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It didn’t take long to feel the power of collaboration
Bev is Chalkboard’s TIF grant manager and helps organize Chalkboard’s annual all-district meeting. What happens when you bring together educators and school leaders for an all-day event to share...
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4 steps of inquiry that help principals improve instruction
Updated and reprinted with permission from the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership. First published April 1, 2015. Dr. Sandy Austin manages district partnerships and provides...
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How the American Dream gets priced out of children’s reach
On June 9, author Robert Putnam shared the lessons he learned from his research for his recent novel, “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis.” Robert Putnam, professor of Public Policy at Harvard...
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Teacher-led ideas and collaboration creates a winning momentum
Being involved in the CLASS Project earned us tickets to Minnesota! Yes, Minnesota. Let me explain… Our CLASS design team in Mt. Angel has been working together for three years now. Mt. Angel, a small...
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Lending a hand, sharing a tribe’s story
Rural communities, and especially Oregon’s tribal communities, have many significant challenges to providing enriching childhood educational programs and leadership experiences. A successful program...
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Merit pay doesn’t work, so what does?
Co-authors and Chalkboard staffers Julie Smith, educator effectiveness coordinator, and Bev Pratt, TIF grant manager, will be presenting a blog post series this summer on teacher compensation. This is...
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This week, the U.S. Department of Education confirmed Oregon will receive a three-year reprieve from provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind school accountability law. And while the state says...
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Senator Rod Monroe’s perspective on HB 2655
Senator Rod Monroe was a teacher at Tigard High School and later served on the David Douglas School Board. He was first elected a member of the Oregon legislature in 1976 representing District 12 in...
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Senator Ted Ferrioli’s perspective on HB 2655
Senator Ted Ferrioli Senator Ted Ferrioli is the senior member of the Oregon State Senate and serves as the Senate Republican Caucus Leader. He was first elected in 1996 and is now serving his fifth...
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Teacher preparation shouldn’t be like being pushed into a lake without...
If you could witness the first day of school at Salem’s César Chavez School, then you would see our teacher candidates (known elsewhere as “student teachers”) already in the classroom working alongside...
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Will alternative teacher compensation models serve the profession and...
Co-authors and Chalkboard staffers Julie Smith, director of educator effectiveness, and Bev Pratt, TIF grant manager, have authored the second blog post in their series on teacher compensation. It is...
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Kindergartners leave no doubt—a full day of learning is best
Christi Seiler is a kindergartner teacher at St. Mary’s Public Elementary School in rural Mt. Angel, Oregon. She will soon begin her twenty-third year of teaching, and fourth year of teaching...
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Making college accessible for all
The day before my son Kellen began kindergarten, I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, “Oh no, my son is about to enter school and I haven’t put a dime into his college savings account.”...
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Alternative compensation for Oregon’s teachers: To boldly go where no one has...
Co-authors and Chalkboard staffers Julie Smith, director of educator effectiveness, and Bev Pratt, TIF grant manager, present their third and final blog post in their series on teacher compensation....
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Leadership and the evolution of district-wide culture
Dr. Erin Prince became superintendent of the Corvallis School District in 2011. She arrived in Corvallis from the Sherwood School District where she had served as the assistant superintendent since...
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“Ever since I was young, I’ve always wanted to be a teacher…”
As Hispanic Heritage Month ends, Chalkboard presents a personal insight into the aspirations of Cinthya Murguia, a Latina teaching student in Oregon. My name is Cinthya Murguia, and my goal is to...
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What does it take to become an Oregon teacher? Have you got a “minute”?
These days, if someone stops me in the grocery store to ask how to become a teacher, I often joked they should put their ice cream in the freezer while I explained the intricacies of admission,...
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Choosing leadership and testing personal ability to make a difference
Oscar Mareno Gilson is the senior director for Portland Public Schools, where he supervises 12 principals in the district’s Franklin cluster schools. Oscar was featured in ChalkTalk’s October issue,...
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Education’s future and evolution of the teacher role may become a very...
I recently attended the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s National Summit on Education Reform. This event, like many others, stimulates new ideas and concepts that inspire and challenge me. The...
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Champions for children and education: The Orcilia Zuniga Forbes Leadership in...
Last week, at our annual board-affiliate meeting, Chalkboard awarded its first-ever Orcilia Zuñiga Forbes Leadership in Education Advocacy Award. Orcilia was a founding board member of Foundations for...
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