Sentences with phrase «around teacher quality»

Capacity - building activities around teacher quality and school leadership could also be viewed as systemic change - oriented strategies if they increase the market share of high - quality personnel and leadership capacity available to public schools.

Imagine if they rallied those same groups around teacher quality reforms, Common Core curricula and other prescriptions for reforming schools?

Not exact matches

You and the Mat hosts the very best teachers in the healing arts from around the world to make the highest quality yoga education accessible in Orange County and the East Bay.

Now, she offers you the best quality retreats by the most kind and generous teachers around.

But at face value, whether a student can or can not carry a machine around all day tells us little to nothing about a school's actual pedagogy, about the quality of interactions between students and teachers, or about the rigor of the software programs delivered through those devices.

• Around 1,000 more teachers • $ 6.1 million over three years to support an updated anti-bullying strategy and resources for teachers, students and parents • Funding of $ 88 million in 2017 - 18 as part of the $ 224 million for teacher professional development through the Quality Teaching, Successful Students initiative • Funding of $ 50 million in 2017 - 18 on student counselling and wellbeing services as part of the $ 167 million Supported Students, Successful Students program • $ 149 million on education standards for provision of services related to school curriculum assessment, teaching and regulatory standards in NSW schools

What we did is we looked at reports of their quality of relationships with the teacher at aged around 10 years and then... we managed to find pairs of children who differed on their quality of relationship to the teacher.

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.

Whether a student can or can not carry a machine around all day tells us little to nothing about a school's actual pedagogy, about the quality of interactions between students and teachers, or about the rigor of the software programs delivered through those devices.

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

It would also have made significant investments in helping local communities repair and renovate their schools, recruit and train quality teachers, and turn around low - performing schools.

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.»

Jensen suggests that the majority of studies around the world have shown that class size reductions do not significantly improve student outcomes, and that the funds should have been redirected toward enhancing teacher quality.

However, improved technologies are enabling Cool Australia to provide professional development which incorporates high - quality content and practical learning experiences to teachers around Australia.

Schleicher highlighted features of high performing school systems around the world, gleaned from PISA data, and told delegates that teacher quality is key.

Such systems, if organized around direct assessments of teacher and classroom quality, based on strong and valid metrics and tied to new or existing incentive systems, could be a cost - effective means of producing real change for teachers and children.

At Cochrane Collegiate Academy, in Charlotte, North Carolina, high - quality teachers have been an important part of turning the school around, and many of them credit their principal, Josh Bishop, for helping them reach their full potential.

Around the world, educators, parents and students know quality teachers matter immensely.

The objective of the consultation, which closes on 9th March, is around supporting teachers and ensuring the right structures are in place at the beginning of a teacher's career, improving access to high - quality professional development and improving progression opportunities for all teachers throughout their careers.

The need for quality teachers is great as schools around the nation work to raise K - 12 learning standards so that students are ready for college or a career by the time they graduate high school.

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

Several other high - quality analyses echo this finding, and while estimates vary a bit, there is a relative consensus: teachers statistically account for around 10 — 20 percent of achievement outcomes.

Free Technology for Teachers has won several Edublogs awards for its quality content, and Byrne has traveled around the world talking to teachers about how to engage students successfully in a digital clTeachers has won several Edublogs awards for its quality content, and Byrne has traveled around the world talking to teachers about how to engage students successfully in a digital clteachers about how to engage students successfully in a digital classroom.

As Project Based Learning gains momentum around the world, it's more important than ever that teachers, students, and stakeholders share a common understanding of what high - quality PBL means.

Work Based Learning in Linked Learning: Definitions, Outcomes, and Quality Criteria (PDF, 450 KB) This document strives to: 1) Clarify for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning the definition of high - quality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and effQuality Criteria (PDF, 450 KB) This document strives to: 1) Clarify for teachers, partners, and others implementing Linked Learning the definition of high - quality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and effquality, outcomes - driven work - based learning, and 2) Increase alignment among Linked Learning partners and technical assistant providers so that support for Linked Learning practitioners around work - based learning is more coherent, coordinated, and effective.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

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

He is a founding member and senior fellow of the Collaboratory — a digital home for progressive conversations around the changing nature of teaching and learning — and has served as teacher in residence at the Center for Teaching Quality.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

Such buy - in does make up a sizable chunk of points, but 48 percent of points are attached to the quality of a state's plan in four key areas: standards and assessments, data systems, teacher and principal effectiveness, and turning around the lowest - achieving schools.

Alexandria, VA — It's Teacher Appreciation Week (May 5 - 11, 2013) and around the country thousands of communities are honoring local teachers and acknowledging the crucial role they play in making sure every student receives a quality education.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

More recently, my colleague Alex Wiseman and I have been working on what researchers from around the world consider to be «teacher quality.»

Based on the research around collaboration and formative assessment, Barb specializes in developing Impact Teams to improve teacher quality and student achievement.

This time around, Kline's proposal resembles the teacher quality reform efforts being advanced by the Obama Administration through the sensible Race to the Top grant competition and the counterproductive No Child waiver gambit.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

One reason is that the principal is the single most important factor in determining whether a school can attract and keep the high - quality teachers necessary to turn around struggling schools.

She travels around the country to elementary schools to train and support teachers in implementing high - quality literacy instruction in their classrooms.

This is a web - based platform that delivers high quality video lessons — produced by teachers around the country — to students and teachers.

The U.S. Department of Education and Asia Society released a report last week entitled, «Improving Teacher Quality Around the World: The International Summit on the Teaching Profession,» addressing lessons shared during the two - day event held in New York City in March.

Family Engagement University, a program of Metro Nashville Public Schools» Department of Family and Community Partnerships, and Building Bridges, a program of Oasis Center, worked to elevate the need for policies that advance teacher quality through trainings and preparation around diversity, identity, privilege, and equity for all students.

In order to receive today's funds, Colorado provided assurances that it will collect, publish, analyze and act on basic information regarding the quality of classroom teachers, annual student improvements, college readiness, the effectiveness of state standards and assessments, progress on removing charter caps and interventions in turning around underperforming schools.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

The public and policy debate around education has also changed dramatically — particularly around issues of teacher quality and charter schools — due in large part to the work of these individuals.

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

ASCD Executive Director Gene R. Carter commended Sen. Reed and Sen. LeMieux for recognizing that improving teacher and principal quality is key to raising student achievement and turning around struggling schools.

Personalized learning is built around three main pillars: student directed learning, high quality instruction from teachers and leveraging technology to assist in organizing and managing learning.

There are still many areas of the state that have trouble attracting high quality teachers, only a small percentage of students meet all college - ready benchmarks upon graduation, and remediation programs - which help high school graduates prepare for college - cost the state around $ 35 million a year.

After conducting several rounds of classroom observations at Costano it became apparent that while teachers delivered instruction that was of high quality and mostly engaging, they were not providing enough meaningful and strategic opportunities for students to engage in conversation around content.