In 2000, when Tamir was serving as tourism minister, Shiran worked as a Jewish studies teacher at the Moriah national religious school in Haifa.

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Will Mellor, aged 27, believes members of the armed forces like him can bring a unique set of skills to the classroom and hopes to become a teacher after six years in the Royal Marines, serving in Sierra Leone and in Afghanistan.

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Salman Khan (the educator, not the Bollywood actor) is changing the very foundation of how eduction is delivered between a teacher and student, from his small desk in his home, without a PhD or years serving in academia.

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Ten years after I founded New Teacher Center (NTC), it was still part of the UCSC, an institution focused on serving the local student body and, at most, the state of California.

FORBES: To Transform the U.S. Education System, Focus on Teacher Effectiveness

Jessica Gogerty is a National Board Certified teacher, a Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and a school improvement leader now serving at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa.

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The coaches assigned to Walton Middle School were John Hobson, a bushy-bearded high-school history teacher who was just thirty-three years old when he started but had been a successful baseball and tennis coach, and Diane Harding, a teacher who had two decades of experience but had spent the previous seven years out of the classroom, serving as a technology specialist.

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