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Assessing Teaching Improving Learning

The Assessing-Teaching-Improving-Learning (ATIL) program at the Carnegie Foundation seeks to enhance the capacity of those working in the field of teacher assessment and evaluation by helping them to learn from emerging practices in order to build more effective information systems to advance teacher quality.

Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network

The Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN) is bringing together leaders in education practice, policy and research to focus on developing and retaining effective teachers in our nation’s schools. BTEN partners collaborate with district, union and school leaders to focus on the needs of new teachers as they learn to teach students well, collaborate with colleagues, engage families and successfully navigate the policies and routines of their districts and schools. The goal is to learn from teachers about the challenges they deem most urgent and to work with district and union leaders who are committed to improving both the systems and specific practices that support teacher learning.

News Digest

Struggling Teachers to be Scored by Independent Observers

The key element in the agreement reached between the New York City teachers’ union and the city’s Education Department last Thursday was given a closer look, as The New York Times and Gotham Schools examined the role to be played by so-called...

Evaluating Teacher Evaluation

There is a growing consensus that evidence of teachers’ contributions to student learning should be a component of teacher evaluation systems, along with evidence about the quality of teachers’ practice. Value-added models (VAMs), designed to...

New State Evaluation Framework Leaves Much Up to Local Districts

Teachers can expect unannounced observations to factor into their annual ratings under the terms of the evaluations agreement that Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. The unannounced observations are one of several ways that the State Education Department and...