GRANT PARTNER IMPACT STORY
New Teacher Center IMPROVING TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS AND RETENTION CIRCLE: EDUCATION
THE ISSUE
THE PROJECT
Teacher effectiveness is the single most important school-based contributor to student success. Highly proficient teachers can move their students up at least one grade level, while ineffective teachers result in children being left behind. In other words, below average teachers widen the achievement gap while capable teachers shrink it.
NTC sought Full Circle Fund's expertise in developing an expansion strategy. Members helped develop a new communications and marketing strategy, which bolstered NTC’s growth as the premier provider of teacher-induction programs and school leadership training throughout the United States.
The U.S. will need to prepare and retain two million new teachers over the next ten years, yet most new teachers receive limited instructional support. Typically, the newest teachers are placed in the most difficult classes in the neediest schools. Not surprisingly, many of their educational careers will not survive this trial by fire. Nearly 50% of new teachers leave the profession. In low income communities, approximately 70% of teachers leave within five years.
THE MISSION
The project also enhanced NTC’s role as an important voice on the public education policy landscape.
SNAPSHOT GRANT TERM:
2006-07
26,000 TEACHERS SUPPORTED AND 1.2M
“It has truly a been a phenomenal opportunity to work with Full Circle Fund. The team helped develop our expansion strategy, which led to our formation as a national non-profit.” “As a result, we are now increasing the effectiveness of new teachers in every state and we continue to grow.” - Ellen Moir Founder & CEO New Teacher Center
STUDENT LIVES POSITIVELY IMPACTED NEW TEACHER CENTERS
325 SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND 50 STATES
New Teacher Center (NTC) is a national nonprofit that improves student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers.
ARE NOW IN
NTC ensures that the nation’s poor, minority, and English learner students, those most often taught by inexperienced teachers, receive the education and college preparation they need and deserve. NTC programs transform schools into vibrant learning communities.
INVESTED IN
SINCE FULL CIRCLE FUND
2006, NTC’S
REVENUE HAS GROWN
20% PER YEAR NEXT FUNDING ROUND PROVIDED BY
SKOLL and THE BILL
MELINDA GATES
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Full Circle Fund is an engaged philanthropy organization cultivating the next generation of community leaders and driving lasting social change in the Bay Area. We recruit top leaders from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, and empower them to leverage their experience, connections, and financial resources to benefit innovative social entrepreneurs and organizations.
FOUNDATION www.fullcirclefund.org