CEA-CCPS Discuss Collaboration at TURN

Chesterfield sent a team of CEA and CCPS representatives to the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast Teacher Union Reform Network (MASE TURN) meeting in Raleigh, NC, this past weekend.  The majority of the trip was funded through a Gates Foundation grant designed to help unions and school divisions better understand each other's perspectives, and communicate those concerns in ways that will lead to greater collaboration to improve student learning. The theme of the meeting, which included teams from Fairfax and Spotsylvania Counties in Virginia, as well as teams from Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida, was Building Collaborative Partnerships to Improve Teacher Effectiveness.  Presenters from the Center for Teaching Quality, the U.S. Department of Education, and Jefferson County School District and its union partner Jefferson County Education Association led us through conversations focused on joint union-district responsibility for teacher evaluation, and differentiated compensation.