Guide to Teacher Quality for Local Education Leaders (Complete Document) (5.3mb)
The purpose of this guide is to assist local education leaders in the critical role of supporting student achievement. Our intent is to broaden local leaders’ understanding of teacher quality and its connection to student achievement, and to suggest tools for local education leaders to use.

Why is teacher quality important? (92kb)
Our best chances for closing student achievement gaps lie with the teachers with whom our children are closely connected. Studies about the contribution of teachers to student learning …

What does a quality teacher look like? (128kb)
There are many ways to describe a quality teacher, one of which is the Federal highly qualified requirements...

What we know about teacher quality (92kb)
Experience is very important. The ability of a new teacher to support student learning increases greatly during his/her first year of teaching and continues to grow through at …

What we know about teacher quality in Colorado (120kb)
There is a teacher quality gap.
High minority and high poverty schools have less experienced and less educated teachers

What can local education leaders do to support quality teaching? (2.5mb)
Understand the Challenges Affecting Teacher Quality … and six more tools…

Conclusion (1.2mb)

References (1.2mb)

APPENDIX A: Glossary of Common Terms related to teacher quality (1.3mb)

APPENDIX B:  Summary of laws that pertain to quality teaching (1.3mb)

APPENDIX C:  Sample policies that may impact quality teaching (1.3mb)

APPENDIX D: Data-Driven Dialogue – brief overview (1.2mb)

APPENDIX E: Establishing Descriptors of the Teachers You Want to Hire (1.2mb)