Through all the politics swirling around public education, Boston's teachers and paraprofessionals keep their eyes on the prize: providing a quality education to Boston's students. Keeping our students engaged in learning requires more than teaching to the test.

In the pages below we focus on what's working in our schools:

• The BTU and its members are regularly recognized for their accomplishments. See a sampling of some of those awards and acknowledgments

• "We're Learning Here" provides a close up of classroom teachers at work and the students they work with every day

• The Peer Assistance and Review program has received kudos for making teacher-to-teacher mentoring work for new teachers as well as struggling veteran teachers

• In 2009, one of the first teacher-run schools was opened as a Boston pilot school — the BTU School. Find out what makes it tick.