Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
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Educator Effectiveness
Research shows that students respond better to, and learn more from, effective teachers. The NWCC provides technical assistance to build Northwest states’ capacity to help their districts and schools improve student outcomes by supporting effective instruction and leadership.
The following resources related to this priority area have been compiled by NWCC staff.
Resources
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Lacking Capacity? How to Work Smart in Teacher Evaluation In response to a request for information on how states are addressing capacity challenges, such as dealing with the challenge of performing multiple observations for teachers, the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders (GTL Center) released a brief highlighting emerging strategies from policymakers and practitioners who are grappling with such capacity challenges. |
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Our Responsibility, Our Promise: Transforming Educator Preparation and Entry into the Profession CCSSO has released a report outlining a set of recommendations for revamping the preparation and licensure of both teachers and principals. |
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Rethinking Principal Evaluation: A New Paradigm for Informed Policy and Improved Practice NAESP, in partnership with NASSP, Johns Hopkins University, and American Institute for Research, released a research-based framework that will serve to shape policy around effective principal evaluations. |
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State Policies on Principal Evaluation: Trends in a Changing Landscape The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality released a policy brief describing the trends in recently passed principal evaluation legislation, with a focus on implementation timelines and pilot programs. |
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The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood The National Bureau of Economic Research released a study examining two issues:
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State Database of Teacher Evaluation Policies The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) created an online database promoting information sharing and collaboration as states and districts work on developing performance-based evaluation systems, often combined with measures of student growth and learning. |
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The Policies and Practices of Principal Evaluation: A Review of the Literature SchoolsMovingUp at WestEd released a literature review providing insights into what the field knows about principal evaluation as derived from a set of primary and secondary sources from reputable publications. |
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Communication Framework for Measuring Teacher Quality and Effectiveness: Bringing Coherence to the Conversation This communication framework was developed to promote effective dialogue about the measurement of teacher quality and effectiveness. It facilitates communication about policies regarding teacher effectiveness by helping to build a shared understanding of the terminology used in the discussion. |
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Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: A Research Synthesis This research synthesis examines how teacher effectiveness is currently measured and provides practical guidance for how best to evaluate teacher effectiveness. |
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A Practical Guide to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness This guide offers a definition of teacher effectiveness that states and districts may adapt to meet local requirements. |
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The Other 69 Percent: Fairly Rewarding the Performance of Teachers of Non-Tested Subjects and Grades This report from the Center for Educator Compensation Reform (CECR), addresses the means by which states, districts, and schools can fairly and effectively measure the performance of teachers who teach a grade level or subject area in which standardized achievement tests are not administered or who teach English language learners or students with disabilities. |
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The Strongest Link: Supporting Highly Effective Teaching This issue of Education Northwest Magazine offers a small sampling of what some school districts are already doing to try to support highly effective teaching—and some snapshots of highly effective teachers in action. |
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Teaching English Language Learners: A Complex System The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality has released a collection of resources focusing on policy and practice relating to the preparation and certification of English language learner (ELL) teachers. |