Our staff and consultants are asked nationwide to present TQ evidence and ideas to a range of policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders. Here you will find a sample of presentations, podcasts, and videos that capture the message of CTQ and its Teacher Leaders Network.
 

2011

Teaching 2030 Co-Authors Barnett Berry and Cindi Rigsbee at Book Signing in Chapel Hill, NC

January 19, 2011 -  We held our first book signing this week at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC. Co-authors Barnett Berry and Cindi Rigsbee presented about the powerful ideas for the future contained in Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools Now and in the Future, with Cindi kicking off the evening by describing a day-in-the-life of teacher in the year 2030. The event drew an audience of current and former teachers and principals, union leaders, district officials, faculty and staff from schools of education, and members of the general public. The energy and excitement for the ideas in Teaching 2030 was clear; we've already heard from a group of teachers who were talking about the book at their school the next morning! It's time to make teaching the profession that students and teachers deserve!

2010

Elevating Teacher VOICE* to Sustain Online Communities
* Virtual Organizers Inspiring Communities of Educators

January 7, 2011 - Ann Byrd spoke at the NEA NBCT Consortium Conference in St. Pete's Beach, Florida attended by association leaders and NBC service providers from throughout the country, in addition to NEA Teacher Quality staff and NBPTS staff. She described CTQ's TeacherSolutions model and the success CTQ has had in training NBCTs to serve as "virtual community organizers."  CTQ's online work with teacher leaders has resulted in a number of TeacherSolutions products, including a report developed by 10 highly accomplished NBCTs on the positive impact the NB process has on students and teachers, a piece by 18 accomplished teachers from across the country on the perils and possibilities associated with performance-pay, and a recent report by 14 teacher leaders that documents the challenging working conditions of today and suggests solutions for tomorrow. View presentation slides to learn more about the TeacherSolutions process and training for virtual online organizing.

An Introduction to TLN and CTQ: Elevating Teacher Voice to Advance a Teaching Profession

December 14, 2010 – CTQ Staffer Ali Kliegman and Bob Williams, 2009 State Teacher of the Year from Alaska, presented about the work of the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ) and the Teacher Leaders Network (TLN) at the Distinguished Fulbright Awards Program in College Park, Maryland. Kliegman and Williams shared CTQ’s mission to spread teaching expertise and elevate the voices of accomplished teachers at local, state, and national levels. They also explained the operational strategy of TLN, which uses online communication tools to build virtual communities of teachers across the country. View presentation
 

Designing Teacher Education for Tomorrow

October 18, 2010 – As a visiting scholar at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City, Barnett Berry will make several visits over the course of the 2010-11 school year for meetings, seminars and lectures with alumni and faculty. Bank Street was founded in 1916, when its original focus was the study of child development and education. It wasn't until the 1930s that Bank Street began to formally train teachers. On October 18th, Berry discussed the principles in the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Schools Now and in the Future, co-authored by Berry and twelve of America's most accomplished classroom educators. View his presentation

Teaching 2030: Designing a 21st Century Performance Pay System

October 6, 2010 – At a pre-conference session for the National Workshop on Strategic Compensation in Eagle County, CO, in a rapid fire, “TED Talk-like” style, Barnett Berry discussed how new models of performance compensation for teachers may connect to emerging realities for teaching and learning in the 21st century. Berry explored the implications that new contexts for teaching and learning might have on performance compensation and proposed a new framework for teacher compensation.
 

Teaching 2030: Creating a Student-Centered Profession

September 17, 2010 – At a briefing in Washington D.C., “The Future of the Profession: A New Learning Ecology for Teachers and Students,” sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, MetLife Foundation, and the Center for Teaching Quality, Barnett Berry and accomplished teachers Jennifer Barnett, Carrie Kamm, and Jose Vilson presented a provocative new vision for the future of teaching and learning. Captured in a new book, Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools Now and in the Future which was penned by Berry and his co-presenters along with nine other accomplished teachers, this vision connects emerging realities with recommended strategies that will help schools and communities meet 21st century demands. View video of CTQ presentation or view entire event.
 

Teaching and Learning in 2030: Transforming Vision into Action

July 28, 2010 – At the New Tech Network’s Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, Melissa Rasberry and New Tech High School English/language arts teacher RaVonya Knight presented on the rapidly changing context of teaching and learning. They suggested strategies for teachers to “build their advocacy toolboxes” in order to more effectively impact decision-making in their schools or districts.
 

Performance Pay: Not Your Father’s “Merit Pay”

July 16, 2010 – Melissa Rasberry presented on the perils and promises of performance compensation for teachers at the Mid-Atlantic Southeast Teachers Union Reform Network (TURN) Conference held in Durham, NC. Rasberry reviewed ways in which so-called “merit pay” plans failed in the past as well as the ways in which some contemporary performance-pay models have begun to realize positive results. New compensation policies, Rasberry emphasized, must be accompanied by better measures of student and teacher performance. View presentation
 

Teaching 2030: Teachers Leading a Transformed Profession

May 27, 2010 – In a “Live Meeting” online research forum hosted by Educational Testing Service (ETS), award-winning teachers Renee Moore (high school English/language arts) and Cindi Rigsbee (middle school English/language arts), and Barnett Berry presented to 2010 State Teachers of the Year on their work exploring what the teaching profession will look like in the year 2030.
 

Merit Pay: How Schools and Teachers Make a Difference for Student Achievement

April 5, 2010 – At a hearing before the Florida legislature on merit-pay programs for public school teachers, Barnett Berry presented on the historic problems and new promise of these policies. Berry reviewed the history of failed merit-pay plans as well as the current research findings that show promising practices, including the importance of involving teachers in the policy-making process, embedding compensation plans in better professional development and support structures for teachers, and rewarding teachers for more than student growth on test scores.
 

The UTR Model: Implications for Teacher Preparation Policy

March 24, 2010 - Barnett Berry led a panel with the Professional Educator Standards Board via conference call from Denver, CO (where power thankfully stayed connected during a sudden snow storm). Berry discussed the urban teacher residency (UTR) model and its implications for teacher preparation and reviewed several current UTR programs and their components.

Return on Investment: Improving Teaching Quality by Investing in National Board Certification

March 4, 2010 – CTQ staff members Ann Byrd and Melissa Rasberry presented with Rhonda Catanzaro from Hamilton County Education Association/Tennessee Education on Staff Capacity and Effectiveness at the March National Education Association’s (NEA) Priority Schools Campaign Forum in New York City. They focused on how school systems can use virtual communities to enhance and use the special skills of National Board Certified teachers for school improvement.

A Better System for Better School: Developing, Supporting, and Retaining Effective Teachers

March 2, 2010 – Award-winning kindergarten and first grade teacher Jane Fung, a member of Teachers Network and of TLN, and Barnett Berry spoke in Los Angeles at an event focused on “Changing the Conversation about Teaching: What Will it Really Take to Make Sure Every Child has an Effective Teacher.” The half-day convening was sponsored by the Teachers Network, Cotsen Family Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Fung spoke as a panelist of local stakeholders, and Berry presented about the conditions necessary to support, develop and retain effective teachers in schools in What Keeps Good Teachers in the Classroom: What Teachers Say. Berry emphasized the importance of enabling collaboration and collegial support within schools.