Sentences with phrase «creating teacher accountability systems»

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«The bottom line is that SUNY intends to create an insulated and self - regulated system, which would contradict and undermine state and national efforts to raise standards and accountability in teacher preparation and certification.»

It means giving teachers and students a focus to their school mission and a personal stake in the school, and creating a system that ensures accountability for results.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.

By the time the 2012 elections moved into full swing, the Obama administration was issuing waivers to states exempting them from the most punitive parts of NCLB in exchange for sketching out their own state plans for improving teacher quality, academic standards and creating better accountability systems.

The waiver application contains the same commitments that all states seeking waivers were required to meet: implementing Common Core or other rigorous standards preparing students for college and careers, developing a teacher evaluation process that includes the results of local and state tests, and creating an accountability system that recognizes that success is more than students» test scores.

Its aim seems to be to drive teachers away from public education by creating a false accountability system focused on shame and blame.»

For Melissa Marini Švigelj - Smith, a parent, teacher, and activist in Cleveland, this moment in American education boils down to whether research will guide what happens in schools, or whether schools will continue to be graded through accountability systems created «by politicians who have no idea what goes into educating a child.»

«We must create accountability for the whole system that drives greater equity in every school, and an important first step is that every new teacher be profession - ready before ever stepping foot into a classroom and becoming the teacher of record for students,» he said.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

«The point is to create an accountability system which is actually of use to kids, parents and teachers,» Bennet told The Huffington Post.

States must agree to meet Duncan's requirements in order to free themselves from the original dumb requirements: adopt the Common Core standards, participate in a test - development consortium to create Common Core tests, tie teacher and administrator evaluations to test scores, develop a new way to humiliate schools — that is, a new accountability system to replace the old «failure to meet AYP» label — and use that system to fire teachers and close schools.

Public Impact's newest, free, five - step toolkit, Evaluation, Accountability, and Professional Development in an Opportunity Culture: A Practical Guide, gives schools, districts, and states what they need to create an evaluation system that primarily guides teachers» development and career opportunities.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

The controversial National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.Teacher Quality (NCTQ)-- created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and funded (in part) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as «part of a coalition for «a better orchestrated agenda» for accountability, choice, and using test scores to drive the evaluation of teachers» (see here; see also other instances of controversy here and here)-- recently issued yet another report about state's teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.teacher evaluation systems titled: «Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises.»

Shedd recommended the board consider creating a similar accountability system for adjunct teacher training programs.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Texas policymakers» desire to raise standards for teacher preparation programs and to find new and improved ways to train better teachers resulted in legislation (S.B. 174) in 2009 that amended the Texas Education Code as well as Chapter 229 of the Texas Administrative Code to create the Accountability System for Educator Preparation (ASEP).

As mentioned in last week's Capitol Connection, Harkin's bill eliminates the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) model and allows states to use the accountability and teacher evaluation systems in place under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers or to create new systems that establish their own student academic performance standards.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will waive 10 NCLB provisions — including the 2013 — 14 100 percent proficiency deadline, sanctions for low - performing schools, the 20 percent set - aside for school choice and tutoring, and highly qualified teacher improvement plans — for states that establish higher standards, create differentiated accountability systems, promote teacher effectiveness, and reduce paperwork burdens.

4) Change the culture to focus on performance: The thinking behind this strategy is to hire new people (even from fields other than education), provide training, and create new accountability systems that focus solely on the performance of teachers and schools.

Later that same month, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) approved a resolution stating that high - stakes testing of students and teachers creates a «disastrous shame - and - blame / test - and - punish accountability system that corrupts the teaching and learning processTeachers (AFT) approved a resolution stating that high - stakes testing of students and teachers creates a «disastrous shame - and - blame / test - and - punish accountability system that corrupts the teaching and learning processteachers creates a «disastrous shame - and - blame / test - and - punish accountability system that corrupts the teaching and learning process.»

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President Obama is offering states flexibility from NCLB in exchange for comprehensive plans to raise standards; to create fair, flexible and focused accountability systems; and to improve systems for teacher and principal evaluation and support.

The new bill gives control back to state and local governments by allowing them to create their own school accountability and teacher evaluation systems so as to provide greater flexibility in deciding how much weight test scores hold as a means of performance measures and teacher qualification.