How do TPPs handle teacher-performance measurement and improvement?
TPPs value professional development, performance measurement, and improvement of their members as key to the success of the educational programs they provide to the schools they serve. To be clear about expectations, TPPs typically have a set of values, a mission, and a vision in addition to quality standards for the behavior of teachers. Teachers generally form individualized performance and evaluation processes, methods, and procedures for the entire membership to review, evaluate, and accept. All partners and associates are actively engaged in “peer review”—an ongoing feedback process from multiple sources that incorporates mentoring and coaching principles into the daily work of the TPP. The process typically includes compiling and weighing performance inputs from the board of the school, peers, students, and parents. Members of the TPP identify one another’s strengths and areas of development as well as areas of growth and remediation. Failure to live the values or meet the standa
