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TAP Outcomes
Highlights of TAP Results - South Carolina
TAP has seen continued growth in South Carolina schools. Since its inception in South Carolina in 2001, TAP has greatly expanded thanks largely to the federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF). During the 2006-2007 school year TIF helped support the implementation of 17 schools, and since then, TAP has expanded to 39 schools in the 2007-2008 school year and to 44 schools in 2008-2009.
The teachers within these schools continue to feel the system is significantly beneficial to the multiple aspects affecting student growth within the buildings. For example, in 2008, 93% of South Carolina TAP teachers felt that TAP had a positive effect on teacher collegiality; 91% of teachers believed that TAP had a positive effect on the instructionally focused accountability; and 91% of teachers thought that TAP had a positive effect on their own ongoing-applied professional growth.
The impact of TAP on the effectiveness of teachers in the classroom is evident in their students' academic achievement. The 2008-2009 value-added results for South Carolina TAP schools show positive outcomes with 95% of schools meeting achievement growth targets and 63% exceeding them.
TAP in the News - South Carolina
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Battery Creek High wins national honor in education reform
Hilton Head Island Packet
(Beaufort, SC)
March 11, 2013
Editorial: Whale Branch replaces excuses with results
Beaufort Gazette/Island Packet
(Beaufort, SC)
March 16, 2012
Whale Branch Middle wins national teaching award
Beaufort Gazette/Island Packet
(Beaufort, SC)
March 10, 2012
South Carolina awarded educator grant
Post and Courier
(Charleston, SC)
September 24, 2010
TAP: More Than Performance Pay
Education Week (PDF)
(Bethesda, MD)
April 01, 2009
President Obama voices support for teacher performance pay, spotlights South Carolina
Greenwood Today
(Greenwood, SC)
March 10, 2009
Florence School District 3 employees receive incentives
South Carolina Now
December 22, 2008
How to Make Great Teachers
TIME Magazine
February 25, 2008
Ralph Regula, Former U.S. Representative who served as Chairman of the House Education Appropriations Subcommittee
"I continue to believe that our most important advances in student achievement are based on the foundation of excellent teaching. TAP has demonstrated promising early results in increasing student achievement, and in creating a structure within schools that supports professional development based directly on the challenges teachers face every day in their classrooms."