Early results in for teacher leadership program

Early results in for teacher leadership program
 
A program intended to boost student achievement by providing teachers with two years of professional development, including formal training sessions and meetings with a leadership coach, is showing signs of potential, according to a new RAND Corporation report .
 
The program, the Leading Educators (LE) Fellowship program, selects mid-career teachers through a competitive application process. To examine the impact of LE, researchers are comparing student achievement gains for teachers who participated in the program as fellows or mentees with the student achievement gains of other teachers.
 
According to RAND, early findings of the program are mixed, but suggest that the program shows promise in improving student achievement. Specifically, they report:
  • Among fellows, there are both some statistically significant positive and negative program effects on student achievement, with results that vary across states, subject areas, and model specifications.
  • Among mentee teachers, for whom sample sizes are larger, there is some suggestive evidence of impacts on student achievement - in particular, marginally significant and significant positive program effects among mentees who teach math and social studies, respectively, in Louisiana.
  • The impact of the program on teacher retention is unclear, with no consistent pattern of retention impacts across cohorts or states.
The authors note that the current results are based on few years of data and on a small sample of teachers, and results may change when there are more fellows and mentored teachers included in future studies.

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