NTC's Five-Year Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Grant

  • Under this grant, NTC and SWWC will work to implement a whole-school professional learning model aimed at accelerating instructional practice through job-embedded instructional coaching focused on social emotional learning and rigorous academic content. NTC will train and support exemplary teacher leaders to serve as coaches and will work closely with school and district leaders to create the conditions to support effective coaching. NTC-trained coaches will provide instructionally focused, personalized professional development to English/language arts (ELA) and mathematics in grades 3–8 both one-on-one and in small professional learning communities (PLCs).
     
    GOALS
    1. Build capacity to lead a high-quality, sustainable whole-school PL strategy
    2. Prepare coaches to provide SEL- anchored, instructionally focused support 
    3. Provide teachers with exceptional SEL-anchored instructional support 
    4. Support school leaders to sustain instructionally focused teacher support 
    5. Engage stakeholder groups in continuous cycles of learning driven by data and communication to inform improvements.
     
    OUTCOMES
    1. Accelerate the skills, mindsets, and instructional practices of teachers, which includes developing skills, mindsets, and instructional practices of coaches, which includes developing skills in creating challenging, engaging, persevering, and caring classrooms 
    2. Improve SEL for systemically underserved students, including developing SEL competencies in self-efficacy, self-management, growth mindset, social awareness, and classroom relationships 
    3. Improve academic learning for systemically underserved students, including performance on math and English language arts (ELA) state assessments 
    4. Improve school-culture and conditions, as well as retention of effective teachers.

Participation in a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) Study

  • **The RCT project design means that once schools have committed to participate, they will be randomly assigned into either the Treatment group or the Delayed Treatment group. Once group assignments are made, schools cannot change groups. Each school opting in to participation has a 50/50 chance of being assigned to either the Treatment or Delayed Treatment conditions.