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Determining Processes That Build Sustainable Teacher Accountability Systems In late 2008, the Public Impact study team conducted semi-structured interviews with district personnel and state department...
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Racing to the Top on High School Teacher Effectiveness Achieve is a leading national voice for raising expectations for American high schools so that all students graduate ready for what’s next. To...
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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...
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Competencies for Turnaround Success Series Public Impact has developed a series of resources designed to support school turnarounds. The series includes guides and toolkits that help select turnaround...
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Using Competency-Based Evaluation to Drive Teacher Excellence: Lessons from Singapore The complete recipe for Singapore’s educational success is not public, but one element stands out: the development...
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Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations A recent national push to use performance evaluations for critical personnel decisions has highlighted the...
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Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: A Look “Under the Hood of Teacher Evaluation” in 10 Sites The project, prepared for ConnCAN and 50CAN, aims to get “under the hood” of the teacher evaluation systems in...
View ArticleTeacher Tenure Reform: Applying Lessons from the Civil Service and Higher...
Read the Report | View the Presentation Could redesigned K-12 teacher tenure actually improve student learning? Could it help to grow the size and power of an elite teaching corps that reaches far more...
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View the Evaluation Guide Evaluation is one critical element of an Opportunity Culture, used primarily to guide development and career opportunities. But previous teacher evaluation reforms were built...
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