What Does Int’l Research Say?

1. What Does Int’l Research Say?

2. What is OECD? • International organization of 34 member countries • Dedicated to a global economic development • Develops recommendations for common problems “and then governments implement recommendations.”

3. OECD’s Educational Analysis Two Research Instruments • Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) – testing and survey • Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) – survey of teachers

4. PISA 2012 Data – state rankings Math Scores

5. Very Short Memory - A generation ago, we led the world in education. • U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan • 11/21/13 Misinformation like this is not helpful; it simply delays what we need to do to improve our schools. April, 1983

6. Bonus Slide! Just wanted you to know… Some people say the United States should get back to leading the world in education. Or what I like to call the “The older we get, the better we were” philosophy. 1964 50 years ago The United States ranks 11th out of 12 countries on an international study of mathematics achievement. “…students from the United States have fared quite poorly on these assessments.” Assessment of the National Center for Education Statistics on all the international comparisons from 1966 - 1988

7. Let Me Be Clear! We are not saying American schools are good enough—they are not. What we are saying is that we need to be honest about all the drivers of performance if we are ever going to make the right choices for our students.

8. Crisis: Investment in Education As international investment in education increased on average during the global financial crisis, U.S. investment fell.

9. Child poverty rate in selected developed countries, 2009 Note: The child poverty rate is the share of children living in households with income below half of household-size-adjusted median income. Source: Adamson (2012, Figure 1b)

10. TALIS 2013 Data

11. Child Poverty Rate in 2000 Source: U.S. Census

12. Child Poverty Rate in 2012 Source: U.S. Census

13. 17.5% Volusia County 17.3% Pasco County

14. 32.1% Volusia County 18.7% Pasco County

15. Best policies and practices from High-performing countries • Direct resources to the schools and students with the greatest need; • Ensure that teachers are well prepared and supported; • Provide all students with a robust curriculum; • Manage school choice so as to contain the risks to equity; • Expand and enhance partnerships with parents and community, providing wraparound services and programs that target unmet needs for children and their families; • Invest in high-quality universal childhood education.

16. Poverty and Performance Rates When poverty rates are taken into account, the U.S. becomes a top performer Data from Mel Riddile – PISA: It’s Poverty Not Stupid

17. TALIS 2013 Data

18. TALIS FINDINGS Teachers’ Pedagogical Practices Teachers in the U.S. spend more time teaching than those in any other country

19. TALIS 2013 Data

20. TIME SPENT INSTRUCTING STUDENTS Data from PISA

21. A Secret? This is a lesson high-performing systems learned years ago.

22. What Does OECD Say About Collaboration? “Schools in Denmark, Finland, Japan, Norway, Shanghai and Sweden have a good history of teamwork and cooperation. They often form networks and share resources and work together to create innovative practice…” “…but this collaborative culture does not fall from the sky and needs to be carefully crafted into policy and practice.” “Collaborative Culture is the Key to Success” Andreas Schleicher – March 2013

23. Teachers’ Appraisal and Feedback

24. TALIS FINDINGSTeachers’ Appraisal and/or Feedback

25. Teachers’ Appraisal and Feedback

26. OECD’s Recommendations For Teacher Appraisal • Take a “holistic” approach • Align evaluation with educational goals • Focus the system on improving instruction • Avoid distortions (too much emphasis on standardized tests, etc.) • Put students at the center (broad measure of both quantitative and qualitative data) • Build system capacity • Allow local adjustments, flexibility • Build consensus

27. Teachers’ Appraisal and Feedback A majority of teachers stated that criteria other than test scores were used more frequently in their appraisals or feedback The greater the emphasis on specific aspects of appraisal and feedback The greater the change in teaching practices to improve teaching Teachers need more specific feedback that test scores cannot offer

28. For Example… “While performance data in the United States are often used for purely accountability purposes, other countries tend to give greater weight to using them to guide intervention, reveal best practices and identify shared problems.” - Lessons from PISA 2012 for the United States, OECD 2013

29. Interesting Quote “…[M]any of the countries with the strongest student performance also have the strongest teachers’ unions, beginning with Japan and Finland….Indeed, the higher a country is on the world’s education league tables, the more likely that country is working constructively with its unions and treating its teachers as trusted professional partners.” “Lessons from PISA for the United States” Page 240

30. Using Social Media - Over 231,084 YouTube views since Dec.3- Upworthy Facebook shares are over 151,382

31. President Weingarten “I can’t talk about the international comparisons without noting how the so-called reformers have distorted them: They use international comparisons to denigrate American schools. But they ignore their lessons. Worse, they pursue policies that are completely antithetical to the successful strategies used in high-achieving countries. It just doesn’t make sense.” - AFT President Randi Weingarten, 2011