Goal : To find out if the Teacher Advancement Program will improve student achievement, raise staff morale, and increase teacher retention. Will the TAP program improve student achievement? Will it raise staff morale, and will it increase teacher retention in my school?
• The very nature of the TAP program is based on the use of data to drive instruction. So, I as a Master teacher will be using data on a weekly basis with my cluster.
• My PLC will consist of my cluster of teachers. The cluster will consist of all of the EC, Pre-K, Kinder, and 1st grade teachers. I will also have 2 mentor teachers, one being a Kindergarten teacher, and one a first grade teacher. I, as the master teacher will be responsible for the entire cluster’s professional development, amongst other responsibilities.
• I will have 14 teachers total in my cluster. I will support the instructional practices that the cluster will be learning about in our weekly meetings, through lesson modeling, peer observations, conferencing and PLC meeting collaboration.

ACTION STEP #1:
All teachers will participate in weekly cluster meetings consisting of on-going staff development, peer coaching, collaborative planning, reflection, evaluation & data analysis.
ACTIVITY: Master teachers (MT) will teach new instructional strategies focused on problem solving and critical thinking. The strategies will be research-based; field tested, grade specific, taught and modeled by the MT. Mentors will support their grade level colleagues in learning and teaching the new strategy. Career teachers will apply their learning and gather data that will help them adjust their instruction.
RESOURCES/RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED:
1.TAP Instructional Rubric
2.TAP Manual
3.Resources such as handouts, articles, studies, etc.
4.Student work
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES: All cluster members (Master teacher, mentor teachers & career teachers)
TIME LINE: 50 minutes every Thurs. through out the 2010-2011 school year.
BENCHMARKS/ASSESSMENT:
Students: benchmarks, Math TAKS in grades 4th and 5th, observations, Pre and Post TEMI-O (Math diagnostic test) for grades 1-3.
Teachers: Instructional Rubric & TAP Evaluation tool.


ACTION STEP #2: Weekly TAP Leadership Team (TLT) (Principal, A.P, MT, & Mentor teachers) meeting.
ACTIVITY: TLT will review TAP program, plan for cluster meetings, review data, review teacher observations and evaluations.
RESOURCES/RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED: Data, instructional Rubrics, evaluation instrument, TAP Manual
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES:Facilitated by School Principal, All TLT members
TIME LINE: 60 minutes every Monday through out the 2010-2011 school year.
BENCHMARKS/ASSESSMENT: TLT TAP rubric and TLT reflection/ feedback forms.

ACTION STEP #3: School climate & teacher morale checks
ACTIVITY: I will survey the staff at the beginning of the year, middle of the year and end of the year with a focus on school climate, teacher morale, and teacher reflection on their own practice in order to find out if participating in the TAP program changed in any way their feelings and attitudes about collaborative work & professional development, and their link to student achievement and quality teaching.
RESOURCES/RESEARCH TOOLS NEEDED: BOY, MOY and EOY surveys (Survey Monkey, EOY Student achievement data, and teacher retention data from last year and current year.
RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS ACTIVITIES: Yvette Celorio-Reyes, TAP Master Teacher
TIME LINE: 3 times per year: August, January, and June
BENCHMARKS/ASSESSMENT: Returning teachers data (retention) and Climate Survey data.