HISTORY
2010: “Coalition 1.0”
Founded in 2010, the coalition originally focused exclusively on collective bargaining between the district and the teachers union, identifying teacher contract reform as a singular point of leverage within SPS to positively impact student outcomes. A case study analyzed the original effort. Both the Superintendent and union Executive Director credited OSC with a major impact on the final agreement, which for the first time connected student achievement to teacher effectiveness; replaced the binary “satisfactory/unsatisfactory” rating system with a 4-tier performance scale informed by data; and created new career and compensation pathways for teachers, among other changes...
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