Reports All documents will open in a new browser tab or window. Featured Publications Recommendations for State Support for Effective Teacher Residencies Download: Full Report States and school districts can improve teacher quality — and student growth — by providing dedicated support for teacher residencies, ensuring that new educators enter the classroom ready to meet students’ needs from day one. States and districts are increasingly turning to teacher residencies as a key strategy in improving student achievement and teacher effectiveness. The flexibility provided under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) facilitates this approach. This report provides guidance to states for developing policy to incorporate residencies and other clinical-based preparation models into systems for preparing and supporting effective educators. View Full Report NCTR 2017-2018 Network Partner Report Download: Full Report In 2017, NCTR worked with the largest number of programs in our history. Our strategic consulting group supported 14 new or emerging programs, while our Next Generation Network of established teacher residencies grew to 24. In addition, NCTR has partnered with the California State University System to transform the traditional teacher prep programs at seven campuses into residencies or programs that use NCTR’s standards of clinical teacher preparation. Together, these residencies have trained approximately 3,500 teachers to work in high-need, low-income schools. Residency graduates teach close to 200,000 students nationwide, and our footprint continues to grow. View Full Report High Priority Resident Practices Download: Full Report The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) has helped launch and grow more than 30 teacher residencies since our founding in 2007. Starting in 2017, we worked with these residency partners, drawing on their collective expertise to examine how they implement practice-based preparation. In doing this, we learned that a critical first step for virtually all of these programs was to identify a core set of teacher practices and skills aligned to their district’s teacher effectiveness frameworks. We call these practices “High Priority Resident Practices,” because they represent a core set of practices and skills that set future teachers up for early success and support ongoing development. View Full Report Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation Download: Full Report Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation (COTP) shares examples of innovative, clinically oriented teacher preparation practices happening around the country. Featuring NCTR partners as well as other traditional and alternative route programs, the report describes how preparation programs are innovating the residency model components and placing practice at the center of how teachers are prepared. COTP illustrates how preparation providers are transitioning their approach to new teacher development that is more clinically rich and dynamic. View Full Report Publications Drivers of Teacher Preparation: Landscape Analysis Download: Full Report “Drivers of Teacher Preparation: Landscape Analysis” (Landscape Analysis) is a new paper that provides a rich research base for the drivers of high-quality clinical preparation developed and implemented with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a part of their Alliance for Advancing Justice By Transforming Teacher Education initiative. Through this initiative, NCTR will partner with more than 30 residency programs that will prepare 2,500 new teachers for high-need schools, and will use data and research to implement four key drivers of transformational teacher preparation: Refine provider programming to be competency-based and clinically focused; Collect and use implementation and impact data to improve program design; Improve educator and teacher educator effectiveness; and Ensure graduates are successful in their school systems and communities. The Landscape Analysis grounds NCTR’s work on the above drivers of high-quality, clinically oriented teacher preparation in the extant research, and articulates the strengths and areas for growth within the field of teacher preparation through an extensive review of the literature. This report serves as the launching point for NCTR’s work on the Alliance for Advancing Justice initiative, which enhances opportunities for NCTR’s Next Generation Network partners to collaborate and engage in high-quality and relevant initiatives that directly improve student outcomes. View Full Report The Case Study Project: Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation Download: Full Report Despite a growing body of evidence that a practice-based approach is the best way to prepare teachers, few studies to date provide tangible insight into how to move toward a clinical model. With the release of Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation (COTP) in 2015, the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR, formerly UTRU) set out to illustrate what preparation programs actually do as they transition to a clinically oriented approach; what the move toward practice-based preparation looks like; and what can be learned from programs across the nation that are transitioning to clinically oriented teacher preparation. The COTP Case Study Project (CSP) takes an in-depth look at the opportunities and challenges programs face as they instantiate each key shift. Through three case studies, NCTR digs more deeply into the lessons learned from and the struggles inherent in transitioning to a clinical model. View Full Report Innovations in Teacher Preparation: Boettcher Teacher Residency Rural Expansion Download: Full Report A combination of factors created a perfect storm for Boettcher Teacher Residency’s burgeoning interest in rural school districts. The program had been serving urban districts with its teacher residency program since 2004, but was also well aware of the recruitment and retention challenges rural districts face. View Full Report NCTR 2015 Network Impact Overview Download: Full Report Each year NCTR analyzes a body of evidence on residency program impact and implementation to demonstrate how residents are prepared for the rigors of the classroom, to show early evidence of teacher performance and effectiveness in improving student achievement, and to collect stakeholders’ perceptions of the residency model core components and key participants. The Network Impact Overview provides a selection of this evidence showing that residencies are fulfilling their goal to strengthen teacher preparation and ensure new teachers enter the classroom ready. View Full Report Overview of NCTR’s Teacher Preparation Transformation Center Download: Full Report NCTR’s Teacher Preparation Transformation Center will accelerate the impact of effective teacher residency programs, broadening the adoption of research-based preparation practices across the country. View Full Report UTRU Research and Evaluation Goals, April 29, 2015 Download: Full Report The goals of UTRU’s Research and Evaluation business line are described in detail. View Full Report 2014-15 UTRU Network Partner Program Report, March 3, 2015 Download: Full Report A collection of data from UTRU’s Network partners representing the collective impact that residencies are making for high-need students nationwide. View Full Report UTRU 2013-14 End Year Trends Report Download: Full Report This report highlights key findings from UTRU’s 2013-14 end-year surveys. View Full Report Building Effective Teacher Residencies Download: Full Report Building Effective Teacher Residencies examines the characteristics of two highly successful teacher residency programs in NCTR’s Network—the Aspire Teacher Residency and the Denver Teacher Residency. Both programs participated in NCTR’s technical assistance programming in order to launch their residencies. Supported by a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Building Effective Teacher Residencies shares findings from a year of extensive observations and interviews with program staff, residents, mentors, principals, and other stakeholders, and provides a comprehensive look at the inner workings of a successful residency program. NCTR believes that the lessons shared will help fuel innovation for residencies, other teacher preparation programs, and, ultimately, for students. 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Recommendations for State Support for Effective Teacher Residencies Download: Full Report States and school districts can improve teacher quality — and student growth — by providing dedicated support for teacher residencies, ensuring that new educators enter the classroom ready to meet students’ needs from day one. States and districts are increasingly turning to teacher residencies as a key strategy in improving student achievement and teacher effectiveness. The flexibility provided under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) facilitates this approach. This report provides guidance to states for developing policy to incorporate residencies and other clinical-based preparation models into systems for preparing and supporting effective educators. View Full Report
NCTR 2017-2018 Network Partner Report Download: Full Report In 2017, NCTR worked with the largest number of programs in our history. Our strategic consulting group supported 14 new or emerging programs, while our Next Generation Network of established teacher residencies grew to 24. In addition, NCTR has partnered with the California State University System to transform the traditional teacher prep programs at seven campuses into residencies or programs that use NCTR’s standards of clinical teacher preparation. Together, these residencies have trained approximately 3,500 teachers to work in high-need, low-income schools. Residency graduates teach close to 200,000 students nationwide, and our footprint continues to grow. View Full Report
High Priority Resident Practices Download: Full Report The National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) has helped launch and grow more than 30 teacher residencies since our founding in 2007. Starting in 2017, we worked with these residency partners, drawing on their collective expertise to examine how they implement practice-based preparation. In doing this, we learned that a critical first step for virtually all of these programs was to identify a core set of teacher practices and skills aligned to their district’s teacher effectiveness frameworks. We call these practices “High Priority Resident Practices,” because they represent a core set of practices and skills that set future teachers up for early success and support ongoing development. View Full Report
Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation Download: Full Report Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation (COTP) shares examples of innovative, clinically oriented teacher preparation practices happening around the country. Featuring NCTR partners as well as other traditional and alternative route programs, the report describes how preparation programs are innovating the residency model components and placing practice at the center of how teachers are prepared. COTP illustrates how preparation providers are transitioning their approach to new teacher development that is more clinically rich and dynamic. View Full Report
Drivers of Teacher Preparation: Landscape Analysis Download: Full Report “Drivers of Teacher Preparation: Landscape Analysis” (Landscape Analysis) is a new paper that provides a rich research base for the drivers of high-quality clinical preparation developed and implemented with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a part of their Alliance for Advancing Justice By Transforming Teacher Education initiative. Through this initiative, NCTR will partner with more than 30 residency programs that will prepare 2,500 new teachers for high-need schools, and will use data and research to implement four key drivers of transformational teacher preparation: Refine provider programming to be competency-based and clinically focused; Collect and use implementation and impact data to improve program design; Improve educator and teacher educator effectiveness; and Ensure graduates are successful in their school systems and communities. The Landscape Analysis grounds NCTR’s work on the above drivers of high-quality, clinically oriented teacher preparation in the extant research, and articulates the strengths and areas for growth within the field of teacher preparation through an extensive review of the literature. This report serves as the launching point for NCTR’s work on the Alliance for Advancing Justice initiative, which enhances opportunities for NCTR’s Next Generation Network partners to collaborate and engage in high-quality and relevant initiatives that directly improve student outcomes. View Full Report
The Case Study Project: Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation Download: Full Report Despite a growing body of evidence that a practice-based approach is the best way to prepare teachers, few studies to date provide tangible insight into how to move toward a clinical model. With the release of Clinically Oriented Teacher Preparation (COTP) in 2015, the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR, formerly UTRU) set out to illustrate what preparation programs actually do as they transition to a clinically oriented approach; what the move toward practice-based preparation looks like; and what can be learned from programs across the nation that are transitioning to clinically oriented teacher preparation. The COTP Case Study Project (CSP) takes an in-depth look at the opportunities and challenges programs face as they instantiate each key shift. Through three case studies, NCTR digs more deeply into the lessons learned from and the struggles inherent in transitioning to a clinical model. View Full Report
Innovations in Teacher Preparation: Boettcher Teacher Residency Rural Expansion Download: Full Report A combination of factors created a perfect storm for Boettcher Teacher Residency’s burgeoning interest in rural school districts. The program had been serving urban districts with its teacher residency program since 2004, but was also well aware of the recruitment and retention challenges rural districts face. View Full Report
NCTR 2015 Network Impact Overview Download: Full Report Each year NCTR analyzes a body of evidence on residency program impact and implementation to demonstrate how residents are prepared for the rigors of the classroom, to show early evidence of teacher performance and effectiveness in improving student achievement, and to collect stakeholders’ perceptions of the residency model core components and key participants. The Network Impact Overview provides a selection of this evidence showing that residencies are fulfilling their goal to strengthen teacher preparation and ensure new teachers enter the classroom ready. View Full Report
Overview of NCTR’s Teacher Preparation Transformation Center Download: Full Report NCTR’s Teacher Preparation Transformation Center will accelerate the impact of effective teacher residency programs, broadening the adoption of research-based preparation practices across the country. View Full Report
UTRU Research and Evaluation Goals, April 29, 2015 Download: Full Report The goals of UTRU’s Research and Evaluation business line are described in detail. View Full Report
2014-15 UTRU Network Partner Program Report, March 3, 2015 Download: Full Report A collection of data from UTRU’s Network partners representing the collective impact that residencies are making for high-need students nationwide. View Full Report
UTRU 2013-14 End Year Trends Report Download: Full Report This report highlights key findings from UTRU’s 2013-14 end-year surveys. View Full Report
Building Effective Teacher Residencies Download: Full Report Building Effective Teacher Residencies examines the characteristics of two highly successful teacher residency programs in NCTR’s Network—the Aspire Teacher Residency and the Denver Teacher Residency. Both programs participated in NCTR’s technical assistance programming in order to launch their residencies. Supported by a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Building Effective Teacher Residencies shares findings from a year of extensive observations and interviews with program staff, residents, mentors, principals, and other stakeholders, and provides a comprehensive look at the inner workings of a successful residency program. NCTR believes that the lessons shared will help fuel innovation for residencies, other teacher preparation programs, and, ultimately, for students. View Full Report
UTRU Assessment and Data Literacy Scope and Sequence, September 2014 Download: Full Report Download: Executive Summary View Full Report