Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR)™ is the nation’s only school-level, state-supported strategic staffing initiative, empowering North Carolina schools to design and adopt new organizational structures that provide meaningful advancement opportunities and higher pay for highly effective educators, create systems of embedded professional support for developing teachers, distribute leadership across the schools building, and increase students’ access to effective educators and high quality instruction.
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Policy Brief
Advanced Teaching Roles in North Carolina: Meaningful Career Opportunities for Teaching Professionals (2022)
This brief examines the state’s Advanced Teaching Roles™(ATR) program, explains what it is and the history of the initiative, summarizes research on its impact, shares…
TeachReadyNC: Teacher Apprenticeship in North Carolina
BEST NC’s research indicates that a state-supported, paid teacher apprenticeship program like TeachReadyNC will help North Carolina’s largest and fastest-growing teacher candidate pool find the…
