Research Brief
Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Enhanced How Teachers Are Evaluated But Had Little Effect on Student Outcomes
Feb 11, 2019
The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative was a multiyear effort to dramatically improve student outcomes by increasing students' access to effective teaching. Researchers from the RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research conducted a six-year evaluation of the initiative, documenting the policies and practices each site enacted and their effects on student outcomes. This is the final evaluation report.
The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2015–2016
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The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative, designed and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was a multiyear effort to dramatically improve student outcomes by increasing students' access to effective teaching. Participating sites adopted measures of teaching effectiveness (TE) that included both a teacher's contribution to growth in student achievement and his or her teaching practices assessed with a structured observation rubric. The TE measures were to be used to improve staffing actions, identify teaching weaknesses and overcome them through effectiveness-linked professional development (PD), and employ compensation and career ladders (CLs) as incentives to retain the most-effective teachers and have them support the growth of other teachers. The developers believed that these mechanisms would lead to more-effective teaching, greater access to effective teaching for low-income minority (LIM) students, and greatly improved academic outcomes.
Beginning in 2009–2010, three school districts — Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) in Florida; Memphis City Schools (MCS) in Tennessee (which merged with Shelby County Schools, or SCS, during the initiative); and Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) in Pennsylvania — and four charter management organizations (CMOs) — Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools, Green Dot Public Schools, and Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC) Schools — participated in the Intensive Partnerships initiative. RAND and the American Institutes for Research conducted a six-year evaluation of the initiative, documenting the policies and practices each site enacted and their effects on student outcomes. This is the final evaluation report.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
The IP Sites
Chapter Three
Measures of Effective Teaching
Chapter Four
Recruitment, Hiring, Placement, and Transfer Policies
Chapter Five
Tenure and Dismissal Policies
Chapter Six
PD Policies
Chapter Seven
Compensation Policies
Chapter Eight
CL Policies
Chapter Nine
Resources Invested in the IP Initiative
Chapter Ten
The Effectiveness of Newly Hired Teachers
Chapter Eleven
Retention of Effective Teachers
Chapter Twelve
The Initiative's Effects on TE and on LIM Students' Access to Effective Teaching
Chapter Thirteen
The Initiative's Impact on Student Outcomes
Chapter Fourteen
Summary and Conclusions
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