I recently had a rich conversation with Jon Saphier, author, educator and founder of Research for Better Teaching (RBT), as part of the Distinguished Educators series sponsored by the KIPP/NLU Masters in Educational Leadership program. I asked Jon how we can significantly diminish a 37% teacher turnover in our KIPP schools. The points he made that spoke clearly to me are that teachers need to know:
- Their professional development will be supported
- Their creativity will be nourished
- What is expected of them
- They will never be humiliated
The entire audio is posted at http://www.kipp.org/00/audio/. You will also find previous interviews with Gloria Ladson-Billings and Kim Marshall there.
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