'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
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