Clinical Practice Action Guide
August 2024This Clinical Practice Action Guide tells the stories of prep programs, districts, and states that have made a concerted effort...
Reimagining the Teaching Role:
How Strategic Staffing Can Attract and Retain Effective Teachers
Our classrooms haven't kept pace with innovation. The Ford Model T represented breakthrough technology in its day—more than 100 years ago—but it wouldn't serve us well today.
Likewise, our traditional classroom model from the same era doesn't work well for far too many students and teachers. In fact, as a result of this outdated model, it is more difficult for schools to find and keep great teachers, which ultimately hurts student learning.
Highlights of our work
Training + Recruitment
State of the States 2023: Policies to Increase Teacher Diversity
August 2023Despite robust research that shows that teachers of color increase positive academic, social-emotional, and behavioral outcomes for all students, particularly...
Teacher Prep Review: Strengthening Elementary Reading Instruction
June 2023Giving teachers the knowledge and skills they need to teach reading effectively is fundamental for improving life outcomes for all...
Staffing
Saving our best teachers: The urgency of retention amid layoffs
June 2024As districts face impending fiscal cuts and teacher layoffs, states and districts should take this opportunity to reexamine their approaches...
Seven strategies school districts are using to increase teacher diversity
March 2023Several school district leaders shared how they've accomplished recent gains in building a more diverse teacher workforce.
Do States Have the Data they Need to Answer Important Questions about their Teacher Workforce?
December 2022Given both the importance—and dearth—of nuanced, local data on teacher supply and demand, NCTQ set out to understand the key...
Evaluation + Support
Put me in, coach! How practice plus coaching helps aspiring teachers win
June 2024Teachers improve rapidly in their first years in the classroom. New research seeks to identify strategies that can move more...
State of the States 2022: Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policies
November 2022Results of the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress reveal alarming results: Since 2019, scores declined substantially for all students,...
Seven ways to make improving teacher evaluation worth the work
February 2022A look at how using evidence-based practices can help ensure that teacher evaluation systems produce positive outcomes.
Compensation
Teacher salaries, cost of rent, and home prices: Can teachers afford to live where they teach?
May 2023Lack of affordable housing exacerbates the teacher staffing challenges that many school districts face.
State of the States 2022: Teacher Compensation Strategies
September 2022Salaries are one of the most powerful policy levers states and school districts can use to attract qualified, effective, and...
Are teacher salaries keeping up with inflation?
March 2022An in-depth look at whether teacher salary increases have kept pace with rising consumer prices.