Sentences with phrase «hiring teachers and principals»

Clearly, hiring teachers and principals who will promote high standards for all students is essential in improving achievement and equity in our schools.

These tools include student - created district budgets, decision - making roles for students on committees for hiring teachers and principals, and student - led forums and conferences.

But armed with the right tools and data, district leaders can accurately identify and quickly hire the teacher and principal candidates who will deliver the most student growth... before they move on to other opportunities.

Not exact matches

No CEO in the city would allow an outside force to tell them who to hire or how to keep them,» said Ms. Fariña, herself a former Brooklyn public school teacher and principal.

The schools had already hired principals and teachers and were in the midst of recruiting students.

An eighth - grader in Toronto was sent to the principal after a teacher called her natural hair «too poofy» and «unprofessional,» and said that «no one would hire her with hair like that» and if «she were working in a store, no one would buy anything from her.»

The new policy would have eventually based teachers» salaries in part on evaluations by the principal and a number of outside evaluators hired by the district.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

«My veteran teachers and I often discuss new hires just out of surrounding universities,» principal Mary Ellen Imbo told Education World.

As part of a move toward site - based management, some schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have tried to involve parents and teachers in hiring principals and other staff members.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

«When I look at résumés, I'm envisioning teachers who have coached before, or taught special education, because they're used to working one on one with students and building relationships,» says Todd Yarch, VOISE Academy High School's newly hired principal and a former teacher at several Chicago high schools.

In interviews she continued to press her contention that principals needed the power to hire and fire teachers to accomplish their mission.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The typical urban school district's personnel and budgeting systems leave principals without much say in hiring teachers or allocating resources.

Broad's collateral assault on the downtown school bureaucracy includes growing new charter schools and attracting strong principals who gain unfettered authority to hire and fire their own teachers.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

But then the Georgia State Board of Education balked, unwilling to back Leeper's school governance experiment, in which the teachers would be organized like attorneys in a law office's partnership, and have the power to hire and fire teachers as well as the principal.

Hiring New Teachers One of the principal's most important responsibilities is to hire teachers and other staff members who will develop programs to meet school - wide needs and be dedicated to helping students Teachers One of the principal's most important responsibilities is to hire teachers and other staff members who will develop programs to meet school - wide needs and be dedicated to helping students teachers and other staff members who will develop programs to meet school - wide needs and be dedicated to helping students achieve.

Fully 60 percent of teachers object to the idea of principals being allowed to hire college graduates who do not have formal teaching credentials, and only 28 percent support it.

The researchers are also analyzing hiring practices in schools, and continuing to work on teachers» careers, professional culture, principals» leadership, and curriculum.

Rather than hire required administrative staff or aides, for example, a principal might opt to add a science teacher or a social worker, depending on student needs and his or her vision for the school.

These schools hold students accountable for achievement; extend the school day, week, and year; and give principals the autonomy to hire the most skilled teachers.

As Powderhouse's principal, Resnick is now free to recruit and hire teachers, facilitators, and mentors who are best aligned with his school's goals and his students» needs.

Our standards for the first edition of the Teacher Prep Review are based on research; internal and external expert panels; the best practices of other nations and the states with the highest performing students; and, most importantly, what superintendents and principals around the country tell us they look for in the new teachers they hire.

While principals have always been limited in their ability to hire, remove, or reward personnel, they are now pressed both by expectations and by statute to play an increasingly aggressive role in ensuring teacher quality.

When decision making about resources, chiefly personnel, is decentralized to the school level, the principal and other site - based leaders can further their improvement efforts by hiring teachers and staff with qualifications that match the school's needs.

The ARRA specified only that the federal government should encourage states to improve data systems, adopt «career - and - college - ready» standards and tests, hire great teachers and principals, and turn around low - performing schools.

In school districts from Los Angeles to Chicago, principals, teachers, and parents are drawing up budgets, hiring and firing employees, and shaping instruction.

EnCompass simplified its program, and the principal hired teachers who are eager to use digital learning.

Hart and her fellow principals can hire and fire teachers, but if student scores start slipping, Ronan and his corporate staff will replace the principal and keep the school.

Fryer and his colleagues at EdLabs worked with the superintendent to apply the five tenets to the failing schools: helping to hire new principals and new teachers, setting up a culture of no excuses and high expectations, and implementing tutoring in reading and math.

At first, Robinson was her fifth - grade math teacher, but then their paths continued to cross as he became her junior high school assistant principal, then high school principal, then principal for whom she worked, then colleague and, finally, hired hand!

Many principals hire teachers who seem smart, who like children, and who have the kind of drive that supports academic achievement.

The other $ 4 billion was intended by Congress to fund grants to help states improve in four key areas: building data systems, adopting «career - and - college ready» standards and tests, hiring great teachers and principals, and turning around low - performing schools.

One of the principal's most important responsibilities is to hire teachers and other staff members who will develop programs to meet school - wide needs and be dedicated to helping students achieve.

With that additional money in hand, it seems obvious that schools below the cutoff would be doing more improvements than schools above the cutoff, such as using different instructional approaches, different hiring practices, developing teachers and principals and so on.

One of the unfortunate results of Brown v. Board of Education was that many black teachers and principals throughout the nation lost their jobs, as white administrators refused to hire them for the newly integrated schools.

To the extent they're talking about charter schools, they're not wedded to the full mission of what a charter school is — which is to give complete autonomy to a principal to hire the best teachers and fire those who are not performing well.

The superintendent, in turn, has an incentive to hire and retain principals who will use the value - added results to hire and promote the best teachers.

To the degree that superintendents, principals, and hiring committees accurately identify top - notch candidates through these alternative routes, such programs may serve as an important supply of future teachers.

When we hire new teachers, our principals are always looking for the knowledge, strategies and core beliefs that we value at Sanger Unified.

Learn how a data - based teacher candidate assessment tool helps principals make informed hiring decisions and place a quality educator in every classroom at Amarillo ISD.

Job satisfaction for teachers who met with principals and mutually consented to their hiring spiked.

The teachers choose their leader (usually called a director or lead teacher rather than principal), who is also primarily a teacher, but most of the management is done by the teachers in various committees (personnel, finance, curriculum & standards, operations, public relations, and a few others), sometimes with the help of an administrator whom the teachers hire.

Raymond hand - picked the principals for the schools, gave them full hiring authority, created positions for additional teacher coaches and site administrators, provided extra training and time for collaboration, and gave the schools more latitude to choose their curriculum.

No principal can improve opportunities for students without the authority to hire and retain good teachers and to weed out weak ones.

See also our post from Pasco High School Principal Raúl Sital, «Hiring and Retaining Great Teachers in a High - Poverty Environment.»

Following a charter school model, principals in the state - run New Orleans schools will have the independence to recruit and hire their own teachers and academic support staff, and control the use of federal Title I grant money, beginning next school year.