Sentences with phrase «evaluation reform»

Additionally, many teacher evaluation reform efforts may be focused too heavily on the demand side of teacher evaluation.

[M] any teacher evaluation reform efforts may be focused too heavily on the demand side of teacher evaluation.

Having worked on educator evaluation reform at a state department of education, I do my best to keep up with developments related to the extremely tough work of state - level implementation.

The impetus for meaningful teacher evaluation reform from many sectors set the stage for the major changes we are now witnessing in the direction and scope of teacher performance evaluation.

Would schools, teachers, and students be better off if states had not implemented evaluation reforms at all?

To be clear, there is preliminary evidence suggesting that contemporary evaluation reforms may in at least some cases have the desired effects.

We are at the very beginning stages of teacher evaluation reform.

However, insufficient attention to the supply of teachers may be preventing many teacher quality and evaluation reforms from realizing their full potential.

Within the last two years, more than 20 states have adopted legislation to revise their teacher evaluation systems, and school districts in every state have implemented evaluation reforms.

In the fall of 2012, CPS launched a new teacher - evaluation program in order to comply with the Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Act, which requires that indicators of student growth be a «significant factor» in teacher evaluation.

The Illinois Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA), supported by both CPS and CTU, mandated that CPS install a comprehensive teacher evaluation system that is inclusive of both teacher practice and student growth as a «significant factor» by the fall of 2012 in at least 300 schools.

Studies on evaluation reform efforts in Cincinnati, Chicago, Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C. have found that comprehensive evaluation systems can help identify teachers who need to improve their practice, nudge low - performing teachers out of the profession, and, ultimately, boost student achievement.

The prospect of flexibility from NCLB requirements may have succeeded in making states adopt evaluation reforms, but this approach left the federal government with few levers to make states implement them well.

When Education Next paired my recent article, «A New Era for the Battle over Teacher Evaluations,» as a «Behind the Headlines» item with «When Fancy New Teacher - Evaluation Systems Don't Make a Difference,» by Rick Hess, I read with interest Rick's suggestion that the teacher - evaluation reform movement hasn't made much of a difference, and I tracked down the study Rick suggests supports his conclusion.

Cuomo will step in with his own plan for teacher evaluation reform if the city can't get its own in place by Jan. 17, 2013.

Teacher evaluation reforms seem to have dissuaded new teachers — promising and less so — in equal measure.

Leveraging variation in the adoption of reforms across states and time, we find that evaluation reforms resulted in

Maximizing the effects of teacher - evaluation reform by considering the supports and rewards that allow middle - to high - performing teachers to improve their practice is imperative.

And collaborative teacher evaluation reform like LAUSD's Frameworks for Teaching and Learning must be implemented with urgency and investment.

When Governor Cuomo and the legislature passed meaningful teacher evaluation reforms last year, and then followed up with specific mandates and guidelines this year, they did so because they wanted to ensure that every classroom has the best possible teacher.

Their efforts were part of an unprecedented wave of teacher - evaluation reforms nationwide, propelled in part by the federal Race to the Top grant program.

The group's The Widget Effect largely launched this line of work, and, ever since, they've been arguing for smart evaluation reform and working with states and districts to bring it to life (a herculean task).

There's been a real backing off of a focus on individual teachers, but largely for political reasons because of the huge pushback against evaluation reforms.

The teacher evaluation reforms encouraged by RTTT and ESEA waivers were sold with promises that they weren't meant to punish teachers, but instead as a means to help them improve.

The researchers elaborate, explaining, «Evaluation reforms appear to result in a steady decline in new labor supply over time whereas tenure reforms result in a sharp and immediate contraction in the supply of new teachers that then slowly rebounds.»

After estimating that new teacher supply has declined by more than 20 percent between 2007 and 2016, they calculate that implementing high - stakes evaluation reform and repealing tenure shrunk the teacher labor supply.

There is little evidence evaluation reforms had any differential effect by university selectivity, while tenure reforms appear to have reduced supply more among candidates from less selective universities.

So what do these results tell us about IMPACT and teacher evaluation reform overall?

Collaboration Marks Evaluation Reform in Michigan District: Priority Schools Campaign January 1, 2012 • 2:00 pm

Chad Aldeman of Bellwether Partners recently provided a reflection on teacher evaluation reform during the Obama presidency in Education Next.

Only then will teacher evaluation reforms begin to impact teachers» professional growth and, ultimately, students» learning.

Ruiz shepherded the 2012 teacher tenure and evaluation reform bill through the Legislature.

The Consortium for Educational Change (CEC) recently received a $ 75,000 grant from the Joyce Foundation to support communication and engagement efforts to assist school districts across the state with the continued implementation of the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA) in partnership with the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and the Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC).

In 2010, Illinois followed with the Performance Evaluation Reform Act, which overhauled teacher evaluation throughout Illinois.

Paul Bruno argued that educator evaluation reform and educator supply reform must go hand - in - hand.

They report that the pool of individuals earning licenses fell, on average, «15 percent in states that adopted evaluation reforms and 16 percent in states that repealed tenure.»

I encourage you to take a gander and ask your favorite states working on evaluation reform if they have something similar.

A recent report from Thomas Toch at Georgetown University analyzes the national teacher - evaluation reform movement and finds that it has been far more beneficial than its many critics would suggest.

For one thing, teacher evaluation reform seems to me to have been enormously difficult politically in most places, and my point is precisely that for all of the political oxygen that's been consumed the actual impacts have often been muted.

Leveraging variation in the adoption of reforms across states and time, we find that evaluation reforms resulted in a steady decline in the statewide supply of new teachers, whereas tenure reforms produced a sharp but more temporary contraction.

A universal approach of trying to get all states and cities to pursue teacher evaluation reform efforts;

Thomas Toch — education policy expert and research fellow at Georgetown University, and founding director of the Center on the Future of American Education — just released, as part of the Center, a report titled: Grading the Graders: A Report on Teacher Evaluation Reform in Public Education.

School officials felt like they were held hostage when Mr. Cuomo refused to release district - by - district state aid figures with his proposed budget in January until legislators agreed with his teacher evaluation reforms.

Martinez and Skandera's top priority was teacher - evaluation reform — described as «number 1A with a bullet» by Paul Gessing of the Rio Grande Foundation, a New Mexico — based free - market think tank.

You need choice — accountable and transparent of course — just like you need teacher tenure and evaluation reform.

Teacher - evaluation reforms are less popular now than they were in 2010.

On Monday, Nov. 18, at 12:30 pm, the Fordham Institute hosted a panel to discuss the best way to move forward on teacher - evaluation reform.