Archive for 2009

Rethinking Teacher Compensation

On December 7, 2009, the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) teacher compensation policy at a discussion panel entitled, “Seniority? Test Scores? Student Outcomes?: Rethinking Teacher Compensation.“

Meet the MAT@USC Faculty: Melora Sundt

What is your name and what do you teach?
My name is Melora Sundt, and I teach the Framing Experience course in the MAT. I typically teach in the higher education program (not the MAT), but I enjoy teaching about writing, which is a focus of the Framing course, hence my connection to it. I chair the design team for …

A Conversation About Education

On November 11th, Dr. Karen Symms Gallagher, the Dean of USC’s Rossier School of Education, and Dr. Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, a USC Rossier Alumnae and President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, hosted “A Conversation About Education” in Washington D.C.

Sundt and Ephraim To Talk MAT at Stanford

Dr. Melora Sundt and Dr. Ronni Ephraim will be at Stanford University Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 presenting the MAT@USC at a Carnegie Foundation and the New Schools Venture Fund convening.

Leadership in Action

My experience thus far in the MAT@USC program in conjunction with my first year of teaching has been testing. Teachers are constantly tested and held accountable for their work with their students. Teacher accountability or what has come to be known as a “value added system” appears to be the direction that education will be/is heading, and my experience in …

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