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'i3' Winners Focus on Teachers - Teacher Beat - Education Week

'i3' Winners Focus on Teachers - Teacher Beat - Education Week

'i3' Winners Focus on Teachers

Fully 24 percent of the i3 winners plan to use their grants to help improve teacher effectiveness. You may have heard of some of the big-ticket winners, like Teach For America, which will use its $50 million grant to grow the size of its teacher corps by 80 percent by 2014.
But here's a rundown of some of the other winning teacher plans:
• The American Federation of Teachers' own Innovation Fund will use its grant to scale up one of its projects, a plan to pilot and implement a new teacher-evaluation and -development system in select New York and Rhode Island affiliates.
• The Boston Teacher Residency will expand its programto prepare and then place a total of 130 teacher