About
The Network for Educator Effectiveness is a comprehensive system for educator training and evaluation that helps educators grow, students learn, and schools improve.
In our educator evaluation tool, NEE brings together observation of teachers in the classroom with multiple measures of educator effectiveness in a secure online portal designed to record feedback, start meaningful conversations, and provide high-quality resources for educator growth and educator professional development.
Our peer observation tool, the NEE POWERHub, simplifies collaboration to support, grow, and retain teachers. POWERHub provides a protected space for teachers to learn from and provide feedback to one another through peer observation and self-reflection. With an easy scheduling tool, a focused protocol, and guided feedback and reflections, the NEE POWERHub is a game-changer in the world of peer observation for educators.
With NEE, you get a total system for educator evaluation – not just a shiny new app on your iPad. Through superior educator training and ongoing support, we focus on actually improving teachers and administrators, not merely evaluating them.
Learn More About NEE's ServicesOur Mission
Provide comprehensive, research-based evaluation tools and processes designed to grow educators, students and schools across the country.
Educators grow, students learn, schools improve.
Our Values
- Students come first
- Genuine usefulness to teachers
- Coach you, not catch you
- Grow you, not get you
- Simple yet powerful
Our History
NEE was developed to provide services for educator evaluation and educator training in 2011 from a collaboration among preK-12 practitioners and researchers at the University of Missouri’s College of Education & Human Development. Nine schools were part of the NEE pilot in 2011.
Within three years, NEE had grown to include more than 250 districts – more than half of Missouri school districts. It is telling that this growth occurred without any organized marketing; it was all based on word-of-mouth and a positive reputation. NEE did – and continues to – fill a need for a comprehensive administrator and teacher evaluation system that actually makes a difference for administrators, teachers, and students alike.
NEE’s co-founders are Dr. Marc Doss, a former teacher, principal, and superintendent, and Dr. Christi Bergin, associate dean for research and innovation at the MU College of Education & Human Development. NEE continues to operate out of MU’s College of Education & Human Development, allowing us to easily incorporate the latest education research and innovation throughout NEE’s processes and particularly in EdHub, our online training resource library that includes more than 300 materials for targeted professional growth.
Affordable Annual Pricing
As a nonprofit, NEE’s fee for educator training and educator evaluation service is provided at a cost-recovery basis based on district size (measured by student count), making NEE very affordable while providing districts with a powerful, research-based classroom observation tool for evaluation. NEE districts pay an affordable annual membership fee to access all of NEE’s services, including classroom observation training, the online application (called the NEE Data Tool), and EdHub professional learning resources.
Providing these services at one price encourages training for teams of educators from each district, allowing for a smooth district-wide conversion to NEE.
The annual NEE membership includes:
Free Consultation
Interested in how you can implement educator training and evaluation services for your school or district? Contact NEE for a free consultation.