Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI): Selective Transfer Incentives to Move Teachers with High-Value-Added Performance to Low-Achieving Schools

Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI) is a program that identifies a district's highest-performing teachers using value-added analysis and offers them an incentive of $20,000 to transfer to any one of the district's low-achieving schools targeted for the intervention. TTI aims to address unequal access to top teachers by redistributing a district's highest-performing teachers. The program design and study design were reviewed by a technical working group of experts in the fields of teacher compensation, value-added analysis, and program evaluation. The program was implemented in 10 school districts throughout the country, with a focus on identifying high-performing teachers and providing them with an incentive to transfer to low-achieving schools. The program's goal is to improve disadvantaged students' access to top teachers. The program was implemented in two cohorts, with the first cohort starting in the 2009-10 school year and the second cohort starting in the 2010-11 school year