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.
Todd Walker, Master Teacher, South High School, Columbus, Ohio
“TAP’s professional development is personal development. The beauty of TAP is that you work all the processes. You become a reflective teacher, always enabling your practice and skill level to increase. TAP gives you the opportunity to continue growing within the context of the school.”