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Using Competency-Based Evaluation to Drive Teacher Excellence: Lessons from Singapore

Many of Singapore’s lower-achieving students are learning at levels higher than gifted-student curricula in U.S. schools. The complete recipe for Singapore’s educational success is not public, but one element stands out: the development and thorough use of performance-linked “competencies” to measure, reward, and develop teacher performance. Read more about this highly effective system here.

Shooting for Stars: Cross-Sector Lessons for Retaining High-Performing Educators

Education actually has lower turnover rates than most other professions. Our real shortcoming has been the failure to retain more of the best teachers. This report identifies four common strategies employed by other sectors to disproportionately retain high performers.

Shooting for Stars shares how committed education leaders could begin applying these strategies to retain great teachers right now. Read more here.
Lessons from Singapore and Shooting for Stars are new reports in the series:
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For more resources from this series, visit: www.opportunityculture.org
Lessons from Singapore and this series were made possible with support from:
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Shooting for Stars was made possible with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The views expressed in these reports are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders.

 

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