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Checklist: If Your School Needs to Improve, What Actions are Needed?

Yes No	Initiate programs that actively recruit talented young people and mid-career professionals to become teachers.
Yes No	Work with colleges to reinvent teacher preparation for beginning teachers, including an "induction" period for their beginning years of teaching.
Yes No	Participate in efforts underway in many states to develop performance-based assessments for new teachers, such as those of the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium.
Yes No	Redesign professional development for the most experienced teachers so they get the training they need to help students master the basics and reach high standards in the core academic areas.
Yes No	Encourage your master teachers to be Nationally Board Certified.
Yes No	Identify and provide peer assistance programs to improve the performance of burnt-out or low-performing teachers.
Yes No	Expand efforts to help teachers become more technologically literate and use technology to improve training available to teachers.
Yes No	Fund ways to get current information and hands-on help to teachers, addressing the isolation that is all too common in teaching.

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