Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, or BESE, unanimously approved new policies based on State Superintendent of Education Dr. Cade Brumley’s Let Teachers Teach workgroup. Brumley says the new policies free teachers from what he calls “onerous bureaucracy,” adding, “it will allow them to further demonstrate the art of teaching, and it’ll really crack down on disruptions that are preventing them from teaching and other students from learning.”
The policies focus on expanding teacher autonomy and creating a disruption-free classroom — in short, Brumley says, letting teachers teach without crushing oversight from the school or Department of Education. One of the approved policies Brumley highlights is reducing the number of non-academic trainings teachers have to repeat every year.
“Once they demonstrate their proficiency on that and complete that training,” Brumley says, “they’re good to go.”
Other approved policies include ensuring misbehaving students are removed from a classroom immediately if a teacher requests it, giving effective teachers more freedom to plan lessons, and removing student suspension rates as a metric to identify schools needing intervention.
Brumley says enforcing these policies will be a collaborative effort between state and local educators, “and so school system leaders and principals have to do a good job of making sure that campuses and classrooms are peaceful, they’re orderly, so that teachers can simply teach and students can simply learn.”
The policies will take effect before the end of this school year.
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