Tom Torlakson’s blueprint

08-10-2011

Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

Create a Commission on Educator Excellence to jump-start policies on teacher and principal development; increase the adoption of digital materials; incorporate phys ed into a school’s API score. These are among dozens of recommendations in Superintendent Tom Torlakson’s “Blueprint for Great Schools,” a 25-page report released on Tuesday. Seven months in the making, it’s the product of his massive transition team, 59 advisers consisting of parents, business leaders, teachers, academicians, and school administrators. Sweeping in its scope, the report makes a number of reasonable suggestions without hard edges – a reflection of Torlakson’s consensus style, temperament, and interests: teacher training, career-technical education, and early childhood education. In California’s fractured division of K-12 responsibilities, Torlakson doesn’t set policy; the State Board does. (more...)

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