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What Tools Do You Need?

The GTL Center offers over 300 free tools and resources that synthesize evidence, research, and best practice for educator talent management challenges and solutions into high-quality, easy-to-use tools and resources.  Explore our featured resources below. 

Featured Resources

Evidence-Based Strategy Toolkits

Evidence-Based Strategy Toolkits

Building a talented, diverse educator workforce requires customized, evidence-based strategies that are designed to meet unique local needs. Our toolkits bring together the latest research, evidence, and examples from the field to help you take concrete action.

Publications

Publications

Search our extensive database of publications, including our full length research reports, issue briefs, and interactive guides, as well as our short policy snapshots and "ask the team" briefs. 

School Leadership Standards Map

School Leadership Standards Map

The National School Leadership Standards Map helps state education agency staff, researchers, and practitioners quickly and easily locate information on school leadership standards, principal supervisor standards, principal evaluation policies, and principal preparation policies in all 50 states. Use the map to compare school leadership standards and policies that have been adopted, adapted, and used by states to support principals. This interactive map was last updated in 2018. gned specifically to address shortages in special education, the tool can be used to address all teacher shortages.

Innovation Station

Innovation Station

The Innovation Station provides a one-stop resource for the latest information and tools on recruiting and selecting, retaining, rewarding, and extending the reach of highly effective teachers and leaders, including teacher-led professional learning. Resources are organized by topic areas and can be viewed both teacher and leader roles. This curated collection of resources was last updated in 2019. 

Professional Learning Modules

Professional Learning Modules

Authored by veteran technical assistance providers and experts, the GTL Center’s Professional Learning Modules provide content-rich, train-the-trainer materials designed to build the knowledge and capacity of regional center and state education agency personnel.

Webinars, Events, & Presentations

Webinars, Events, & Presentations

Whether meeting face-to-face or virtually, we regularly convene experts, practitioners and policymakers to collaborate on pressing educator workforce challenges. We host national meetings, workshops and webinars and our staff frequently travels across the country to share information and facilitate meetings. On this page, find resources from these events, including handouts, videos, and slides from presentations.

Student Learning Objectives Library

Student Learning Objectives Library

Need resources and information on student learning objectives (SLOs)? Check out our SLO Resource Library for guidebooks, tools, publications, and presentations. Search for SLO examples by state, type of resource, grade level, subject area, or staff type.

GTL Center Blog

GTL Center Blog

Join the discussion on equitable access on our blog. GTL Center staff and invited practitioners and experts explore ways to ensure that all students have access to truly great teaching and leading in every one of their classrooms, in every one of their schools, every one of their days. (Archived in 2017).