Improving Teaching Effectiveness

The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2015-2016 - Final Report

• Author(s): Brian M. Stecher, Deborah J. Holtzman, Michael S. Garet, Laura S. Hamilton, Evan D. Peet, Iliana Brodziak De Los Reyes, John Engberg, Kaitlin Fronberg, Gabriel Weinberger, Gerald Paul Hunter, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Italo A. Gutierrez, Abby Robyn, Jay Chambers, Matthew D Baird,
• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Pages: 586
• ISBN_10: 1977400795
  ISBN_13: 9781977400796
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Administration / General , Education / Evaluation & Assessment , Education / Teaching / Methods & Strategies , Education / Professional Development , Education / Inclusive Education , Social Science / Minority Studies ,

Description:... The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, designed and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was a multiyear effort to dramatically improve student outcomes by increasing students' access to effective teaching. Participating sites adopted measures of teaching effectiveness (TE) that included both a teacher's contribution to growth in student achievement and his or her teaching practices assessed with a structured observation rubric. The TE measures were to be used to improve staffing actions, identify teaching weaknesses and overcome them through effectiveness-linked professional development (PD), and employ compensation and career ladders (CLs) as incentives to retain the most-effective teachers and have them support the growth of other teachers. The developers believed that these mechanisms would lead to more-effective teaching, greater access to effective teaching for low-income minority (LIM) students, and greatly improved academic outcomes. Beginning in 2009-2010, three school districts--Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) in Florida; Memphis City Schools (MCS) in Tennessee (which merged with Shelby County Schools, or SCS, during the initiative); and Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) in Pennsylvania--and four charter management organizations (CMOs)--Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools, Green Dot Public Schools, and Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC) Schools--participated in the Intensive Partnerships initiative. RAND and the American Institutes for Research conducted a six-year evaluation of the initiative, documenting the policies and practices each site enacted and their effects on student outcomes. This is the final evaluation report.