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 \nResearch shows that when teachers are engaged in school decisions andcollaborate with administrators and each other,school climate improves.This promotes a better learning environment for students,which raisesstudent achievement,and a better working environment for teachers,which reduces teacher turnover.  \nStronger School Climate.Research finds a high level of teacher voice haspositive effects on school climate.Richard Ingersoll,an expert onteacher workplace issues,describes teachers as people\"in the middle,\"\"caught between the contradictory demands and needs of their super-ordinates—principals—and their subordinates—students.\"1Whenteachers have the right amount of control,Ingersoll argues,they areable to do their job successfully,earning respect from principals,coworkers,and students.  \nPrint  \nLooking at data from the Department of Education's National Center forEducation Statistics Schools and Staffing Survey,Ingersoll found that asteacher control in\"social decisions\"(such as student discipline andteacher professional development policies)increases,the amount ofconflict between students and staff,among teachers,and betweenteachers and the principal all decrease.²As he summarized in a laterarticle,\"Schools in which teachers have more control over keyschoolwide and classroom decisions have fewer problems with studentmisbehavior,show more collegiality and cooperation among teachers  \n\n| Search   |\n| --- |\n\nStay Connected  \nEmail Address  \nRELATED  \nRestoring Shanker's Vision for CharterSchools  \nBy Richard D.Kahlenberg and Halley Potter  \nHTML  \n(//www.aft.org/ae/winter2014-2015/kahlenberg potter)|PDF(//www.aft.org/sites/default/files/kahlenberg  \nand administrators,have a more committed and engaged teaching staff,and do a better job of retaining their teachers.\"3  \nIncreased Student Achievement.Not surprisingly,evidence suggests thathaving a strong teacher culture also improves student performance.Valerie Lee and Julia Smith measured the effects of teachers'workconditions and school climate on student achievement usinglongitudinal data tracking individual student learning gains from eighthto tenth grade.⁴They found that,after controlling for student andschool characteristics,student achievement is higher across all subjectswhen teachers take collective responsibility for student learning andwhen the staff is more cooperative.The study also showed that schoolswith high levels of collective responsibility and staff cooperation hadmore equitable distributions of student gains across socioeconomicstatus(SES)—lower-SES students in these schools tended to have gainson par with the gains of higher-SES students.Promoting collectiveresponsibility and cooperation among teachers,then,may improvestudent outcomes and reduce achievement gaps.  \nResearch on effective school organization also finds that collaboration,which is one manifestation of teacher voice,is an important componentof school quality.One prominent recent example is the impressive 15-year longitudinal study produced by the Consortium on Chicago SchoolResearch.This study of hundreds of elementary schools in Chicago foundthat one of the organizational features that distinguished schoolsshowing academic improvement from struggling schools was intensestaff collaboration coupled with strong professional development.Furthermore,researchers found that building strong relational trustamong teachers and administrators was crucial to school improvement.5Greg Anrig recently synthesized research on collaboration and schoolorganization in his book Beyond the Education Wars.He found that\"one of the most important ingredients in successful schools is theinverse of conflict:intensive collaboration among administrators andteachers,built on a shared sense of mission and focused on improvedstudent learning.\"6  \nReduced Teacher Turnover.School","cbCaiuTX0KQtGT9k","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuTX0KQtGT9k","pdf",1118100,"English","# Why Teacher Voice 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