How do teachers become members of a TPP in order to work at the schools?
In all TPPs, teachers are interviewed and selected by their colleagues. In some TPPs, the members get the input of students at the time a candidate is interviewed, and find this valuable. In Minnesota, teachers are formally elected-to-membership by the members of the TPPs. These TPPs do not use a tenure system. Teacher-members sign at-will contracts to cover a specified period of time. In Milwaukee TPPs there are memorandums of understanding to work out the technicalities of selection. MPS can technically hire and fire since the teachers are employees of the district, but both the district and the union local have recognized the importance of teachers selecting and (if necessary) deselecting their colleagues in schools managed by TPPs. Without the ability to choose their colleagues, the teachers are not as able to maintain the different, and collegial, culture that results when teachers work in a cooperative arrangement.
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