Center for Teaching Quality

CTQ seeks to improve student learning and advance the teaching profession by:

Improving our public schools for the 21st century will require a dramatic overhaul of the teaching profession. It's time to blur the lines of distinction between those who teach in schools and those who lead them.

Read more from CTQ President Barnett Berry...

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Advancing the Teaching Profession

Barnett Berry, President and CEO of the Center for Teaching Quality, offers his knowledge and insights about America's efforts to build a real teaching profession.

The Tempered Radical

Bill Ferriter teaches 6th grade language arts in Wake County, NC, where he was named Teacher of the Year for 2005-2006.

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Making Evaluation Work in WA

CTQ teachers in WA have released five brief videos about teacher evaluation systems. Check out their insights on topics ranging from student growth data to National Board Certification.
Evaluation Lessons Learned

Teachers in CTQ's Hillsborough County New Millennium Initiative have created a multimedia presentation analyzing their district's new evaluation and support system, the Empowering Effective Teachers Initiative (EET).Click here to explore and share the teachers' presentation, Reflections on EET.
Meet CTQ's Teacherpreneurs

CTQ is proud to introduce our 2012-13 teacherpreneurs and teachers in residence. To learn more about them and what they're working on this year, check out this infographic and share it with your colleagues!
Lessons From Finland

In August 2012, Barnett Berry visited Finland to learn about their top-performing education system, recording his observations in a series of blog posts. But there's plenty more to investigate! In October, teacher leader Dave Orphal and CTQ staffer Kristoffer Kohl will travel to Finland and Sweden as part of an EF/PDK Professional Development tour.
Teachers Talk RESPECT at the Department of Ed

CTQ teacher leaders and staff joined 180 educators and advocates at the Department of Education in early August to talk about the future of the teaching profession. The group discussed ways teachers can take charge of the profession and drive change. "Teachers as leaders needs to be a linchpin of our efforts, not a bullet point," Ann Byrd, CTQ's COO, told the group. Go here to read more about the event.
Kentucky Teachers Advise State Policymakers

Who has great ideas about recruiting and retaining a high-quality teacher workforce? Teacher leaders, of course. And Kentucky knows it. Read more here.
Teachers Leading & Transforming

Want to see teacher leadership in action? Have fun exploring this clickable info graphic!
Teacher Leaders: International Perspectives

What can we learn about teacher leadership from high-performing nations? Check out Barnett Berry’s presentation at the International Symposium on Educational Reform in June 2012. (And find out how these ideas apply to Common Core implementation!)
TEACHING 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools

TEACHING 2030 demonstrates why we must listen to expert teachers when improving our public schools. In this provocative book, Barnett Berry and 12 accomplished teachers present a practical vision for innovative, research-based strategies to transform teaching and learning in America. Read more.

Curious about the book's big ideas? Watch our four-minute animated video or download 2030 Illustrated (a FREE visual summary of the book in PDF format).

You can also hear about the 2030 vision from Barnett Berry via Carnegie Views, Edutopia’s Big Thinkers series or at WNET’s Celebration of Teaching and Learning.

TEACHING 2030 is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Teachers College Press.
CTQ Publications Listing

Teaching Effectiveness for the New Millennium
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently noted, "Teachers need and deserve more autonomy and respect--and they must become real participants and partners in reform if outcomes for children are to dramatically improve." We couldn't agree more. That's why we initiated behind-the-scenes conversations among 23 teacher leaders and U.S. Department of Education officials, including Secretary Duncan. The topic? Teaching effectiveness reforms. Drawing on research and their classroom expertise, this group of teacher leaders has now issued recommendations for how the Department can best identify, evaluate, and support effective teaching. Check out their report, "Teaching Effectiveness for the New Millennium."

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Effective Teachers and Performance Pay
CTQ partnered with 17 of Florida's most accomplished teacher leaders to publish "Effective Teachers and Performance Pay" in February 2011. The report shares expert teachers' research-driven and classroom-based solutions for effective performance pay systems. Read more.

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Teacher Education for Tomorrow
It’s time to move past the tired “university-based programs vs. alternative certification” debates. Instead, we must identify successful strategies for robust teacher preparation — and the policies that can spread those practices. Barnett Berry addresses the link between teacher preparation policies and student success in “Teacher Education for Tomorrow,” a policy paper for NCATE (National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education).

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Past as Prologue: A Historical Overview of Teaching in America
We cannot transform teaching in America without understanding the past of the profession. This historical overview was initially developed to frame the forward-thinking ideas presented in TEACHING 2030. A brief version of this paper appears in our book, which was published by Teachers College Press and is available on Amazon.