What is Texas Teaching Fellows?
About The New Teacher Project
"The New Teacher Project is considered by many to be one of the best alternative teacher-preparation routes out there today."
--Education Week (Teacher Beat blog, December 2008)
"Just as charter school supporters like to point to KIPP as a beacon of what's possible, alternative certification supporters like to point to TFA and TNTP."
--National Council on Teacher Quality (Alternative Certification Isn't Alternative, 2007)
"The findings suggest that high-quality programs like Teach For America and The New Teacher Project have a big role to play in the effort to improve teacher preparation nationally."
--The New York Times Editorial Board ("What Louisiana Can Teach," December 2008)
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of outstanding individuals who become public school teachers and creating environments for all educators that maximize their impact on student achievement. TNTP strives to accomplish these goals by:
- Creating innovative, highly selective teacher recruitment and hiring programs;
- Identifying the obstacles that school districts face to hiring the best teachers possible;
- Partnering with school districts to optimize their teacher hiring and school staffing functions; and
- Developing new and better ways to prepare and certify teachers.
- Examining the Human Capital continuum.
Since its inception in 1997, TNTP has recruited, placed, prepared and/or certified approximately 37,000 high-quality teachers, worked with over 200 school districts, and established more than 75 programs in 31 states.
This year, TNTP’s clients include the States of Texas, Rhode Island, and Louisiana, and school districts in Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Memphis, TN; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Oakland, CA; Philadelphia, PA; and Washington, DC, among others. The scale of involvement with their clients is significant; for example, TNTP’s “Teaching Fellows” alternative certification programs are responsible for delivering more than 20 percent of all new teachers annually in Baltimore, New York City, Oakland and Washington, DC. In 2009 alone, these and other TNTP programs attracted about 42,000 applications and recruited, trained and/or hired a total of 2,099 new teachers. Eighty-five percent of these teachers were eligible to teach shortage subject areas such as math, science and special education.
TNTP has also published three major studies on teacher hiring, school staffing and teacher effectiveness in urban areas: Missed Opportunities: How We Keep High-Quality Teachers Out of Urban Classrooms (2003); Unintended Consequences: The Case for Reforming the Staffing Rules in Urban Teachers Union Contracts (2005); and The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness (2009). These reports have generated significant attention and resulted in unprecedented policy reforms improving teacher hiring for schools through a new collective bargaining agreement in New York City and through state legislation in California.
TNTP’s diverse staff numbers more than 200 full-time individuals and includes former teachers, education policy experts, researchers, and strategy consultants from top tier private sector firms.
For more information, please visit TNTP’s website.
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