Research

Peer Assistance And Review

Update: April 16, 2012

• Is PAR a Good Investment? Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Teacher Peer Assistance and Review Programs by John P. Papay, Susan Moore Johnson and Jerome T. Murphy
• Collaborating On School Reform: Creating Union-Management Partnerships To Improve Public School Systems by Saul A. Rubinstein, and John E. McCarthy
• A User’s Guide To Peer Assistance And Review by Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Teacher To Teacher: Realizing The Potential Of Peer Assistance And Review by Susan Moore Johnson, John P. Papay, Sarah E. Fiarman, Mindy Sick Munger and Emily Kalejs Qazilbash

Evaluator Training

Update: March 29, 2012

• Teacher Evaluator Training & Certification: Lessons Learned from the Measures of Effective Teaching Project
• Preparing Principals to Evaluate Teachers (PDF)

Update: November 4, 2011

New York State Guidance Documents

• New York State Teaching Standards [update: Sep. 13, 2011]
• New York State Mentoring Standards [new]
• Guidance On New York State's Annual Professional Performance Review Law And Regulations by NYSED

Update: October 25, 2011

Cognitive Engagement

• The Role Of Cognitive Engagement In Classroom Learning And Motivation by Lyn Corno And Ellen B. Mandinach

Constructivism and Learning

• Constructivism and Block Scheduling: Making the Connection by Donald G. Hackmann
• Constructivism and Learning: Two Perspectives

21st Century Skills

• Toward a More Comprehensive Conception of College Readiness by David T. Conley, 2007, prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• 21st Century Skills by the Metri Group in partnership with the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
• Framework for 21st Century Learning by Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Framework for 21st Century Learning - Handout

Conditions of Teaching and Learning

• Massachusetts Teaching, Learning and Leading Survey: Creating School Conditions Where Teachers Stay and Students Thrive by Eric Hirsch, Casia Freitas, Keri Church and Anthony Villar
• Improving Teacher Working Conditions Lessons from North Carolina Schools by Eric Hirsch, Andrew Sioberg, Jane Robertson and Keri Church

Multiple Forms of Evidence

• Multiple Forms Of Evidence Study: Assessing Reading Through Student Work Samples, Teacher Observations, And Tests by Price, J.and Schwabacher, S. 1993.

Update: September 28, 2011

Teaching and Learning Standards

• Multistate Review Of Professional Teaching Standards (2010) #014 prepared by Melissa Eiler White, Reino Makkonen and Kari Becker Stewart

Teacher Evaluation Systems

Update: May 17, 2013

• Inclusive Design: Building Educator Evaluation Systems that Support Students with Disabilities by the Center on Great Teachers & Leaders at American Institutes for Research
• Educator Quality For The 21st Century: A Collaborative Effort Of The American Association Of School Administrators And The American Federation Of Teachers by AFT
• The Widget Effect: Our National Failure To Acknowledge And Act On Differences In Teacher Effectiveness by Daniel Weisberg, Susan Sexton, Jennifer Mulhern and David Keeling, The New Teacher Project
• Teacher Evaluation 2.0 by The New Teacher Project
• Policy 2.0 - Using Open Innovation To Reform Teacher Evaluation Systems by Hope Street Group
• Determining Processes That Build Sustainable Teacher Accountability Systems by Lucy Steiner
• Improving Instruction Through Effective Teacher Evaluation: Options For States And Districts by Carrie Mathers, Michelle Oliva with Sabrina W. M. Laine
• A Practical Guide To Designing Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Systems (2011) by Laura Goe, Lynn Holdheide and Tricia Miller
• A Continuous Improvement Model For Teacher Development And Evaluation by AFT
• Incorporating Student Performance Measures Into Teacher Evaluation Systems by Jennifer L. Steele, Laura S. Hamilton and Brian M. Stecher
• Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems by Steven Glazerman, Dan Goldhaber, Susanna Loeb, Stephen Raudenbush, Douglas O. Staiger, Grover J. Whitehurst, and Michelle Croft
• Teacher Evaluation Systems The Window For Opportunity And Reform by Olivia Little
• The Hidden Curriculum Of Performance-Based Teacher Education by Peter Rennert-Ariev
• The Effect Of Evaluation On Teacher Performance: Evidence From Longitudinal Student Achievement Data Of Mid-Career Teachers (March 2011) (Working Paper) by Eric S. Taylor and John H. Tyler
• Teacher Quality In Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, And Student Achievement by Jesse Rothstein

Teacher Effectiveness

• Worksheet: Questions To Ask About Measures And Models by Laura Goe
• Measuring Teachers’ Contributions To Student Learning Growth For Nontested Grades And Subjects by Lynn R. Holdheide and Laura Goe
• Methods Of Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness by Laura Goe, and Andrew Croft
• Challenges In Evaluating Special Education Teachers And English Language Learner Specialists by Lynn R. Holdheide, Laura Goe, Andrew Croft and Daniel J. Reschly
• A Practical Guide To Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness (2009) by Olivia Little, Laura Goe, and Courtney Bell
• Approaches To Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: A Research Synthesis (2008) by Laura Goe, Courtney Bell and Olivia Little
• Evaluating Teaching With Multiple Measures (2010) by Laura Goe
• The Relationship Between Standards-Based Teacher Evaluation Scores And Student Achievement: Replication And Extensions At Three Sites by Anthony T. Milanowski, Steven M. Kimball and Brad White
• Working With Teachers To Develop Fair And Reliable Measures Of Effective Teaching by Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation
• Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: The Widget Effect by Thomas J. Kane, Eric S. Taylor, John H. Tyler and Amy L. Wooten
• Getting Teacher Assessment Right What Policymakers Can Learn From Research by Patricia H. Hinchey
  
  

Professional Development

• Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teacher By C. Kirabo Jackson and Elias Bruegmann
• Reviewing The Evidence On How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement (2007) #033 by Kwang Suk Yoon, Teresa Duncan, Silvia Wen-Yu Lee, Beth Scarloss, and Kathy L. Shapley
• Does Teacher Professional Development Have Effects on Teaching and Learning? Evaluation Findings from Programs in 14 states (2008) by The Council of Chief State School Officers
• Teacher Professional Learning In The United States: Case Studies Of State Policies And Strategies Summary Report by Ann Jaquith, Dan Mindich, Ruth Chung Wei, and Linda Darling-Hammond
• Job-Embedded Professional Development: What It Is, Who Is Responsible, And How To Get It Done Well by Andrew Croft, Jane G. Coggshall, Megan Dolan, Elizabeth Powers, and Joellen Killion
• What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results from a National Sample of Teachers by Michael S. Garet, Andrew C. Porter, Laura Desimone, Beatrice F. Birman, Kwang and Suk Yoon
• Making Sense of the Links: Professional Development, Teacher Practices, and Student Achievement (2009) by Marjorie R. Wallace