Our vision: Teaching is a respected, influential profession, and every student in South Carolina is served
by effective educators.
In Ascension Parish, Louisiana, a suburban district just south of Baton Rouge, district and school leaders use data on teacher effectiveness with students to analyze strategies, both within and across schools, to ensure that high - need students are taught
by effective educators.
Not exact matches
Educators insist, according to E. Dale David, that «a list of civic values consciously chosen
by a school system to realize the goal of developing
effective citizens is the necessary first step in the teaching of civic values.»
«Based on research and experience, more and more local districts are rejecting the use of ineffective strategies like corporal punishment as an acceptable form of school discipline in favor of
effective techniques, like the Positive Behavioral Support system favored
by most
educators,» said Vitaglione.
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For example, the idea that the success of LEAs will be determined based on: «the number and percentage of participating students
by subgroup who have daily access to
effective and highly
effective teachers» is problematic in the way that it potentially limits the innovative staffing models possible to serve students if
educator is defined as one being co-located with the student.
Educators looking to add
effective and efficient professional development opportunities for staff need to look no further than online, according to a new book edited
by Wirth Professor Chris Dede.
The Delaware Department of Education recently published a report written
by its internal Teacher and Leader
Effective Unit on the implementation of its revised
educator - evaluation system, DPAS - II.
Just as we assign the most accomplished doctors to oversee the most complex medical cases, shouldn't we be making sure that the students and schools with the greatest need are taught and led
by our most experienced and
effective educators?
The TES scoring rubric used
by the evaluators, which is based on the work of
educator Charlotte Danielson, describes the practices, skills, and characteristics that
effective teachers should possess and employ.
* May 1 —
Effective practices: Achieving Results for Children: Meeting the Criteria for
Effective Practices, sponsored
by the Maryland Partnership for Children, Youth, and Families, for
educators, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore.
The Panel acknowledges that «clinically based programs may cost more per candidate than current programs» but then simply asserts that they «will be more cost -
effective by yielding
educators who enter the field ready to teach.»
A paper
by the
educator William H. Cosby Jr., better known as the entertainer Bill Cosby, on the importance of early exposure to
effective science teaching is one of thousands of documents available on a new online service offered
by the National Academy of Sciences.
The challenge, in short, is to find ways to «squeeze more juice from the orange»
by using support staff, instructional specialization, and technology to ensure that
effective educators are devoting more of their time to educating students.
But these children will also need great schools led
by amazing
educators, and urban charter schools are among the most cost -
effective way to provide these children the schools that they deserve.
Blended learning is poised to transform American education
by personalizing student learning — uniting the highest - quality online content with highly -
effective educators in «live» instruction and supervisory roles.
The use of Standards for Professional Learning
by school systems and
educators indicates commitment to
effective professional learning.
Accountability policies are intended to promote
effective instruction and student learning
by rewarding
effective educators and schools while punishing low performing ones.
In order to ensure that all students are being taught
by effective teachers, school districts need a fair and consistent way to evaluate
educators.
Learning Forward (formally the National Staff Development Council), an organization focused on
effective educator professional learning, adopted and expanded the Guskey and Sparks (2002) model
by developing a set of standards for high quality
educator learning (Learning Forward, 2011; National Staff Development Council, 2001).
There are three parts to the effort:
By April 2015, states must submit «comprehensive
educator equity plans» that detail how they plan to put «
effective educators» in front of poor and minority kids.
In California, we find that SIG schools were able to improve student performance and families» assessment of the schools and they did this, at least in part, both
by improving the composition of the
educator workforce through differentially retaining more
effective teachers and
by improving the professional supports for teachers in the school.
In tandem, UbD and DI help
educators meet that goal
by providing structures, tools, and guidance for developing curriculum and instruction that bring to students the best of what we know about
effective teaching and learning.
Despite the challenges that
effective technology integration poses for
educators, there is hope in the powerful suggestions provided
by preservice teachers and those teachers who continue their professional development through opportunities like the National Writing Project and its regional and state sites across the country.
Effective Schools Products, Ltd. is a consulting and publishing firm dedicated to advancing the «learning for all» $ vision
by providing the high - quality resources
educators need to ensure that all children are successful, regardless of demographics or disability.
AIR has developed the EWS Online Tool to facilitate an
effective early warning system
by providing
educators the necessary data from across data systems in an easy - to - access platform.
In order to make
effective use of the enormous national investment in educational technologies, future
educators must be prepared
by their schools of education to make
effective technological decisions.
Performance assessment, portfolios, and projects (Resnick & Resnick, 1992) were advanced
by both
educators and measurement experts as assessment models that might foster
effective teaching, learning, and measurement of worthwhile outcomes (Shepard, 1989; Simmons & Resnick, 1993; Wiggins, 1993).
One of the great strengths of these programs is their flexibility; they can be used
by educators individually or in groups when and where professional development is most convenient and
effective.»
Future Is Now works to improve public education
by organizing and supporting
effective educators and lead improvements in their schools, districts, and unions.
The comprehensive review of research on
effective professional development, conducted
by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), comes at a time when federal support for
educators» professional development (funded under Title II of the Every Student Succeeds Act) is under threat of elimination
by the Trump Administration.
Legacy Traditional Schools mission is to provide motivated students with the opportunity to achieve academic excellence in an accelerated, back - to - basics, safe learning environment taught
by caring, knowledgeable, and highly
effective educators in cooperation with supportive, involved parents.
«Community - Based Teacher Preparation as Praxis: Preparing
Effective Educators Through Research - Practice Partnerships» was organized
by the editors of the Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) to bring attention to pioneering work under way on this emerging practice.
As peers and partners in empowering California
educators, the authors share observations on the qualities every school leader should seek when interviewing and hiring highly
effective educators, wrote Leadership Magazine of this article co-authored
by CT3's William Sprankles and Kara Backman.
At A +
Educators, our mission is to help build stronger K - 12 schools
by offering the highest quality and most
effective education support services available today.
By facilitating the social collaboration occurring in professional learning communities and cross-functional teams, Cornerstone enables education organizations to retain and share knowledge from the most experienced and
effective educators and staff, as well as improve collaboration and idea sharing across classrooms and schools.
By addressing barriers deliberately,
educators for all levels of students can begin to motivate all learners in positive, powerful and
effective ways towards Meaningful Student Involvement.
The collection is designed to help
educators and students understand the elements of an
effective piece of writing as described
by the Common Core Writing Standards.
Policymakers must ensure that each student has access to
effective educators by making the necessary investments along the career continuum, including incentives for recruiting and retaining candidates; personalized and ongoing professional development; flexible routes to licensure based on rigorous professional standards; leadership opportunities and development; and collaboration among higher education institutions and local districts.
This workshop helps
educators and students understand that schools can become locations for passionate,
effective action
by all learners in all subject areas.
Edutopia Blog
by Les Foltos offers some insights from
educators on keys to
effective collaboration.
We must build
effective leaders
by promoting
educators with promise and purpose for serving children.
This week, Minneapolis
educators have the opportunity to take a step forward toward elevating our profession
by valuing and supporting
effective teaching.
One teacher said her school rendered an observation rubric «meaningless»
by focusing on all of its competencies, but yet another
educator said looking at all 22 competencies enables her school, a Promise Academy Charter School, to plan
effective training sessions for the entire staff.
Educators in the Marysville priority schools have also participated in Washington Education Association and NEA - led professional development focused on cultural competency and
effective data use, in addition to traveling to national forums organized
by PSC to share and learn from other school districts engaged in school reform.
Approved programs demonstrate responsibility for the quality of candidates
by ensuring that development of candidate quality is the goal of
educator preparation in all phases of the program — from recruitment, at admission, through the progression of courses and clinical experiences — and in decisions that program completers are prepared to be
effective educators and are recommended for certification.
The design of that
effective pretest can be developed using a process of backwards design that was popularized
by educators Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe in their 1990 book Understanding
by Design.
The new law prohibits the federal government from mandating teacher evaluations or defining what an «
effective» teacher is and calls for many decisions for local schools and states be determined
by collaboration between
educators, parents and other community members.
Two of our research products are designed to provide
educators with step -
by - step recommendations and guidance on the implementation of promising and
effective practices in schools.
Developed
by a partnership of researchers, teachers, and
educators these materials help teachers provide
effective, academically rich instruction.