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"Overview: The 3 R's TEP is designed and structured around the belief that teachers are the key personnel in achieving educational success for its students. In singling out teacher quality as the essential lever in educational reform-as opposed to other reforms such as class size reduction or pre-packaged curricular models-TEP builds on an extensive body of research that shows that "teacher quality is the most important educational input predicting student achievement." [i] The effects of highly-effective teachers are profound for students at all ability levels, but they are particularly striking for low-achieving students. Studies demonstrate that, when learning from the most effective teachers, high achieving students improve by 25 percentile points (as compared to a 2 point gain with the least effective teachers), while low achieving students improve by more than 50 percentile points (as compared to a 14 point gain with the least effective teachers). [ii]"

"Detroit Public Schools is set to open its first school without a principal -- teachers will be running the day-to-day operations and making all pertinent decisions. They won't have to wait for the central office's OK to purchase needed items or increase their emphasis on fractions or writing, for instance. "

"What a great week it's been, and today was the icing on the cake. This year, I've been facilitating the first phase of a high school business department curriculum redesign. I am blown away by how hard these teachers have worked and by how willing they are to move far outside of their comfort zone. Together, we've created three distinct endorsements that high school graduates may work toward as they complete a pathway through the business department and onward into the world of work or higher education: * Entrepreneurial Leadership * Organizational Leadership and Human Resource Development * Information Technology Leadership"

Superficially, the Brooklyn Generation School, here in the Flatbush area, looks a lot like the other six small public high schools that share space in this tall building, the former South Shore High School. What's noticeably different about it, though, is the strength of the relationships among staff members and students.