Sentences with phrase «access to effective teachers»

Additionally, states are taking steps to ensure equitable access to effective teachers by identifying equity gaps and implementing innovative programs to recruit a diverse workforce.

So there's a lot about the way that the system works that works against disadvantaged kids having equal access to effective teachers.

If judges can dictate the mechanisms of discipline enforcement, certainly they can review laws affecting student access to effective teachers.

The key to improving schools is giving students consecutive years of access to effective teachers.

Do disadvantaged students have equal access to effective teachers?

Implement plans that ensure equitable access to effective teachers for students living in poverty and students of color.

This month, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation released a comprehensive review of their teacher fellowship training program, Answering the Call for Equitable Access to Effective Teachers: Lessons Learned From State - Based Teacher Preparation Efforts in Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, and Ohio.

Increasing access to effective teacher for all children in California: Research review and policy Recommendations.

Citing the 1954 Brown decision, Judge Rolf Treu, in Vergara v. California, declared the laws in violation of the equal protection clause of the California state constitution because they limited minority access to effective teachers.

The plan, required by the United States Department of Education (USED), will suggest district's use evidence - based strategies ensure students have equal access to effective teachers instead of just moving teachers around

Watered down and gutted beyond recognition, the new AB 934 preserves the unconstitutional and unjustifiable disparities in students» access to effective teachers caused by the current laws.

«By including school quality indicators [such as access to effective teachers and college - ready coursework] and using them in meaningful ways, parents, educators, and education stakeholders can have a richer understanding of what is going on in a school and what is fostering or delaying its success.»

However, the State School Board is concerned that the low number «might indicate an unwillingness to identify ineffective teachers at the local level so (the Utah State Board of Education) will develop a plan for ongoing monitoring of effectiveness data and equitable distribution to ensure equitable access to effective teachers for all students,» the plan states.

New State Efforts to Promote Equitable Access to Effective Teachers (2017).

A disappointing and staggering trend in our society is that the students who need the most get the least — less access to effective teachers, school counselors, advanced coursework, resources, and funding.

«increasing access to effective teachers or adopting incentives to recruit and retain effective teachers;

The U.S. Department of Education has just asked states to demonstrate the ways in which they are ensuring equal student access to effective teachers.

Developing a large pool of highly effective educators requires building aligned human resource and development systems for attracting, preparing, developing and retaining educators so that all kids have access to effective teachers and leaders.

And we must continue to work urgently to ensure, as the new law promises, that low - income students and students of color receive equitable access to effective teachers.

Networked Improvement Communities for Improving Equal Access to Effective Teachers: Initial evidence of effectiveness

The California Constitution guarantees every student in California equal access to a quality education, including equal access to effective teachers.

School districts are now perfectly poised to make courageous decisions that can change students» futures by ensuring them access to an effective teacher in every classroom.

As district and school leaders, you have the power to influence the most important factor in raising student achievement by ensuring that every student has equal access to an effective teacher.

«It's just additional data we are going to have to report to ensure that our most struggling students have equitable access to effective teachers,» Baker said.

It will be up to the districts to examine their placement of teachers and use the plan to make sure that all students have equal access to effective teachers.

We are now perfectly poised to make courageous decisions that can change our students» futures by ensuring them access to an effective teacher in every classroom.

Learning from the Experts: Teacher Leaders on Solving America's Education Challenges is the first book written by teachers affiliated with Teach Plus, a non-profit organization devoted to improving urban students» access to effective teachers, and it addresses teacher - led solutions to educational challenges.

Some districts are using value - added measures to make sure that their lowest performing students have access to effective teachers.

Title I provides flexibility in developing plans to support the development and implementation of school improvement activities, and state and local districts are strongly encouraged to use Title II, Part A funds to improve equitable access to effective teachers.

The Irreplaceables: Understanding the Real Retention Crisis in U.S. Urban Schools The real problem with teacher retention is not the number of teachers who leave school each year, but the number of high - quality teachers who leave, concludes a new report by TNTP, a nonprofit focused on giving poor and minority students equal access to effective teachers.

In particular, CAP's review of the 27 second - round waiver proposals reveals a lack of specificity regarding state efforts to ensure equitable access to effective teachers, help districts and schools engage in comprehensive school turnaround approaches, and reduce reporting duplication and burdens on districts and schools.

Specifically, PSEL defines effectiveness in this area as ensuring that students have equitable access to effective teachers and supports, developing policies that fairly address student misconduct, and confronting biases and «low expectations associated with race, class, culture and language, gender and sexual orientation, and disability or special status,» among other tenets.

Last Thursday, the California Court of Appeals for the Second Appellate District issued a decision overturning the Vergara v. California ruling and rolling back progress on ensuring all students have access to effective teachers.

The laws are not promoting the elevation of the teaching profession or serving students by insuring each student has access to an effective teacher.

TAKING ON TEACHER EQUITY: Today, the Obama administration is asking states to create plans ensuring that all students have access to effective teachers — and it will publish profiles of all states that will include information about where children from minority and low - income families aren't getting their fair share of these teachers this fall.

The division of teachers and leaders seeks to ensure that all students have access to an effective teacher and leader in every classroom and school in Tennessee.

But the teachers» complaints go far beyond compensation, and when viewed in the context of their other demands, it's clear that the strike gets at the heart of some of the biggest issues facing America's children: access to effective teachers, high - quality learning materials, and modern facilities.

Promoting More Equitable Access to Effective Teachers: Problem and Root Causes (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education).

«As a result of this report, we know that Oakland Unified must do a much better job of attracting, retaining and supporting a diverse teaching force and ensuring that all of our students have equitable access to effective teachers.

The vision of DR is to increase distributive leadership, improve teacher retention, extend the reach of effective teachers, improve equitable access to effective teachers, and evaluate the profession.