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Helping Teachers and Students Succeed |
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children launches a new initiative today, Making the Grade: Effective Teaching in Every Classroom
Making the Grade: Effective Teaching in Every Classroom is our new project designed to create awareness about the importance of an effective teacher in every classroom and to advance the public policies required to assure that every child benefits from effective teaching every school day.
We believe that every student – in every classroom - deserves to be taught by highly effective teachers every year.
What is effective teaching? While there are many intangibles that contribute to great teaching, a working definition is: an effective teacher ensures that each child learns at least a year’s worth of knowledge for every year spent in the classroom.
The focus on effective teaching is to ensure teachers have the tools and opportunities to do the best job possible so all students in Pennsylvania acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to compete successfully in a 21st century marketplace.
We’ll be distributing regular emails about the Making the Grade initiative. Through the Making the Grade emails, this blog and our monthly public policy newsletter, we’ll do our best to keep you apprised of our goal to help drive an improved teacher effectiveness model in Pennsylvania.
Joan L. Benso is president and CEO, PA Partnerships for Children
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