Proven. Collaborative. Achievement.

Launched in 1999 as an initiative of the Milken Family Foundation, TAP is revolutionizing the nation's education system through new, collaborative approaches to professional development opportunities for educators aimed at dramatically increasing student achievement.

Where professional development opportunities meet performance-based pay, you'll find talented, ambitious teachers eager to advance their students' education, as well as their own. This is the recipe for success in the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching's proven system, TAP™: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.

The TAP system improves teacher effectiveness by providing training for successful teaching strategies and instituting rigorous accountability standards for classroom performance. Through TAP, good teachers can earn higher salaries and advance professionally, just as in other careers, without leaving the classroom.

The hallmarks of the TAP system are:

Launched in 1999, TAP now impacts 7,500 teachers and 85,000 students in the 2009-10 school year.