Carrie Conaway

As part of its efforts to develop its teaching workforce, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE) has teacher evaluation systems that span the entire teacher pipeline. These include surveys of supervising practitioners and teacher candidates during the preservice clinical internship; a new practice-based preparation program completion assessment (the Candidate Assessment of Practice, or CAP); surveys of first-year teachers and their principals; and the state'...

The Massachusetts Legislature funded the Expanded Learning Time (ELT) initiative, which provides successful district applicants with grants to plan for and implement expanded schedules (providing additional instruction time in the school day and school year) in selected schools. Over the past year, the Massachusetts Department of Education and Abt Associates have collaborated to evaluate this new state initiative. The purpose of this project is to expand the current evaluation effort by exte...