; (C) provides regular and ongoing opportunities for mentors and mentees to observe each other's teaching methods in classroom settings during the day in a high-need school in the high-need local educational agency in the eligible partnership; (D) provides paid release time for mentors, as applicable; (E) provides mentoring to each mentee by a colleague who teaches in the same field, grade, or subject as the mentee; (F) promotes evidence-based research on— (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; (G) integrates technology effectively into curricula and instruction, including technology consistent with the principles of universal design for learning and technology to collect, manage, and analyze data to improve teaching and learning for the purpose of improving student learning outcomes; and (H) includes— (i) common planning time or regularly scheduled collaboration for the mentor and mentee; and (ii) joint professional development opportunities. (26) Teacher residency program The term teacher residency program has the meaning given that term in section 2002 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. (27) Teaching skills The term teaching skills means skills that enable a teacher to— (A) increase student learning, achievement, and the ability to apply knowledge; (B) convey and explain academic subject matter; (C) teach higher-order analytical, evaluation, problem-solving, and communication skills; (D) employ strategies grounded in the disciplines of teaching and learning that— (i) are based on evidence, practice, and research, where applicable, related to teaching and learning; (ii) are specific to academic subject matter