Sentences with phrase «improving teacher working conditions»

Improving teacher working conditions means more than focusing on resources, class sizes, and physical structures.

Despite its obvious importance, improving teacher working conditions should not be considered an independent cure - all.

Improving teacher working conditions by providing more autonomy in the classroom, providing more supplies and resources, and giving teachers more of a say in schoolwide decisions can make a difference.

An advocate for PLCs, improved teacher working conditions, and teacher leadership, Bill has represented educators on Capitol Hill and presented at state and national conferences.

Specifically, the report targets improved teacher working conditions that make the job «doable» by ensuring adequate resource staff; manageable class sizes; and a safe, supportive environment.

Not exact matches

The agreement between the States Employment Board, the NUT and the NASUWT has been made possible through constructive dialogue and a shared commitment to working to improve the working conditions of teachers.

Boone worked as a union organizer for Service Employees International, «helping nurses, healthcare professionals, patient care assistants and teachers improve their wages, working conditions, and benefits,» an experience her campaign said was formative.

[15] Johnson looked at improving pay and working conditions for teachers during his tenure as Education Secretary.

Mulgrew said that the talks have focused not only on wages but also on improving working conditions and giving teachers a greater professional voice at the school level.

Join an Association of Early - Career Scientists Federación de Jóvenes Investigadores (FJI) The aim of FJI is to improve the working and social conditions of research grant - holders in Spain — PhD students, postdocs, research technicians, and university teachers doing a thesis.

As a result, improving the working conditions of teachers may prove both more effective and more realistic.

If we improve the working conditions for principals and teachers, we also improve the learning conditions for students, as the two are inseparable.

In this webinar, a scholar and a practitioner will outline the research on the minority - teacher population, the challenges faced in the recruitment and retention of such candidates, and what one district program has done to improve working conditions and professional development for teachers of color.

Led by Katherine Bassett, herself a former state teacher of the year in New Jersey, the network is working to improve «the conditions, capacity and culture necessary to support great teaching and learning.»

Working conditions and teacher retention: Several new initiatives aimed to improve school leadership, the ability of school leadership to recruit and retain effective teachers, the school learning environment, and teacher supports.

As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve teachers» working conditions and promote teacher and leadership effectiveness.

As teacher - contract negotiations proceed this spring, union leaders across the country report that the reform movement is giving a new legitimacy to their longstanding efforts to improve salaries and working conditions, and that in some districts teachers have made startling gains in these areas.

If teachers were under pressure to improve scores on tests (which were not aligned with the standards), and worked under conditions that restricted their authority and responsibility for instructional decision - making, they were less likely to reconceptualize curriculum and evaluation in their schools.

To increase the effectiveness of teachers, the district estimates it will need $ 3.75 million for literacy and math coaches who will be based at struggling schools; $ 2.3 million for training teachers in proven instructional strategies; $ 2.46 million for strengthening the preparation, recruitment, and mentoring processes for all staff; and $ 660,000 for improving working conditions and staff retention.

«The most durable way to improve schools,» Ms. Ravitch writes, is the one thing that is actually discouraged by the stress on tests: It is «to improve curriculum and instruction and to improve the conditions in which teachers work and children learn.»

Others have charged that poor teacher working conditions, such as low salaries and test - driven school cultures, are nudging existing and potential educators toward other professions, especially with the economy improving.

Charter public schools provide school teachers, administrators, and board members the flexibility to shape important decisions about working conditions; the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.

A comprehensive strategy for addressing teacher turnover — from supporting beginning teachers to improving working conditions — is also key.

There will be reasons to celebrate, yet no doubt there will be areas that need to be addressed in order to improve the working conditions of our teachers.

Even though much more needs to be done to improve working conditions for teachers and learning conditions for students, Rep. Horn is hopeful that the pilot program will help to shed some light on how to best help teachers develop and improve on their craft.

He stressed the importance of improving teachers» working conditions, not just their pay.

Develop teacher recruitment strategies that include sufficient and sustainable financial incentives coupled with efforts to empower school principals with the authority and autonomy to improve working conditions for teachers.

The state's 95,000 + teachers report feeling disrespected, overworked, and underpaid after many years of little to no action on the part of the legislature to improve their pay and working conditions.

These changes can set in motion a virtuous cycle by which better training and working conditions enhance the experience of being a teacher, attract more people into the profession, and elevate the status of teachers overall, thereby improving the profession.

The Teacher Advisory Group will be an opportunity for teachers from across the district to come together to discuss what is working, what challenges they are facing, and what can be done to improve conditions for teachers and students.

We were asked to pool ideas that would have value at the practical, operational level (i.e. guiding the way teachers and leaders work to improve practice) and at the level of school culture (i.e. creating the conditions within which the practical tools could succeed).

In charter schools, teachers, administrators, and board members shape important decisions about working conditions, including the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.

In places where the supply of teachers is already limited, districts may need to provide higher teacher salaries or improve working conditions to make up for the diminished job security that accompanies tenure reform.»

Teachers have been seeking a stronger voice in improving working conditions and student learning for CAVA's 15,000 students.

At the same time, ongoing support for California teachers and improved working conditions can help schools retain the teachers they have.

Finally, the NEA identifies four key strategies to transforming low performing schools which include: recruit and prepare teachers, performance pay structures, improve working conditions based on what the research says develops, retains and inspires teachers, and create new teacher evaluation tools and processes.

Especially now that the country is facing a national teacher shortage, it is imperative to elevate entry into the profession while simultaneously increasing compensation and improving working conditions.

On the Path to Equity cautions that policies to improve teaching effectiveness are complex and depend on individual teachers» abilities as well as the working conditions within schools.

Finally, improving the skills of individual teachers will not be enough: we need to create and sustain productive, collegial working conditions that allow teachers to work collectively in an environment that supports learning for them and their students.

These favorable work conditions are also predictors of higher levels of student growth and improved academic achievement.27 New teachers, especially, can benefit from additional time, tools, and support — possibly provided as part of residency and induction programs — during their critical first years in the classroom.

Texas AFT actively works to better the profession of educators by promoting effective public education policy and laws to help improve the pay and working conditions of our teachers, nurses, counselors and other professionals.

The correlations suggest that improving leadership could have a «ripple» effect on other working conditions, causing teachers» overall satisfaction with their school climate to increase and thereby improving student learning.

If many school and district leaders do not perceive the full extent of their teachers» concerns related to working conditions, the lack of impetus to improve these conditions is hardly surprising.

In other words, improved working conditions are not only central to teachers» well - being and satisfaction, but they are also important to the success of the students they serve.

Programs like class - size reduction are fine candidates for improving the progress of poor students and the working conditions of teachers, but they may not always work as we hope.

Until the states improve teacher preparation and working conditions, argued NCTAF, their public school systems will continue to experience shortages of caring, competent, and qualified teachers (NCTAF, 1996).

Teachers are looking for increased salaries, greater rewards, and improved working conditions.

Staffing & development: The potential to work in teams with on - demand support will improve working conditions for teachers and make most blended schools more responsive to all students, especially those with special needs.

[17] In contrast, teachers with community knowledge and connections are more likely to raise student achievement, as well as to participate in long - term efforts at school - community partnerships and teacher professionalization, including mentoring and collaboratively improving working conditions.

What we need to do is to improve teacher compensation and working conditions, including access to high quality teacher professional development.