RESOURCES

NTC recognizes that collecting meaningful data regarding teaching and learning conditions represents only a first step in an ongoing process to improve the professional context in which educators teach and students learn. Working with partners across the country, NTC has started developing and testing tools to aid in the process of finding workable solutions to working condition challenges. These tools are intended to help schools and communities engage in ongoing and meaningful conversations about potential strategies to improve teaching and learning conditions.

• TQ Tips and Tools – Identifying Professional Contexts to Support Highly Effective Teachers

  This document from the National Comprehensive Center for Teaching Quality takes participants through a simulated experience of considering a specific school context of assessing and responding to pressing teaching and learning conditions with a set of tips and concerns for using information in a positive way toward school improvement.

• Briefs on Developing an atmosphere of trust and finding time for collaboration.

  Schools identified from the NC Teaching and Learning Conditions 2006 survey with exemplary trust and time conditions were interviewed and profiled in documents found on this website.

• Facilitator Guide

  This document prepares local leaders to lead a school or community group through the process of analyzing results and developing plans for response.
  

• Teacher Working Conditions Toolkit

  This site provides access to a wide variety of online tools and resources intended to help schools understand their data and develop strategies to improve teaching and learning conditions.
  

• Professional Development for School Administrators

  The NTC offers a variety of trainings that can be delivered stand-alone, but is most interested in partnering with districts to build comprehensive, professional leadership development plans that link workshop content to district goals and initiatives and that support implementation through participation in Professional Learning Communities.

• Professional Development for District Administrators

  School Leadership Development at the NTC will help your district to shape a comprehensive professional development plan for your district leadership team that will have a sustained impact upon your district's culture, instructional practices, leadership practices, and student achievement.