Sentences with phrase «around teacher accountability»

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These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

The inverted «V» depicts the simplified pattern of gains one would expect to see if a school disproportionately targets resources, such as instructional time and teacher focus, to students particularly important to its accountability rating, that is, to students hovering around the state - defined proficiency threshold.

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

According to Duncan, «Over 40 states are developing next - generation accountability and support systems,» guided by the CSSOs, and «many states are moving forward with reforms in teacher and principal evaluation and support, turning around low - performing schools, and expanding access to high - quality schools.»

Her work centers around five essential school priorities: • Supporting school leadership • Using data transparently for accountability • Coordinating a multitier system of support • Providing embedded professional development based on best practices • Engaging parents and families This free one - hour webinar is sponsored by Learning Ally, a national nonprofit providing resources, training, and technology for teachers and schools; and 80,000 human - voiced audiobooks for students with learning & visual disabilities.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

Chris Cerf argued for the critical role of big system changes around things like accountability, standards, and teacher evaluation.

Washington lost points for its anti-charter schools law, but muddled language around teacher effectiveness and accountability sealed the application's fate.

There is a great deal of contention in public education around vouchers, choice, accountability systems, teacher quality, equity, and quality of education.

The two - year contracts and building transfers allow TFA candidates to maneuver around teacher effectiveness mandates and the accountability required of real teachers.

To flip this around, what limited your ability to implement accountability practices and policies in your work, either as a teacher, charter - school operator, or Education Secretary?

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

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Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

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.

The norms of teacher collaboration, collective problem solving, and public exposure of school - based routines help cultivate a sense of mutual accountability, which in turn can stoke positive energy around professional growth and learning.

This Framework is intended for use by teachers, schools, and districts, as well as researchers and policymakers, to help inform decisions around assessment, accountability, curriculum, instruction, professional development, program design and resource allocation.

History doesn't show that accountability turns around schools; at some point, someone must go into the schools, talk to the teachers, talk to the students, and observe classes to see what's needed.

To date, the state has passed key legislation surrounding teacher accountability, charter schooling, and turning around underperforming schools.

«There is no way that we are going to turn around the quality of teacher preparation and give teachers what they need and deserve without that kind of accountability,» Walsh said.

So the political context in Colorado is around high accountability and if (teachers) are not performing they need to be removed from schools.

In exchange for greater accountability, teachers and principals are given more flexibility to customize their teaching methods and curriculum to improve student learning, and have more flexibility around things like staffing and length of the school day and school year.

So we have a lot of mixed messages in this state as far as schools that are identified as turnaround or transformation; we have a new accountability system that will label districts more rigorously than they've ever been labeled before so that puts added pressure and then with Senate Bill 191 that's going to hold teachers and principals to a higher degree of accountability around effectiveness and at the same time cutting the education funding to a drastic extent.

We've covered many sides of the shortage issue, including the disconnect between training and districts» needs; how the accountability obsession and paperwork are driving some good veteran teachers away; what factors help teachers stick around; as well as efforts to improve training for special - ed teachers to stem that field's attrition and chronic shortage.

Duncan targeted teacher accountability as a key element in turning around our schools, incurring the wrath of the NEA and UFT.

The Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teachers union, which didn't participate in the accountability task force but conducted its own listening sessions around the state, offered measured support for the underlying goals.