Teachers Accelerating Learning Grant

The Teachers Accelerating Learning grant opportunity was created for districts to develop measures of teacher effectiveness and recognize teachers who significantly accelerate student learning beyond one year’s growth with supplementary pay. This grant opportunity is open to public school districts.

Round 2 Grant Opportunity

Participating districts commit to:

• Develop systems to identify and recognize teachers who accelerate student learning beyond one year’s growth based on transparent and objective qualitative and quantitative metrics.
• Develop a methodology for recognizing highly effective teachers, which must include the EVAAS growth measure for grades 4-8.
  • Review, update and validate classroom EVAAS rosters for ISASP-tested grades and subjects.
  • Participate in training on the EVAAS system, reports, and classroom rostering.
• Offer supplementary teacher pay for up to 25% of teachers who significantly accelerate student learning beyond one year’s growth.

Available Awards

Awards support supplementary teacher pay for two years who demonstrably accelerate student learning beyond one year’s growth.

• Administrative costs may not exceed 5% of the total award. 95% of the total award must support supplementary teacher pay.
• Max per teacher amount: $15,000 total
  • Teacher is defined as instructional staff, including teachers, instructional coaches, and interventionists.

Applications for the Teachers Accelerating Learning grant will be accepted in IowaGrants.gov.  The application deadline is Sept. 19, 2025.

Resources

This section includes additional resources for public districts considering submitting a grant application.

• Teachers Accelerated Learning (TAL) Grants Scoring Rubric

Education Visualization & Analytics Solution

The Education Visualization and Analytics Solution (EVAAS) platform includes a robust set of reports focused to support accelerating student learning. EVAAS includes value added,  projections, and student reports to help districts make informed decisions on areas related to student supports, educator supports, and school improvement planning. EVAAS can capture the precise proportion of instructional responsibility for each teacher at the student level and ensures that EVAAS classroom reports tie student growth to those involved in their instruction to better support the academic needs of each student.