Anthony Bryk

The Institute of Education Sciences and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching are working together, through a 3-year cooperative agreement involving the use of 90-day research cycles, to address issues related to the technical and implementation components of teacher evaluation systems. The goal of the project is to serve as an integrative force and enhance the capacity of those working in teacher evaluation to design better information systems for this work.

In this project, the researchers proposed to test the efficacy of an existent professional development program, the Literacy Collaborative (LC), and whether the efficacy of LC is enhanced through the addition of a web-based collaborative learning environment, the Literacy Coaching toolkit (LCtk). The study examined the interventions' efficacy on the work of school-based literacy coaches, the professional development of teachers whom these coaches support, and kindergarten through third grade...