Sentences with phrase «including teacher hiring»

Students address a variety of issues, including teacher hiring, the yearly master schedule, and planning key events at the school.

Not exact matches

Kaplan's expanded remote hiring includes not only teachers and tutors, but also sales, operations, and business development.

He received more than a dozen rejections — including from KFC — before being hired as an English teacher.

Contributions have included the construction and furnishing of new school buildings and financial assistance enabling additional teachers and cleaners to be hired.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

• No new faith school allowed to discriminate in its admissions • No existing faith school allowed to discriminate in admissions in the future • No faith school allowed to discriminate against teachers (including hiring, firing, and refusing promotion) on religious grounds

Enough to hire at least five rookie sheriff's deputies (or five city teachers) for a year, including benefits.

The schools are allowed to set their own curriculum and employment standards including hiring teachers without formal qualifications.

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?»)

By examining the fundamental requirements of each program — admissions standards, course requirements, coverage of essential content, preparation in the CCSS, how the student teaching program operates, instruction in classroom management and lesson planning, and how teacher candidates are judged ready for the classroom — the Review will capture the information that any consumer of these programs would want to see, including aspiring teachers and school districts looking to hire the best teachers.

Examples of putting the funds to good use include providing staff with professional development, mentoring, training and resources to help teach the subject more effectively, and hiring qualified sports coaches to work with teachers to enhance or extend opportunities.

There are even a few states, including Texas, that have moved to reduce benefits for newly hired teachers.

The education services industry (which includes teachers) is one that, according to the most recent data, can be characterized as having a high amount of job openings and a low number of hires.

This suggests another criteria for the school leader to be including as he hires teachers: looking for people who have had experience in uncertain situations where there were not firm rules to follow — and they had to create and establish new processes and tweak them as they went along.

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.

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

The approach, which is constantly being honed, begins with rigorous, and increasingly scientific, selection and includes extensive ongoing support and training once they hire a teacher.

The Teacher and Staff Selection Toolkit suggests behavioral competencies for Opportunity Culture roles, largely derived from Competence at Work by Lyle and Signe Spencer, the vanguard publication of research applied widely across sectors for hiring outstanding professionals and leaders (including Singapore's teachers and leaders).

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school services.

Within a country's educational system, the relevant institutions and policies include the ways in which a society finances and manages its schools, how a society assesses student performance, and who is empowered to make basic educational decisions, such as which curricula to follow, which teachers to hire, and what textbooks to purchase.

The project includes studies of hiring practices, alternative certification programs, and new teachers» attitudes toward careers and experiences with colleagues.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

Free of state and local mandates and constraints from union contracts, leaders reopening schools after the storm could hire anyone they wanted, including uncertified teachers, and dismiss teachers relatively easily.

Such teachers need to be included because the purpose of this study is to compare TFA teachers with the pool of potential hires available to the district.

[vi] If one were doing a rigorous cost - benefit analysis of retention, one would want to take into account a variety of other factors, including the extent of excess capacity (i.e., open seats) in schools currently, the additional costs (if any) of hiring new teachers and / or expanding building space, etc..

He raises a number of issues including his assertion that states should be responsible for the hiring and employment of teachers and that school boards should devote themselves to the improvement of student learning and should not concern themselves with the running of schools.

The teachers in an edfirm have full authority to decide how they spend their revenue, including the amount of space they rent from the school district, the nature and amount of learning resources they buy or rent, and the number and types of staff they hire.

D.C. public schools hired 750 new teachers this year, including replacing 500 teachers.

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.

REL Northwest also created a special feature on Pasco's hiring and retention practices including a video, infographics, and teacher interviews.

QEIA funding is contingent on enrolled schools meeting six performance benchmarks - including commitments to maintaining smaller class sizes, hiring experienced teachers and providing more school counselors.

So, now, when Concepción hires an international teacher, she sends them two books by Harry Wong; the books introduce American education and include classroom management tips.

In addition, the state is requiring school districts to hire state - approved contractors — which include for - profits, nonprofits and the state teachers union — to design their observation rubrics.

Reducing or eliminating funding for these programs would also be especially harmful to charter management organizations that recruit heavily from the AmeriCorps alumni network, including KIPP, Success Academy Charter Schools, and Green Dot Public Schools, all of which have formed official «career partnerships» with City Year, or Uncommon Schools, which advertises on the AmeriCorps alumni career site.34 Likewise, public charter schools and traditional districts looking to fill hard - to - staff schools and subject areas also rely on AmeriCorps - funded teacher residencies and teaching fellowships and would likely be in trouble if these programs disappeared.35 For example, Achievement First, a network of public charter schools, has described Teach For America as «its most effective recruiting source,» hiring both AmeriCorps members and alumni from the program.36

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.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

his is a very comprehensive site that includes a wealth of information about teaching position requirements, hiring outlooks and offers valuable information to help prospective and new teachers begin their careers with confidence..

This new report, produced by the National Center for Education Statistics, covers six different areas: elementary and secondary enrollment; enrollment in degree - granting postsecondary institutions; high school graduates; degrees conferred; elementary and secondary teachers (including the number of teachers in elementary and secondary schools as well as student - teacher ratios and new teacher hires); and expenditures of public elementary and secondary schools.

The hiring process could include the opportunity to identify potential teacher - leaders.

The conservator can make immediate changes, which can include firing teachers and hiring new business managers or administrators.

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.»

The budgets now being passed in state legislatures for the upcoming fiscal year could include enough funding to allow some school districts to start hiring more teachers again, he said.

Steps include: making a commitment to dramatic change, choosing turnarounds for the right schools, developing a pipeline of turnaround leaders, providing leaders extra flexibility, holding schools accountable, prioritizing teacher hiring for turnaround schools, and proactively engaging the community.

It offers recommendations for implementing such an approach, including making retention of irreplaceable teachers a top priority by aiming to retain more than 90 percent of them annually; overhauling principal hiring, support, and evaluation; paying teachers what they're worth; and monitoring school working conditions.

Drawing on the example of Berry Elementary and Middle School in Atlanta, Clement describes the steps involved in setting up a process for teachers to hire their fellow teachers in K - 12 schools: form a search committee; train all teachers involved in hiring protocols (including legal considerations) and in how to evaluate and interview candidates; create a list of prewritten questions and an evaluation instrument that all teachers will use to evaluate potential new teachers; role play interviewing; and set up a system for screening and interviewing candidates.

MAISD is proud to provide high quality special education services in collaboration with our local districts that include the hiring and employment of occupational and physical therapists, school psychologists, and teacher consultants for the entire county as part of our ISD special education plan.

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.

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

The American Jobs Act includes $ 30 billion to prevent up to 280,000 teacher layoffs by supporting state and local efforts to retain, rehire, and hire early childhood, elementary, and secondary educators.

Test scores reflect not just the quality of schools or their teachers, but all kinds of other factors in children's lives, including their home environment; whether they attended a good preschool; traumas they have experienced; and whether their parents read to them at night or hire tutors.