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22 Jun 2018
Report

Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report

The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2015–2016

Brian M. Stecher, RAND Corporation
Deborah Holtzman, AIR
Michael S. Garet, AIR
Laura S. Hamilton, RAND Education
John Engberg, RAND Corporation
Elizabeth D. Steiner, RAND Corporation
Abby Robyn, RAND Corporation
Matthew D. Baird, RAND Corporation
Italo A. Gutierrez, RAND Corporation
Evan D. Peet, RAND Corporation
Iliana Brodziak de los Reyes, AIR
Kaitlin Fronberg, AIR
Gabriel Weinberger, RAND Corporation
Gerald Paul Hunter, RAND Corporation
Jay G. Chambers, AIR

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 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 measures were to be used to improve staffing actions, identify teaching weaknesses, and overcome them through effectiveness-linked professional development, and employ compensation and career ladders  as incentives to retain the most-effective teachers and have them support the growth of other teachers.

Beginning in 2009–2010, three school districts in Florida, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania, and four charter management organizations participated in the Intensive Partnerships initiative. AIR and the RAND Corporation conducted a six-year evaluation of the initiative, documenting the policies and practices each site enacted and their effects on student outcomes. This report describes the findings of this initiative.

Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report

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The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching

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. AIR and RAND are evaluating the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, which aims to improve teaching effectiveness by changing the way districts recruit, retain, and reward teachers.

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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.
Topic: 
Education, Teacher Preparation and Performance
9 Aug 2016
Service

Client Services in Teacher Preparation and Performance

A student can’t get a bad school year back. AIR works in a number of areas to develop effective educators. We work to achieve solutions to complex policy and practice problems and to support effective approaches that help teachers thrive.

Topic: 
Education, Teacher Preparation and Performance

Further Reading

  • Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Implementation
  • The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching
  • Experts from the American Institutes for Research to Present at the Annual Association for Education Finance and Policy Conference
  • Promoting Educator Effectiveness: The Effect of Two Key Strategies
  • Study of Alabama Reading Initiative Finds Flexibility Is Better Than One Size Fits All Approach to Teaching Reading
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Michael S. Garet

Vice President and Institute Fellow

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Teacher Preparation and Performance

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