Educational Leadership:Supporting Beginning Teachers:Stop the Exodus. I thought this article was fantastic–simple tips to keeping great teachers in the classroom.  Help them get acclimated (don’t overlook them during testing weeks); help them figure out how to manage time and work/life balance; give them leadership and clout in decision making ...

Yesterday, ODE produced tip sheets for school boards, superintendents, and teachers about what they should be doing right now to continue (hopefully not “begin”!) implementing the common core. In summary, School Boards should be creating an implementation timeline reviewing curriculum crosswalks checking out these simulated letter grades for ...

Hot off the presses.  Here’s your updated information on Ohio’s Teacher Evaluation System. Aren’t infographics just wonderful?  From this image, you can see the three levels of expected growth and their associated paths.  What you don’t see in this image is the ability for a teacher to have a say in his/her evaluator based on his/her ...