The best way to invest in students is to invest in teachers first. We urge education leaders to make significant, strategic investments in educators to stabilize the educator workforce and address... Read more »
Featured Publications
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 Explore strategies to adapt educator evaluation and support system policies and practices to support virtual learning. |
 What road bumps are preventing your state from having effective teachers in every classroom? |
 Ground your state's micro-credential implementation efforts in emerging best practices and explore our forward-looking research agenda. |
Consider the short-term and long-term implications that COVID-19 will have on the educator workforce and explore guiding principles for addressing the challenges.
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 Explore guidance on how to ensure career changes recruited into the teaching profession are selected based on their potential to succeed. |
 Discover concrete ways teacher candidates can be leveraged to better support veteran teachers during the shift to distance learning, or new education models as schools reopen.
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 Discover ways of supporting student well-being that includes an array of trauma-informed strategies for fostering student well-being and resilience during these unprecedented times. |
 District and school leaders can use this tool to select trauma-informed strategies to foster trust, well-being, and resilience in their unique contexts. |
 Explore potential funding that can be leveraged by states, districts, and educator preparation providers to address talent development across the full educator career continuum. |
 Proactively and purposefully address educator shortages and talent challenges in your local context. |
 Use this self-care self-assessment to select key strategies for fostering resilience and identify areas of strength and growth related to self-care and developing self-care plans. |
 Support teacher wellness under COVID-19 by understanding teacher stress levels in various contexts. |
 Discover concrete ways to modify teacher quality programs, such as mentoring and induction programs, to succeed in high-need contexts. |
 Explore 10 strategies to address 10 common challenges that rural schools face when implementing mentoring and induction programs. |
 Explore four key decision points states should consider in measuring equitable access to effective educators. |
Other Publications
This Policy-to-Practice Brief introduces five current examples of measures of teacher performance.
Written for state legislators and their staff, the Policy Snapshot provides an overview of the latest research, practices, and policy trends on providing professionals from diverse fields with... Read more »
Since the launch of the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality in 2005, a tremendous amount of information has been compiled about the availability, recruitment, and retention of teachers... Read more »
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality's second biennial report synthesizes the emerging research base; highlights examples of innovative policy strategies; and discusses the practical... Read more »
Incorporating student growth measures into educator evaluation systems is particularly challenging for teachers of non-tested grades and subjects. This paper provides an overview of possible... Read more »
This research synthesis examines how teacher effectiveness is currently measured.
Our framework offers a tailored approach to re-envisioning teacher professional learning programs to create success in underserved schools.
Explore trade-offs in four common approaches to selecting assessments for student learning objectives (SLOs).
This Research & Policy Brief discusses scientifically based reading instruction in relation to federal policy mandates.
The job of “teacher” in most schools today remains centered on full-time classroom responsibilities that are defined by the location, timing, and schedule of the school day and a one-teacher-per-... Read more »