He made five overarching points: that's it's possible to
implement measures of teacher effectiveness, that LA Unified has a higher ratio of ineffective teachers than school districts studied by other researchers, that a disproportionate number of ineffective teachers in LA Unified serve Latino and African American students, that effective teachers have a causal effect on student achievement and that teachers have long - term impacts not only on student achievement but also lifetime earnings.
Not exact matches
Implement a comprehensive evaluation system for
teachers and principals based on multiple
measures of effectiveness, including student achievement
As districts grapple with
implementing statutory requirements for annual evaluation, a common pain point has been the use
of student growth and assessment data, including properly understanding what the legislation requires, which
measures to use, how to aggregate growth
measures for
teachers and administrators, and reliably scoring for 25 %
of an
effectiveness rating.
Basis Policy Research and ATI have built a partnership supporting the fair evaluation
of educator
effectiveness by
implementing mathematical models that include multiple
measures of student growth and which evaluate educator
effectiveness using techniques that take into account a variety
of factors that may impact student learning but over which the
teacher has no influence.
Or according to some, including researcher Jay Greene, find the best mix
of measures to
implement so that
teachers would accept student assessment as a valid to
measure teacher effectiveness.
It
implemented a performance - based compensation system combining student growth and achievement
measures with 23
measures of school
effectiveness, such as positive school culture, effective parent engagement, and
teacher leadership.
The settlement
implements an intervention program for targeted schools that includes
teacher effectiveness provisions, a collaborative effort to fill
teacher vacancies as quickly as possible (including those that occur mid-year), retention incentives — including financial bonuses — for
teachers who remain at a targeted school beyond a certain number
of years, plus further incentives if that school experiences growth as
measured by the school's value - added score.