Weekend Conference to Focus on Teacher Effectiveness
Anyone planning to attend the Milken National Education Conference being held Sunday at the Westin Bonaventure downtown?
The goal of the event is being billed as: "to increase the nation's focus on high-quality teachers for every classroom in America."
The U.S. Department of Education is promoting the appearance of so-described "Bush education official" Kerri Briggs, who will participate in a panel discussion entitled "Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: Understanding and Implementing Teacher Assessments.” The talk will focus on "successful policies and programs that measure teacher effectiveness, including skills, knowledge and responsibilities, and their impact on improving the learning environment," a department press release says.
The Milken conference is being held in conjunction with the 8th annual National Teacher Advancement Program Conference.
If anyone goes, let me know next week what you learned.