Finally, and most important, the district has designed and began implementing a robust professional learning plan to support teacher and school leader growth as they transform their classrooms and schools to meet the needs of the learners.
The project also found that using multiple measures to understand a teacher's performance -- including classroom observations, student surveys and growth in student achievement -- provides a richer and more reliable picture of a teacher's strengths and areas for improvement than any one measure alone.
Their talks centred on the importance of education and culture for economic growth, and touched also on culture and development, poverty eradication, teacher training, girls education, and education for all.