Open AccessProfessional Accountability for Improving Life, College, and Career Readiness
Author(s) -
Jon R. Snyder,
Travis J. Bristol
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.727
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v23.2002
Subject(s) - accountability , professional development , conceptual framework , public relations , pedagogy , narrative , sociology , political science , public administration , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , social science , law
This article builds on Darling-Hammond, Wilhoit, and Pittenger’s (2014) new paradigm on Accountability for College and Career Readiness by focusing on one of its three pillars—professional accountability. The article begins by offering a conceptual framework for professional accountability for improvement. Next, it highlights slices of four organizations whose improvements efforts serve as a model for professional accountability. Then the article provides an overview of what a complete system of professional accountability would require. The article ends with a narrative of a teacher’s career in an imagined future where school, district, state, and federal contexts are designed and provide resources for a cohesive constellation of policies, programs, and practices that increase learning for children, adults and the entire system.