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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.

In the Spotlight

Online Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Principal Evaluation Systems

Across the country, states and districts are designing principal evaluation systems as a means of improving leadership, learning, and school performance.

This site compiles key resources to support these efforts, found not only on the TQ Center website but other national websites as well. Key resources include the following:

• Our new downloadable guide
• Overviews of eight key components of principal evaluation systems
• Interactive guides to key questions to consider when designing principal evaluation systems
• Resources to support development

Bridge Webinar: Performance-Based Teacher Evaluation in Five States: Implications for the REL Northeast and Islands Region

This webinar will provide an overview of the common features and elements of Performance-Based Teacher evaluation systems as well as an opportunity for participants to share the challenges their states and districts face as they develop, pilot, and implement new evaluation systems. Register today by completing the online registration form. Registrants will receive an email with log-in instructions a few days prior to the webinar.

Enhancing Educator Capacity to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Jane G. Coggshall, Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the TQ Center, presented this paper at the National Judicial Leadership Summit on School-Justice Partnerships in New York City on March 13, 2012. The paper describes the research on the role that teachers and school leaders play in the school-to-prison pipeline, the competencies they need to stop the pipeline, and how to enhance those competencies throughout educators’ career continuum. The paper was the result of a collaboration between the TQ Center, the Safe and Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center (SSSTA) and the National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth who are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk (NDTAC).

Supporting State Efforts to Implement Comprehensive Teacher and Leader Evaluation Systems

The TQ Center recently hosted a workshop for regional comprehensive center staff focused on the creation and implementation of comprehensive evaluation systems, with a special focus on principal evaluation and aligning evaluation and professional development. The workshop also included presentations on the state role in implementing evaluation systems, new and forthcoming TQ Center resources, strategic communication, ESEA flexibility waivers, and RCC experiences in helping states with teacher evaluation efforts. For presentations and resources, please click here.

Moving Toward Equity: An Online Policy and Practice Guide for Equitable Teacher Distribution

This online guide focuses on equitable teacher distribution (ETD) to provide regional comprehensive centers, state education agencies, local education agencies, and school leaders with essential background information on measuring teacher distribution, practical strategies to address inequity in teacher distribution, as well as useful examples and helpful resources targeted at each level of decision making.