What are the seven "critical components" for transforming teaching that developed with the input of over 6,000 teachers nationwide and analyzed at the conference on "Collaborating to Transform the Teaching Profession" in 2012?

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What will be an ideal response?

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1. A Culture of Shared Responsibility and Leadership: Teachers and principals together make the primary decisions about educator selection, assignment, evaluation, dismissal, and career advancement.
2. Top Talent, Prepared for Success: Aspiring educators must [demonstrate] strong knowledge in the content they teach; have mastered a repertoire of instructional strategies and know when to use each appropriately.
3. Continuous Growth and Professional Development: Effective teachers and principals are career-long learners.
4. Effective Teachers and Principals: Effective educators have high standards of professional practice and demonstrate their ability to improve student learning.
5. A Professional Career Continuum with Competitive Compensation: Educators [need] career pathways that provide opportunities for increasingly responsible roles, whether they choose to stay in the classroom, become instructional leaders or move into administration. And these roles must be coupled with compensation that is high enough to attract and retain a highly skilled workforce.
6. Conditions for Successful Teaching and Learning: School and district climates and cultures, use of time, approaches to staffing, use of technology, deployment of support services, and engagement of families and communities are optimized to continuously improve outcomes for the students they serve.
7. Engaged Communities: No school can be a strong pillar of a thriving community without deep community responsibility for and ownership of the school's academic success.