The MTA has significant concerns about the “performance-based” licensure system that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is exploring and may propose adopting in the future. Under such a system, teacher and administrator licenses could be tied to their employment-based evaluations … [Read more...]
DESE Performance-Based Licensure Forums
The MTA has significant concerns about the “performance-based” licensure system that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is exploring and may propose adopting in the future. Under such a system, teacher and administrator licenses could be tied to their employment-based evaluations … [Read more...]
Forums on Licensure Redesign
Forums on Licensure Redesign The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) would like to invite you to participate in an upcoming discussion regarding the future of educator licensure in Massachusetts. DESE has been examining the Commonwealth's licensure policies to … [Read more...]
What keeps a teacher going?
What keeps a teacher going? A wordless lesson from watching a builder at work. By Beatrice Reynolds | BOSTON GLOBE | OCTOBER 05, 2014 There is a man building a wall in a farmer’s field that lies on my way to work. It is a stone wall, long and low. He has been building it for close to two years … [Read more...]
Forums on Licensure Redesign
Forums on Licensure RedesignThe Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) would like to invite you to participate in an upcoming discussion regarding the future of educator licensure in Massachusetts. DESE has been examining the Commonwealth's licensure policies to … [Read more...]