Sentences with phrase «district evaluation instrument»

Thirty - one states either determine the evaluation instrument a district must use, require state approval for district evaluation instruments, or provide explicit guidance.

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Instead, we are recommending that districts utilize resources such as the NASL, the NJASL, providers of educator practice instruments, and other districts which have already developed their school librarian evaluation rubric.

On an evaluation of the federal Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant initiatives, she was a content area expert advising on development of protocols, data collection instruments, and reports, examining how states and districts use grant funds to improve teacher quality.

At the same time, it would improve on the blunt - instrument approach of the U.S. Department of Education, which has pushed the use of test scores so hard that some states and districts make those scores count for half or more of evaluations.

This was one of the key lessons learned early on by EPAC and led to the recommendation to delay full implementation of the evaluation system by a year: 2012 - 2013 was scheduled in the tenure reform law as a capacity - building year for districts to choose, train in, and practice using a teacher practice instrument.

Many states and districts are adopting commercially available teacher observation instruments for the professional practice component of their evaluation systems.

Officials for the school district say they worked jointly with the local teachers» union to agree on how state - generated test - score data would be interpreted, and took pains to make the evaluation instrument clear, to help make those finer distinctions in performance.

Unfortunately, districts have used many evaluation instruments, including some mandated by states, that are structured so that teachers can earn a satisfactory rating without any evidence that they are sufficiently advancing student learning in the classroom.

The state's results are preliminary, with 15 percent of districts still not reporting their choice of evaluation instruments in compliance with this week's deadline, which is included in the state's new tenure law that required districts to have evaluation instruments chosen by the start of this calendar year and in place for the start of the next school year in September.

To accomplish this, a representative sample of school districts using the MASB 2016 Superintendent Evaluation instrument will participate in a reliability study.

This training fulfills the requirement of evaluator training for board members as well as evaluatee training for superintendents whose districts are evaluating their superintendent with the MASB 2016 Superintendent Evaluation instrument.

To ensure that the evaluation instrument accurately differentiates among levels of teacher performance, Pennsylvania should require districts to utilize multiple rating categories, such as highly effective, effective, needs improvement and ineffective.

That districts use an evaluation instrument that includes objective student growth measures.

Unfortunately, districts have used many evaluation instruments, including some mandated by states, which are structured so that teachers can earn a satisfactory rating without any evidence that they are sufficiently advancing student learning in the classroom.

The SLEI is an evaluation instrument that will allow the state to ensure consistency and comparability across districts, based on a common definition of highly qualified school library media specialists who support and enrich school environments.