Sentences with phrase «allow teachers and principals»

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

Texas Education Agency officials said the system will allow teachers and principals to intervene early with struggling students.

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

In the aftermath of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, several prominent voices, including former U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett and U.S. Rep. Louis Gohmert, R - Texas, have argued that allowing teachers and principals to carry firearms could prevent such incidents.

New school models allow both teacher and principal residents to be paid for a year within existing budgets.

Candidates can apply for the Washington Fellowship, which is a full - time appointment at the Department's headquarters in Washington D.C., or the Classroom Fellowship, which allows teachers and principals to participate on a part - time basis while fulfilling their regular school responsibilities.

scheduling within individual schools that allowed teachers and principals the time to be out of the classroom and observe practice in other schools, as well as participate in networks;

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«I am angry that a man who was a violent, aggressive bully, a drunkard with an unhealthy interest in children, and that was obvious, was allowed to be a principal of a school, was allowed to be teacher in a school over a long number of years, allowed access to young boys.

By creating one system, it also simplifies administrative processes, allowing schools, principals, and teachers to focus on teaching.

Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of regulations intended to allow greater control by individual principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Rteacher professional development and evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher RTeacher Reserve.

The deal would delay that use for two years, but would allow the tests to continue to be used in job evaluations of teachers and principals, said two state officials Tuesday night.

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

No CEO in the city would allow an outside force to tell them who to hire or how to keep them,» said Ms. Fariña, herself a former Brooklyn public school teacher and principal.

The bill as introduced by the governor would allow parents and legal guardians to view teacher and principal evaluations.

John Dewey HS Principal Kathleen Elvin was fired in July after investigators found that students had been allowed to receive credit for classes in which they had no substantial instruction and in some csaes no contact with teachers.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

This allows the principal to honor and appreciate on a regular basis teachers who take risks, it acknowledges that failure is part of learning and improving, and it provides teachers the opportunity to support each other.

«If you really follow the Data Wise model,» City says, «the principal begins to allow teachers to take leadership roles in helping to frame what the instructional challenges are and how the school is going to address them.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

However, recall that the principals» survey responses allowed us to construct separate measures of two distinct aspects of teacher quality: the ability to improve student achievement and the ability to provide an enjoyable classroom experience for students.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

The teachers» contract allowed me to supervise classroom teaching and inspect lesson plans, but woe betide a principal who tries to evaluate a teacher based on student learning outcomes.

«The badges are the things that a principal can say, «Oh, this teacher has a five - star rating and those credentials,» which allows for some choice for the principal.

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

(She lists five other «solutions» that simply amount to rolling back reforms: Ban for - profit charters and charter chains; eliminate high - stakes standardized testing; don't allow «non-educators» to be teachers, principals, or superintendents; don't allow mayoral control of the schools; don't view education as a «consumer good.»)

Fully 60 percent of teachers object to the idea of principals being allowed to hire college graduates who do not have formal teaching credentials, and only 28 percent support it.

Most principals and teachers say they believe creating school environments that allow educators to work together more would have a «major impact» on improving the chances for student success, according to a new national survey by MetLife Inc..

In both cases, allowing principals to obtain the resources needed to face the difficulties is crucial, and in this context a team of high quality teachers committed to helping these children overcome their constraints is the key.

«Principals generally know when they've got great teachers and when they've got teachers that need to improve and I think that there needs to be far more emphasis on developing teachers — there can't be teachers who are allowed to opt out,» Graham said.

Initially funded at $ 650 million, i3 allowed school districts, charter schools, and non-profit organizations working in partnership with one of those entities to apply for grants to support innovative programs aligned with one of four broadly defined federal priorities (e.g., supporting effective teachers and principals or improving the use of data).

However, the strengths - based approach allows supervisors, principals, and others tasked with training new teachers to approach the endeavor from focusing on what works, and use that as a bridge for what's not working so well.

NCTQ does note that L.A. Unified's evaluation procedures do follow the letter of state law, but argues that the district hasn't made the evaluations more - thorough and of better use for teachers and principals alike, even though state law does allow the district to do so.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

Along with the online survey reports, teachers and principals will have access to the Panorama Education Playbook (Playbook), an online professional learning tool that allows educators to share practices and create a personalized playbook of instructional strategies based on their survey results.

Other measures would allow new routes to teacher and principal certification, tie student performance to teacher and principal evaluations, and allow for the expansion of the state's charter sector.

«We have not had enough time to allow the teachers, superintendents, and principals in our states who specialize in educating our children to review this legislation.»

Their proposals would allow charter schools, establish a process to intervene when schools fail and continue strengthening principal and teacher performance reviews.

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

The Great Teachers and Leaders Act (known by many as Senate Bill 191) and the Innovation Schools Act have allowed Colorado school districts to be at the forefront of teacher and principal evaluation and to pursue new staffing and learning models.

Director M. Night Shyamalan recommends five basic tenets to close the achievement gap: start with good teachers; allow principals to be educators; be serious about data - driven instruction; implement small schools; and allot more time for learning.

Working as a school leader within the Seton Catholic Schools network is unique because it allows principals to get out of the office and into classrooms, working with teachers to build classroom culture, co-plan lessons and analyze student achievement.

What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.

As KIPP Lynn's Chief Academic Officer, Mr. Dolan was in charge of coaching teachers and incoming leaders, while his role as Director of Principal Development allowed him to mentor and coach new KIPP Principals across the country.

Gwinnett County, Prince George's County, Md., and Springfield, Mass., for example, are among those using screening tools, such as Gallup's PrincipalInsight, that allow them to quickly gather information on why a candidate wants to be a school leader and his or her likely ability to foster collegiality, or motivate teachers, students and parents.20 To ensure that would - be candidates genuinely want to lead schools and not just get a salary bump that comes with an advanced degree, Chicago, St. Louis and Springfield, Ill., require would - be leaders to agree to serve as principals for a set number of years.

Allowing administrators to waive subsequent observations and evaluations for math teachers who perform well early in the year, for example, could both gratify math teachers and free principals to focus their evaluation efforts where they may be more useful.

The district allowed several transferring principals to bring along their English Language Arts and math coaches, one or two high - performing teachers to serve as models for other teachers in their new schools, and an assistant principal in the case of middle and high schools.

Now, all teachers will have it, which will allow them to work together on planning and on new mandates such as teacher and principal performance evaluations, Starr said.

The expansion of learning time can serve as one effective vehicle to modernize our schools because it allows teachers, principals, community organizations and leaders, and parents to build multiple curriculums to best educate our children to succeed in the 21st century.

Henry specifically cited the achievement school district (ASD) model that Tennessee is using, which allows private charter school operators to take over public schools, fire the teachers and principals, and use their own school management approaches to try to bring students» academic proficiency rates up into the top quartile of the state's public schools.

Information is also collected from principals, teachers and parents, allowing for comparisons of home learning environments and teaching across countries and over time.