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Presentation Agenda

• What is TURN?
• TURN Mission Statement
• Members, Supporters
• Current Activities Work in Progress
• How will TURN Make a Difference?
• Quotes and Provocations

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What is TURN?
A union-led effort to restructure the nations
teachers unions to promote reforms that will lead
to better learning and higher achievement for
Americas children.
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What is TURNs Primary Goal?
To create new union models that can take the lead
in building and sustaining good schools for all
students.
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Mission Statement
Teacher Unions must provide leadership for the
collective voice of their members. Teacher
Unions have a responsibility to students, their
families, and to the broader society. Teacher
Unions are committed to public education as a
vital element of our democracy. What unites
these responsibilities is our commitment to help
all children learn. We affirm the union's
responsibility to collaborate with other
stakeholders in public education and to seek
consistently higher levels of student
achievement by
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• Improving continuously the quality of teaching
• Promoting in public education and in the union
  democratic dynamics, fairness, and due process
  for all
• Seeking to expand the scope of collective
  bargaining to include instructional and
  professional issues
• Improving on an ongoing basis the terms and
  conditions under which both adults and children
  work and learn

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Member Locals

• New York, NY (AFT)
• Pinellas County, FL (NEA)
• Pittsburgh, PA (AFT)
• Poway, CA (AFT)
• Rochester, NY (AFT)
• San Diego, CA (NEA)
• San Francisco, CA (AFT /NEA)
• San Juan, CA(NEA)
• Seattle, WA (NEA)
• Syracuse, NY (AFT)
• Toledo, OH (AFT)
• Westerly, RI (NEA)

• Albuquerque, NM (AFT)
• Bellevue, WA (NEA)
• Boston, MA (AFT)
• Cincinnati, OH (AFT)
• Columbus, OH (NEA)
• Dade County, FL (AFT)
• Denver, CO (NEA)
• Hammond, IN (AFT)
• Los Angeles, CA (NEA/AFT)
• Memphis, TN (NEA)
• Minneapolis, MN (AFT)
• Montgomery Co., MD (NEA)

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Supporters

• National Commission on Teaching Americas
  Future
• National Education Association (NEA)
• NE I Regional Educational Lab _at_ Brown
  University
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• U.S. Department of Education, OERI

• American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
• Consortium for Policy Research in Education
• Graduate School of Education Information
  Studies, UCLA
• Mac Arthur Foundation

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Current Activities

• Three meetings per year (Fall, Winter, Spring)
• Developing Local Action Plans
• - actively work on education reform
• - include information on how efforts impact
  student achievement
• - include collaborating partnerships
• - include communication plan, i.e. member
  engagement
• public engagement
• - indicate how union is changing to assume new
  agenda on education reform

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Initial Work Groups

• Strengthening Teacher Preparation, Induction
  Retention - TURN Liaisons Merri Mann and John
  Grossman NCTAF Liaison Fred Frelow

Group works on identifying and disseminating
information on

• models and best practices in teacher recruitment
  and mentor programs,
• career ladders, and
• teacher retention.

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Initial Work Groups
Rethinking Teacher Assessment Compensation-
TURN Liaisons Roger Erskine and Louise Sundin
CPRE Liaison Allan Odden
Group works on finding ways to amend teacher
compensation systems to include

• school wide incentives, and
• pay for knowledge, skills, and service.

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Initial Work Groups
Professional Development the Unions Role- TURN
Liaisons Maureen Logan and David Sherman NEI
Lab Liaison Charlene Heintz
Group works on identifying and disseminating
information on model practices in professional
development that is

• job embedded,
• teacher driven, and
• union owned.

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Current Work Groups
Teaching Quality Instructional Issues- TURN
Liaisons Susan Goodwin Don Raczka NCTAF
Liaison Fred Frelow CPRE Liaison Allen Odden
Union Change Local Capacity Building- TURN
Liaisons Bruce Dickinson Mark Simon OERI
Grant Liaison Julia Koppich
Engagement of Members and the Public- TURN
Liaisons Francine Lawrence Tom Alves
MacArthur Grant Liaison Monica Solomon UCLA
Liaison Wellford Wilms
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Current Activities

• Data and information gathering
• - basic information on participant locals and
  districts
• - contract analysis
• - history of reform activities
• - information on status of current reforms
• - strengths and weaknesses

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Current Activities

• The TURN exChange http//www.turnexchange.net

• A distributed electronic network intended to
  enhance communication and collaboration among
  local teacher unions and other reform partners.
• A principal way for TURN members to continue the
  communication the work between the meetings.

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Current Activities
The TURN exChange network fosters

• Communication among TURN local leaders.
• Communication between TURN local leaders and
  members.
• Communication between TURN local leaders and
  other reform partners.

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Current Activities

• State Satellites (established in California and
  Florida, Minnesota, Ohio/Indiana, and Rhode
  Island and an international electronic satellite
  in cooperation with Education International)
• Virtual Satellites- networks of teachers
  discussing education reform, e.g.
  http//teachers.net/

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Quotes Provocations
The question is, how do you maintain traditional
union values while behaving in a different way in
a different world? Helen Bernstein
There is no reason to expect that reforming
teacher unions would prove any less difficult
than reforming schools. And, if we are to
succeed in reforming teacher unions, it is more
likely to happen from within than from without.
Adam Urbanski
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Quotes Provocations
There is no reason why we cant use the
collective bargaining process to build a more
genuine profession for teachers. Dal Lawrence
It is as much the responsibility of teacher
unions to preserve public education as it is to
negotiate good contracts. Al Shanker