Recognizing that a quality teacher is the most important school-based factor impacting student achievement, the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) is committed to ensuring a highly skilled, strongly motivated and competitively compensated teacher for every classroom in America.
Equipped with a richly diverse staff drawn from education and business, combined with a broad coalition of school practitioners, NIET seeks to accomplish this mission by ensuring the effectiveness and sustainability of TAP™: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement. TAP is a comprehensive school reform that restructures and revitalizes the teaching profession with a goal to achieve measurable gains in student performance. TAP does this by providing teachers with powerful opportunities for career advancement, ongoing professional development, a fair accountability system and performance pay.
Working together with teachers, administrators, teacher associations, governments, foundations, corporations and other leaders in teacher quality and compensation reform, NIET aims to achieve the goals of teacher excellence...student achievement...opportunities for all.
Karen Bucher, Principal, Hazel Park-Hilda Knoff Elementary School, River Ridge, Louisiana
"In the past, teachers worked mostly in isolation, often with little feedback on their performance unless there were real problems. Many teachers had no idea how they were performing in specific areas. With TAP, teachers are working together to improve their classroom instruction and they are getting timely feedback on their performance—a valuable component of teacher accountability. This is making a huge difference in the classroom!"