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their ability to conform and re-approach their style of teaching w/ the home situation of the majority of the students. for example, if an ivy league grad teacher goes to brownsville to teach, he or she will have to throw alot out the window and make it work on a different level.

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Teacher should do a live classroom audition, as they do in top private school. Solicit student feedback on the audition -- do not rely solely on admins.

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Retaining great teachers depends in large measure their feeling of participation in curriculum and method; their ability to share with their colleagues; an outlet for creativity.

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Allow and support a teacher's ability to maintain discipline in the classroom!!!

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Ongoing support, professional development, and mentoring are all significant factors in retaining teachers!

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first of all the, students must be held accountable and t hey are not- since the emphasis is on teacher measure and punish, teachers pass everyone because they know their job depends on it- and the students know this so they do next to nothing- i know because i taught for 40 years in high school- and i saw the bloomberg administration destroy real learning because of the desire to maintain the numbers to keep schools open!!!Teacher recruitment is affected by this ridiculous situation. Who wants to do the job now? answer- The desperate for only those who relish abuse would take this job now!!!

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Support, supervision and freedom of ideas on how to teach.

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How about the material teachers have to deal with?
When parents are involved, students do better. So to me it would seem the most effective and important area to apply major efforts, as their are no qualifications for parents and students.

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Ask the great teachers to develop curricula for training new teachers. Ask the teachers who are paused to become "great teachers" what they need in the form of support in order to remain in the classroom and grow as an effective educator.

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First of all, define QUALITY when it comes to teaching! It is undefined here. Second, what has to be doubled is teacher's AUTHORITY, and their ability to deal with disruptive students as was the case when I went to high school in the EARLY 1960s before teachers were stippped of all right to discipline students. Double teachers' authority not salary or class size.

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Keeping classes SMALL. THEN, teacher performance can perhaps be more adequately measured. It only takes one unruly student to disrupt a class - disruption becomes EASIER with larger classes, not to mention disrupting of more students. You don't need to be an education expert to know this.

NOT TO MENTION that this theory flies in the face of the charter school "movement".

Just what is Hizzoner thinking?????

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Respect for the profession! They have the most important job in our society -- educating the future citizens of the world.

(I'm a parent, not an educator)

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Create a system where you don't have to "teach to the middle."

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Look for intelligence, creativity, passion and determination when recruiting. Beyond test scores, we need teachers who inspire and nurture confidence in students. Years ago, I taught in such a school, and the students still appreciate the unmeasurable,but critical,component. You know it when you see it. Mentoring new teachers, by master teachers, would also provide the support needed. START AN INITIATIVE SIMILAR TO THE PEACE CORPS - where the society respects the profession.