Labor-Management Collaboration

Collaborating to Transform the Teaching Profession, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23-34, 2012Labor-Management Collaboration Conference

Districts and States were invited to this year's conference titled Collaborating to Transform the Teaching Profession. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined seven fellow national education leaders in signing a shared vision for the future of the teaching profession during the opening of the 2012 Labor Management Conference. Click here to see the shared vision.

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2012 Labor-Management Conference Kicks Off – Watch Live (May 23)
Secretary Arne Duncan, national education leaders and over 100 district and state leadership teams are converging in Cincinnati today to kick off the two-day 2012 Labor-Management Conference.
Announcing the 2012 Labor-Management Collaboration Conference (March 14)
The invitation to this year’s Labor-Management Collaboration Conference is now open. The conference, titled Collaborating to Transform the Teaching Profession, will take place May 23-24 in...
Finding Courage in Labor-Management Collaboration (December 6)
At a recent Teacher Union Reform Network (TURN) meeting in Long Beach, Calif., I learned how labor-management collaboration can change the working dynamic in a school district. TURN is a national...
AFT and TFT Share “The Toledo Plan” with Secretary Duncan (September 9)
Ed. Note: Maryann Woods Murphy is a Spanish teacher and a Washington Teaching Ambassador Fellow on loan from her school in Allendale, NJ.
Duncan and Officials Observe Mock Presentation of Innovative Teacher Mentoring and Evaluation Program at AFT Hall (September 8)
An innovative teacher evaluation plan, developed with the participation of the teachers union in Toledo, Ohio, was the focus of the final stop on the first day of the “Education and the Economy” bus...
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