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The 2012 TAP Founder's Award goes to…
Whale Branch Middle School
Beaufort County, South Carolina
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TAP Conference

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NIET Report: How to Ensure That Good Professional Development Gets Results


NIET Launches tapObserver for iPad


Report: TAP Teacher Evaluation in Lucia Mar Unified Helps Teachers Thrive


VIDEO: The Power of TAP


TAP's Elements of Success

TAP Elements for Success

About Lowell Milken

Lowell Milken with students
A visionary in education reform, Lowell Milken created the TAP system in 1999 to attract, develop, motivate and retain the highly effective educators that all students deserve.

In 2005, Lowell Milken established the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching to manage and support TAP's effectiveness, growth and sustainability.

The demand for TAP's multi-tiered system of career advancement, support, evaluation and compensation has spurred broad-based support and expansion in urban, rural and suburban communities across the U.S.

In turn, this comprehensive system has dramatically increased student achievement: the ultimate goal.

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TAP in Focus

The Effectiveness of TAP: Research Summary 2012
April 01, 2012

12th National TAP Conference: Building a System of Teacher Leaders
February 29, 2012

Gates Findings Substantiate NIET’s Building Blocks for Meaningful Teacher Evaluations
January 20, 2012

Algiers Charter Schools Association Report Demonstrates Significant and Sustained Progress under a Teacher Incentive Fund Grant
January 01, 2012

TAP Teaching Standards Selected as Basis for Tennessee's New Statewide Teacher Evaluation Model
May 06, 2011

What Does It Take to Get Teacher Evaluation Right?
January 19, 2011

Report Highlights Strategies for Making Performance Pay Work
November 15, 2010

Introducing the TAP System Training Portal!
September 20, 2010

TAP in the News

Tapping Into Teamwork
Scholastic Administrator
(New York, NY)
April 12, 2012

Editorial: Whale Branch replaces excuses with results
Beaufort Gazette/Island Packet
(Beaufort, SC)
March 16, 2012

Rising Above the Floodwaters
JSD (Learning Forward)
(Dallas, TX)
December 2011

Collaboration A Never-Ending Process
Education Week (PDF)
(Bethesda, MD)
November 16, 2011

Biggest Teacher-Prep School Revamped
Education Week (PDF)
(Bethesda, MD)
November 16, 2011

Teacher pay program provides results
Knoxville News Sentinel
February 26, 2011

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A Message from Chairman and Founder
Lowell Milken

Through interacting with thousands of teachers in classrooms across America and collaborating with experts in education, business, research and policy, I firmly believe — and our work confirms — that comprehensive reform with a human capital focus can provide a quality educational opportunity that all children need and deserve.

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