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Success Stories
Below are examples of ways schools and districts are being transformed through the implementation of TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Videos
Characteristics of Successful TAP Schools
Video Feature: Celebration of TAP Teachers
Video Feature: Algiers TAP
New Orleans, Louisiana
TAP Founder's Award Recipients
Video: North DeSoto Middle School
DeSoto Parish Schools, Louisiana
Video: Whale Branch Middle School
Beaufort County, South Carolina
Video: Ben Milam Elementary School
Bryan, Texas
Video: Audelia Creek Elementary School
Richardson Independent School District, Texas
Video: Hazel Park/Hilda Knoff Elementary School
River Ridge, Louisiana
Video: Forest Hill Elementary School
Forest Hill, Louisiana
Case Studies and Features
"Meet TAP's New Districts in Tennessee, Minnesota and Iowa"
TAP in Focus
2013
TAP Featured in Education Trust Report Building and Sustaining Teacher Talent: Creating Conditions in High-Poverty Schools That Support Effective Teaching and Learning
Ascension Parish, Louisiana
"Algiers Charter Schools Association (ACSA) Report Demonstrates Significant
and Sustained Progress under a Teacher Incentive Fund Grant"
New Orleans, Louisiana
2012
"How Professional Development Gets Results"
TAP in Focus
2012
"Rising Above the Floodwaters"
Trist Middle School
St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
TAP in Focus
2012
"TAP in Indiana: Bold State Initiative Supported by a TIF Grant"
TAP in Focus
2012
"TAP Makes Giant Leap: More than $300 Million in Teacher Incentive Funds Awarded
to Projects Utilizing TAP"
TAP in Focus
2011
"What Makes a Successful TAP School?"
TAP in Focus
2011
"Getting Teacher Evaluation Right"
TAP in Focus
2011
"TAP Weaves a Tapestry of Achievement at Algiers Charter Schools"
Algiers Charter Schools Association (ACSA)
New Orleans, Louisiana
2009
Holston Middle School Works with TAP to Turn Things Around:
Increasing Test Scores and Reducing Teacher Turnover
Holston Middle School
Knoxville, Tennessee
2009
"TAP Helps Forest Hill Elementary 'LEAP' To New Heights"
Forest Hill Elementary School
Alexandria, Louisiana
2008
TAP in the News
ASU boosts its year-long student teachers in AZ schools by 400 percent
ASU News (Arizona State University)
(Phoenix, AZ)
May 30, 2013
LEAP, iLEAP scores show increases in some local parishes
Shreveport Times
(Shreveport, LA)
May 22, 2013
How can teacher evaluation systems support pathways to improvement?
Currency of Ideas (Milken Institute)
(Santa Monica, CA)
May 01, 2013
Editorial: Recognition (with cash) always feels good
Shreveport Times
(Shreveport, LA)
March 12, 2013
TAP program improves teacher, student advancement
The Norseman (Bryan High School)
(Bryan, TX)
April 17, 2012
Tapping Into Teamwork
Scholastic Administrator
(New York, NY)
April 12, 2012
District launches TAP as state education funds, DATE funds get cut [inset]
HR Exchange (Texas Association of School Boards [TASB])
(Austin, TX)
April 05, 2012
Texas TAP keeps pace despite drought in state grant funds
HR Exchange (Texas Association of School Boards [TASB])
(Austin, TX)
April 05, 2012
West Goshen Receives National TAP™ Honors
exCELLence Newsletter (Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning)
(Indianapolis, IN)
April 2012
Judkins earns national TAP award and $5,000
Times Press Recorder
(Santa Maria, CA)
March 16, 2012
West Goshen Elementary program 'tapped' as one of nation's best
Goshen News
(Goshen, IN)
March 13, 2012
Middle School Receives TAP School Of Promise Award
KEYT-TV (ABC)
(Santa Barbara/San Luis Obispo, CA)
March 12, 2012
Carter Middle wins TAP School of Promise award
Knoxville News Sentinel
(Knoxville, TN)
March 10, 2012
Commentaries
How Comprehensive Reform Can Benefit Special Ed Teachers, Specialists, and Their Students
By Gary Stark, in partnership with Kelly Hansen
Stark and Hansen use their special education backgrounds to describe the positive impact of TAP and similar reforms.
2007
Guest Viewpoint: Effective teachers crucial for raising achievement
By Lanet Greenhaw, Board Member, Richardson Independent School District (Richardson, TX)
Lanet Greenhaw describes the positive impact that TAP has made on three schools in her urban district.
2006
Walter Lee, DeSoto Parish Schools Superintendent, Mansfield, Louisiana
"TAP is a very structured program that ensures the faculty works together as a team and ensures they are analyzing student data, where the students are academically, where deficiencies are, and where the needs are . . ."