Sentences with phrase «as peac»

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In addition to these responsibilities, Mariette Mulaire readily volunteers as an active member on several boards and organizations within Manitoba, including the Manitoba Premier's Economic Advisory Committee (PEAC) and the Council for International Trade Steering Committee.

PEAC member Miguel Cardona, Meriden assistant superintendent for teaching and learning, said he sees stepping back from data management software as a positive.

Robert Rader, executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education, said he needed more data before making key decisions as a member of PEAC.

PEAC includes representatives of a long list of groups, including CEA and AFT - Connecticut as well as organizations representing principals, superintendents, school boards, and higher education.

Until a new version of ESEA comes out of Washington, PEAC members are focusing on improving the state's evaluation system as it currently stands.

CEA has been a strong advocate for teachers as a member of the state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) that has been meeting for over a year.

Training for evaluators is one area that CEA leaders on the Council have previously highlighted as needing attention, and yesterday PEAC heard from administrators in the Wolcott Public Schools about their efforts to improve evaluator training.

PEAC reviewed surveys of PDECs by the state Department of Education as well as surveys CEA and AFT - Connecticut conducted of members who sit on PDECs.

The Connecticut Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) on Wednesday voted to preserve the role of state mastery tests in the educator evaluation and support system to inform goal - setting and professional development planning, but not as a measure used to calculate a final evaluation rating.

If the announcement is as impressive as suggested, it would mean that the leadership of Connecticut's teacher unions have finally moved 180 degrees from the position they held on January 25, 2012 when the CEA and AFT joined with the other members of Governor Malloy's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) to approve the so - called «teacher evaluation framework» that inappropriately and unfairly mandates that student's standardized test scores be a major factor in the teacher evaluation process.

But as of today, no other full PEAC committee meetings have been set.

CEA President Cohen was quoted as saying, «Today's PEAC changes will foster a new climate that moves away from the rigidity and moves toward the healthy flexibility that our schools communities sorely need...,» while AFT - CT President Peters added, «With PEAC's approval of new flexibility options, our state's children will be the primary beneficiaries of this course correction.»

With today's PEAC improvements, parents and communities can be confident that teachers will be able to enhance their impact on students — a focus put at risk this school year as teachers, administrators, and school districts were forced to put enormous time and resources into compliance and paperwork required by the Connecticut State Department of Education.

As you are aware, the full PEAC committee has not met since February 6, 2012.