Sentences with phrase «ensuring access to quality teachers»

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On Thursday, with the New York State Board of Regents hearing testimony regarding the newly approved teacher evaluation system, leading education reform organization StudentsFirstNY and public school parents offered recommendations and sent letters calling for a system that ensures all public school students have access to high - quality teachers.

Commenting on the publication of the Key Stage 2 SATs results today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT congratulates teachers for their hard work in ensuring that children have access to high quality teaching and are able to progress and achieve during their time in primary school.

Every discussion of education policy, program design, implementation and evaluation on instruction, teacher policies and education, or school governance focuses on improving educational outcomes for young people and ensuring that all learners have access to a high - quality education relevant to the 21st century.

It's impossible to picture how the United States will radically upgrade the quality of its three - million - member K - 12 teacher cadre, attract more able people to enter and stick with this field, ensure needy kids» access to the best instructors, or span the curriculum with people who really know their subjects as long as this archaic, civil - service pay system persists.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

The objective of the consultation, which closes on 9th March, is around supporting teachers and ensuring the right structures are in place at the beginning of a teacher's career, improving access to high - quality professional development and improving progression opportunities for all teachers throughout their careers.

The Department for Education (DfE) launched the public consultation in December 2017, and it set out a range of proposals for ensuring teachers have the right support in place at the beginning of their careers, improving access to high - quality professional development, and improving progression opportunities for all teachers throughout their careers.

The Commission recommended more equitable school financing systems, measures to ensure effective teachers and curriculum, and access to high quality early childhood education.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

Title II is the major federal funding stream districts use to support their teacher workforce and ensure equitable access to high - quality teachers and principals for all students.

«Any ESEA reauthorization bill must ensure that all students have access to quality early education, well - rounded instruction, a safe and supportive learning environment, and access to qualified, caring, and committed teachers.

The report recommended that: policy makers ensure curriculum and assessments are aligned at state, district and local levels; districts survey teachers on test prep activities and keep those that are highly rated, while dropping those that aren't; districts expand access to technology so students can develop skills before taking tests and teachers can support them; and districts only use interim tests aimed at predicting performance on end - of - the - year tests, if teachers believe they are high - quality.

Other challenges are more serious involving for example ensuring that they have consistent access to high quality teachers.

The U.N's Sustainable Development Goal 4 — focused on educational quality — represents an opportunity to get quality education right — to ensure that all children, especially in the world's poorest places, have access to a «qualified» teacher — not just an adult who happens to know how to read and write.

A: The National Center for Teacher Residencies» (NCTR) vision to ensure that all students have access to a high - quality teacher is carried out through our mission to launch and support high - performing residency programs that prepare highly - effective teTeacher Residencies» (NCTR) vision to ensure that all students have access to a high - quality teacher is carried out through our mission to launch and support high - performing residency programs that prepare highly - effective teteacher is carried out through our mission to launch and support high - performing residency programs that prepare highly - effective teachers.

As districts face the recurring problem of ensuring every student has access to a high - quality teacher, a growing number have begun to proactively form deep, mutually beneficial partnerships with teacher preparation programs to produce teacher candidates who match their specific needs.

As The Mind Trust's director of talent strategy, Jackie Gantzer works to ensure Indianapolis schools have access to robust talent pipelines and help school operators implement innovative strategies to recruit and retain high - quality teachers and leaders.

Marcya is also working to ensure others families have access to quality teachers, great schools, and opportunity.

As we work to ensure a high - quality teacher for every child and classroom, the time is ripe to think differently about providing equitable access to excellent educators for all students by ensuring workforce stability for the future.

The U.S. Department of Education is contemplating issuing new rules that could prod states to ensure that poor and minority children get access to as many high - quality teachers as their more - advantaged peers.

But LaBolt said he joined Duncan and other Democrats in embracing the idea that «the best way we can ensure that every child has access to a quality education is to provide strong teachers in every classroom.»

About The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

The law addresses some of the concerns mentioned above, however, it does not appear to address teacher staffing, which is critical to ensure that all students have access to quality math courses.

As part of an effort to ensure that teachers have access to the highest quality professional development in mathematics, The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is launching its third annual summer math institute for approximately five hundred (500) teachers of grades K - 2, five hundred (500) teachers of grades 3 - 5, and five hundred (500) teachers of grades 6 - 8 and Algebra I, on June 18 — June 22, 2018.

TennesseeCAN works to ensure every TN student has access to a high - quality education through great teachers and great schools.

National Commission on Teaching & America's Future: NCTAF is a bipartisan organization that engages education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.

The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

Ensure that all beginning teachers have access to a high - quality support and mentoring program that can reduce early attrition and enhance competence, such as is available through well - designed Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) programs.

As part of our organizations» commitment to educational equity, we seek to ensure that every child has equal access to high - quality schools, principals, and teachers.

«The bill as introduced represents a strong and critical step forward in supporting effective teachers across California and ensuring that every public school student has access to the great teaching and quality education that he or she deserves,» said Ben Austin, policy director of Students Matter, in an emailed statement.

LDC supports systems in developing architectures of guaranteed curriculum, with the goal of ensuring equity across a system for teacher access to high - quality rigorous curriculum, and student access to the types of learning experiences that guarantee college and career readiness.

DESIRED RESULT: Each state has an effective, comprehensive, incentivized system for early childhood workforce professional development to ensure every child has access to high - quality, developmentally appropriate education and support delivered by exceptional teachers and administrators.

According to a press release issued at the time, «The reorganization addresses Governor Dannel P. Malloy's six principles on education reform, including: (1) Enhancing families» access to high - quality early childhood; (2) Turning around Connecticut's lowest - performing schools and districts; (3) Expanding the availability of high - quality school models; (4) Removing red tape and other barriers to success; (5) Ensuring that our schools are home to the very best teachers and principals; and (6) Delivering more resources, targeted to districts with the greatest need - provided that they embrace key reforms that position our students for success.»

A key factor in achieving equity and excellence is ensuring that every student has access to high - quality schools, principals, and teachers.

And, through the new professional development fund, we will provide more teachers with access to the types of high - quality professional development opportunities that teachers and school leaders have told us they want and that will place the teaching profession in England on a par with the best in the world and ensure our children get the best possible education.

Topping the plan's list of seven «guiding strategies» is the need to «facilitate high quality professional learning opportunities for educators to ensure that every student has access to teachers who are prepared to teach to the levels of rigor and depth» required by the common core standards.

CPD is committed to ensuring that all children have access to strong public schools that provide high - quality education, address the full - range of student needs, engage parents, teachers and community members in decision - making and are both transparent and accountable to the communities they serve.

Title II of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the major federal funding stream that provides flexibility for states and districts to support professional development for their teacher, paraprofessional, and school leader workforce to help ensure all students have equitable access to high - quality teachers and principals.

On behalf of the state's children, teachers, public schools and taxpayers, the plaintiffs argued that Connecticut's school funding formula failed to ensure that every child had access to a quality and productive education, as guaranteed by the state constitution.

President Donald Trump's budget, which would cut funding for the Department of Education by 13.5 percent or $ 9 billion, would cripple high need communities and supporting organizations that rely on federal funding to ensure that every child receives a high - quality education and has access to an effective teacher.

In all of our work, NAEYC aims to ensure that our nation's policies and practices catch up with the significant body of research and science about the individual and collective benefits that accrue when children have access to high - quality early learning settings with supported, skilled, and knowledgeable teachers — because that's when we will deliver on the promise of early learning.