Sentences with phrase «for teachers across the district»

KEY Teachers lead all New Teacher Saturday Learning Series, facilitate at New Teacher Academy, provide modeling of best instructional best practices, host HUB and JAM communities, provide PD and workshop follow - up as well as campus - based community, and participate in a wide variety of learning opportunities for all teachers across the district.

Teachers uploaded to a Sharepoint site the student performance tasks they created for this standard, thus building a library of performance tasks for teachers across the district to use.

Many districts have used the state's salary increase funding for teachers to hire RTI teachers — which means lower or no raises for teachers across a district.

Not exact matches

Under the Governors leadership, the state passed a comprehensive teacher evaluation system for every district across New York State.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

No Child Left Behind was not great for us either, but certainly Race to the Top» ratcheted everything up, because it became clear that for districts in need to get money that they would have to make all these kinds of measure and punish ideas that they'd put across, like the teacher evaluation piece and all of that.

The article also quoted StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Micah Lasher, who highlighted Justice Mendez's comments that there were other avenues for ensuring teacher evaluation plans were implemented in districts across the state, and noted:

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

Breaux: New Teacher Induction provides overviews and contact information for more than 30 highly successful, easily replicable induction programs used in rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the United States.

Hangouts can be a great way for teachers to facilitate a book study across grade levels, schools and even districts.

So scaled, it would be easy to develop teacher and school scores, norms across a school district, and goals for statistically significant improvements over time.

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

This pattern strongly suggests that any efforts by Florida districts to provide better pay for teachers in the high - demand subjects of math and science are insufficient to offset the differences in outside earnings opportunities across subject areas.

The policy analysis showed that in districts across the United States, tenure continues to protect ineffective veteran teachers from performance - based dismissal, the shortest possible timeline for dismissing such a teacher is unreasonably protracted, and dismissal is vulnerable to challenge.

Yet the court reasoned that it is the administrative decisions of district leaders — rather than the challenged statutes — which bear the ultimate responsibility for how teachers are distributed across the state.

Twitter can connect students across a district or the world to share learning — and it connects teachers for the same purpose.

For example, during an initiative to revolutionize STEM learning across the Los Altos School District in California, assistant superintendent Alyssa Gallagher tapped math teacher Courtney Cadwell and three others to be part of a blended learning pilot team tasked with integrating online learning tools.

Missouri's pension boundaries would make it practically impossible for high - performing school districts to operate a program, run a school, or loan teachers within the Saint Louis or Kansas City boundaries, just as state pension boundaries would make it impossible for schools to effectively work across state lines.

At Milpitas High School, the district has provided Chromebooks for students and teachers to use across the curriculum.

For this upcoming school year, a Teacher on Special Assignment (TOSA) position has been created to provide teachers across the district with coaching and support to implement making in their classrooms.

At the high - school level, the comparison group is likely to be, for example, all history teachers or all science teachers across the district.

Now that the technological foundation for the use of robust systems of longitudinal education data has been laid in most states and school districts, experts say the focus needs to turn to making such data more useful for teachers, administrators, parents, and students, That will require a mix of strong leadership at the state and districts levels, greater collaboration across state agencies, and much better professional development and ongoing support for teachers and administrators.

But, collectively, this work matters because debates like those in West Virginia, at the Supreme Court, or in other states and districts across the country — debates about teacher rights and responsibilities — have been happening for years and are no closer to resolution.

Join Todd Wirt, assistant superintendent for academics with Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), N.C., and Carol Wetzel, senior director with Discovery Education, as they discuss the challenges WCPSS faced implementing Common Core State Standards across the district and how they determined the best way to scale professional development for its 11,000 teachers as they embarked on this digital and instructional journey.

This webinar will feature Lynn Kepp from the New Teacher Center, which works with school districts across the country to provide professional development for coaches, and Kendra Hanzlik, an instructional coach in Iowa.

We can also describe instruction as it exists across a wide variety of U.S. classrooms, for example, asking whether — as is often assumed — instruction in urban districts is inferior to those in other areas and whether differences in instructional or teacher quality by academic track (honors, general, or remedial) exist.

As an experienced teacher educator, Hobbs offers staff development programs for school districts and educators across the United States and around the world.

Tennessee and Louisiana will continue to support their Teacher Leader Networks; Tennessee will develop individualized teacher leadership models for implementation in districts across the state, and Louisiana will support its 5,000 Teacher Leaders and 80 Teacher Leader Advisors with an annual summit and monthly newsletter, webinars, among other suTeacher Leader Networks; Tennessee will develop individualized teacher leadership models for implementation in districts across the state, and Louisiana will support its 5,000 Teacher Leaders and 80 Teacher Leader Advisors with an annual summit and monthly newsletter, webinars, among other suteacher leadership models for implementation in districts across the state, and Louisiana will support its 5,000 Teacher Leaders and 80 Teacher Leader Advisors with an annual summit and monthly newsletter, webinars, among other suTeacher Leaders and 80 Teacher Leader Advisors with an annual summit and monthly newsletter, webinars, among other suTeacher Leader Advisors with an annual summit and monthly newsletter, webinars, among other supports.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

All our workshops can be delivered across grade levels and customized for classroom, special education, and English language teachers; literacy coaches and trainers; curriculum specialists; and school and district administrators.

Governor Christie's Department of Education (NJDOE) is in the second year of its «Excellent Education for New Jersey» (EE4NJ) teacher evaluation pilot program in over 30 school districts across the state right now, which will expand to every school in the state this fall.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

For more than 20 years, Ralph Fletcher's What a Writer Needs has been a beloved bestseller, trusted in classrooms, district inservices, and teacher - preparation programs across the U.S..

Consistency in the words we use to describe services and supports for students with disabilities must be clear and consistent across the district for all children, parents, teachers, and community members.

As schools across the country deal with an increased demand for substitute services, many school districts are coping with a serious shortage of substitute teachers.

MindQuest21sm certified and experienced consultant team prepares school leaders, districts and teacher teams to transform instruction and systems with the adoption and / or expansion of Project - Based Learning across the curriculum aimed to produce deeper learning outcomes for all students.

Across five key characteristics — teacher quality, discipline, expectations for achievement, safety, and instruction in character and values — charter parents are on average 13 percentage points more satisfied than district parents.

Let me make an assertion based on my experience, and that is: Districts across the country commonly have this phenomenon going on... they'll have a walkthrough protocol that has one focus and one list of pedagogical skills, if you will, which is totally unrelated to their evaluation system for teachers, which has another list and another perspective, which is totally unrelated to their professional development.

Rochester school district officials say they are increasing the emphasis on literacy at all grade levels, including hiring 31 additional reading support and intervention teachers in schools across the district for the upcoming school year.

As part of its Race to the Top initiative, The Florida Department of Education, through its Partnership with Learning Sciences International, will provide School Districts across the State with a Research Based Framework and Implementation Services for a Teacher Evaluation System.

A tentative agreement reached last week would for the first time allow the Los Angeles Unified School District to use students» standardized test scores to rate teacher effectiveness, something many other schools across the nation are already doing.

In districts across the country, teachers are telling me that focused feedback helps them improve practice and makes a difference for the success of their students.

In partnership with the Mississippi Department of Education, National Board Certified Teachers will work directly with students in their classrooms, as well as with other teachers in their schools and districts, to transform literacy teaching for K - 3 students across thTeachers will work directly with students in their classrooms, as well as with other teachers in their schools and districts, to transform literacy teaching for K - 3 students across thteachers in their schools and districts, to transform literacy teaching for K - 3 students across the state.

More choice and competition in the educational marketplace fuels improvement and innovation across the board for students, teachers, and individual school districts.

The Co-op will leverage partnerships across multiple school districts to share and reduce the costs of accessing high - quality professional develop and consulting for language and literacy teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators who are passionate about improving literacy outcomes.

Pat comes to this conversation as a former junior high teacher and is presently a Senior Consultant with Learning Forward's Center for Results, working with state departments of education, districts, and schools across the United States and internationally.

Instead of facing this challenge alone in his classroom, as often happens, he described how the districts» shared instructional framework, known as Beyond Textbooks, made it easy for him to enlist help from teachers across subject and grade levels.

CEL has formed multi-year district partnerships with school systems across the country, from Alaska to Louisiana, helping administrators, school leaders, teachers, students, and communities build a shared language, vision, and mission for improving the quality of classroom instruction.

Facilitating structured opportunities for ELD and math coaches and specialists to work together across schools and districts to support teachers and integrate ELD into the math curriculum.

«California still does not require annual evaluations for all teachers, and while there is some vague language in state code about using student achievement as part of teacher evaluations «as applicable,» this language is far from the clear mandate now seen in the overwhelming majority of states and is clearly not the practice in districts across the state.»