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Best practice

The processes, practices, or systems identified in public and private organizations that performed exceptionally well and are widely recognized as improving an organization's performance and efficiency in specific areas.

• District Leaders Guide to Reallocating Resources
  Examples of strategic reallocation of resources to enable better use of: * time * staffing * partnerships * focus on instruction.
• Faculty Collaboration: Enhancing the Quality of Scholarship and Teaching
  ERIC Identifier: ED347958 Publication Date: 1992-05-00 Author: Austin, Ann E. - Baldwin, Roger G.
• Keeping Good Teachers
  Veteran teachers share their ideas on the induction of new teachers, keeping, valuing, and supporting good teachers, and reflecting on just what it is that makes good teachers. Be sure to click on the "Table of Contents" icon to view all of the contributions.
• Learning Along the Way
  This book by Diane Sweeney details how an inner-city school in Denver used a learner-centered professional development approach focused on the needs of individual teachers to produce gains in teacher knowledge and effectiveness.
• Mentoring Beginning Teachers
  The authors of this book provide practical strategies for K-12 teachers working with mentors and beginning teachers in their school districts. Joint assessment and reflective thinking are seem as tools to enhance the mentoring experience for both the mentor and the beginning teacher.
• Strategy Brief Series on Teacher Mobility
  A review of state policies and initiatives in three areas -- recruitment and hiring, license recipriocity, and pension portability -- co-published by the National Governor's Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices and the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO).
• Teacher Mobility Project
  Report on Phase 1 and Phase 2 of activities supported by the State Higher Education Execurtive Officers (SHEEO).
• Teacher Quality Initiative
  The Public Education Network's initiative to improve the quality of teaching in public middle and high schools. Research-based policies and best practices focus on teacher skills and capacity, working conditions, and compensation.
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• The Induction of New Teachers
  Comprehensive induction programs are seen as a promising means of providing new teachers with models and tools to begin their teaching careers, as well as mentors and support groups to guide them through curriculum planning. Quality induction programs are a means of reducing the high rates of attrition within the first few years of teaching.
• The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching
  This web site provides an overview of a training program for school leaders and links to publications with samples of chapter contents.