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This document provides the final two appendixes for "Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Implementation. The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching through 2013-2014" (ED580306). Appendix D provides detailed discussions of lever implementation for each site along with the detailed coded lever tables. Appendix E summarizes the responses of teachers and school leaders to survey questions about the allocation of their work time.

To improve the U.S. education system through more-effective classroom teaching, in school year 2009-2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced four Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching sites. The Intensive Partnerships Initiative is based on the premise that efforts to improve instruction can benefit from high-quality measures of teaching effectiveness. The initiative seeks to determine whether a school can implement a high-quality measure of teaching effectiveness and use it to support and manage teachers in ways that improve student outcomes. This approach is consistent with broader national trends in which performance-based teacher evaluation is increasingly being mandated at state and local levels. To test the theory in practice, the foundation sought partnership sites. It selected three school districts--Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, Shelby County Schools in Tennessee, and Pittsburgh Public Schools in Pennsylvania. The foundation also selected four charter management organizations--Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, Aspire Public Schools, Green Dot Public Schools, and the Partnerships to Uplift Communities, all in California. To evaluate Intensive Partnership implementation, researchers from the RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research interviewed annually central office staff at each site and teachers and other staff in a sample of schools for each site. They also used data from annual teacher and school-leader surveys and documents that the sites and the foundation provided. This report summarizes the implementation status of key reform elements at each site when the Intensive Partnerships initiative launched and five years later in the spring of 2014. [For the executive summary, see ED580307. For Appendixes D and E, see ED580322.]

The goal of the Intensive Partnership (IP) initiative is to improve student success by transforming how teachers are recruited, developed, assigned, rewarded, and retained. RAND and American Institutes for Research (AIR) have been studying the seven IP sites (including three districts and four charter management organizations--CMOs) since the 2010-11 school year to understand which strategies for improving the teaching workforce are successful. This report summarizes key findings about how school leaders and teachers have changed the way they allocate their time among various activities across the three years since implementation began (2010-11 through 2012-13). The report contains a preface, acknowledgements, and an executive summary and then presents the findings in five parts. They are: Part I: Introduction; Part II: Methodology; Part III: School Leader Time Allocation Findings; Part IV: Teacher Time Allocation Findings; and Part V: Summary and Concluding Thoughts. The report also includes the appendices: (1) Detailed Discussion of Methodology; (2) School Leader and Teacher Survey Response Rates; (3) Descriptive Statistics of Individual and School Characteristic Categories by Site and Year; (4) School Leader Time Allocation by Site; (5) Teacher Time Allocation by Site; (6) Survey Questions and Categories; (7) Analysis of Individual Questions for Selected Categories for School Leaders; and (8) Analysis of Individual Questions for Selected Categories for Teachers.