What do teachers make in Washington State

Here is some good information about teacher's salaries in Washington state. 

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2011/03/25/what-do-teachers-make-in-washington-state/

Teaching Equity - Keynote speaker announced

Keynote Speaker – Teaching Equity 2011

Jeffrey Michael Reies Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Raza Studies and Education Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU). In addition to these duties, he continues as a high school teacher in East Oakland where for the past 18 years he has practiced and studied the use of critical pedagogy in urban schools. He currently teaches English at Mandela High School in East Oakland. Before joining the faculty at SFSU, Duncan-Andrade taught English and coached in the Oakland public schools for 10 years, and completed his doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jeffrey Michael Reies Duncan-Andrade

Duncan-Andrade has lectured around the world about the elements of effective teaching in schools serving poor and working class children. He works closely with teachers, school site leaders, and school district officials nationally, and as far abroad as Brazil and New Zealand, to help them develop classroom practices and school cultures that foster self-confidence, esteem, and academic success among all students. His research interests and publications span the areas of urban schooling and curriculum change, urban teacher development and retention, critical pedagogy, and cultural and ethnic studies. He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on the conditions of urban education, urban teacher support and development, and effective pedagogy in urban settings (see http://cci.sfsu.edu/taxonomy/term/68) that have been published in leading journals such as Harvard Educational Review and Qualitative Studies in Education. He recently completed two books, The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools and What a Coach Can Teach a Teacher, with Peter Lang Publishing. These books focus on effective pedagogical strategies for urban schools. He is currently completing his third book on the core competencies of highly effective urban educators with Routledge Press.

Webinar Invitation: Introducing Carnegie's Work in Community College Developmental Math

Uri Treisman (Introducing the problem via video) Carnegie Senior Partner Executive Director, Charles A. Dana Center at UT-Austin

Karon Klipple and Jane Muhich

Statway/Quantway Directors

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Julie Phelps

Pathways Networking Liaison

American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges Professor, Valencia Community College

Carnegie and its partners are addressing the low success rate of developmental mathematics students by providing alternatives to the current community college mathematical sequence and content. The Statistics Pathway (Statway) is designed to take developmental math students to and through transferable college statistics in one year. Quantway provides an alternate and accelerated pathway with an innovative quantitative literacy focus in which students use mathematics and numerical reasoning to make sense of the world around them.

During the broadcast, the presenters will:

 *   Discuss how the Carnegie Foundation in partnership with the Charles A. Dana Center and 27 community colleges around the country are on the leading edge of a movement to disrupt the system that has been an impediment for our developmental mathematics students for decades.

 *   Describe the new pathways for non-STEM students that focus on the quantitative literacy and statistical reasoning skills needed in today's society and for college success.

 *   Outline Carnegie’s approach to building a networked improvement community centered around increasing student success in developmental mathematics

April 1, 2011

10 a.m. Pacific

1 p.m. Eastern

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'Race to Nowhere' targets academic pressures

Since 'Race to Nowhere' was released in September, the small-budget, big-buzz doc has been shown in more than 1,400 community centers, schools and churches around the country, drawing audiences composed mostly of parents but including teachers and school administrators — many of whom are eager to share their anxieties about what students are sacrificing for the sake of academic success.  Have you, or will you see this documentary?  Read more about the movie here. 

New group promotes tech education in Washington

A new experiment in science and technology funding launched Monday in Federal Way. The goal is to give students more hands-on science education. Read more.

Leaders Call for Shared Curriculum Guidelines

Diverse group says framework needed for new common standards

Seventy-five respected leaders in education, business, and government issued a call this week to devise shared curriculum guidelines for the new common standards. Read more

English learner conversations held in Seattle

The U.S. Department of Education is bringing its series of national conversations on English learner education to Seattle on Monday and Tuesday. Read more information here. 

Happiest Careers (Teaching comes in 3rd)

For education employees, who land at No. 3 on the list, the importance of the supervisor fell to the bottom. Teachers valued (in order of importance): the work that they do, the way that they work and the people they work with. Translation: educating children, control over their daily tasks and their fellow teachers. Read more here. 

Bob Watt, Thrive by Five board member, advocating in the Seattle Times for more investment in early learning

Quality early learning is important for children's development. But guest columnist Bob Watt also argues that dividends from investing in this area will pay off in more people to qualified to fill high-skilled jobs that too often go unfilled.  Read more here.