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NELA: Rick Hess on cage busting teachers

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NELA is North Carolina State University's Northeast Leadership Academy. The director is Dr. Bonnie Fusarelli. The goal of the NELA is to increase student achievement by preparing and retaining principals and assistant principals to serve as instructional leaders in rural high-poverty, hard-to-staff, historically low-performing schools. In May, NELA held an event bringing together educators, legislators, and policy experts to think about how to empower teachers and maximize teacher leadership.

Part of our goal at EdNC is to bring great events like this one to a larger audience.

A conversation with Rick Hess on his book, Cage Busting Teachers

“How do we let teachers create the schools and systems where they can do the best work?”

“It’s ok to rethink how we go about schooling.” 

– Rick Hess

Rick Hess is the American Enterprise Institute’s director of education policy studies. Hess serves as executive editor of Education Next. 

The facilitators are Mark Jewell, Vice President, NC Association of Educators, and Maria Topliff, NC Virtual Schools Teacher of the Year.

 

Intro

Tuesday: Teachers leading change

Wednesday: Rick Hess, Cage Busting Teachers

Thursday: Bryan Hassel, Opportunity Culture

 

 

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About the author

Alex Granados is Senior Reporter for EducationNC. He grew up in Raleigh where he attended Jeffreys Grove Elementary School, Leesville Road Middle School and Cardinal Gibbons Catholic High School. Alex attended Wake Technical Community College before transferring to and graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism in 2005.… Read full bio »
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