Effective Teaching Transforms Public Education

September 29, 2010

Silicon Valley Briefing

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Agenda

Welcome - Gary Syman, SeaChange & NTC Board

Overview - Ellen Moir, NTC CEO & Founder

Growth Plan - Scott Ellis, NTC Chief Strategy Officer

Call to Action - Ellen Moir, NTC CEO & Founder

Education Landscape - April Chou, NewSchools Venture Fund

Impact Panel - Moderated by Ellen Moir

Norma Rodriguez - Principal, Dorsa School, Alum Rock Union School District

Lindsay White, 2nd year teacher, Dorsa School, Alum Rock Union School District

Robert Ibarra, District Office Administrator, East Side Union High School District

Paul Kilkenny, Mentor, East Side Union High School District

Q & A

Closing Remarks – Lance Fors, NTC Board Chair

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Gary Syman

SeaChange Capital Partners

& NTC Board

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Ellen Moir

NTC CEO & Founder

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Our Mission

New Teacher Center improves student learning

by supporting the development of an inspired,

dedicated, and highly effective teaching force

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Our Challenge

The first years of teaching are the hardest

• Pre-service teacher education programs do not prepare

new teachers for rigors of the classroom

• Beginning teachers often lack strong in-school support

• A lack of success in the classroom leads to disillusionment

and attrition

Meanwhile

• Our neediest students are least likely to have highly

effective experienced teachers in the classroom

• The achievement gap widens

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Our Theory Of Change

Help new teachers

get better faster

Enable new teachers to

stay teachers longer

Increased

student

achievement

Teachers who are

better prepared and

more effective

Decreased attrition

of effective teachers

An inspired,

dedicated, effective

teaching force

Accelerate new teacher development to increase student achievement

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Our Model

Using Data to

Inform Instruction

Planning Standards-

Based Instruction

Ongoing Assessment

of Teacher Practice

Building School-wide

Collaborative

PracticesAnalyzing

Student Work

Observing and

Giving Feedback

Teacher Performance•Observation data•Lesson plans•Written reflections•Video-taped lessons•Portfolios•Self-report

Student Impact• Test data• Attendance rates• Student engagement• Student work• Student reflections• Student behavior

Primary forms of evidence

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Impact Snapshot

Source: NTC Contract Audit, 2009

NTC Teacher

Induction

Divisions

New

TeachersMentors Principals Students

National

Teacher

Induction19,947 4,370 1,762 1,317,487

CA network 6,569 1,825 487,676

e-mentoring 302 107 37,750

TOTAL 26,818 6,302 1,762 1,842,913

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Our Leadership Team

Ellen Moir CEO

Janet GlessChief Programs and Partnerships Officer

Scott EllisChief Strategy Officer

Srikanth GopalakrishnanSr Director of Impact

Wendy Baron Chief Academic Officer

Eric HirschChief External Affairs Officer

Jane Baker Communications Director

Garfield Byrd Chief Financial Officer

Tirzah EnumahChief of Staff

Alicia LivingstonExec Asst to CEO

Brian KaplanVP Development

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Journey to National ScaleC

on

tra

cts

pe

r ye

ar

Growth and

Increased

Impact

Early Successes

Growth &

Expansion

Transition

Getting

Started

Transformation

We

are

here!

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Scott Ellis

Chief Strategy Officer

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Impact

Pillars of

Organizational

Effectiveness

Foundation

Induction

programsNational

dialoguePolicy

Innovation

Measuring

impact

Strategy

and

organization

Internal

processes

Finance

Development

People

Strategic Priorities for FY’11

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Our Next Phase

Objective: Double in 3 years

• Why: Our model works. We are ready. Now is the time to reach more

new teachers and impact the most underserved students.

• What this will mean: Replicate our full program in 20-30 new districts

across the country, provide services in many more, and shape the

national dialogue as a prominent voice on teacher effectiveness.

• Key success factors:

Accelerate client outreach

Innovate

Define and measure impact

Strengthen infrastructure

Grow and Increase Impact

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What Growth Means

Key elements

• Goal is to double over 3 years

• Majority of incremental headcount to support delivery to more districts

• Fee-for-service structure remains the financial model

Role of philanthropy

InnovationGrowth Infrastructure

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$5,000

$10,000

$15,000

$20,000

$25,000

$30,000

$35,000

$40,000

FY'11 FY'12 FY'13 FY'14

Infrastructure

Innovation

External Affairs

Delivery

NTC expense budget ($K)

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Join Us!

…because every child in America deserves a great teacher

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April Chou

NewSchools Venture Fund

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The Market Landscape

Policy landscape

Obama Administration driving policy shifts, including support for education entrepreneurs, competition, results, common standards

Opposition from teacher unions and intense Congressional partisanship

Uncertain ESEA timing

Non-traditional leaders in key urban markets are pushing transformative change with partners

Ventures

First wave of entrepreneurial ventures is now well established

New organizations are emerging to address critical barriers to student performance

CMOs are beginning to reach sustainable scale, with several break-through performers in key urban markets

Funding

Down economy, with intense budgetary pressure

Large national foundations developing new strategies

Emergence of new sources of federal funding focused on scale/innovation

Public educationreform efforts to

close the achievement gap

Competition

High performing organizations have established a strong national brands and are increasingly competing for philanthropic resources

Technology

Technological change has created new opportunities, but penetration in education has been slow

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The NewSchools Innovation Fund

Public educationreform efforts to

close the achievement gap

School Networks “Around the

Corner” Tools

Human Capital

College and life success for

low-income students

Human Capital Strategy

Goal: increase by 2X the impact that

teachers have on student achievement

• Create a diverse market of

performance-based teacher

preparation providers, where

performance is anchored in

measures of a teacher’s impact on

student achievement

• Invest in talent development

innovations that ensure every

student is taught by a highly

effective teacher

• Build and expand sources of non-

teaching talent that drive student

achievement

Goal: seek out, incubate, invest in, and grow early-stage entrepreneurial organizations that are

creating scalable innovations, which individually or in combination, have high potential to

dramatically improve practice and prepare underserved students for success in college.

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Panel Norma Rodriguez - Principal, Dorsa School, Alum Rock Union School District

Lindsay White, 2nd year teacher, Dorsa School, Alum Rock Union School District

Robert Ibarra, District Office Administrator, East Side Union High School District

Paul Kilkenny, Mentor, East Side Union High School District

Norma Lindsey Robert Paul Ellen

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Lance Fors

Board Chair, NTC