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Brief|Fall 2024  \n## The Challenge\n\nResearch consistently documents that teachers and school leaders(henceforth,educators)are the most important school-based factors influencing student achievement(Grissom &Loeb,2011;Lee &Mamerow,2019).Yet,across the country,high-need schools,whichbenefit the most from having effective educators,face challenges in attracting,developing,and retaining effective educators(Garcia &Weiss,2019).High levels of educator turnoverdrain valuable resources and make it difficult to build a high-performing,stable faculty,which has detrimental effects on student performance(Bartanen et al.,2019;Carver-Thomas &Darling-Hammond,2019;Snodgrass Rangel,2018).Addressing these challengesrequires a schoolwide effort to develop and sustain a support system to continuouslyimprove instructional practices and address the changing needs of students andeducators.  \n## The Solution\n\nIn the fall of 2021,the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching(NIET)began partneringwith districts in Texas to create a sustainable system for continuous improvement ofinstruction and learning.All schools in the partner districts are considered high-need,asthey serve a high proportion of students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.These schools are working to accelerate student learning to recover from the pandemic.The goals of the partnership are to increase educator effectiveness and improve studenttachievement.The partnership,Texas IMPACT(Improving Management Systems forPrincipals and Classroom Teachers),is supported by a Teacher and School Leader(TSL)Incentive Program grant.The U.S.Department of Education initiated the TSL program toassist high-need education systems in implementing,improving,orexpanding their overallhuman capital management system(HCMS),which must include a performance-basedcompensation system.As part of the partnership,the districts are enhancing their HCMSby implementing the TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement(TAP System),which has been shown to improve instruction and student outcomes(e.g.,Cohodes et al.,2023;Eren,2019;Leutscher et al.,2024;Logis et al.,2022).  \n## The TAP System\n\nThe TAP System is an educator effectiveness reformmodel focused on attracting,developing,motivating,and retaining high-quality educators through its fourelements of success:multiple career paths,ongoingapplied professional growth,instructionally focusedaccountability,and performance-based  \ncompensation.The TAP System promotes teachercollaboration,improves instructional practice,andbuilds the school leadership capacity to improvestudent achievement.  \n## Evidence of the Impact of the TAP System\n\nEvidence shows that NIET's TAP System enhances educator effectiveness,boosts educatorretention,and improves student outcomes.This impact is observable both during the initialgrant implementation phase and the subsequent sustained implementation period.Studiesconducted during the grant implementation phase,such as those by Leutscher and Barnett(2020)and Logis et al.(2022),have reported an increase in the percentage of effectiveteachers and their retention in TAP System schools.Additionally,research by Hudgens andBarnett(2017)highlights the TAP System's role in improving school administrators'retention and effectiveness over time.Furthermore,studies by Mann et al.(2013),Schacterand Thum(2005),and Springer et al.(2014)have indicated advancements in studentperformance attributable to the TAP System.After the grant-funded phase,Leutscher et al.(2024)found continued improvement in student performance in TAP System schools,surpassing matched comparison schools.Findings by Cohodes et al.(2023)also indicatelong-term benefits for students exposed to the TAP System,including improvededucational attainment and reduced involvement in criminal activities and governmenttassistance dependency in early adulthood.  \n## Texas IMPACT\n\nIn the 2021-22 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