For release: May 1, 2008
Contact: Alice Williams, awilliams@teachingquality.org

The Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), with generous support from the MetLife Foundation, is embarking on a unique, collaborative project to present a bold vision for the future of teaching and public education in America, a project called TeacherSolutions 2030.

The bulk of writing around American education tends to share one unfortunate characteristic -- distance from the everyday realities of today's schools. Seeking to close this gap between perceptions of education and the daily challenges and victories of the classroom, CTQ -- in collaboration with a diverse group of expert educators -- will capitalize on teachers' intimate understanding of education and the clarity of their voice to craft a powerful, innovative vision for what American classrooms and schools will look like in the year 2030.

Over the next eighteen months, a diverse team of 12 teacher leaders will intensively study the teaching profession and the challenges it must address in the 21st century by investigating such hotly contested areas as technology implementation, teacher leadership, preparation, retention, and compensation. The TeacherSolutions 2030 team will engage the expertise of their colleagues in the Teacher Leaders Network along with the knowledge of guest researchers and futurists, all while building on real successes already occurring in classrooms across the country.

CTQ President and co-founder of the Teacher Leaders Network, Barnett Berry, will collaborate with the TeacherSolutions team to author a book, tentatively scheduled for publication in 2010, and to create an archive of interactive multimedia products to share the team's critical vision with educators, policymakers, and the public.