NCTAF Hawaii Policy Group makes recommendations for attracting, keeping teachers in Hawaii

Get serious about licensing all teachers; Encourage teacher preparation institutions to seek NCATE accreditation; Establish a strong induction, mentoring, assessment and evaluation program. These are just three of the many recommendations by the Hawaii Policy Group of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future in their report about what can be done to improve Hawaii's schools.

Read the executive summary.
Read the entire report.

Standards for teachers, librarians and counselors

The HTSB has established teacher performance standards. The Board has also responded to school counselors and librarians' concern that the teacher standards do not adequately reflect their knowledge, skills, and dispositions by convening two work groups that have drafted two new sets of performance standards.

Read the standards