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- March, 2010 | Getting the Balance Right: Federal Policy on Effective Teaching (252.04 KB)
Getting the Balance Right: Federal Policy on Effective Teaching
Liam Goldrick, Director of Policy, February 2010
President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have made teaching quality a major focus of federal education policy — and rightly so. Teachers are the most powerful school-based influence on student learning. This update discusses the current Federal policy efforts underway, NTC’s perspective, and the challenges of ensuring that these not only meet the political needs of policymakers, but must also meet the professional needs of individual teachers.
Download: goldrick-fedpolicy_effective_teaching.pdf
- TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL IMPROVEMENT ACT, Sponsored by Senator Jack Reed (March, 2010 | 26.77 KB)
TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL IMPROVEMENT ACT
Sponsored by Senator Jack Reed
Decades of research has demonstrated that improving teacher and principal quality is key to raising student achievement and turning around struggling schools. To achieve these objectives, the Teacher and Principal Improvement Act would amend Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to provide $1 billion in targeted assistance to schools to develop and support effective teachers, principals, and school leaders through implementation of the following proven, research-based strategies Download: ReedTeacherPrincipalImprovementActSummary.pdf« close »
- Symposium 2010 Brochure & Sessions Overview (December, 2009 | 553.48 KB)
- Analysis of Student Work Product Information (November, 2009 | 82.8 KB)
Analysis of Student Work
The Analysis of Student Work involves a careful, collaborative examination of new teacher's students' work to better understand their learning needs and then to determine how best to address those needs. With their mentor, new teachers select an assignment that has the potential to offer important information about their students' learning. The Analysis of Student Work tool guides the mentor and new teacher through the process of analyzing student work samples, understanding specifi c learning needs, and then identifying teaching strategies that will help differentiate instruction. Download: ASW Product Sheet 05.pdf« close »
- Analysis of Sudent Work (March, 2010 | 260.88 KB)
- Blended Coaching Product Information (May, 2009 | 266 KB)
- Classroom Visitations Done Well (May, 2009 | 841.71 KB)
- Collaborative Assessment Log Product Information (November, 2009 | 107.04 KB)
- CA Formative Assessment System - Padfolio Description (November, 2009 | 2.26 MB)
- CA Mentor Assessment for Growth and Accountability (May, 2009 | 918.99 KB)
- CA Teacher Induction Product Order Form (May, 2009 | 70.5 KB)
- CHD Formative Assessment System Product Information/Request for Information (May, 2009 | 688.19 KB)
- Coaching Leaders to Attain Student Success Brochure (May, 2009 | 76.52 KB)
- Coaching Leaders to Attain Student Success Flyer (July, 2009 | 302.41 KB)
- California Network of School Leadership Coaches (July, 2009 | 289.83 KB)
- Chicago New Teacher Center Announces Expanded Program with Chicago Public Schools (June, 2009 | 213.61 KB)
- A Workshop for Central Office Teams (May, 2009 | 132.99 KB)
- Creating and Facilitating Meetings that Promote Mentor Development (January, 2010 | 334.8 KB)
- Coaching and Observation Strategies for Working with Beginning Teachers (March, 2010 | 257.57 KB)
- High Quality Mentoring and Induction Practices (May, 2009 | 124.49 KB)
- Making a Case for Policy Investments that Help New Teachers Succeed (May, 2009 | 459.04 KB)
- Coaching in Complex Situations: Advanced Coaching for Those Who Work with Beginning Teachers (March, 2010 | 265.13 KB)
- Continuum of Teacher Development Product Information (November, 2009 | 100.28 KB)
- Continuum of Teacher Development Aligned with CSTP and Induction Standards 5 & 6 (May, 2009 | 140.02 KB)
- Continuum of Teacher Development Aligned with CSTP (November, 2009 | 106.69 KB)
- Designing and Presenting Professional Development for Beginning Teachers (March, 2010 | 261.72 KB)
- e-Mentoring for Student Success (eMSS) Brochure (May, 2009 | 1.06 MB)
- eMSS Case Study: Hawaii Public Schools: eMSS Science Statewide Implementation (May, 2009 | 256.29 KB)
- eMSS Math Product Sheet: Online Mentoring for Beginning Science Teachers (February, 2010 | 410.8 KB)
- eMSS Science Product Sheet: Online Mentoring for Beginning Science Teachers (February, 2010 | 445.72 KB)
- eMSS - An Online, Content-Focused Mentoring Program for Secondary Math and Science Teachers (May, 2009 | 465.74 KB)
- Formative Assessment System (June, 2009 | 2.03 MB)
- Press Release - 10/23/2007 - Intensive New Teacher Support Pays Off: A Return on Investment for Educators and Kids (May, 2009 | 120.16 KB)
- An Introduction to Instructional Mentoring (November, 2009 | 36.3 KB)
- Supervision for Quality Instruction of English Learners (May, 2009 | 206.28 KB)
- Improving Student Achievement Through Teacher Observation (May, 2009 | 79.93 KB)
- Induction Reader, Volume 1, Product Information (November, 2009 | 118.82 KB)
- Induction Insitute 2009 (March, 2010 | 280 KB)
- Leadership Institute (July, 2009 | 925.16 KB)
- Leadership Institute Trainers' Academy (July, 2009 | 268.12 KB)
- Teaching with a Literacy Lens: Entry Points for Secondary Mentors (January, 2010 | 326.51 KB)
- Mentor Assessor for Growth and Accountability (January, 2010 | 348.35 KB)
- NTC Executive Summary: Teacher Induction in the Midwest: Illinois, Wisconsin, and Ohio (May, 2009 | 1.04 MB)
- Mentoring for Academic Success in Algebra (May, 2009 | 797.16 KB)
- Mass TeLLS: Educators Offer Views on How to Improve Schools (May, 2009 | 236.3 KB)
- Mass TeLLS: Creating School Conditions Where Teachers Stay and Students Thrive (May, 2009 | 1.15 MB)
- NTC Response to IES/Mathematica First Year Report on Teacher Induction (May, 2009 | 174.7 KB)
- NTC Statement on Mathematics Study (August, 2009 | 523.03 KB)
- The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Frequently Asked Questions (May, 2009 | 87.88 KB)
- The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Board of Judges (May, 2009 | 80.16 KB)
- The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Past Prizes (May, 2009 | 111.38 KB)
- The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Press Release (May, 2009 | 106.11 KB)
- Mentoring for English Learner Success: Research, Standards, and Practice (January, 2010 | 321.01 KB)
- Mentoring for Equity: Race, Language and Culture (January, 2010 | 323.06 KB)
- Mentors in the Making Product Information (June, 2009 | 492.17 KB)
- New Administrator Project (May, 2009 | 67.64 KB)
- Press Release - 10/23/2007 - Capitol Hill Briefing (May, 2009 | 132.81 KB)
- Mentoring New Teachers to Increase Retention (May, 2009 | 216.97 KB)
- Does New Teacher Support Affect Student Achievment (May, 2009 | 187.62 KB)
- Using Federal Stimulus Funding to Promote New Teacher Effectiveness - Districts (July, 2009 | 326.58 KB)
- Using Federal Stimulus Funding to Promote New Teacher Effectiveness - States (July, 2009 | 340.8 KB)
- NTC Wins ACSA Partners In Educational Excellence Awards (May, 2009 | 17.1 KB)
- NTC Induction Survey Version 4.0 (May, 2009 | 63.71 KB)
- NTC Open Enrollment Trainings (November, 2009 | 65.85 KB)
- Policy Brief: New Teacher Support Pays Off (May, 2009 | 345.02 KB)
- Policy Brief: A Teacher Development Continuum (June, 2009 | 400.43 KB)
- Research Brief: The Costs and Benefits of Compehensive Induction Program (May, 2009 | 151.83 KB)
- NTC Executive Summary: Understanding New York City's Groundbreaking Induction Committee (May, 2009 | 224.17 KB)
- NTC Policy Paper: Understanding NYC’s Groundbreaking Induction Initiative (May, 2009 | 435.95 KB)
- Ongoing Professional Development for School Leadership Coaches: A Facilitator’s Guide (May, 2009 | 223.03 KB)
Coaching new and veteran school leaders is a challenging new field of professional work. Thousands of school leadership coaches around the country have attended the New Teacher Center’s Coaching Leaders to Attain Student Success (CLASS) workshop and are actively engaged in coaching work. But CLASS is only an introductory training, designed with the expectation that CLASS alumni will participate in ongoing learning communities. Now a comprehensive resource is available for those who facilitate the professional development of leadership coaches. Ongoing Professional Development for School Leadership Coaches: A Facilitator’s Guide will be an invaluable tool for local school districts, regions, and agencies that are committed to building and sustaining reflective and supportive coaching programs. Download: PD_Coaches_ProdSheet.pdf« close »
- Professional Learning Communities: Culture Not Climate Flyer (July, 2009 | 257.63 KB)
- Professional Learning Communities: Culture Not Climate Product Sheet (May, 2009 | 392.07 KB)
- Powerful Partnerships: A Handbook for Principals Mentoring Assistant Principals (May, 2009 | 305.26 KB)
Assistant principals represent the next generation of school principals, so it is critical that schools and districts address the professional development of these key administrators. In this essential resource the authors demonstrate how principals and assistant principals can use their collaborative relationships to prepare assistant principals for future leadership roles
By Gary Bloom, and Martin L. KrovetzDownload: PowerfulPartnerships_Brochure.pdf« close »
- NTC Research Abstracts - January 2006 (May, 2009 | 270.25 KB)
- Comprehensive Induction or Add-on Induction? (May, 2009 | 206.14 KB)
- Supporting New Teachers of Color and Cultural Diversity (May, 2009 | 152.76 KB)
- Role of the Principal in Supporting High-Quality Teacher Induction (January, 2010 | 323.64 KB)
- Race to The Top (August, 2009 | 359.75 KB)
This document provides general guidance and specific recommendations from the New Teacher Center for its partners and interested stakeholders to consider incorporating in their official public comments to the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Race to the Top Notice of Proposed Priorities, due August 28, 2009. ED’s proposed guidelines are available at:
http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html . Download: RttT.pdf« close »
- Race to the Top - Addedndum (August, 2009 | 574.44 KB)
On August 21, 2009, the New Teacher Center (NTC) submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Race to the Top Notice of Proposed Priorities. This Addendum includes specific recommendations with regard to the ED’s definitions of “effective” and “highly effective” teachers and principals as well as recommended edits to the proposed Selection Criteria. Download: RttT-Addendum.pdf« close »
- Setting Professional Goals Flyer (January, 2010 | 305.22 KB)
This training is particularly designed to support those who work with beginning teachers in the role of mentor, supervisor of interns, cooperating teacher, subject matter coach, and teacher leader, as well as principals and administrators of programs that provide support for beginning teachers. Participants need to have had foundational coaching training and experience.
Download: setting_prof_goals_flyer.pdf« close »
- School Leadership Development Brochure (May, 2009 | 116.9 KB)
- School Leadership Development Product Order Form (May, 2009 | 174.54 KB)
- Is Mentoring Worth the Money? (May, 2009 | 2.86 MB)
Is Mentoring Worth the Money? A Benefit-Cost Analysis and Five-Year Rate of Return of a Comprehensive Mentoring Program for Beginning Teachers
Anthony Villar and Michael Strong from ERS Spectrum, Summer 2007 Vol. 25, No. 3 Download: Spectrum_Villar-Strong.pdf« close »
- Supervising and Supporting Principals Who make a Difference for Students (July, 2009 | 297.78 KB)
This two-day training is designed to build the capacity of principal supervisors to nurture the growth of effective site leaders using Blended Coaching. This program is based on the extensive work the School Leadership Development team at the New Teacher Center has done with school districts across the country to help them build both effective, standards-based principal supervision models and coaching-based supervision cultures that increase principal effectiveness and lead to higher student achievement.
Download: SupervisingPrincipals_ProdSheet.pdf« close »
- Teaching and Learning Conditions Survey (May, 2009 | 40.12 KB)
- Two Visions of Education by Elliot W. Eisner; 2/10/2006 (May, 2009 | 98.3 KB)
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