Strategies to Consider

To ensure consistency in data collection, work with local education agencies and state educator effectiveness advisory bodies to implement high-quality educator evaluation systems that are approximately comparable across local education agencies.

Leverage federal resources, such as your regional educational laboratory or regional center, to develop a summary of the research and related policy requirements on issues of equitable access in your region and distribute to partners during in-person meetings or webinars. 

Work with partners to produce maps using your state and district metrics of choice. These maps can be great communication tools to use when working with policymakers and stakeholders. 

Develop protocols for sharing data across stakeholder groups to broaden understanding of the state context of student access to excellent teachers and leaders.

Develop partnerships with key stakeholders (e.g., in an equity workgroup) to determine what metrics should be used to measure student access to excellent teachers and leaders.