Focus on Teacher Excellence
Summer 2009 Vol. 16 No. 4
Shanee Garner is a first-year English teacher at Bartram High School. Teacher contract talks are an opportunity to address how to provide adequate supports and incentives to retain good teachers at high-need schools.
Seeing opportunity in teacher talks
by Dale Mezzacappa
Public and private statements from School District leaders indicate that they are seeking a significant overhaul of the contract with the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) as a way to tackle stubborn issues that have troubled activists and reformers for years.
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No Easy Road, Part 2
by Benjamin Herold
For thousands of city teens, 9th grade is a new world full of opportunity and peril. Successfully completing freshman year means nearly doubling their chances of graduating from high school. But what does this make-or-break year look like from the perspective of the students going through it?
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New data – same staffing inequities at high-poverty schools
Text by Paul Socolar; data analysis by Ruth Curran Neild
Despite efforts to more equitably distribute teachers, School District data obtained by the Notebook this spring show that schools with the highest concentration of poverty still have the most teacher turnover and the lowest percentages of highly qualified and experienced teachers.
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Table of Contents
Theme articles
- Seeing opportunity in teacher talks by Dale Mezzacappa
- No Easy Road, Part 2 by Benjamin Herold
- Web Exclusive Corey's 'Othermother'
- New data – same staffing inequities at high-poverty schools Text by Paul Socolar; data analysis by Ruth Curran Neild
- District, with fits and starts, inches toward teacher equity by Paul Socolar
- Teacher equity hinges on principals, policy changes by Meghan McHugh
- Other cities outstrip Philadelphia in recruiting, hiring teachers by Betsey Useem
- Residency program preps top-notch teachers for high-needs areas by Sarah Burgess
- Where have all the teachers of color gone? by Wendy Harris
- Screening for teachers with the right stuff by Ron Whitehorne
- Teacher evaluation system has lots of critics by Dale Mezzacappa
- Ackerman: Reward high-performing teachers with more pay by Dale Mezzacappa
- Quick takes: How can you tell your teacher is doing a good job?
- Web Exclusive Six teachers, five years later Interviews by Todd Friedman
Other news & features
- Imagine 2014 gets a green light from the SRC by Paul Socolar
- New business manager joins Notebook staff
- Stimulus funding boost is not a sure thing by Paul Socolar
- Fresh faces at the SRC by Paul Socolar
- Opinion: Dungee Glenn advocated for children with passion, commitment by Blondell Reynolds Brown
Cartoon
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In our opinion
- Once and for all
- Our right to know
Letters to the editors
- Kindergartners finished 100 books Andrea Layden
- Valuing diversity is the key to learning Ernst Ford
Eye on special education
- Recruiting special education teachers proves to be a challenge for the District by Connie Langland
School snapshot
- Fels High School
News in brief
- District doubling the number of accelerated high schools by Peak Johnson and Wendy Harris
- Accessible arts experiences are focus of 10-year initiative by Paul Socolar
- Parents gain school advocates with ombudsman expansion by Wendy Harris
Activism around the city
- Education nonprofit focuses on policy and electoral politics by Dale Mezzacappa
- Local testimonies describe how money has made a difference by Paul Socolar
- District urged to get more to participate in meal program by Dale Mezzacappa
Sports stories
- Back on track by Benjamin Herold
En español
- Principales y cambios en políticas determinan equidad en maestros por Meghan McHugh
- Accesibilidad a experiencias en arte es el enfoque de iniciativa de 10 años por Paul Socolar
- Caras nuevas en la SRC por Paul Socolar
Black and Latino boys disrespected, task force finds
by Dale Mezzacappa
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