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Preliminary Findings on the Effects of the Leading Educators Fellowship Program Are Mixed

• Among fellows, there are both some statistically significant positive and negative program effects on student achievement, with results that vary across states, subject areas, and model specifications. The estimates of student achievement effect for fellows are based on very small samples and do not point to any clear positive or negative impacts, so we recommend caution in interpreting these results.
• Among mentee teachers, for whom sample sizes are larger, there are some suggestive evidence of impacts on student achievement — in particular, marginally significant and significant positive program effects among mentees who teach math and social studies, respectively, in Louisiana.
• The impact of the program on teacher retention is unclear, with no consistent pattern of retention impacts across cohorts or states.
• Future analyses with larger samples of both fellows and mentees will provide greater statistical power for more reliably detecting any true program effects.