Tag: Milwaukee

Trying to fit a square peg in a round hole

Posted January 31, 2011

When there are schools that are smaller, different than traditional schools, it becomes particularly important to measure value-added performance—and to appreciate expanded forms of achievement. Schools should be held to high standards but not compelled to follow standardized processes.

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In The News

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Innovation, Milwaukee, teachers, TPPs

Teacher-run schools in a unionized setting

Posted December 17, 2010

A recent study of teacher-run schools describes those in Milwaukee—that are part of the Milwaukee Public Schools district, and where teachers belong to the local union.

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Innovation in Districts

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Administration and Management, Change Strategy, Chartering, Innovation, Milwaukee, teachers, TPPs

Cooperative takeover! (When a successful school absorbs a struggling neighbor)

Posted September 20, 2010

Recently Milwaukee College Prep, the 2008 Wisconsin Charter School of the Year, stepped in to convert a failing school to a new campus. Is this sort of cooperative takeover a model that can be used elsewhere in large cities?

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Strategies Supporting Innovation

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Change Strategy, Chartering, Innovation, Milwaukee, News and media

Guest Post: Teachers working in a professional cooperative

Posted July 16, 2010

In this video Roxane Mayeur, co-lead teacher at Community High School in Milwaukee, describes the advantages of working in a school run by a teachers. Community High School is served by a professional practice of teachers operating informally as cooperative.

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Perspectives "From the Zones"

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Administration and Management, Autonomy, Guest Posts, Milwaukee, teachers, TPPs

Given the authority, Milwaukee teachers are accepting accountability

Posted July 13, 2010

After years of having been unable to secure professional status and economic security through negotiation or legislation, there is an opportunity for teachers to leverage the pressure for ‘accountability’ in a way that will help win them professional status for their members. In Milwaukee union teachers are taking responsibility for student and school success in exchange for control over what matters for improving performance.

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Innovation in Districts

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Administration and Management, Autonomy, Chartering, Milwaukee, teachers, TPPs