Tntp Inc.

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2011 to Sep 30, 2012

Signed

Feb 11, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$62,436,754

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Performance managementa critical part of our work includes helping states build, pilot, and implement rigorous, fair, and accurate educator evaluation and development systems centered on how educators are performing in their most critical role: advancing student learning. Our partners have included louisiana, indiana, illinois, rhode island and tennessee as well as numerous districts. Because of our 2012 partnerships for this work, tntp was pivotal in ensuring that 10,500 teachers had a rigorous, student-focused evaluation that fosters collaborative relationship between teachers and principals. In 2012, in new york city, our evaluation system helped the district learn that 5.3% of their teachers were ineffective, 34.5% were developing, 49.3% were effective, 10.3% rated highly effective. This information is critical to inform their talent management decisions. We're also training educators to put the new tools into practice, helping individual school leaders make more informed decisions about teachers and create strong teaching teams. In 2012, we helped our target partner districts retain over 75% of effective teachers return for a 2nd year in our target districts. We also designed a state-of-the-art compensation system that will allow the achievement school district to attract top talent to the highest-need schools. We also partner with school districts to improve the flow of qualified teachers into their lowest-performing schools, ensuring that these schools, often in the poorest neighborhoods, open fully staffed. We focus on building the capacity of school principals to take a strategic approach to staffing that allows them to attract and hire the best teachers possible. Through our model staffing initiatives we demonstrate how schools can establish effective teacher hiring practices and put in place model strategies that can ultimately be rolled out to all schools in the district. In memphis city schools alone, we identified and filled 1,309 teacher vacancies in 188 schools to ensure that, at the start of the 2012-13 school year, the district was 99% staffed.

Activity 3

Policy, research and advocacytntp is helping schools, districts, and states understand how teachers are performing and what they need to do to get better. We do this in part by conducting targeted research to identify the obstacles that school systems face to hiring the best teachers possible and quantify the impact of these obstacles on schools, students, and teachers. Our data-driven approach enables us to talk plainly and objectively about the problems we find, to argue for key reforms, and to provide effective tools and realistic recommendations to district officials, legislators, and policy-makers. In 2012, we published a national report that examined the real retention crisis through the experiences of a group we call "the irreplaceables": teachers who are so successful that they are nearly impossible to replace. Teachers of this caliber provide more engaging learning experiences for students and help them achieve 5-6 more months of learning each year than students of low-performing teachers-academic results that can be life-changing. The irreplaceables sparked editorials from 8 of 10 of the nation's largest papers, reaching 14.1 million in positive circulation.we also published greenhouse schools, which surveyed thousands of teachers in 250 schools nationwide to identify high-performing "greenhouse schools"-those that keep more top teachers and get better results for students compared to schools that serve the same student populations. Greenhouse schools then shares what leaders at these schools were doing differently.finally, we strengthened our position as a national resource and advocate for teachers through the launch of our fishman prize. With the fishman prize, we recognized and publicized five excellent teachers with a $25,000 award and a place in a special summer residency program. The program spotlights great teaching and amplifies the voices of the nation's best educators. In addition to receiving one of the country's largest monetary awards for practicing teachers, fishman prize winners participate in a 6-week summer residency, to engage in various aspects of tntp's work, meet and discuss school reform with policymakers and education leaders, and collaborate with each other and with tntp staff to write and publish a short paper on a topic related to effective teaching.

Filer

EIN

13-3850158