Tntp Inc.

“Tntp's form 990 is prepared by the organization's controller and reviewed internally by the chief financial officer. The draft form 990 is then reviewed externally by an independent paid tax preparer. Any revisions are presented to the organization and once revised, the final draft form 990 is reviewed and approved by the organization's audit committee. Once approved by the audit committee, copies of the completed form 990 are provided to each voting member of the governing board prior to submission and filing with the internal revenue service.”

“Tntp asks its directors, officers, committee members and key employees to review and sign a conflict of interest policy on an annual basis. Tntp's finance staff follows up to resolve any disclosed conflicts. If a conflict is identified, the interested individual may not vote on the related matter.”

“The executive committee of the board of directors reviews and approves the compensation of all officers. For all positions, tntp's talent and culture team performs regular market analysis utilizing comparability data from industry surveys, documented compensation of persons holding similar positions in similar organizations, and/or independent compensation studies. The market analysis is shared with the executive committee of the board, and is considered in the recommendation of compensation changes for the organization's officers. A compensation review was last conducted in november 2014.”

“Tntp makes its form 990 available for public inspection as required under section 6104 of the internal revenue service code by posting it on www.guidestar.org. In addition, the form 990, audited financial statements, conflict of interest policies are available upon written request to 186 joralemon street, suite 300, brooklyn, ny 11201 or by calling the organization directly at (718)233-2800”

“Fy15 highlights in fy15, tntp was active in 30 cities, partnering with schools, districts and state departments of education on their most pressing student achievement challenges. We produced 1,679 new teachers through our 11 teaching fellows programs, prepared 864 new teachers (including non-fellows) through our 10 tntp academy programs, and adapted our teacher training and recruitment work to address serious teacher shortages. In addition to our core support for effective teacher hiring and evaluation, we also deepened our expertise in academics by expanding our common core quality review, and scaled up both our principal training and survey of school culture. In addition, we produced a signature report on professional development that has been downloaded 10,000 times since launch, a record for tntp publications. Fy15 results teacher recruitment and training we help school districts and states recruit, select, and train excellent new teachers for high-need classrooms. This year, our teaching fellows programs drew more than 15,000 applicants. Tntp academy, our rigorous, hands-on preparation program, holds a high bar for passing summer training and earning certification. Data shows that we screen teachers well-in 2015, 82 percent of participants completed all requirements to begin teaching, 8 percent of struggling participants did not make it into a classroom, and 9 percent self-selected out of teaching. In fall of 2015, 1,679 new teachers completed our teaching fellows programs and began teaching. We also continued to evaluate new teachers with our assessment of classroom excellence (ace) screen. Ace evaluates teachers during their first year of teaching based on multiple measures and determines whether they should be recommended for licensure. In 2015, we increased focus on rigorous content and incorporated performance against the tntp core teaching rubric, which describes excellent instruction aligned to the common core. In its fourth year, we evaluated 917 teachers with ace and recommended 79 percent of them for certification; another 10 percent were given a year extension. Tntp is the first preparation provider in the country to screen teachers for demonstrated effectiveness at this scale. We also adapted our teacher training and recruitment work to address serious teacher shortages. In many parts of the country, traditional teacher pipelines are dwindling, and districts are scrambling to fill vacancies before the start of school. This year, we partnered with five districts to analyze the root causes of their teacher supply issues, map out their long-term needs and craft a holistic strategy to meet those needs. We also explored new approaches to make recruitment and training more flexible-and more sustainable-than ever before. We provided district-wide training to new teachers in sites like pinellas county, fl, and designed new ways to deliver teacher training content online. School leadership and culture in 2015, we launched san francisco plus, tntp's third school leader recruitment and preparation program. To date across all three programs (san francisco plus, camdenplus and phillyplus) we have placed 21 residents in school-based leadership positions and built a cohort model to capitalize on the best practices across school types and address problems together that illustrate the common aspects of effective leadership. Already, we are seeing that our plus leaders are holding a high bar for staffing decisions that will support excellent instruction. During the 2014-15 school year, plus leaders in camden and philadelphia retained 100 percent of their best teachers and counseled out the majority of low-performing teachers (83 percent in philadelphia and 63 percent in camden). We're helping individual school leaders make more informed decisions about teachers and create strong teaching teams. In 2015, we continued to help our target partner districts retain more effective teachers for a second year in our target districts. I”