Sentences with phrase «adoption of teacher evaluation»

That's because its decision to condition ESEA flexibility on state adoption of teacher evaluation systems has not only raised the stakes of reading and math tests (making them less popular and potentially more damaging to the educational enterprise).

And today, according to some press accounts, he will get more concrete and tie a promised 4 percent increase in state aid to adoption of the teacher evaluation system put forth by the state Board of Regents last year.

Not exact matches

The money came tied to some fundamental changes in public education, among them the adoption of a statewide teacher evaluation system that could make it easier to fire those who log years of poor performance.

They also said the rapid adoption of a new teacher evaluation system led to excessive testing of students.

Even so, despite the urgings of the caucus and the local chapters of E4E and Teach Plus, UTLA refused to endorse the Los Angeles district's application for a $ 40 million Race to the Top grant, because it required the adoption of a teacher - evaluation system based in part on student achievement.

This is the exact opposite of the equitable distribution of teacher talent that the U.S. Department of Education (the driving force behind state adoption of the type of teacher evaluation systems we have studied), intends for these systems to accomplish.

And it could have helped avoid widespread conflict about the precise weighting of student growth in teacher evaluation systems and the adoption of additional tests to measure student performance.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Cuomo also advocated for the state's quick adoption of the new higher standards, as well as new, tougher teacher evaluations.

They did not leave because of reforms like the new teacher evaluation system or the adoption of higher learning standards.

The administration promised $ 1 billion in new spending on preschool; spurred states to adopt controversial K - 12 reforms such as performance - based teacher evaluations and the adoption of the Common Core State Standards through its Race to the Top grant program and waivers to the No Child Left Behind law; significantly expanded the federal School Improvement Grant program to turn around low - performing schools; targeted for - profit colleges and attempted to increase accountability in the higher education sector; and pushed a proposal by the president to make community college free.

Supporting effective instruction and leadership, including the adoption of teacher - and principal - evaluation systems

Mr. Deasy said he hopes the decision will compel the district to accelerate adoption of a new evaluation system it has been trying out among several hundred teachers and administrators this year.

A national push to improve the quality of teachers has focused largely on those already in the classroom, with the adoption new teacher evaluation systems and efforts to help struggling teachers and push out those who don't improve.

His tenure in New York was turbulent; he played a key role in pushing for the adoption of a new teacher evaluation system that was tied to test scores.

More controversial were his decisions to exempt teachers at certain low performing schools from seniority - based layoffs and to adopt a federal No Child Left Behind waiver that requires the adoption of a new teacher evaluation system.

The evaluation focused on three key areas: 1) Implementation (training, staffing, promotion, availability, methods for sustainability, curricular connections), 2) Participation (methods of adoption / education, level of participation, parent / teacher / food service worker roles) and 3) Attitudes (changes in diet / nutrition - related knowledge, behavior, impact of cultural differences, food likes / dislikes, expectations, influences on food selection, etc.).

The district has called for adoption of a teacher - performance - evaluation system tied to student academic growth.

Seminar course intended to prepare reading teachers, specialists, coordinators and administrators for directing textbook adoption, curriculum development and issues, staff development, evaluation and supervision of reading / writing programs.

These guidelines present overall guidance to local school districts regarding the state's adoption of a uniform, statewide teacher performance evaluation system.

The evaluation of the North Carolina IMPACT project by the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University focused, in part, on assessing teacher characteristics related to technology adoption before and after a 3 - year infusion of technology funding at 11 elementary and middle schools located in low - socioeconomic - status districts (No Child Left Behind Act of 2001).

In the Portland contract, teachers agreed to small pay increases, additional workloads and adoption of a new evaluation system next year.

's most recent post, about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's $ 45 million worth of bogus Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies that were recently honored with a 2013 Bunkum (i.e., meaningless, irrelevant, junk) Award by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation are, once - again, «strong - arming states [and in this case a large city district] into adoption of policies tying teacher evaluation to measures of students» growth.»

Failure to win support of teachers for adoption of a new evaluation system based on test scores, once again doomed several of the state's largest school districts in the federal Race to the Top competition earlier this month.

One of the most important policy innovations of the last few years has been the adoption and implementation of new multiple - measure teacher evaluation systems.