TQ Source Tips and Tools: Emerging Strategies to Enhance Educator Quality

This table provides a list of key issues that contain strategies and resources to support Regional Comprehensive Center staff, State Education Agency personnel, and other education stakeholders as they address various aspects of educator quality. Organized by Key Issues—these are searchable documents that allow a user to hone in on specific processes and/or targeted resources that support or provide evidence for strategies related to educator quality.

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RCC, SEA, and IHE personnel; teacher educators; policymakers; people new to the field Induction, mentoring, working conditions, performance pay, value-added, teacher effectiveness, leadership, teacher leadership, equitable distribution

Key Issue	Key Audiences: Who’s this key issue for?	Key Words: What’s this key issue about?
Identifying Professional Contexts to Support Highly Effective Teachers (PDF 278 KB)	RCC, SEA, and LEA personnel; principals, researchers; people new to the field; policymakers	Assessing working conditions, building trust in schools, using data, learning organizations, induction, safety, principal support, technology, partnerships
Using Performance-Based Assessment to Identify and Support High-Quality Teachers (PDF 540 KB)	RCC, SEA, and LEA personnel; principals, researchers; people new to the field; policymakers	Teacher evaluation, teacher performance, performance-based assessments, licensure/certification, professional development
Using Value-Added Models to Identify and Support Highly Effective Teachers (PDF 209 KB)	RCC, SEA, and LEA personnel; researchers, people new to the field; policymakers	Teacher evaluation, teacher effectiveness, value-added measures, growth models, student achievement
Enhancing Teacher Leadership (PDF 262 KB)	RCC and SEA staff who support LEAs, principals, teachers, people new to the field, policymakers	Teacher leaders, career ladders, professional growth, distributed leadership, working conditions, teacher recruitment, teacher retention
Identifying How Highly Effective Leaders Support Teachers (PDF 287 KB)	Principals, principal educators, SEA and LEA officials who work with principals, people who aspire to become principals	Leadership, instructional leadership, school vision, school culture, teacher selection and assignment, human capital management, teacher evaluation, learning time, using data, teacher empowerment
Improving the Preparation of School and District Leaders (PDF 223 KB)	RCC, SEA, and LEA personnel; executive trainers; principal educators, aspiring leaders; researchers; policymakers	Leadership standards, administrator preparation, professional development for school leaders, career pathways, grow-your-own, leader mentoring/internships, leadership networks
Building the Capacity of School Leaders to Support Teachers (PDF 463 KB)	RCC, SEA, and LEA personnel; principal educators, policymakers	Principal turnover, data systems, leadership standards, principal evaluation, alternative routes to administrator certification, partnerships
Teacher Quality for Multitiered Interventions (PDF 638 KB)	RCC and SEA personnel new to the topic, teacher educators, teachers	Introduction to multitiered interventions (including Response to Intervention) for students at-risk of school failure
Improving Student Outcomes in General and Special Education With Effective Classroom Management Practices (PDF 384 KB)	Principals, teachers, teacher educators, policymakers, people new to the field	Schoolwide behavioral support systems, behavior reduction strategies, classroom environment
Recruiting Teachers for Schools Serving English Language Learners (PDF146 KB)	RCC, SEA, and LEA personnel, principals, teacher educators, policymakers, researchers, people new to the field	Teacher recruitment, grow-your-own, alternative paths to certification, English language learners, limited English proficient students, paraeducators, financial incentives
Preparing Teachers Effectively for At-Risk Schools (PDF 231 KB)	RCC, SEA, and IHE personnel, teacher educators, policymakers, people new to the field	Teacher education, teacher preparation, urban teacher residencies, professional development schools, multicultural education, culturally responsive pedagogy
Recruiting Teachers for Urban and Rural Schools (Update Coming Soon)
Recruiting STEM Teachers (Update Coming Soon)
Increasing Teacher Retention to Facilitate the Equitable Distribution of Effective Teachers. (PDF 252 KB)	RCC, SEA, and IHE personnel, teacher educators, policymakers, people new to the field	Induction, mentoring, working conditions, performance pay, value-added, teacher effectiveness, leadership, teacher leadership, equitable distribution.
Recruiting Teachers for Students with Disabilities (Update Coming Summer 09)
Improving Teacher Selection, Hiring, and Assignment Practice (Update Coming Summer 09)

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