What is the Number One Influence on Student Success?

The Research

After over 15 years of research and synthesizing 800 meta-analysis studies involving over 80 million students, researcher John Hattie identified “Collective Teacher Efficacy" (CTE) as the most influential driver of student success.

As Hattie explains it, “It's not just about teachers feeling good about themselves but something more elaborate than that.” Collective Teacher Efficacy is:

“Teachers working together to have appropriately high, challenging expectations of what a year’s growth for a year’s input looks like, fed with the evidence of impact, which is what sustains it. It’s not just a growth mindset. It’s not just 'rah-rah’ thinking. It’s not just, 'Oh we can make a difference!' But it’s that combined belief that it is us that causes learning. It is not the students. It’s not the students from a particular social background. It’s not all the barriers out there. Because when you fundamentally believe you can make the difference, and then you feed it with the evidence that you are, that is what makes it dramatically powerful.”*

Collective Teacher Efficacy

When educators together know the evidence-based instructional strategies and then see the evidence of the difference they’re making, that’s where CTE flourishes.

This is why it's so powerful to have structures in place to measure and improve teacher-child interactions and instructional strategies in the classroom. Class assessment systems like CLASS** and professional development of High-leverage Practices*** go a long way toward developing CTE and creating a culture of learning that leads to making a real difference in our early learners' lives.

Sources:

* Visible Learning: https://visible-learning.org/2018/03/collective-teacher-efficacy-hattie/

** Teachstone CLASS: https://teachstone.com/class/

*** High-leverage Practices: https://www.teachingworks.org/

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