The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching

Project

Research suggests that effective teaching is the single most important school-based factor influencing student achievement and other student outcomes. And it may be particularly important to low-income and minority students.

Since 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching (IP) initiative, which aims to improve teaching effectiveness by changing the way districts recruit, retain, and reward teachers. The ultimate goal is to dramatically improve student achievement, graduation rates, and participation in post-secondary education.

AIR and RAND were selected to evaluate the initiative, which runs through the 2015-2016 school year. If the IP initiative works and can be replicated at a reasonable cost, it could improve the outlook for millions of students.

 

Related Work

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22 Jun 2018
Report

Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report

The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative was a multiyear effort to dramatically improve student outcomes by increasing students' access to effective teaching. This final report is the result of a six-year evaluation of the initiative conducted by AIR and RAND Corporation.
22 Jun 2016
Report

Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Implementation

The Intensive Partnership initiative is based on the premise that efforts to improve instruction can benefit from high-quality measures of teaching effectiveness. The present report summarizes the implementation of the initiative from 2010 through 2014, and it should be of interest to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who want to understand the potential benefits and challenges of adopting new teacher-evaluation systems and related reforms.
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