The US Department of Education aims to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness. It focuses on fostering educational excellence and equal access. The department's priorities include ensuring students are college and career ready, supporting great teachers and leaders, meeting diverse student needs, providing a complete education, and fostering innovation. The RESPECT project seeks to elevate teaching as a respected profession through recognizing educational success, promoting professional excellence, and encouraging collaborative teaching.

1. US Department of Education
Office of Adult and Vocation Education
Career and Technical Education Overview
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March 4, 2013

2. Department of Education
Mission Statement
ED's mission is to promote
student achievement and
preparation for global
competitiveness by
fostering educational
excellence and ensuring
equal access

5. The federal role should be to invest in
innovation and build capacity to drive reform.
Best ideas Use federal dollars to spur &
New
from the state support reform and create
Federal Role and local level. conditions for success.
Standards Teachers & Leaders
Conditions for
Success Data School Turnaround
Comprehensive plans Collaboration at
Theory of for change. all levels.
Change
Shared responsibility for student results.

6. Fairer, Flexibility, and
More Focused Accountability

7. •American Jobs Act Proposal
•Waivers from No Child Left Behind
•http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/esea-flexibility/index.html
•http://www.ed.gov/esea/flexibility/requests
•Race To The Top I, II, III, IV
•http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/states-continue-progress-
during-second-year-race-top
•http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html
•Early Learning Challenge Grants
•Investing in Innovation - i3
•http://www2.ed.gov/programs/innovation/index.html
•http://www.ed.gov/open/plan/investing-innovation-i3
•RESPECT Project
•http://www.ed.gov/teaching/national-conversation
•http://www2.ed.gov/documents/labor-management-
collaboration/vision-statement.pdf

12. “Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a
path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on
graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a
technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that
they're ready for a job. At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a
collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University
of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school
diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.
We need to give every American student opportunities like this.
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Four years ago, we started Race to the Top – a competition that
convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and
higher standards, for about 1 percent of what we spend on
education each year. Tonight, I'm announcing a new challenge to
redesign America's high schools so they better equip graduates for
the demands of a high-tech economy. We'll reward schools that
develop new partnerships with colleges and employers, and create
classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math –
the skills today's employers are looking for to fill jobs right now and
in the future.”
-President Obama,
State of the Union Address, February 12, 2013

13. ED’s Cradle to Career Agenda

14. •College- and Career-Ready Students
•Great Teachers and Great Leaders
•Meeting the Needs of English
Learners and Other Diverse Learners
•A Complete Education
•Successful, Safe, and Healthy
Students
•Fostering Innovation and Excellence
•Additional Cross-Cutting Priorities

16. United States Department of
Education, RESPECT Project
“Our goal is to work with
educators in rebuilding their
profession—and to elevate
the teacher voice in shaping
federal, state and local
education policy…Our larger
goal is to make teaching not
only America’s most
important profession—but
America’s most respected
profession.”

17. Why RESPECT?
R Recognizing
E Educational
S Success
P Professional
E Excellence
C Collaborative
T Teaching

18. What Does It All Mean?
• Educational Success recognizes our commitment to
improving student outcomes
• Professional Excellence means that we will
continuously sharpen our practice, and that we will
recognize, reward, and learn from great teachers and
school leaders.
• Collaborative Teaching means that we will concentrate
on shared responsibility and decision-making.
Successful collaboration means creating schools where
principals and teachers work and learn together in
communities of practice, hold each other accountable,
and lift each other to new levels of skill and
competence.

19. 7 Critical Areas
1.A Reorganized Classroom
2.A New School Day and School Year
3.An Environment of Shared Responsibility
among Teachers and Principals
4.Entering the Profession
5.Career Pathways and Professional
Advancement
6.Teacher Evaluation and Development
7.Community/Family Engagement

20. Labor Management Collaboration
Multi-stakeholder groups gathers in Cincinnati in May of 2012 and agreed upon
the document “Transforming the Profession“ which contains the same 7 critical
areas of necessary improvement as the RESPECT document.
American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, Council of the Great City
Schools, Council of Chief State School Officers, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Education
Association, and National School Boards Association

21. QUESTIONS?
COMMENTS?
Aaron Bredenkamp
Teaching Ambassador Fellow
Aaron.Bredenkamp@ed.gov

22. If Arne Duncan was here…
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What would you want to tell him?