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Featured Articles
A Special Kind of Ambition: The Role of Personality in the Retention of Academically Elite Teachersby Brady K. JonesThis article explores the role of personality in teacher retention using a rich set of quantitative and qualitative measures. The author finds that despite stereotypes of American teachers as unambitious, a “special kind of ambition," self-promotion coupled with a commitment to others, predicts a long-term commitment to the occupation. From Checklists to Heuristics: Designing MOOCs to Support Teacher Learningby Karen Brennan, Sarah Blum-Smith & Maxwell M. YurkofskyThis study examines Massive Open Online Courses as a medium for supporting teacher professional learning. The authors present qualities that teachers found meaningful in an online learning experience, offering heuristics that designers might consider when designing for their specific contexts. Book Reviews
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On Thursday, February 18th, 2021, Teachers College Record hosted an important behind-the-scenes virtual talk about navigating the publication process. Members of the TCR Editorial team joined as panelists and answered questions from graduate students and emerging scholars. This is part one of our two-part All Access: Unwritten Rules of Academic Publishing series. A recording of the second event will be available soon.Watch and discuss this episode on Vialogues.
Envisioning the Future of TCRby Michelle G. Knight-ManuelLeveraging the strengths of the journal, welcoming more inclusivity, and enhancing their digital presence animates new directions for engaging the broader national and international educational community in service of the public good. Commentary
Accelerating Network-Based Change
by Elizabeth Chu, Ayeola Kinlaw & Meghan Snyder This fractured school year has made more visible what students, families, and educators know all too well: Our education system is broken. It disproportionately fails Black, Latino, and low-income children, and there is no silver-bullet solution in sight. The inequities are too complex and entrenched to be remedied by any one-size-fits-all approach. Drawing on innovations long used in healthcare, improvement networks offer a path forward. Improvement networks consist of coalitions of schools and other education actors that use continuous improvement practices to develop solutions for systemic problems, customized to each of their contexts. |
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