The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) is a national resource for:
- Regional Comprehensive Centers
- State Departments of Education
- And other education stakeholders
Goals:
- Improve the quality of teaching, especially in high-poverty, low-performing, and hard-to-staff schools.
- Provide guidance to ensure that highly qualified teachers are serving students with special needs.
Latest TQ Center Resources
New! Key Issue
Evaluating School Principals 
New! TQ Research & Policy Brief
Challenges in Evaluating Special Education Teachers and English Language Learner Specialists
Critical Decisions Guide: Building Teacher Effectiveness Systems
Job-Embedded Professional Development: What It Is, Who Is Responsible, and How to Get It Done Well
Guide to Teacher Evaluation Products
TQ Research & Policy Update, Special Edition
ARRA—Opportunities & Strategies to Advance Teacher Effectiveness; Part 2
TQ Center's 2nd Biennial Report
America's Opportunity: Teacher Effectiveness and Equity in K–12 Classrooms
Key Issue
Teaching, Hiring, Assignment, and Placement Practices
TQ Research & Policy Brief
Determining Processes that Build Sustainable Teacher Accountability Systems
Key Issue
Recruiting Special Education Teachers
In the Spotlight
Save the Date for a MACC Webinar:
Measuring Student Growth: The Delaware Process
The Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center (MACC), with sponsorship from the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, is conducting a series of webinars on comprehensive teacher effectiveness systems and student growth measures. The first webinar, Measuring Student Growth: The Delaware Process , is scheduled for Tuesday, September 21, 2010.
Enhancing Teacher Evaluation: A Critical Lever for Improving Teaching and Learning
Hosted by the TQ Center, this workshop focused on issues, research, and strategies related to the creation and use of teacher evaluation as part of a comprehensive system to improve teaching and student learning. Topics included steps in creating quality evaluation systems; issues involved in evaluating teachers of students with disabilities and English language learners; and the use of evaluation results to target professional development, certification, and career opportunities. In addition, the workshop included conversations on the use of evaluation in teacher tenure decisions and engaging stakeholders in systemic reform.Enhancing Teacher Evaluation: Effective Practices for Evaluating Teachers of All Students
The TQ Center hosted a webcast titled Enhancing Teacher Evaluation: Effective Practices for Evaluating Teachers of All Students on April 14, 2010. View a recording of this webcast that brought together experts and practitioners to discuss research and strategies that address evaluating teachers of at-risk populations.
Handbook on Effective Implementation of School Improvement Grants
The five content centers of the Comprehensive Centers Program recently collaborated to create a Handbook on Effective Implementation of School Improvement Grants. The purpose of this handbook is to provide relevant and useful information for states and districts to use as they apply for and implement the models and strategies outlined in the 2009 School Improvement Grant (SIG) program by offering succinct and practical explanations of these models and strategies, references to the underlying research, and connections to useful resources. The handbook is available through the Center on Innovation & Improvement website and at http://www.centerii.org/handbook.
New Resources Relating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009
The TQ Center website has a new section relating to ARRA Resources. This section focuses specifically on teacher effectiveness and equitable distribution.
