Sentences with phrase «educator equity»

Furthermore, all 17 states have committed to holding themselves accountable for their progress in eliminating educator equity gaps.

Resources to support districts in prioritizing educator equity, as well as the professional development, evaluation, and supports for staff.

In introducing stakeholders to the topic at the July 2016 meeting, TEA identified as a key guiding principal that local development and implementation of local educator equity plans is a valuable process that integrates with local district's existing initiatives, procedures and programs (such as teacher recruitment, development and retention initiatives).

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.

The Best Practice Guide highlights exemplary work to meet the ESSA's educator equity requirements among the 34 state plans analyzed...

After the plans became available for public review, organizations like Bellwether Education Partners, the Collaborative for Student Success, Alliance for Education, National Council on Teacher Quality and the Brookings Institution reviewed the submissions to understand their overall strengths and weaknesses, and to determine whether elements like educator equity and benchmarks for federal accountability were present.

It requires states to develop educator equity plans describing how low - income students and students of color «are not served at disproportionate rates by ineffective, out - of - field, or inexperienced teachers» and to evaluate and publicly report on their progress in this area.

States will have nine months to develop and submit «comprehensive educator equity plans.»

There are big, largely - unexplored provisions of the state plans focusing on the law's educator equity requirements.

After the plans were made public, organizations like Bellwether Education Partners, the Collaborative for Student Success, Alliance for Education, National Council on Teacher Quality and the Brookings Institution reviewed the submissions to understand their overall strengths and weaknesses, and to determine whether they contained important elements like educator equity and benchmarks for federal accountability.

According to California's educator equity plan, in 2013 — 14, twice as many students in high - minority as in low - minority schools were being taught by a teacher on a waiver or permit (a teacher not yet even enrolled in a preparation program).

Last year, several states proposed teacher cadet programs in federal «educator equity plans» that were submitted to the U.S. Department of Education and attempt to give poor and minority students better teachers.

This June, in an effort to give more students access to excellent teachers, the United States Department of Education required states to submit «educator equity plans,» meant to identify the root causes of why poor and minority kids receive more inexperienced teachers and fix the problem.

Although ESSA does not explicitly state the level of data disaggregation at which states must calculate and report educator equity gaps, NCTQ encourages Maine to report data at the more granular student level, consistent with applicable privacy constraints, because student - level data are necessary to illuminate educator equity gaps that exist within schools.

States are submitting their educator equity plans to the U.S. Department of Education as part of the department's «Excellent Educators for All» initiative — which aims to ensure that every student has an effective educator — launching teachers and teacher quality back into the spotlight.

According to California's educator equity plan, in 2013 — 14, nearly twice as many students in high - minority as in low - minority schools were being taught by a teacher on a waiver or permit (a teacher not yet even enrolled in a preparation program).