Changes for the Future

• Collaboration & strategic partnerships
• Capitalizing on online opportunities keeping a balance with traditional discourse
• Recruiting/retaining a culturally competent teaching force
• Quality through collaboration in professional learning communities
• Pre-K through adult
• Re-establish a common purpose for education
• Expanding learning platforms
• Impacts of economic disparity
• International partners
• Teacher is the core for change
• Need for policy and leadership initiatives: Teachers as leaders
• Conceptualize & discuss the achievement gap differently
• Local teaching for global awareness
• Unleashing human potential
• Partner w/ state & national legislators
• Focus on needs of individuals