Learning Point Associates: Publications

Publications

Teacher Leadership as a Key to Education Innovation: Action Steps and Promising Strategies for State, District, and University Officials (2010)

Managing Educator Talent: Promising Practices and Lessons From Midwestern States (2010)

View recent REL Midwest reports on state human capital management practices.

Job-Embedded Professional Development: What It Is, Who Is Responsible, and How to Get It Done Well Adobe PDF Icon (2010)

Toward the Structural Transformation of Schools: Innovations in Staffing (2009)
( Adobe Reader PDF 361 MB)

Hiring Quality School Leaders: Challenges and Emerging Practices (2009) ( Adobe Reader PDF 20 MB)

Measuring Principal Performance: How Rigorous Are Publicly Available Principal Performance Assessment Instruments? (2009) ( Adobe Reader PDF 909 KB)

Lesson Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges, and Long-Range Plans. This series of three reports by the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda explore the issues Generation Y teachers face on their first years on the job.

Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 1—They're Not Little Kids Anymore: The Special Challenges of New Teachers in High Schools and Middle Schools (2007) ( Adobe Reader PDF 1.4 MB)
Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 2—Working Without a Net: How New Teachers From Three Prominent Alternate Route Programs Describe Their First Year on the Job (2007) ( Adobe Reader PDF 1.3 MB)
Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges, and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 3—Teaching in Changing Times (2008) (Adobe Reader PDF 1 MB)

Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness: A Research Synthesis (2008)

Teachers on the Move: A Look at Teacher Interstate Mobility Policy and Practice (2008)
( Adobe PDF Icon Adobe^® Reader^® PDF 476 KB)

Improving Instruction Through Effective Teacher Evaluation: Options for States and Districts (2008)
( Adobe PDF Icon Adobe Reader PDF 616 KB)

TQ Research & Policy Updates

Special Edition of TQ Research & Policy Update (March 2009)
TQ Research & Policy Update (January 2009)
TQ Research & Policy Update Vol. 3, No. 3 (October 2008)
TQ Research & Policy Update Vol. 3, No. 2 (July 2008)
TQ Research & Policy Update Vol. 3, No. 1 (April 2008)
TQ Research & Policy Update Vol. 2, No. 4 (January 2008)

TQ Research & Policy Briefs

Leading Gen Y Teachers: Emerging Strategies for School Leaders (2009)
Paving the Path to the Urban School Principalship (2008)
Teacher Quality and Student Achievement: Making the Most of Recent Research (2008)
Barriers to the Preparation of Highly Qualified Teachers in Reading (2007)
The Teacher Preparation> Teacher Practices> Student Outcomes Relationship in Special Education: Missing Links and New Connections (2007)
Prospects For the Profession: Public Opinion Research On Teachers (2006)

TQ Source Tips & Tools

Identifying and Supporting Highly Effective Teachers (2008)
Enhancing Leadership Quality (2007)
Improving Teacher Quality Through the Implementation of a Multitiered Intervention System (2007)

TQ Source Tips & Tools Key Issues: Emerging Strategies to Enhance Educator Quality

Evaluating School Principals (2010)
Recruiting Teachers for Schools Serving English Language Learners (2009)
Preparing Teachers Effectively for At-Risk Schools (2009)
Identifying How Highly Effective Leaders Support Teachers (2008)
Identifying Professional Contexts to Support Highly Effective Teachers (2008)
Using Performance-Based Assessment to Identify and Support High-Quality Teachers (2008)
Using Value-Added Models to Identify and Support Highly Effective Teachers (2008)
Enhancing Teacher Leadership (2007)
Improving the Preparation of School and District Leaders (2007)
Teacher Quality for Multitiered Interventions (2007)
Improving Student Outcomes in General and Special Education With Effective Classroom Management Practices (2007)