Advance a Specific Priority
Providing focused support to help you meet your specific goals.
Tailored consulting support is available to teacher residencies, teacher registered apprenticeship programs, schools of education, and state education agencies to meet their unique needs and desired outcomes. Much like our Design Academy and NCTR Network consulting services, tailored consulting aligns with NCTR’s Levers for Teacher Residencies and is specifically designed and executed around a particular focus area or goal. Tailored consulting is available separately or in conjunction with a Design Academy or NCTR Network consulting service.
Tailored consulting is a collaborative opportunity that can include one-on-one virtual consulting sessions, invitations to webinars, customized resources and interactive tools, and other group learning experiences, including program site visits or in-person meeting facilitation.
NCTR's Levers for Teacher Residencies
NCTR's levers were designed to ensure successful implementation of programs using eight interconnected standards.
Tailored Consulting Engagements
Previous tailored consulting engagements have helped programs address challenges with expert insight and support and have resulted in an increased understanding and improved implementation in areas such as:
- Strengthening partnerships among universities, districts, and/or nonprofits
- Creating clarity on retention goals, community engagement, and programmatic influence across stakeholders
- Supporting the production of program evaluations
- Facilitating project management practices for teacher preparation leaders
- Recruiting and selecting teacher candidates, residents, and apprentices, including marketing practices to support recruitment
- Developing a review of the recruitment process
- Implementing strategies for recruiting and selecting mentor teachers
- Developing mentor and resident matching systems
- Supporting the design of coherent mentor teacher professional learning
- Measuring schoolwide improvement through impacts on training sites
- Improving strategies for residency graduate retention at training sites
- Analyzing mentor teacher instructional improvement and impact on residents and students
- Building and implementing a sustainable financial model for the teacher residency program or apprenticeship program
- Analyzing graduate retention and performance data to inform continuous improvement
- Designing induction programs that support program graduates
- Creating a coherent teacher resident learning experience through the integration of the clinical experience and course curriculum, assignments, and assessments
- Conducting alignment audits of course curricula
We also offer tailored consulting support for some of our most-needed services:
NCTR’s Research and Evaluation (R&E) team collects and shares data throughout the academic year to demonstrate the impact of high-quality teacher preparation programs and to encourage the development of a data-informed culture. NCTR uses data to examine the effectiveness of programs to codify the evidence-based practices that are leading to improved teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention. To that end, NCTR’s staff and consultants are available to:
- Conduct evaluations of teacher residency and teacher registered apprenticeship programs to answer a variety of research questions and add to the growing body of research on the preparation of teachers. The evaluations are intended to provide additional data to help programs improve their quality and impact. These can also include policy recommendations to guide the support and scale of high-quality teacher preparation programs in school districts and states.
NCTR offers policy and advocacy support to state policymakers and teacher preparation programs seeking to develop an advocacy plan for members of Congress and their state legislators. To this end, NCTR’s staff and consultants are available to:
- Convene educator preparation programs to facilitate collective problem solving, idea sharing, and collaboration to improve the impact of clinically rich teacher preparation programs.
- Support the development of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and scoring rubrics for grant competitions that fund teacher preparation programs or elements thereof.
- Develop state policy recommendations, example legislation, or regulatory language, based on research, to build or expand a state policy landscape that supports teacher preparation programs.
- Facilitate state policy collaboratives or networks.
- Conduct policy landscapes to develop policy recommendations.
Learn How Our Tailored Consulting Can Fit Your Needs
We recognize that every community is different, and your strategy should be too. We can provide customized support specifically for you.
