Project Vision
All students on the Pre-K through 12 continuum have access to high quality instruction.
Project Values
We believe:
- All students, regardless of school or classroom they attend, should have access to high quality instruction.
- Students with disabilities have the right to an education with their age and grade level peers.
- Effective teacher supervision and evaluation emphasizes collegial relationships and quality feedback for growth and development.
- Fidelity of implementation is essential to monitoring, supporting and sustaining change in practice.
- School programs must be structured in ways that result in equitable educational outcomes.
- Teacher efficacy is important to the growth and achievement of students.
- Job embedded growth and support is the avenue to improved teacher effectiveness.
Mission
The mission of the Indiana Center on Teacher Quality is to
- increase the number of high quality teachers serving students with disabilities by providing job embedded professional development at the state, regional and district levels;
- increase the number of students with disabilities who have access to a high quality teacher by improving recruitment, support and retention of teachers for students with disabilities in the Least Restrictive Environment;
- to improve school transitions and post-school outcomes for students with disabilities through partnerships and collaborations among schools, community agencies, higher education and families.