Sentences with phrase «effective tenure system»

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Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Such evaluation systems are an essential precondition for effective tenure reform, but have been missing from most past state tenure reform proposals

Tying teacher tenure to the new evaluation system, with three «effective» or two «highly effective» ratings within the first five years leading to tenure.

However, New York City revamped the system in 2012 to make it more challenging for educators to receive tenure, and this in turn has led less effective teachers to voluntarily exit the school system.

Under the new Louisiana law, teachers must be rated as «highly effective» in the state's evaluation system for five consecutive years before they can be granted tenure.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

During his tenure there, he implemented a balanced assessment system, transitioned the state to 100 % online testing, implemented the West Virginia Growth Model, developed an approved growth - based accountability system under ESEA Flexibility, and led standard settings to define statewide cut scores for effective schools and teachers.

In response, they suggest that the heart of the issue is effective teaching and substantiate the ways in which policymakers can address challenges to related to retention, the tenure system, and the continuous development of the teacher workforce.