She uses historically black colleges and universities with Boston alumni clubs to advertise
BTR and make connections at institutions as
far as South Carolina, for example, where she visited 10 schools in four days.
Further, a preliminary evaluation of the
BTR from 2012 showed that in their early years of teaching,
BTR graduates are less successful in raising test scores than other novice teachers.
Although research shows that
BTR graduates are initially not more effective at raising student test scores than other new teachers, the effectiveness of
BTR graduates improves rapidly over time, and by their fourth and fifth years in the classroom,
BTR graduates outperform other veteran teachers.70
Further, principals are very satisfied with the performance of former residents in their building: A recent survey conducted by
BTR found that 97 percent of principals who employ teachers who are alumni of
BTR «would recommend hiring a
BTR graduate to a colleague.»