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It describes a five-year, $47 million federal grant awarded to Brown County, Goshen Community, and Perry Township, partnered with NIET, to build distributed leadership structures across 32 schools serving about 25,000 students. 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State and district leaders have responded with a range of initiativesand policies to strengthen teaching and learning and to increase student access to effective teachers. One of the most promising is the development of teacher career pathways and distributed leadership models focused on strengthening classroom instruction. In 2020, the Indiana Governor’s Next Level Teacher Compensation Commission recommended this approach by encouraging districts to create new opportunities for teachers to increase their compensation through career ladders or pathways that utilize the instructional and leadership capacity of educators to improve teaching and learning.  \nThree school districts that have made teacher leadership a core strategy for improvement received a federal award to advance this work. Brown County Schools, Goshen Community Schools, and Perry Township Schools partnered with the nonprofit National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) to win a five-year, $47 million federal grant from the Teacher and School Leader (TSL) Incentive Program. The grant supports the development of teacher and school leader skills and structures for distributed leadership in 32 schools, serving approximately 25,000 students, 1,500 teachers, and 80 school leaders across the three districts.  \nThese districts are located in different parts of the state and serve communities from urban to remote rural locales. What they have in common is the continual need to improve teaching and learning to support diverse and changing populations of students, including refugees, English learners, minority students, special education students, and students receiving free and reduced-price meals. An Institute of Education Sciences study demonstrated that students in high-need schools are the least likely to have access to effective teachers.1 This finding kicked off a number of initiatives, including one by the state of Indiana (  Excellent Educators for All Initiative ), to ensure all students have effective teachers, especially those in the highest-need schools. In line with this goal, and to address students’ diverse needs, the districts are investing in distributed leadership structures and teacher career pathways as evidence-based strategies for improving teaching and learning in measurable and sustainable ways. This strategy is also atthe core of their efforts to change school cultures to focus on growth, equity, and inclusion.  \nPartner Districts  \nBrown County School Corporation, a small district located about an hour south of Indianapolis, provides access to high-quality education in a rural setting. The district serves 1,713 students across six schools. Brown County has been committed to raising  \n1 Max, J., & Glazerman, S. (2014) . Do Disadvantaged Students Get Less Effective Teaching? Key Findings from Recent Institute of Education Sciences Studies (Evaluation Brief) . In Mathematica Policy Research Reports (a7da30900bb047038d31acd568b7e97d; Mathematica Policy Research Reports) . Mathematica Policy Research.  \n[https://ideas.repec.org/p/mpr/mprres/a7da30900bb047038d31acd568b7e97d.html](https://ideas.repec.org/p/mpr/mprres/a7da30900bb047038d31acd568b7e97d.html)  \n[https://fi](https://fi)[les.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED544675.pdf](les.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED544675.pdf)  \nstudent achievement above statewide student averages, but has faced the challenge of recruiting top talent.  \nGoshen Community Schools is located in Goshen, Indiana—a city about three hours north of Indianapolis where RV manufacturing is a key industry. The district’s nine schools serve a majority-minority student population of 6,410, 57% of whom are eligible for free or reduced-priced meals.  \nPerry Township Schools is an urban school district located in the south Indianapolis area. 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