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Upcoming Event - Effective Teaching: A Key to Ensuring Success for High School Students of Color

Please join the Campaign for High School Equity for a briefing to discuss how effective teaching can help to address the American high school graduation crisis.

Thursday, March 25, 2010
9:30-11:00 a.m. 
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562

Speakers:

• Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA)
  
• Jane Hannaway, Ph.D., director, Education Policy Center, Urban Institute
• Rhonda "Nikki" Barnes, NBCT, world literature teacher, KIPP Pride High School (Gaston, NC)
  
• Delia Pompa, vice president, education, National Council of La Raza
  
• Tomeka Hart, J.D., M.B.A., president/CEO, Memphis Urban League, Inc.
• Michael Wotorson, executive director, CHSE

High-quality teachers are the single most important influence on student academic outcomes, including graduation. Yet research shows that students of color and Native American students, who are the most likely to benefit, are not being taught by effective teachers. These are the same students who have traditionally been underserved by our schools.

How can we ensure that students of color have access to the most effective teachers? What are the federal and state policy adjustments that may be necessary to support effective teaching? What does effective teaching look like in high minority high schools and in schools that serve large numbers of Native American students? This policy briefing will explore practical models for ensuring that teachers of diverse learners are well-equipped and prepared; improve classroom instruction and leadership decision-making; and encourage policy makers to support initiatives to recruit, train, support, and retain effective leaders and teachers in high-poverty high schools.

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