Extending the Reach of Excellent Teachers: Models to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching, Within Budget - This page contains links to school models that use job redesign and technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within budget. The models are part of a larger set of 20+ model summaries. In each of these models, teachers have career opportunities dependent upon their excellence, leadership, and student impact. Advancement allows more pay and greater reach. The detailed models explain how changes in teaching roles, time use, and technology can allow teachers who achieve the best student outcomes to reach more students and help peer teachers produce excellent results, too. Many of the models create new, collaborative work teams. (© 2012 Public Impact; OpportunityCulture.org, January 2012)...

2009 State Teacher Policy Yearbook - The National Council on Teacher Quality's third annual review of state laws, rules and regulations is a comprehensive analysis of the full range of each state's teacher policies, measured against a realistic blueprint for reform. The online Yearbook provides a road map to the Race to the Top, addressing key policy areas such as teacher preparation, evaluation, alternative certification and compensation. After viewing the findings, it is clear that states have a great deal of work to do in order to ensure that every child has an effective teacher. The Yearbook has been customized so that each state has its own report, with its own analyses and data. Users can download any of our 51 state reports.(National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009)...

Teacher Quality: State Initiatives - This Web site features examples of state and local efforts to ensure every child is taught by a highly qualified teacher. Examples of efforts are in certification and licensure, preparation and training, recruitment and retention, leadership, professional development and more....

The Southeast Center for Teaching Quality (SECTQ) - This Web site includes links to articles, research and other publications on teaching quality. The site highlights information on the implications of No Child Left Behind on teaching in the southeast region....

TQI: A Teacher Qualification Index for California's Schools - The Teacher Qualification Index (TQI) developed for this new Web site is a standardized rating system that reflects the credential status and experience level of teachers at each California public K-12 school. In addition to the TQI, this Web site provides an indication of how underqualified teachers are distributed within each California school district....

Center for Educational Renewal - The Center for Educational Renewal (CER) was founded in 1985 to advance the simultaneous renewal of P-12 schools and the education of educators within the larger context of education in a democracy. On this Web site, co-sponsored with the Institute for Educational Inquiry and the National Network for Educational Renewal, organization initiatives, programs and publications are presented on how a school and teaching renewal agenda can be implemented....

Milken Family Foundation - This foundation supports education issues in various ways, including recognizing and rewarding outstanding educators; expanding professional leadership and policy influence; and attracting, retaining and motivating the best talent to the teaching profession. Various links to different education initiatives and programs can be found on this Web site. ...

National Council on Teacher Quality - This Web site provides news and analysis of teacher quality policies. Resources available include information and publications about specific issues and states and links to other organizations....

The Holmes Partnership - The Holmes Partnership is a network of universities, schools, community agencies and national professional organizations working to create high-quality professional development and school renewal to improve teaching and learning. Its work is centered around six goals, which the Web site outlines: high-quality professional preparation; simultaneous renewal; equity, diversity, cultural competence; scholarly inquiry and research; school and university-based faculty development; and policy initiation. ...

WestEd - WestEd seeks ways to combine traditional and innovative assessment methods into coherent, affordable and valid systems that provide the feedback desired for all levels of accountability. The Assessment and Standards Development Services (ASDS) program found on this Web site is involved extensively at the local, state and national levels in planning, developing, implementing and evaluating standards and assessment tools, methods and systems. Some other project areas include teacher professional development and assessment....

Teachers Network Policy Institute - This institute was established as a project of the Teachers Network to bring teachers' voices to educational policymaking....

Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP) - Founded in 1997, CTP is a consortium of five universities, which investigates the relation between excellent teaching and policymaking at national, state and local levels. ...

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation - This foundation supports research, publications and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton, Ohio, and vicinity....

The New Teacher Project - Current publications and information from the New Teacher Project....