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February 4, 2019 Reiche Community School team pictured at our summer Maine TURN meeting. Northeast TURN sponsored two events this past summer facilitated by Ann Cummings-Bogan of Consortium for Educational Change. The first brought together union and teacher leaders, central and building level administrators to learn together about collaborative structures, systems and procedures aimed at shared leadership to...  READ MORE

Northeast TURN

August 16, 2018 Dr. Ron Ferguson addresses excellence through equity NE TURN met on March 23-24 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Burlington, MA. Many thanks to Paul and Dennis Toner for their help in securing this wonderful facility for our NE TURN conferences! The opening session on “Excellence Through Equity” by Dr.  READ MORE

Expanding Partnerships to Address SEL

January 22, 2018 NE TURN’s spring 2018 conference kicked off a series of smaller trainings in response to the needs of participating teams. The first offering titled “Labor/Management Learning Teams,”was held August 16, 2017 and 60 building administrators and teacher leaders from Saco, SAD 55 and Portland, Maine districts attended.  READ MORE

Useful Documents Expanding on Discussions from NE TURN

October 6, 2014 Three recent articles from Harvard, which speak to the promise of improvement networks to foster innovation (links to the right). NRC publications on 21st century skills (Education for Life and Work) from three sources: meyda.education.gov.  READ MORE

Register now for Oct 2-3 2014 Northeast TURN Conference in Cambridge, MA

September 10, 2014 Click here to Register Leading Our Profession: Union-Led Collaborative Approaches toward Implementing & Sustaining Education Reform Our next Northeast TURN Conference is set for October 2-3, 2014 in Cambridge, MA. We are excited to be able to provide this opportunity to bring together collaborative teams of union and management from across the NE region states.  READ MORE

Northeast TURN Spring 2014: Implementing the CCSS & Teacher Evaluations through Collaborative Partnerships

March 1, 2014 Friday, March 21, 2014 (10 am - 5 pm) Saturday, March 22, 2014 (8:30 am - 12:30 pm) Featured Topics The Power of Collaborative Partnerships to Implement the Common Core and Teacher Evaluations CCSS Promising Practices for Practitioners and Leaders Assessments and the Common Core Labor-Management Collaborative Structures & Processes focused on improving Teaching & Learning Regional...  READ MORE

Why do people participate in Northeast TURN conferences?

February 17, 2014 http://youtu.be/ngI60P2qs1o See/hear what Caroline Foster, 6th-7th grade social studies & PEA Rep, Portland Public Schools has to say about NE TURN.  READ MORE

Northeast TURN Fall 2013 Conference: Integrating & Implementing the CCSS

November 3, 2013 Cambridge, MA (Sept 27-28, 2013) ~ Teams representing union & teacher leaders, school and district administration, school board members and state leaders - a total of 80 participants - met at the Microsoft Corporation Cambridge Center, in Cambridge MA, to continue the work of building a culture of collaboration focused on teaching and learning. Dr. Patrick Dolan and Dr.  READ MORE

Northeast TURN Follow-Up Forum April 1-May 3, 2013

April 1, 2013 During the month of April, 2013, Northeast TURN sponsored an online "Follow-Up Forum" on the topic: "Gearing Up for the Common Core." Five video clips were used as discussion starters. The clips were taken from a keynote presentation by the same name, presented by Sandra Alberti, Student Achievement Partners, at the March 1-2, 2013, meeting of NE TURN.  READ MORE

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