Heather Hill

The National Center for Research in Policy and Practice developed measures and tools to document research use in schools, described the conditions under which research is used and the factors that promote or inhibit research use in schools and school districts, and identified and examined researcher practices that were associated with greater use of research. In addition, the Center engaged in leadership and outreach activities that helped school and district leaders apply study findings, in...

The National Center for Teacher Effectiveness: Validating Measures of Effective Math Teaching will identify practices and characteristics that distinguish between more and less effective teachers and will use this information to develop a suite of empirically validated and practical instruments that can be used by school districts to select, deploy, and retain more effective teachers. While focusing on math instruction in grades 4 and 5, the Center will have four primary goals: