“Teachers naturally want to know if their students are achieving. T-CAP provides quality information to our teachers about their teaching. Battelle for Kids’ T-CAP training has helped us to explain the reports and use them in a productive, proactive way.”
Kathy Ryan, Principal, Wyoming City School District

“In a Professional Learning Community, authentic professional development begins with teachers examining and dialoging about student learning and data. T-CAP provides teachers and principals with another level of data that provides opportunities for dialogue, reflection, goal setting and continuous improvement.”
Bobby Moore, Ed.D., Principal, Jonathan Alder Local School District

Endorsements of Support

Battelle for Kids has engaged the Buckeye Association of School Administrators, the Ohio Education Association and the Ohio Federation of Teachers in this initiative and received their endorsements of its importance. Following are excerpts from their letters of support:

“BASA believes that having individual teacher-level reports will enhance the ability of classrooms, buildings and districts to appropriately use data for the planning of significantly beneficial programming and instruction of students. Hence, we support the classroom level value-added pilot and anticipate it will result in increased student achievement.”
     ~Jerry Klenke, Executive Director, Buckeye Association of School Administrators

"As we move forward with designing a voluntary, three-year research study to develop and use classroom-level value-added information and data to improve teacher effectiveness and student learning, I want to commend Battelle for Kids' commitment to working with teachers and principals and their associations to develop a comprehensive professional development program to assist them to effectively interpret and use value-added information to improve student learning. We appreciate Battelle for Kids' willingness to work with the Ohio Education Association to openly discuss and address our questions around this pilot and how it would impact Ohio educators. By working together, I believe this initiative complements both organizations' goals to improve teacher effectiveness and student learning in Ohio."
     ~Dennis M. Reardon, Executive Director, Ohio Education Association

"The Ohio Federation of Teachers is pleased to partner with you in creating a pilot program that promotes the use of value-added data by classroom teachers. We wholeheartedly agree that it is important to provide proper professional development so that teachers can effectively interpret and use this data to enhance their teaching practices, which will lead to increased student achievement."
     ~Kathy Young, Interim President, Ohio Federation of Teachers