Sentences with phrase «based teacher policy»

But that drop in those who have no definite opinion does not change the level of support for merit - based teacher policy.

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I don't give my kids sweets on any regular basis, love the no sweets policy, but the teachers unanimously believe it doesn't apply to them, while my kids are getting cavities, sucking down barrel juices they've never had before in their lives, and parents are stopped at the door by the secretary (happened to me last year) to undergo questioning of whether or not I was bringing in such banned treats.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

Teachers visiting as part of a field trip are charged a group rate or admitted for free based on the attendance policies of their registered trip.

Dr. Rosa's election is an indication of how much both politicians and the public have turned against the policies promoted by Dr. Tisch, including the evaluation of teachers on the basis of state test scores.

The statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit late Wednesday over the state Department of Education's policy of requiring teachers to sign confidentiality agreements before scoring tests based on the Common Core standards.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has urged the state to repeal the seniority - based firing policy ahead of major teacher layoffs.

The Yonkers Democrat vowed to back an increase in education spending and touted her conference's opposition to education policy measures that sought to link teacher evaluations to Common Core - based test results.

«Nana Addo proposed Northern Development Authority (NDA) in 2008 and the NDC, kicked against it but, when they assumed office, they copied the policy idea and changed the name to Savannah Accelerated Development Authourity (SADA), the same with free Senior High School (SHS), cancelled nurses and teachers training allowances, now he has swallowed his own words, promising to pay the allowances, President Mahama, is ruling the nation based on Nana Addo's wisdom, «he stated.

The Washington, D.C. - based National Council on Teacher Quality has released its seventh annual State Teacher Policy Yearbook, which includes a 360 - degree analysis of every state law, rule and regulation that shapes the effectiveness of the teaching profession in New York.

Beyond Satisfactory: A New Teacher Evaluation System for New York Educators for Excellent (E4E), 2011 After five months of research and debate, E4E's Evaluation Policy Team issued this report detailing an evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would recommend.

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.

The new timeline is a win for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has spent recent months vigorously lobbying to replace the state's «Last in, first out» seniority - based teacher firing policy with one based on merit ahead of a massive layoff plan.

«We plan to communicate our findings to school teachers, administrators and policymakers to facilitate the implementation of evidence - based policies that support children's ability to meet their daily physical activity and nutritional recommendations,» said Khan.

While the majority of 147 teachers surveyed provided some classroom - based support for students, almost half indicated their school had no clear policy for responding to the crisis and half received no training to help them.

President Barack Obama has expressed support for the policy of basing teachers» salaries, in part, on their students» academic progress on tests?

The new policy would have eventually based teachers» salaries in part on evaluations by the principal and a number of outside evaluators hired by the district.

The logic of standards - based reform is «fundamentally at odds» with that of loose - coupling, because reform violates the premise that teachers should be buffered from outside interference and makes «what actually gets taught a matter of public policy and open political discourse.»

Between midday on 4th and 14th December, all donations online can be doubled, which means in the future twice as many teachers could be learning about child rights and gender - based violence, twice as many communities learning about the importance of girls» education, twice as many school - boards understanding and enforcing national policies aimed at supporting girls, and hopefully twice as many girls could be making that crucial transition from primary to secondary school, become shining beacons for hundreds of other women and girls who dream of a better future but wonder if it's possible.

Given the contentiousness of these policies and the political volatility associated with Mayor Fenty's loss and Chancellor Rhee's resignation, teachers may have reasonably doubted the staying power of IMPACT's performance - based dismissal threats, opting not to respond to its incentives.

This year, we've got Andrew Coy, senior advisor for making in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, sharing why making is critical in schools today; Alixandra Klein, a Vermont - based entrepreneur who makes jewelry using a laser cutter and upcycled materials, talking about the importance of art and creativity; and Dr. Jorge Valdes of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (and also a high school science teacher here in New Jersey) discussing intellectual property, patents, and the inventor's mindset.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce.

With the importance of education fresh in her mind, Vegas went on to pursue a master's in public policy at Duke and then a doctorate at the Ed School, where her dissertation was an economic and research - based evaluation of «how we could design policies to attract, retain, and motivate better teachers,» she says.

But since its inception in 2005, Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City, has sought to use campaign donations to smooth the way for policies such as expanding charter schools and differential pay for teachers that are sometimes opposed by traditional Democratic constituencies.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

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.

Most IEP students arrive with professional experience in international education and development, perhaps as teachers or administrators at international schools, Peace Corps volunteers, field researchers with NGOs, or policy analysts with U.S. - based aid organizations.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

It is based on «Teachers the Age of Digital Instruction,» a paper published this week by the Fordham Institute as part of its Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

«If districts instead adopted effectiveness - based layoff policies, they would be likely to lay off fewer teachers, achieve the same budgetary savings, and have a higher quality teacher workforce,» Goldhaber and Theobald concluded.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school lBased on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school lbased learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school lbased learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

At the national level sample - based student assessments similar to the National Assessment of Educational Progress that have no stakes for students, teachers, or schools are the main means to inform policy - makers and the public on how Finland's...

With a seniority - based layoff policy, school systems may be forced to cut some of their most promising new talent rather than dismiss more - senior teachers, who may not be terribly effective in raising student achievement.

Contrary to claims that teacher evaluation reforms are leading to strict, one - size - fits - all policies, data suggests that local districts are implementing state - based teacher evaluation reforms inconsistently.

T3, as the turnaround strategy is known, was developed by teachers Boston - based Teach Plus selected for its first 18 - month education - policy fellowship in 2007.

Among the groups espousing this heterodox view are the National Council on Teacher Quality, the Education Leaders Council, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the Baltimore - based Abell Foundation.

Instead, we ask teachers to develop their own grading systems based on their professional judgment and interpretation of learning standards and school policy.

First, to achieve a targeted budget reduction, school districts need to lay off a greater number of junior teachers than senior teachers (as junior teachers have lower salaries), meaning that a seniority - based layoff policy will cause class sizes to rise more than they would under an alternate arrangement.

The policy analysis showed that in districts across the United States, tenure continues to protect ineffective veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal, the shortest possible timeline for dismissing such a teacher is unreasonably protracted, and dismissal is vulnerable to challenge.

Today, NCATE has 33 member organizations, including the two national teachers unions; the major subject - based associations in English, math, social studies, and science; and policy and administrator groups (see Figure 1).

Ironically, Rhee's successors at DCPS have redesigned teaching through some of the very policies that teachers» unions and other Rhee adversaries opposed most strongly: comprehensive teacher evaluations, the abandonment of seniority - based staffing, and performance - based promotions and compensation.

Now entire state systems are moving toward merit pay, with new policies established recently in Florida and Texas requiring districts to set teachers» salaries based in part on the gains their students are making on the state's accountability exam.

HDP alumni are in a range of roles including kindergarten teachers, doctoral students in clinical psychology, public television producers, admissions directors, school - based child advocates, and education policy analysts.

A better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the classroom.

I saw implications for policy, funding, and teacher preparation, as well as lots of actions that administrators and teachers could take based on Tough's research.

We also left ourselves open to grossly misleading claims about our policies, such as the myth that we advocated evaluating teacher performance based on test scores alone.

Other policies include introducing free school meals for all primary school children; ending the public sector pay cap, which affects teachers; giving teachers «more direct involvement» in the curriculum; and extending school - based counselling to all schools.

But the notion of paying teachers on the basis of their ability to improve test scores, often termed «merit pay,» while earnestly debated by education policy researchers, is strongly opposed by teachers unions and is a political nonstarter in many parts of the country.