Sentences with phrase «based teacher contracts»

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In some areas the job of overseeing home education may be carried out on a contract basis by a retired teacher, who will be paid for each assessment or inspection.

But the school board pursued his removal based on the sharing of information from a closed - door executive session of the board, arguing it helped undermine the district during its negotiations with the teachers union for a new contract.

The Long Island City - based non-profit has collected $ 45.6 million from the contracts to coach «aspiring principals» and teachers.

The contract cemented the practice of evaluating teachers based on students» test scores.

The object of all this ire and satire was Pearson PLC, the company based in Great Britain that has a nearly $ 33 million contract with New York state to write and administer tests given to K - 12 public school students and to help run teacher training tests.

The effect of the Triborough Amendment is significant: Edmund J. McMahon, senior fellow at the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative research group, has estimated that longevity - based pay increases for teachers, guaranteed by the amendment even after contracts expire, add $ 300 million to school budgets annually.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

But acknowledging any such obvious fact would sweep the support from under the fixed salary ladders that are the basis for teacher contracts in most districts.

The job advert outlines that applicants must be a classroom based teacher who has a current teaching contract, have at least five years teaching experience, and have an up to date knowledge of developments in the education sector.

The initiatives outlined in the plan include lengthening the school day and year, implementation of a statewide teacher contract, consolidation of school districts, and increasing needs - based financial aid in the 2010 budget.

Schools operating under the alternative contract would be free to evaluate teachers based on student performance and evaluation, as well as classroom observation and other evidence.

In return, the new contract would have a far higher base salary; in fairness, states should require districts to hire an auditor to determine the savings that can be expected from each alternative contract teacher, and give that savings to the teacher as increased pay.

If a state chooses to implement this policy change on a school - by - school basis, teachers who choose the current traditional contract might be offered a transfer or be grandfathered, that is, allowed to continue under their current contract.

In fourth and fifth grades, most Enota teachers design learning contracts, weekly activity charts that offer a menu of activities based on varying intelligences, for their students.

In the Buffalo case, Arthur v. Nyquist, the appeals court held that seniority - based layoffs, as called for under a teachers» contract,...

The first teachers» union contract approved for one of Massachusetts» 57 charter schools that operate outside a local public school district will allow performance - based teacher pay and a longer school day.

The Houston - based schools have extended days, learning contracts signed by students and parents, school - issued cell phones for teachers, and classrooms bearing the names of colleges — the now - familiar features of what David Whitman dubbed «New Paternalism» schools in his 2008 book Sweating the Small Stuff (see «An Appeal to Authority,» features, Fall 2008).

As Stephen Sawchuk notes, there has been a great deal of debate over whether teacher layoffs should be based on inverse seniority («last in, first out,» which many union contracts and state laws require) or based on teacher effectiveness.

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.

Created by two former teachers, the program works on a contract basis with schools to provide games and activities for a money - focused math night.

JH: Yes, well you've got the attraction / retention, you're right, and also you've got the experience base — again, typically in Australia we've sent our least experienced teachers to some of our most challenging remote schools contexts, with the promise of permanency or a long - term contract or something as an incentive, so you've got that.

Instead of giving first priority to teachers who were at the school before Katrina and hiring them based on seniority, as the union contract would have dictated, the charter school group asked each teacher applicant to take a short test of math and writing skills.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

Whether quality control is done on an assignment - by - assignment basis or as part of a work contract, standards are being raised while the teacher's workload is being reduced.

Existing teachers could opt to stay in the seniority - based system or have the ability to earn more money by shifting to annual contracts.

States should improve their teacher licensing processes to ensure that the effectiveness of all teachers is assessed on a regular basis as a condition for the granting and renewal of a state teaching license — regardless of the particular criteria for evaluation and tenure laid out in state tenure laws and collective bargaining contracts

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

Klein railed against what he called the three biggest problems contained in the contract and the culture the contract produces: lockstep pay for teachers, regardless of their skills or assignment; lifetime tenure, making it difficult to get rid of incompetent or abusive teachers; and seniority rights that dictate assignments based solely on a teacher's longevity in the system.

The problem is simply the fact that the union of teachers was stupid in accepting a contract where teachers could be fired based upon tests that can easily «fixed».

A new performance - based teacher evaluation system and reduced sick leave are the key issues preventing the Hawaii State Teachers Association from agreeing to a new contract with the state, union leaders and educators said.

Teachers have little reason to budge since their previous contract remains in effect and they continue to earn raises based on longevity.

School - based staff are projected to start receiving G1 salary increases in the 2018 - 19 school year once the full tax revenues have been collected and teacher contract negotiations have ended.

Ms. Anderson, 43, used some of that money to establish merit - based pay in a teachers» contract that was hailed even by national unions as a groundbreaking compromise.

[i] Aspiring Teachers will be hired to a one - year contract with compensation of $ 25,000 and will be eligible to apply for open Novice Teacher positions at the end of the year based upon a successful evaluation process.

The rules shall include, but are not limited to, rules relating to a teacher's duty to help students master challenging standards and meet all state and local requirements for achievement; teaching efficiently and faithfully, using prescribed materials and methods, including technology - based instruction; recordkeeping; and fulfilling the terms of any contract, unless released from the contract by the district school board.

There was a dramatic difference between median base salaries at LAUSD and the charters, and I attributed that to the level of experience and age of the teachers, as well as a union contract that has step and column raises.

The debate erupted in August, when The Times published a database of the value - added scores of about 6,000 elementary school teachers based on seven years of testing data, prompting union protests and vows by the district to raise the issue during contract negotiations.

Colorado governor Roy Romer initiated site - based management in Denver as part of stalled contract negotiations between the school district and the teachers» association and required a business representative on each council.

NEWARK — The 4,700 - member Newark Teachers Union approved the state's first teacher contract that offers bonuses based on classroom performance.

Standard teacher contracts make it difficult to terminate employment, but a performance based pay contract makes it easier to remove a bad teacher.

* We should fully define «highly qualified teacher» for Texas not just in regulatory terms, but in terms of the qualities and performance that are expected, which will necessitate a re-evaluation of the strategic policy document, «Learner - Centered Schools for Texas: A Vision of Texas Educators», adopted in 1997, as well as the transformation of educator employment terms from «contract» to «at will», with enhanced compensation based on performance tied to student achievement.

It must also ask whether the board has allocated sufficient resources to support implementation, whether union contracts build in time for collaboration, and whether the evaluation process supports (or punishes) teachers based on whom they teach rather than how.

The current practice of bringing teachers new to a school district in on temporary rather than probationary contracts, even when there is no legal basis for the temporary classification, affords districts more than two years to try out newcomers.

About $ 50 million of a 2010 gift from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg helped pay for provisions in the five - year contract, including higher base salaries for all Newark teachers plus annual raises for teachers who are rated well under a new evaluation system.

«What we want at the end of the day is to get to a place where there isn't tenure in the traditional sense and we have renewable contracts for teachers based on their evaluations,» said Michael Vrancik, chief lobbyist for the New Jersey School Boards Association.

He has agreed to high stakes - test based teacher evaluations and a contract that delayed earned pay raises for teachers.

Collective bargaining contracts are especially problematic on three fronts: 1) they restrict efforts to use compensation as a tool to recruit, reward and retain the most essential and effective teachers, 2) they impede attempts to assign or remove teachers on the basis of fit or performance and 3) they over-regulate school life with work rules that stifle creative problem solving without demonstrably improving teachers» ability to serve students.»

In Baltimore, teachers are considering a contract — supported by union leaders — that would replace the traditional system of pay based mostly on length of employment with a system in which involvement in school improvement plays a big role.

In 2011, we completed an 8 - month contract for the Winnsboro, Louisiana, school system to support math and language arts teachers in using data, tiered interventions, and evidence - based strategies to meet the needs of diverse learners through Response to Intervention.

In that case, the teachers were dissatisfied with the Chicago Public School contract that called for 35 percent of a teacher's evaluation to be based on student achievement.