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Tosha Caston-Smith

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Spain Park High School

 

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TOY How to improve teacher training .    Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   A great Freakonomics podcast on teacher quality edreform.blogspot.com - A great Freakonomics podcast on teacher quality, featuring interviews with Joel Klein, David Levin, author Dana Goldstein, and Harvard economist John Friedman:LEVIN: And as a society, you know, we have to start thinking, yes we have to start paying teachers more and recognizing that there will be professions that pay more. What else can we do to make teaching as respected a profession as possible? I mean, and you know, one of my favorite ideas is for teachers who continue to teach past their fifth year that we consider some type of tax break and tax incentive for them including the possibility that they don't pay income tax, recognizing that we won't always be able to pay teachers more. But there ways that we can say to teachers, 'Hey, you are a national treasure, you are essential to the future of the country.' And I think if we got serious about that it could really make a huge difference. Even little things — I know it sounds little but we have armed forces you know, board airplanes first, why not have armed forces and teachers board airplanes first? You know, I just think there are lots of ways we could think about valuing the teaching profession more.   Available on the App Store.

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