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Third Annual What Works Conference: "Building Capacity for a Systems Approach to Improving Educator Quality"



The 2008 What Works Conference "Building Capacity for a Systems Approach to Improving Educator Quality" focused on the alignment of teacher quality and school leadership policies across the educator career continuum. Conference themes emphasized how coordination of policies relating to teacher preparation and recruitment, induction and professional development, compensation and working conditions, performance management, and school leadership allow states to leverage resources effectively and to generate policies and practices that are likely to raise student achievement by improving educator quality.

This webpage includes the following information and materials from the two-day meeting: