Products and Publications State Teacher Quality Network Newsletters Teacher Quality and Improvement Newsletter CCSSO, State Teacher Quality Network February 2004 to present Free, biweekly electronic newsletter that provides information about recent reports, studies, legislative action, and news articles related to teacher quality and improvement efforts at the state and district levels. Tools Template for State Teacher Equity Plans CCSSO, State Teacher Quality Network March 2006 Provides an organizing framework to help state education agencies develop and refine NCLB-required state teacher equity plans to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, and out-of-field teachers. Identifies eight elements that should be addressed in a well-designed state plan, provides links to multiple examples of existing state-level policies and programs to improve teacher equity, and presents a series of steps states can follow to construct their plans. Partnerships for State Teacher Equity Plans CCSSO, State Teacher Quality Network June 2006 Provides links to 10 major federal programs that offer funds to help states and districts prepare, recruit, develop, and retain teachers in high-need schools. In addition, provides links to existing partnerships in each state, so that SEAs can include these in their teacher equity plans as examples of steps that their states are taking to strengthen teaching quality in high-need schools.

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