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  Focus on Literacy - Professional Development Audit
Landmark audit shows link between teacher professional development and student achievement.

Winning Support for Education
Advocacy is not just another tool but an intrinsic part of your job and it requires its rightful role at the core of educational reform. How to advocate for public education and get what your district needs.



   


The Community Training and Assistance Center (CTAC) is a national not-for-profit organization with a demonstrated record of success in urban communities in the fields of education, community development, and health and human services.

CTAC focuses on developing leadership, planning and managerial expertise within community-based organizations, school systems, collaborative partnerships, state and municipal governments, and health and human service agencies.

The staff of CTAC is comprised of nationally recognized executives, educators, researchers, policy makers, and organizers who have extensive experience working with governmental agencies, educational institutions, federal legislative bodies, not-for-profit organizations, philanthropic institutions and the private
sector.

Since 1979, CTAC has provided assistance to hundreds of community-based organizations, coalitions and public institutions, and has conducted research and evaluation studies with significant policy implications.

 
TEACHER COMPENSATION AND STUDENT LEARNING

CTAC and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Awarded Grant to Implement Pay for Performance

Pay-Reform Plan for Teachers OK'd
DENVER POST FRONT PAGE


Teacher Pay in New Era
FLORIDA TODAY FRONT PAGE


First Major City Wins Approval for Rewarding Teachers for Students' Progress.
 
 

Mission Possible: Tying Earning to Learning
COMMENTARY SECTION OF EDUCATION WEEK


Leave No Parent Behind
COMMENTARY SECTION OF EDUCATION WEEK


REPORTS


Impact of Whole School Reform in Decatur, IL – Student Conditions and Achievement
[ PHASE I - Report ]
[ PHASE II - Report ]


CTAC Assesses the Readiness and Capacity of the 18th Largest District in the United States.

Parents as Partners: Seattle Report and Handbook


Catalyst for Change:

Pay for Performance in

Denver Final Report

[ Full Report - 1.11mb ]
[ Executive Summary - 503kb]


Informed Decision-Making: An Introduction to Student Achievement and Teacher Data Comparisons.


  NEW YORK TIMES FRONT PAGE

Teacher Pay for Performance: Results of Landmark Study


The Pay-for-Performance Pitfall: from the American School Board Journal

STATE-TO-DISTRICT

ASSISTANCE


Five-State Partnership Seeks Better Ways to Help Districts

States to Form School Coalition

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT

CTAC Assesses How Delaware's Largest School District Can Boost Student Achievement
FOR CTAC'S FULL 15-PAGE REPORT, CLICK HERE


CTAC chosen to assess pupil achievement in Berkeley

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

Long Island LEAP: Community Initiative Launched