Sentences with phrase «districts hiring teachers»

Buffalo Public Schools are changing the way the district hires teachers, planning to do it much earlier when the talent pool is larger.

The 12 administrative subdistricts within the Houston school district hired teacher trainers to provide continuing support, working with teachers individually (in their classrooms) and in small groups.

Several California districts hire teachers who have just a bachelor's degree and a passing score on a minimum skills test that is set at the 10th grade level.

Not exact matches

He was an ubiquitous presence in the school,» said Darlene Larson, an associate superintendent for human resources at District 214 who was hired by Miller as an English teacher at Buffalo Grove High when it opened.

The Buffalo School District may have hired three dozen new gym teachers for this year but there's already a fight over their future.

Donohue said instead of cutting resources to teachers and support staff who keep schools running, the state would be better off eliminating the financial perks school districts have been lavishing on law firms they hire to represent them against their workers.

The Rochester City School District is in the midst of hiring season for the next school year, and is pushing to add more teachers with diverse backgrounds to classrooms.

But simply trying to hire the best teachers regardless of their race ignores the racial schisms that have led to the sharp divide in these districts.

While the main hiring priority of any school district should be hiring the most qualified teachers who can build up their students the most, building a teaching workforce that is reflective of the community in which they work must be a goal for districts.

The dispute between Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation centers around whether the district can cut 5 1/2 teaching positions and hire aides to perform non-supervisory roles.

Union leaders say the district is retaliating against the teachers, while the district says the cuts are needed to balance the building's budget, as the aides hired to perform those supervisory duties cost an additional $ 571,000.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

Sean has successfully fought for billions more in education aid, to help school districts hire more teachers, lower class sizes, and actually make investments in arts, music, and sports.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown says raising attendance is a priority, but doesn't know if the district can hire more attendance teachers on its budget.

Because entering the teacher workforce is a function of whether an individual applies for a position and the hiring decisions of districts, these results show the effect of academic competency on the likelihood of applying and getting hired contingent on applying.

Districts would have no option if they wanted to provide their staff a different mix of compensation, even if they'd prefer to spend more resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers or making other investments.

Using a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the district hired a consultant, William McKersie, to work with a group of administrators and teachers who were tasked with researching the best situations for the smaller learning communities.

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.

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.»

In preparation for the program, the district hired about 800 new teachers, installed room dividers in hundreds of classrooms, and devised a new curriculum that focuses only on basic skills.

As part of a move toward site - based management, some schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have tried to involve parents and teachers in hiring principals and other staff members.

In the seven years of the study, Florida districts hired 92,000 first - time teachers.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

To improve special education, we need to ensure full funding so that districts can hire certified special - education teachers; reduce paperwork so special - education teachers have more time for planning and instruction; and provide administrators with training in special education.

The district's decision to hire teachers for summer school — part of the retention plan — outside of union hiring rules created another furor.

Districts have options when hiring, and the willingness of a teacher to leave a position will depend on the availability of an attractive position elsewhere.

Most districts trying to reduce teacher turnover and increase the number of well - qualified teachers in their schools have focused on improving hiring and recruitment practices.

For instance, if a district does not need the money to prevent teacher layoffs, it might use this windfall to hire new staff.

By examining the fundamental requirements of each program — admissions standards, course requirements, coverage of essential content, preparation in the CCSS, how the student teaching program operates, instruction in classroom management and lesson planning, and how teacher candidates are judged ready for the classroom — the Review will capture the information that any consumer of these programs would want to see, including aspiring teachers and school districts looking to hire the best teachers.

And for the school districts that do, I imagine that it won't take long before they realize the mistake they made and start hiring special education teachers back.

Altogether, adding up all their locations, the Teaching Fellows program trained an additional 2,182 teachers in 2012, or another 1.5 percent of teachers hired by districts.

Districts hiring TFA or VIF teachers are making a trade - off between faster student growth and more stability within their schools.

The education profession is not immune to larger economic forces, and, just like with all other employers, school districts don't hire as many teachers during recessions.

Taken together, TFA and the TNTP maybe prepare slightly more than 5 percent of new teachers hired by districts.

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.

Some school districts, like Boston, MA; Spokane, WA; and Washington, DC, have been able to improve their teacher hiring processes, and their efforts could be spread to the rest of the country.

One school district hired a yoga teacher to arrive shortly after the last class so that teachers can breathe and stretch their stress away.

Meanwhile, a small rural district in northern Louisiana, Winn Parish, found it difficult and cost - prohibitive to hire and retain foreign language teachers.

This is also not surprising, given that teacher hiring in charter schools is often less tightly regulated than it is in the district sector.

While it might be useful to interview local hiring administrators and district personnel to get a better sense of what's happening on the ground, there are some federal data sources that might give us a clearer picture of teacher shortages.

Glass said his priority is to alter the «one - minute interviews» used to make decisions on teacher hiring in too many school districts.

This special report explores the factors behind recent teacher shortages and highlights initiatives designed to improve district hiring processes and tap new pools of prospective educators.

Some growing Oklahoma school districts have not hired new teachers they need or have made budget cuts because the Governor and the state legislature could not agree on doling out special payments for the districts.

Nearly two - thirds of survey respondents indicated that teacher - hiring decisions are made at the school level or jointly by school and district.

Delaware lawmakers have approved a bailout, teachers have gotten pink slips, and turnaround consultants have been hired — all for a budget crisis that former leaders of the state's largest school district say doesn't exist.

The Philadelphia school district is overhauling its human - resources department in an effort to improve hiring practices and address complaints that inefficiency has hurt teacher recruitment.

One now - infamous controversy arose when the superintendent of a school district in southeast Michigan wrote CMU's president notifying him that his district would no longer accept student teachers from CMU, hire CMU graduates, or recommend their high - school graduates attend CMU.

The district created grade - level teacher teams in each school and hired a coach to provide professional development to teachers.

That way, the district can start hiring teachers from outside the district sooner.