; (ii) pedagogical practices; and (iii) leadership, management, organizational, and instructional skills necessary to serve as a principal; (C) acquires effective teaching or leadership skills; and (D) prior to completion of the program, earns a master's degree or other appropriate advanced credential, attains full State teacher or leader certification or licensure, and becomes profession ready (if applicable). ; and (9) by inserting after paragraph (24), as redesignated by paragraph (2), the following: (25) Teacher performance assessment The term teacher performance assessment means a pre-service assessment used to measure teacher performance that is approved by the State and is— (A) based on professional teaching standards; (B) used to measure the effectiveness of a teacher's— (i) curriculum planning; (ii) instruction of students, including appropriate plans and modifications for students who are limited English proficient and students who are children with disabilities; (iii) assessment of students, including analysis of evidence of student learning; and (iv) ability to advance student learning; (C) validated based on professional assessment standards; (D) reliably scored by trained evaluators, with appropriate oversight of the process to ensure consistency; and (E) used to support continuous improvement of educator practice. (26) Teacher preparation entity The term teacher preparation entity means an institution of higher education, a nonprofit organization, for-profit organization, or other organization that is approved by the State to prepare teachers to be effective in the classroom. (27) Teacher preparation program The term teacher preparation program means a program offered by a teacher preparation entity that leads to a specific State teacher certification. . 102. Educator quality enhancement Section 201 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1022 ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting , principals, and other educators after teachers each place the term appears