates is dedicated to helping teachers, principals and administrators be the best they can be and ensuring they stay in their professions. Through our partnerships with the National Comprehensive Center on Teacher Quality and the Center for Education Compensation Reform, we conduct research on what is required to cultivate great teachers and leaders and keep them in the field. Our staff collaborates with educators who face these issues every day to devise sound practices that recognize great teaching and then replicate it across the hall, throughout a district and around a state.
What Will it Take?
To improve the nation’s education system, we must keep successful teachers in their classrooms and skilled leaders at the helm, particularly in the schools where the majority of students come to class tired, hungry and with little or no exposure to learning outside of school. The challenge is a formidable one.
At Learning Point Associates, we are working hard to answer these tough questions:
- What attracts people with the teaching gift to the classroom?
- What level of compensation will keep them in the profession?
- Will financial incentives attract teachers to the hardest-to-serve schools and to the subjects—like math and science—where the teacher shortage is the greatest?
- How does the school environment contribute to teachers’ happiness or disenchantment?
- What role do principals and school administrators play in inspiring great teaching?
- How do we know if a teacher is “good” or not?
We invite you to review our representative projects to learn more about the work we’re doing in the area of educator quality. To explore how Learning Point Associates can work with you on educator quality, contact Gaye Zarazinski at 1-800-356-2735 or gaye.zarazinski@learningpt.org.