(NAME-MCE) The New Teacher Project (TNTP)

[Anselmo Villanueva]

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is a national non-profit organization
dedicated to increasing the number of outstanding individuals who become
public school teachers and to creating environments for all educators that
maximize their impact on student achievement. Since 1997, we have partnered
with school districts, state education agencies, colleges and universities,
and other educational entities to accomplish these goals. To date, we have
trained or hired approximately 28,000 high-quality teachers, worked with
more than 200 school districts and established more than 55 programs or
initiatives in 27 states.

For more information:

info at tntp.org *
(212) 590-2484
http://www.tntp.org/
* The Problem

Every child deserves an excellent education, yet our nation's public school
systems are fraught with educational inequities. In particular, schools
serving poor and minority students--especially those in urban areas--have
long struggled to provide their students with an education equal to that of
their counterparts in the suburbs. Armed with the knowledge that such
disparities are not irredeemable, we have focused our work on these
"high-need" schools and, more specifically, on influencing what research has
shown to be the single most important factor in improving student
achievement: the quality of the teacher in every classroom.


The Approach

Today, The New Teacher Project is playing an important role in increasing
teacher quality in high-need schools across the country. We approach this
problem in four ways:

   - We create innovative
programs<http://www.tntp.org/services/teacher_recruitment.html>that
bring high-quality teachers into hard-to-staff schools;
   - We identify the policy
barriers<http://www.tntp.org/services/research.html>that keep schools
from hiring the best teachers possible and advocate for
   necessary reforms;
   - We work hand-in-hand with school districts to optimize their teacher
   hiring and school staffing
functions<http://www.tntp.org/services/school_staffing.html>;
   and
   - We develop new and better ways to prepare, develop, and certify
   teachers <http://www.tntp.org/services/training.html> for public schools