Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center

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. In addition to providing the results of the survey, the brief includes policy and practice recommendations for regions, states, and districts to help in their efforts to create valid, reliable, and comprehensive evaluation systems for all teachers as they work to improve the achievement of all students.