 
The Center for the Future of Teaching
and Learning is a public, not-for-profit organization dedicated
to strengthening teacher development policy and practice.
Our Web site features recent information on teacher development
including research, state and national policy and legislative
initiatives, and models for effective practice. We invite
policy-makers, parents and teachers, researchers and journalists,
and education and philanthropic organizations to use the resources
of this site and join us in helping to ensure that every child
learns from a fully qualified and effective teacher.
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“Whereas, the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, for over a decade, has been steadfast in the pursuit of its mission to ensure that every student in California’s elementary and secondary schools has a well prepared, effective, and caring teacher…The clear, impartial advice provided on effective approaches to strengthening the state’s teaching profession will always be of benefit to California’s education leaders…”
-California Senate Resolution No. 1242, August 15, 2006 |
Message from the President
New Resource Lets You See for Yourself
The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning has provided a range of data on the California’s teacher workforce in its annual reports for over a decade. In doing so, our goal has been to bring information from numerous and disparate data sources together into one place to inform decision-making as part of our mission to ensure that every child has a fully prepared and effective teacher. We are pleased to note that the impact of these reports is reflected in a number of policies enacted by the Legislature over the years that are aimed at strengthening teaching.
Now we are pleased to announce that data sets used in our latest annual report, The Status of the Teaching Profession 2009, are publicly available on this Web site. Complete with charts plus additional data points not found in the original report, this new Web-based resource is one-of-a-kind. We are especially thrilled to offer the ability for visitors to search for some of these data at the county level, allowing a unique glimpse into the dynamics affecting the state’s regional teacher labor force.
Examples of what visitors to this new resource may find include how many underprepared and out-of-field math teachers there are in Santa Clara county, what percentage of teachers in Ventura county have more than 20 years of experience and how intern teachers are distributed in Los Angeles county.
We hope that you find this new information source useful in your own work. We would appreciate receiving feedback on what you find interesting and how you plan to use it so that we can continue to improve this site. You can access our new data resource here: www.cftl.org/data
Margaret Gaston
President & Executive Director
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