Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

• Program and participation criteria that will ensure the quality of student participants
and the pipeline programs generally;
• Necessary improvements to the clinical and mentoring experiences of the District’s
urban teacher pipeline programs; and
• Processes to facilitate information sharing, feedback and continuous improvement of
the urban teacher pipeline programs.
Gallup Insight. The District believes that teachers are critical to student success, and it is
committed to placing teachers in positions where they will be most successful with students. As such, it
now requires the web-based assessment designed by Gallup called the “Teacher Insight Assessment” as
a component of its teacher application and uses it as a screening tool.
The Teacher Insight assessment was developed by national experts who studied the job
performance of teachers and the qualities they possessed. Teacher Insight was developed on the basis
of over 40 years of research focused on what characteristics make a teacher successful. Current
research also informs improvements of the screening tool. Namely, Gallup used value-added scores to
identify the talents of teachers whose students demonstrated greater gains. As a result, Teacher Insight
is helping Tulsa Public Schools identify teacher applicants whose students will achieve higher levels of
success in the classroom.
By evaluating applicants’ online survey results, Teacher Insight assesses the talents that result in
teacher excellence that are difficult or nearly impossible to teach. Results are based on the applicant's
responses and include a score that is predictive of an applicant's potential for teaching success based on
his or her talent. The assessment requires approximately 30 minutes to complete.
The Teacher Insight Index is a score that ranges from 0 to 100. The District’s policy is to
recommend only those applicants that score a 72 or better to principals to interview for their possible
openings. In addition to providing a total score that is predictive of an applicant's potential for
producing student growth, the assessment provides other very valuable information. The Talent
Dimension Report contains information regarding the applicant's talents and relative strengths which
help the district make optimal placement decisions.
Stipends for Hard to Staff Subjects. To recruit teachers of hard to staff subjects, the District
provides a $2,000 stipend to teachers with the following certifications:
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