About the KSPT project

The following information about the KSPT project is from the Teachers 21 website, which you can access here.

The WGEE-ESE Partnership
on the

Knowledge and Skills of Professional Teaching

A Joint Project of the Working Group for Educator Excellence (WGEE) and the Department of Elementary/Secondary Education (ESE)

In October 2008, the Working Group for Educator Excellence (WGEE) met with Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester to discuss ways to pursue our shared and continued commitment to comprehensive support for educator professionalism in difficult financial times.  The outcome was an agreement to pursue a joint project between the Department and the Working Group to define the knowledge and skills of professional teaching practice in a deep and detailed way, a project that would enable clearer communication and coordinated programs and practices (such as preparation, licensure, professional development, etc.) in the “Knowledge and Skills of Professional Teaching Project” was born.

The WGEE-ESE partnership project will create a detailed and specific inventory of the great range of knowledge and skills that might be a part of the teacher’s repertoire.  Established as a dynamic tool, this ever-expanding resource will be organized by essential domains around which there is professional consensus.  These domains include academic content and content-specific pedagogy in each of the major disciplines, generic pedagogy including the use of technology, teaching all students, family and community involvement, and professional culture.  This map of professional knowledge is an absolute requirement for guiding policy and giving support and pressure to colleges and other teacher prep programs, and to school districts in their conduct of induction, teacher evaluation, and professional development.

Representing WGEE/Teachers21

Susan Freedman	WGEE Co-Chair President, Teachers21
Jon Saphier	WGEE Co-Chair Chairman Emeritus, Teachers21
Jill Harrison Berg	WGEE Member Director of Research and Development, Teachers21
Mary Ann McKinnon	WGEE Member Assistant Dean, Education, Bridgewater State College
Irwin Blumer	WGEE Member Professor, Educational Administration and Higher Education, Boston College

Representing ESE/EPAC

David Haselkorn	Associate Commissioner, Educator Quality Unit, ESE
Brian Devine	Director of Educator Licensure & Proprietary Schools, ESE
Elizabeth Losee	Acting Director of Educator Preparation and Quality, ESE
Linda Davis-Delano	Director of Educator Preparation & Licensure, Springfield College EPAC Member
Phillip Veysey	Director, Educational Policy and Programs, AFT-MA EPAC Member