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The new emphasis on examining teacher performance presents potential benefits—and big challenges.

What can nations learn from one another about attracting and retaining talented teachers?

On her journey to become a teacher, this educator found that five professional practices led her home.

A close-up look at the Teach For America teachers who are closing achievement gaps.

Meaningful conversations about practice must replace peremptory checklists.

A teacher education model focuses on high-leverage teaching practices that affect student learning.

Context counts, as this educator learns when her class does not behave as she expected.

Merit pay must be more than a gimmick if it is to improve the teaching profession.

Why bonuses tied to student test scores will produce measurement, morale, and motivation problems.

A principal at a small school finds a way to add depth to the evaluation process.

Interpreting events in progress is at the heart of inspired teaching.

Forty-six teachers tell what they learned about teaching from having faced difficulties as students.

Educators name the one characteristic of good teaching that they believe is essential.

Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov

Thumbs up for the strategies, but ambivalence about some of the assumptions.

Good teachers possess a few quantifiable attributes—and several intangible ones.

A strategy for honing expertise.

How to share news, celebrate victories, and answer questions about your school.

Everyone should aim to get better every year.

News and resources from ASCD.

Question contributed by Michelle Neely. Responses in print and online by 2010 ASCD Scholars Patsy Pouiller, Lori Mora, Joanne Eliuk, James Han, and Andre Potvin.

The teacher's rubrics and discussion guides as well as student questionnaires add to a well-rounded view of what happens in a classroom.

How to reframe supervision as collaborative inquiry.

Beginning teachers find support at Way of Council gatherings.

Leila Christenbury blogs on "Time to Leave the Comfort Zone."