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BE PART OF THE EQUATION
Celine Coggins, Ph.D. Founder & CEO
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BE PART OF THE EQUATION
Overview
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• Who We Are
• What We Do
• Teaching Policy Fellows
• T+ Network
• T3: Turnaround Teacher Teams
• What We’ve Learned
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Mission Statement
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The mission of Teach Plus is to improve the achievement of urban children by ensuring that a greater proportion of students have access to excellent, experienced teachers.
Teach Plus runs three programs designed to place teacher leaders at the center of reform. They are the:
Teaching Policy Fellowship, T+ Network, and T3: Turnaround Teacher Teams.
Our programs focus on demonstrably effective teachers in the second stage of their careers (in most cases, years 3 through 10) who want to continue classroom teaching, while also expanding their impact as leaders in their schools and in state and district policy.
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Nearly half of new teachers leave urban classrooms within 3 years, just as they are beginning to have the strongest impact on student learning.
We’re giving effective teachers a reason to stay.
Teachers are the most important factor in student achievement. Four consecutive years of excellent teachers could close the achievement gap.
Over 50% of urban teachers have less than 10 years in the classroom.
When effective teachers leave the classroom there is a significant cost to students and schools.
Teacher experience is correlated with effectiveness.
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What We Know
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Teach Plus Theory of Change
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Effective Teachers
Effective Teaching
Not Defined
Inequitable Distribution of Teachers
Lack of Leadership Opportuniti
es
Incentives to Teach in High-Need
schools
New Ways for Teachers
to Make Impact
Reward Effective Teaching
Raise Student Achievement
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Goal
Barriers
Teach Plus
High Attrition of Effective Teachers
Teacher-Led Advocacy
for Change
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Our Geographies
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We work with approximately 4,500 teachers in the following cities:Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Memphis, andDC
We run an online fellowship for TFA alums in the following cities:Baltimore,Durham,Las Vegas,Mississippi Delta, andNew York City.
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Teaching Policy Fellowship
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The Teaching Policy Fellows is a highly-selective program for teachers interested in having a voice in the decisions that affect their classrooms. Teachers meet in monthly sessions that during a cohort experience that spans two school years.
Teachers of urban charter and district schools in years 3-10 serve in cohorts of 20-25 teachers per city and earn a $3,000 stipend over 18-months.
There are 175 total Teach Plus Fellows and Fellowship Alumni.
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Fellowship Impact
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The Fellows proposed a model for staffing turnaround schools with teams of highly effective teacher leaders called T3.
T3 is now operating in six of Boston Public School district’s low performing schools.
Boston IndianapolisThe Fellows secured a change
to the teachers’ contract that incorporates performance into the layoff process, which had previously been quality-blind.
The next year they advocated for a legislative change that changed layoff processes statewide.Elevating an alternative teacher voice
Teach Plus Fellows have published over a dozen reports and articles in the past year and have blogs on EdWeek and Huffington Post.
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Fellowship Impact
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Typology of Fellows Impact
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T+ Network
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The T+ Network is a rapidly-growing national movement of teachers who believe a critical voice has been missing from education policy decision-making: the voice of teachers for kids.
Expanding series of interactive in-person and virtual forums, we provide opportunities for teachers to give direct feedback to policy makers.
Multi-tier engagement strategy to reach and mobilize the greatest number of reform-minded teachers. In-person events use live-polling to gather data from all teachers (typically
over 100 per event) Online discussion forums Weekly education policy news blast Monthly education policy news letter
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T+ Network Impact
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1) Connecting teachers to policy makers and educating them on key reform issues.Recent event speakers included Michelle Rhee, LA
Superintendent John Deasey, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and AEI Director of Policy Studies Frederick Hess
Recent events:Where are YOU in the Union? A conversation
among early-career teachers and union leadersMoving Beyond the LA Times: How do teachers
define effective teaching?Racing to the Top: A forum for teacher voice
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T+ Network Impact
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2) Demonstrating that reform-minded teachers exist.Teach Plus has grown from 16 founding
teachers to a national movement of 4,500 teachers in 2 years.85% agree that some teachers in their
building contribute more to student learning and ought to be rewarded.
89% believe it is a reasonable goal to expect teachers to attain one year’s worth of academic growth with students each year.
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T+ Network Impact
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3) Providing data policy makers can use.As state policy makers were writing the MA Race to the Top
proposal, 86% of T+ Network teachers agreed that growth in student learning should be included as part of a teacher’s evaluation. State leaders said this data was critical in their decision to be bold on evaluation reform.
In an event with union leaders, teachers cited “I don’t agree with the union’s vision and direction” as the #1 reason they are not involved in the union.
In Memphis, teachers voted on which new observation rubric to use in evaluation and how to weight the different elements of the evaluation tool. District leaders adopted teachers’ decision.
4) Connecting reform-minded teachers with each other.
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T3: Turnaround Teacher Teams
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The T3 Initiative is a first-of-its-kind program designed to ensure that underserved students have increased access to effective, experienced teachers. The concept was developed by Boston Teaching Policy Fellows.
Teacher leaders: Apply through a rigorous process that requires evidence of at
least 3 years of effective teaching in an urban classroom; Work as a team that comprises at least 25% of the school staff;Receive specialized training;Take on teacher leadership roles within the school; andEarn additional compensation.
T3 teachers are charged with producing dramatic gains in student achievement in a previously low-performing school.
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T3 Impact
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T3 attracted large numbers of excellent teachers to work in low-performing schools, challenging the notion that great teachers do not want to teach in struggling schools.There were more than six applicants for each position
available100% of teachers offered T3 positions accepted. Over 50% of first two cohorts fills a high need area.
T3 demonstrated that it is possible to change the teaching culture of a school.
T3 is a proof point that teachers can provide viable solutions to tough education policy problems.
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T3 Impact
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T3 schools outperformed every possible comparison group on student learning growth. All schools in MAAll schools in BPSAll turnaround schools statewideAll BPS turnaround schools
On elementary math, T3 Schools as a whole outperformed 89% of schools in MA
At the middle school level, the one T3 School outperformed
96% of schools in ELA growth 98% of schools in math growth