• Educator Quality — We should aggressively expand alternatives to educator preparation and certification, lead the movement to national standardized certification, significantly expand new teacher mentoring, aggressively recruit non-traditional leadership for school administration, and introduce performance - based compensation for all educators based on value - added evaluation. (texaspilgrim.com)
SRI's four - year evaluation of the New Teacher Center's (NTC's) i3 validation grant combines cluster randomized controlled trials at two study sites and a difference - in - differences approach at the third site to assess the implementation and impact of NTC's intensive new teacher mentoring and support. (sri.com)