Useful Links
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality compiled the following list of helpful links to alert the public of other organizations working in the teacher and leadership quality arena. These sources offer information on such issues as educator compensation reform, teacher quality, special education, performance incentives, and data quality. Open one or more of the following links to view the websites.
U.S. Department of Education
No Child Left Behind: A Toolkit for Teachers
(Adobe® Reader® PDF 2.5MB)
Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative
Center for Educator Compensation Reform
An organization that raises national awareness about alternative and effective strategies for educator compensation reform; provides technical assistance to Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grantees; and through its website, serves as an online repository for information, tools, and resources to help policymakers, state officials, and district professionals, as well as TIF grantees, design and implement educator compensation reform policies and programs.
Center for Improving Teacher Quality (CTQ)
A technical assistance center that provides support to states to improve the alignment of personnel-preparation systems within states.
Center on Personnel Studies in Special Education (COPSSE)
A research center devoted to studying issues affecting teacher quality in special education.
Data Quality Campaign
The Data Quality Campaign encourages and supports state policymakers to improve the collection, availability, and use of data as well as to implement state longitudinal data systems.
Highly Qualified Teacher (HQT) Monitoring
The U.S. Department of Education has begun posting the 2007–2010 Highly Qualified Teachers and Improving Teacher Quality State Grants (ESEA Title II, Part A) Monitoring Reports for the states. These reports review the progress states are making in two key areas of the law:
- Meeting the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act highly qualified teacher (HQT) requirements (having 100 percent of students taught by a teacher who holds at least a bachelor's degree, has obtained full state certification, and has demonstrated knowledge in the core academic subject he or she teaches)
- Using the NCLB Title II, Part A, funds to prepare, retain, and recruit quality teachers and principals so that all students will achieve high academic standards and reach their full potential
In addition, the department has posted the Monitoring Protocols for the 2007–2008 Monitoring Cycle.
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
A dissemination center that provides evidence-based teaching modules to college faculty working in preservice preparation programs in an effort to ensure that general education teachers, school administrators, school nurses, and school counselors are well prepared to work with students who have disabilities as well as their families.
The National Center on Performance Incentives
The National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) is a research and development center housed at the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. Through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education, the center conducts scientific research on the effects of performance incentives in education. NCPI provides a variety of publications on the topic, which has implications for education research, policy, and practice.
National Center for Special Education Personnel and Related Service Providers—The Personnel Center
A technical assistance center that builds state capacity to recruit, prepare, and retain highly qualified, diverse personnel for early intervention and special education programs.
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