Sentences with phrase «peac members»

«All PEAC members understand that we are doing good things now, and we do not want to dampen the good work being done in classrooms across Connecticut.»

CEA President Sheila Cohen told PEAC members that more flexibility and autonomy is needed for local districts.

Frustrated that the group has examined the same question for months — with no progress on articulating an answer — CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg told PEAC members, «We're retilling already tilled soil.

It's significant that PEAC's recommendation is unanimous, for 2 reasons: First, it appears that the leadership shown by CEA last year in striving to work with PEAC members to have deeper discussions about the issues has been successful, which, in turn has brought a more clear understanding of the negative impact brought about by including mastery test scores in teacher evaluation; and second, a unanimous decision will, hopefully, have a greater impact on the way the State Board of Education discusses and reviews the recommendation.

Until a new version of ESEA comes out of Washington, PEAC members are focusing on improving the state's evaluation system as it currently stands.

Many of the issues articulated by PEAC members are ones that CEA has voiced concern about already and addressed in the proposed CEA teacher evaluation guidelines released at a news conference last week.

At today's meeting, PEAC members were asked to identify issues that need addressing in the new evaluation system and pinpoint positives that seem to be emerging.

According to PEAC members, some of the issues that PEAC and state officials should look at include the requirement that statewide test data be included in evaluations, the strict formulaic approach of the system that limits judgment and takes an inordinate amount of time away from teaching and learning, specified teacher rating categories that interfere with improvement, and evaluator training that may not ensure calibration.

PEAC members hope to use what they learn from districts who have received waivers to help shape increased flexibility for all districts.

Weston Superintendent Colleen Palmer shared her district's teacher evaluation plan with PEAC members.

PEAC member Miguel Cardona, Meriden assistant superintendent for teaching and learning, said he sees stepping back from data management software as a positive.

Not exact matches

In addition to these responsibilities, Mariette Mulaire readily volunteers as an active member on several boards and organizations within Manitoba, including the Manitoba Premier's Economic Advisory Committee (PEAC) and the Council for International Trade Steering Committee.

PEAC is considering additional ways to increase flexibility to districts and, at a meeting Thursday, members heard from districts in Connecticut that are already provided greater flexibility in their teacher evaluation plans.

* Correction: A previous version of this post suggested that all those writing on PEAC's message board were members of PEAC.

Caputo - Pearl is a member of PEAC, which strongly opposes the spread of charter schools and the use of public school choice to upend district schools.

Robert Rader, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, said he needed more data before making key decisions as a member of PEAC.

«Regardless of what we want to plan for, a lot is going to depend on what happens in Washington, D.C.,» CEA President Sheila Cohen told other members of Connecticut's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) at a meeting yesterday.

Decided to conduct surveys of local Professional Development and Evaluation Committee (PDEC) members and teachers to get feedback on how the PDEC process is working and review the findings at the next PEAC meeting.

CEA has been a strong advocate for teachers as a member of the state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) that has been meeting for over a year.

And we and other members of PEAC are pleased to have developed a structure for a fair, reliable, and valid evaluation system with accountability for all.

PEAC reviewed surveys of PDECs by the state Department of Education as well as surveys CEA and AFT - Connecticut conducted of members who sit on PDECs.

If the announcement is as impressive as suggested, it would mean that the leadership of Connecticut's teacher unions have finally moved 180 degrees from the position they held on January 25, 2012 when the CEA and AFT joined with the other members of Governor Malloy's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) to approve the so - called «teacher evaluation framework» that inappropriately and unfairly mandates that student's standardized test scores be a major factor in the teacher evaluation process.

She was a member of the Parrot Education and Adoption Center and served on the adoption committees for both the San Diego, CA and Anchorage, AK chapters of PEAC.