DESE TAC: Elevating Teacher Voice, Choice, and Leadership

Twitter response to today's great virtual DESE TAC meeting. 

The way the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's Teacher Advisory Cabinet is run is an example of how to elevate and respect teacher voice, choice, and leadership. The meetings are thoughtfully prepared, the speakers are well informed, organized, and respectful, the process is modern and effective, and our efforts impact decisions made at the state level, decisions that impact all of us in schools. Further, I learn so much from the other educators on the council--their ideas and efforts are inspiring. I always feel valued at these meetings, and I also value the time, energy, expertise, and intent of these meetings. Thanks goes to Matt Holloway and his #MApactac team.

I'd like to see DESE really tune into the kinds of structures, schedules, roles, and efforts that uplift educator voice, choice, and leadership. I want them to help forward modern ways of teaching and leading, ways that elevate schools and the work we can do for students and their families. Also as I listened to many educators today, it's also important for DESE and our local school districts to partner with communities to help children in every aspect of life. We have to rid our communities of the poverty that truly diminishes what's possible for children and their families. That's a critical need.

There's so much we can do to better schools, and I am so pleased that DESE is enlisting educator voice with regard to the work they do, and enlisting our voices in ways that are respected and embedded in state-wide improvement efforts.