Sentences with phrase «improving teacher hiring»

Some school districts, like Boston, MA; Spokane, WA; and Washington, DC, have been able to improve their teacher hiring processes, and their efforts could be spread to the rest of the country.

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To improve special education, we need to ensure full funding so that districts can hire certified special - education teachers; reduce paperwork so special - education teachers have more time for planning and instruction; and provide administrators with training in special education.

Most districts trying to reduce teacher turnover and increase the number of well - qualified teachers in their schools have focused on improving hiring and recruitment practices.

He said his education initiatives focus on recruiting, training, and hiring teachers, which will help reduce class size and improve teacher quality.

Among the many issues that teachers and administrators in ABC have tackled together are curriculum development, textbook selection, recruitment and hiring, mentoring, teacher evaluation and support, and use of data - based decision making to improve student performance.

This special report explores the factors behind recent teacher shortages and highlights initiatives designed to improve district hiring processes and tap new pools of prospective educators.

The Philadelphia school district is overhauling its human - resources department in an effort to improve hiring practices and address complaints that inefficiency has hurt teacher recruitment.

Districts will receive funds, roughly $ 300 per pupil annually, which can be used to raise the minimum teacher salary, improve entry into the profession for new teachers, fund leadership roles, hire additional teachers, and provide training and support to teachers in leadership roles.

The fragmented teacher labor market has implications for how we think about improving teacher preparation, not to mention how school districts go about hiring new teachers.

The results showed that recession - era teacher hires were strikingly successful in raising math scores; reading scores also improved in these teachers» classrooms, though less than half the amount that math scores did.

They acknowledge programs could be improved by the hiring more teachers who are fully qualified.

With this rich array of data, we compared the effectiveness of recently hired alternatively certified (AC) and uncertified teachers to that of their traditionally certified counterparts in improving student learning in math and reading during grades 4 through 8.

The good news is that teachers and school leaders can improve their EI, and leaders can take steps to hire the most emotionally intelligent people as staff.

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.

To improve schooling, the U.S. has adopted the peculiar policy of hiring ever more teachers and asking them each to do the same job in roughly the same way.

Interestingly, we find that these measures are only weakly, if at all, associated with the likelihood of being hired, suggesting considerable scope for improving teacher quality through the hiring process.

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.

Always keep in mind that we have two primary ways to improve our schools — hire better teachers and improve the ones we have.

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

Joshua Furgeson, one of the report's authors, said it shows that a «school that focuses its resources and attention on hiring and developing the best teachers can substantially improve student achievement.»

Title I was created to help these schools better serve their students by providing school - wide services and whole school reforms tied to raising student achievement, such hiring additional teachers and classroom aides; improving curriculum; enhancing parent involvement; or extending learning time for students who need extra help.

As a principal, if you desire improved learning for all students in your building, we recommend hiring a differentiation coach who can lead teachers to the next level through on - site job - embedded professional development.

If you struggle to find qualified teachers each recruiting season, consider getting ahead of your teacher shortage challenges by improving retention... which begins with new hire onboarding.

Part of the state's plan to improve Priority and Focus Schools (schools that have consistently low test scores) include removing ineffective principals or giving them mentors from better performing schools, implementing anti-bullying programs or other programs to improve school culture, improving recruiting and hiring techniques for teachers and providing more teacher development.

They hire strong and knowledgeable teachers, use data, classroom observations and mentoring to continually improve teaching and stress accountability.

A comprehensive approach to reducing attrition would both lessen the demand for teacher hiring and save money that could be better spent on mentoring and other strategies to improve instruction.

effective instructional leaders (strategically hiring teachers and staff, providing regular and fair teacher evaluations, and helping their teachers to continually improve); and

This additional flexibility will help schools improve faster, and give head teachers the freedom to hire the person best suited to their school.»

In this important read, she goes beyond the well - researched argument that hiring teachers of color improves education for kids of color, to argue that a more diverse teaching force will positively impact the worldviews of white kids.

Medley added that the school planned several changes for the second year to improve student performance, including shifting the schedule for high school students, hiring an additional math teacher at the middle and high school level and implementing a «data - driven instructional model.»

Although uncomfortable, it would be worthwhile for administrators to do a thorough and comprehensive exit interview to take an honest look at why staff departures are occurring because this is the only way to truly cultivate a more efficient approach to not only hiring and training teachers to adopt to school cultures, but to improve retention to ensure that students can maintain the consistency of teacher and support service providers.

Let's invest in education with more than comparisons: Improve teacher training, incorporate mentor programs, hire executive assistants for teachers, pay professional salaries, take education decisions away from pandering politicians, provide alternative programs for disruptive students, and spotlight success when it occurs.

TNTP's solutions to the problem include differentiating pay, providing teachers with more upward mobility, and improving principal hiring and evaluation.

Otero said that the Cajon Valley district would like to hire additional Arabic and Farsi speaking paraprofessional staff, counselors and translators, and improve professional development to help teachers better understand children who have experienced trauma.

... This will enable schools to fund more after - school programs, hire more teachers and improve quality.»

Simply force - hiring more teachers isn't going to improve outcomes, and it will reinforce the «good money after bad» mantra about public education when the results of class size reduction aren't as significant as expected.

As funding improved and districts began trying to replace the positions they had lost, teacher hiring increased dramatically.

Many schools have hired math specialists to make up for teachers» shortfalls, according to a 2008 report by the National Mathematics Advisory Panel — although the panel «found no high - quality research showing that the use of any of these types of math specialist teachers improves students» learning.»

Second, there is a new willingness by legislatures in a majority of states to push actively for more flexibility in hiring, paying, and retaining teachers and for improved teacher evaluations so that we identify the teachers that we want to nurture and retain.

Even with strong majorities favoring time to adjust, over three - quarters (78 %) of voters believe teachers should continue to be evaluated based in part on test scores during the transition with 26 % believing those evaluations should be used only to reward good work or provide guidance to improve teaching and 19 % agreeing only if the evaluations are not used to hire or fire teachers.

In addition, as reasonable and necessary, Title II, Part A funds may be used to pay for substitute teachers if, and only if, those regular classroom teachers they are replacing were hired with Title II, Part A funds to reduce class size or the teachers are participating in Title II - funded «programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teacher force, such as... innovative professional development programs» [Section 2123 (a)(5)(A)-RSB-.

TFA officials blame the sagging numbers on an improving economy and hiring in other fields, noting that enrollment is also slipping at other teacher preparation programs around the country.

To stem the loss of students and the tax funding that follows them, Austin ISD spent $ 850,000 of taxpayer money — not to hire more teachers, improve curriculum or to develop better educational programs, but to pay for a marketing campaign.

This windfall allowed poorer districts to hire and keep good teachers, give them better training and improve curriculum in the classroom.

For education, technology and charter school companies and the Wall Streeters who back them, it lets them cite troubled public schools to argue that the current public education system is flawed, and to then argue that education can be improved if taxpayer money is funneled away from the public school system's priorities (hiring teachers, training teachers, reducing class size, etc.) and into the private sector (replacing teachers with computers, replacing public schools with privately run charter schools, etc.).

The paper highlights a number of steps BPS can take to improve the recruitment, hiring, and retention of teachers of color, including many that the district undertook to successfully increase teacher diversity in the late 1990s and that can be reinstated.

Although the situation improved if district - hired coaches worked in a particular building for more than one year, they often described difficulties earning teachers» trust, particularly from veteran teachers, whose doors were described as «open, but just a crack.»

A study by the American Institutes for Research found that improvements in turnaround schools in Florida and North Carolina used a combination of hiring more effective teachers to replace outgoing ones and improving the productivity of existing staff.

These studies found that even with the challenges identified in recruiting and hiring effective staff, the majority of the 46 state survey respondents said that replacing teachers and principals was an important element of improving student achievement in SIG schools.

Unfortunately, none of these activities helps teachers improve their instructional practice, which means that school - hired coaches did not necessarily get to make the best use of the strong relationships they built with teachers.