Rethinking Accountability: Session 3 — Professional Capacity and Accountability
The Professional Capacity panel at the Rethinking Accountability Conference in Washington, D.C. addresses issues of teacher training and professionalization in the U.S. and in other countries.
Policymakers; school and district leaders; business, teacher, parent, and civil rights organizations; education foundations; and members of the media gathered June 11 for a conference on Rethinking Accountability: Putting Students and Learning First. The conference discussed how schools, districts, and communities across the nation are charting new paths to student- and learning-focused accountability, and how new approaches are making a difference in improving education.
The conference was hosted by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Sandler Family Foundation.
Frederick Frelow, senior program officer at the Ford Foundation, hosts a panel that includes Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association; Leticia Smith-Evans, interim director of the Education Practice at NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Marc Tucker, president & CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy; and Sara Rebecca Pittard, a full-time teacher at Pine Trail Elementary School in Florida.