Sentences with phrase «educator effectiveness initiatives»
Drawing from ASCD's Common Core State Standards summits in Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, and Utah, the report shares that educators» knowledge of the standards is growing exponentially, but many do not understand the instructional shifts necessary for helping students reach the higher standards; educators are focused on the new common assessments and the technology issues associated with their deployment; and there is widespread initiative fatigue in the field because of the standards implementation efforts, new educator effectiveness initiatives, and other initiatives like Race to the Top.
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Furthermore, we regularly collaborate with foundations and organizations including the US Department of Education, The Aspen Institute, and The Broad Foundation on issues related to educator effectiveness initiatives, such as:
Since 2000, districts and states nationwide have trusted Insight to help them stitch together all their various educator effectiveness initiatives, create compelling plans — and then help them get the work done all while building long - term sustainability.
Who will benefit: District administrators involved in leadership development or educator effectiveness initiatives.
ATI also conducts statistical analyses to establish the reliability and validity of Galileo assessments for use in educator effectiveness initiatives.
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Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.
AIR is conducting a three - year evaluation focusing on a variety of outcomes (e.g., educator perceptions, teacher retention, teacher effectiveness, and student achievement) associated with the contract and associated initiatives.
«This ambiguous initiative is all about effectiveness and has very little to do with establishing a strong professional standard as a starting point for all educators,» said Joe Bishop, the executive director of Opportunity Action and a member of the Coalition for Teaching Quality.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Northwest Comprehensive Center (NWCC) provides high - impact training and technical assistance to SEA staff in planning, implementing, monitoring, and sustaining initiatives in priority areas such as college and career readiness, educator effectiveness, school improvement, and rigorous, college - and career - ready standards implementation.
In that role he was responsible for the implementation of a variety of educator effectiveness, school improvement, and professional development initiatives in districts nationwide as well as leading a variety of educator conferences.
Our school district clients are dealing with educator effectiveness and professional growth initiatives that can sometimes cause them to feel like they're climbing a mountain.
The initiative focuses on comprehensive overhaul of systems that contribute to student achievement, with individual teams led by assistant superintendents, the chief financial officer, the director of pupil services and the chief human resources officer — Joseph Pettiford — who is responsible for implementing hiring, onboarding, management, evaluation and professional learning processes designed to empower educator effectiveness and student performance.
Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.
In other districts, such as the one in Long Beach, central administrators regularly organized pilot projects of proposed initiatives to gather feedback from educators about their effectiveness before implementation.
The Sustainability Rubric is a tool for SEAs to use in assessing the sustainability of any reform initiative (for example, implementing an educator effectiveness system).