Equitable Distribution of Highly Qualified Staff: Challenges and Solutions
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 (10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Eastern)

Description: This is the first of two Webinars for the Tennessee Department of Education sponsored by the Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center (ARCC) and featuring staff from the National Comprehensive Center on Teacher Quality (NCCTQ). (Participants who register for this event will automatically be registered for the second event scheduled for April 10 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. You do not need to re-register. You are not obligated to participate in the second event.)

Speaker Presentations

The speaker presentations are PowerPoint files. Some files are large and may take some time to download. File size is indicated in parentheses.

Presenters' bios (Word document 3.3 Mb)

Equitable Distribution of Highly Qualified Staff: Challenges and Solutions (352 kb)
Dr. Steven Moats, Tennessee State Liaison, Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center

Tennessee's Equity Plan (1.2 Mb)
Dr. Julie McCarger, Executive Director of Federal Programs, Tennessee Department of Education
Cory Curl, Director of Policy and Planning, Tennessee Department of Education

State Strategies for Equitable Teacher Distribution (440 kb)
Tricia Coulter, Director, Teaching Quality and Leadership Institute, Education Commission of the States, and Principal Investigator for Research and Dissemination, NCCTQ

The Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Documenting Improvement (2.4 Mb)
Dr. Laura Goe, Associate Research Scientist, Educational Testing Service, and Senior Researcher, NCCTQ

 

Additional Resources from Dr. Laura Goe, NCCTQ

Revising the Equitable Distribution Component in Your State’s Plan for Highly Qualified Teachers
www.ncctq.org/TeacherDistributionPlanningTool.pdf

This document focuses on showing improvement in the distribution of highly qualified and experienced teachers. The document includes

Revising State Highly Qualified Teacher Plans: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions
www.ncctq.org/webcasts/hqtPlans/hqtFAQ.pdf

Created by the U.S. Department of Education to answer questions about the highly qualified teacher plans, this document contains useful information about the equitable distribution component.

Planning Tool to Provide Evidence of Progress Toward Equitable Teacher Distribution
www.ncctq.org/TeacherDistributionPlanningTool2.pdf

This discussion of Qualifications Matched to Context (QMC) is part of a tool designed to help states write their equitable distribution plans. The document provides qualifications and characteristics teachers have that may make them highly suited for teaching in specific contexts, such as the ability to speak a second language, special training to work in urban settings, or course work preparing general education teachers to work collaboratively with special education teachers.

Data Transformation Services (DTS) in SQL Server 2000
www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/deploy/dtssql2k.mspx

Data Transformation Services (DTS) is used by some states (e.g., Delaware) to enable data from different sources to be consolidated into a data warehouse. DTS is a set of tools you can use to import, export, and transform heterogeneous data between one or more data sources.

Introduction to Relational Databases from Database Journal
www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/1469521

This introduction to relational databases by Ian Gilfillan includes sections on the Relational Database Model, with illustrations and basic terms. Gilfillan writes, "the relational database model allows files to be related by means of a common field. In order to relate any two files, they simply need to have a common field, which makes the model extremely flexible."