A narrated PowerPoint presentation that introduces the key concepts and findings around teacher Professional Growth & Support. Mid-presentation exercises encourage audience members to reflect on their system’s Professional Growth & Support investments.

This video is part of a series of publications and tools devoted to teacher Professional Growth & Support. The rest include:

• A New Vision for Teacher Professional Growth & Support: Six Steps to a More Powerful School System Strategy. This white paper draws on research, ERS experience with urban school systems, and detailed analyses of three case studies to present a new vision for building teacher effectiveness—one which moves beyond traditional “training” and is instead integrated into the essential instructional improvement activities that high-performing schools undertake.
• Professional Growth & Support System Self-Assessment: A self-assessment tool that allows a system to gauge its alignment with the principles for effective Professional Growth & Support.
• Professional Growth & Support Spending Calculator: A detailed set of worksheets and methodology to enable school systems to quantify their spending on teacher Professional Growth & Support.
• Promising Practices in Professional Growth & Support: Case Studies of Aspire Public Schools, Teach Plus, Achievement First, and Agile Mind: These case studies profile four highly successful approaches to expanding teaching effectiveness. The organizations invest in a variety of activities that are consistent with ERS’ Eight Principles of Strategic Professional Growth & Support Systems. These include investments in integrated professional growth models, instructional guidance systems, teacher leaders, and teaming around data.