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Key Issue: Evaluating School Principals
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) has released a new Center Tips & Tools Key Issue describing available strategies and resources for evaluating school principals.
Effectively Linking Teachers and Students: The Key to Improving Teacher Quality
This policy brief from the Data Quality Campaign outlines some of the critical challenges facing states and districts as they develop and implement policies based on the teacher/student data link and provides guidance on the emerging best practices for effective implementation.
Model Core Teaching Standards: A Resource for State Dialogue
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) has recently released new draft standards comprising a set of principles of effective teaching. The new standards are revised from the 1992 model standards in response to new visions for teaching. This document is being distributed as a draft for public comment.
Challenges in Evaluating Special Education Teachers and English Language Learner Specialists
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) has released a policy brief describing the results of their survey of more than 1,100 state and local directors of special education and interviews with numerous specialists throughout the nation. The purpose of the survey was to identify the specific challenges in evaluating special education teachers and English language learner specialists, to determine the current status of state and district policy and practice, and to identify promising evaluation practices and instruments.
Using Competency-based Evaluation to Drive Teacher Excellence: Lessons from Singapore
Public Impact recently released a paper describing the use of performance-linked "competencies" to measure, reward, and develop teacher performance. The paper presents a brief background on the state of teacher evaluation in the United States, the case for what can be learned from Singapore, and key facts about Singapore's competency-based teacher evaluation system.
How Should States Define Teacher Effectiveness?
As evidence continues to pile up about the central importance of effective teaching, states nationwide are rethinking how they define and measure the effects individual teachers have on educational outcomes.
What Did You Do in School Today? Teaching Effectiveness: A Framework and Rubric
Preparing teachers for the 21st century requires a close look at what it means to teach and learn in increasingly networked, technology-rich, digital classrooms. Schools and teachers need to thoughtfully and intentionally design learning environments and tasks in which teachers can explore issues that are relevant and develop pedagogies that are effective for a knowledge era. They need to develop new images and acquire new expertise to design and facilitate meaningful learning with technology.
Measuring and Improving the Effectiveness of High School Teachers
The Alliance for Excellent Education has released a brief that defines teacher effectiveness at the high school level, explores different ways of measuring teacher effectiveness, and discusses how to use these measures to improve teaching and learning. The pro and cons of valued-added measures is also discussed.
The Strongest Link: Supporting Highly Effective Teaching
This issue of Education Northwest Magazine offers a small sampling of what some school districts are already doing to try to support highly effective teaching—and some snapshots of highly effective teachers in action.
Determining Processes that Build Sustainable Teacher Accountability Systems
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) asked Public Impact to conduct a study exploring the change processes in the creation and implementation of teacher evaluation systems. This TQ Research & Policy Brief provides an overview of Public Impact’s preliminary findings as they relate to the impetus for change and the political and policy context in which such change occurs.
