Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

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Teacher Hiring, Placement, and Assignment Practices

E-newsletter: 
December 2009

The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality released a brief discussing the importance of implementing effective teacher hiring and placement practices, particularly for at-risk districts and schools. It provides strategies for teacher hiring, assignment, and placement that will help districts’ approaches to hiring and placing teachers who are likely to be effective and stay in the schools where they start.