There is no "I" in TAP

The best and the brightest are teaming up to take on the challenge of education reform with the TAP system. And securing a victory requires the hard work and dedication of a talented roster of principals, administrators, specialists, mentor and master teachers, and career teachers in every school.

Administrators

Heading the leadership team, administrators are critical to ensuring the overall success of the Philly TAP system in their schools. Administrators assume important responsibilities, providing support and coaching for master and mentor teachers, conducting ongoing instructional analysis of teachers,planning and facilitating leadership team meetings and managing the distribution of performance awards.

Master Teachers

Highly skilled and experienced educators, master teachers are released from classroom duties to serve as coaches to teachers in Philly TAP schools. Master teachers plan and implement clusters, where they teach student-centered instructional strategies; align cluster goals to the school's yearly goals and assist teachers in tracking progress toward those goals through training, support and coaching.

Mentor Teachers

Mentor teachers work together with master teachers to provide support for the career teachers in Philly TAP schools. They are released from the classroom for at least five hours each week for TAP responsibilities, including co-planning and implementing clusters, helping teachers develop their self-reflective journals and conducting classroom instruction analyses.

Career Teachers

Responsible for implementing new teaching strategies in the classroom to improve student learning, career teachers are at the core of Philly TAP. Career teachers receive one-on-one coaching every week in the Philly TAP system and maintain a self-reflective journal through which they develop analytical skills to identify their own strengths and weaknesses in the classroom.

TAP Staff

Additional school-based, ongoing guidance is provided for all Philly TAP schools by the TAP director, TAP coordinator and TAP specialists, who offer unparalleled expertise with a combined 80+ years of experience as educators in the School District of Philadelphia.