; (D) provides paid release time for mentors, as applicable; (E) for teachers, provides mentoring to each mentee by a colleague who teaches, or has taught, in the same field, grade, or subject as the mentee; (F) promotes empirically based practice of, and evidence-based research on, where applicable— (i) teaching and learning; (ii) assessment of student learning; (iii) the development of teaching skills through the use of instructional and behavioral interventions; and (iv) the improvement of the mentees’ capacity to measurably advance student learning; and (G) includes— (i) common planning time or regularly scheduled collaboration for the mentor and mentee; and (ii) joint professional development opportunities. (23) Teaching or school leadership residency program The term teaching or school leadership residency program means a school-based teacher or school leader preparation program based upon models of effective teaching and leadership residencies in which a prospective teacher or school leader— (A) for not less than 1 academic year, teaches or leads alongside an expert mentor teacher who is the teacher of record or school leader; (B) receives concurrent, aligned, and rigorous graduate-level instruction during the year described in subparagraph (A) from the partner institution, which courses may be taught by local educational agency personnel or residency program faculty, and in the case of teachers, is in the teaching of the content area in which the teacher will become certified or licensed; (C) acquires effective teaching or school leadership skills through the integration of pedagogy, classroom or school practice, and teacher or leadership mentoring