Sentences with phrase «including teachers and school leaders»

Under ESSA, states and districts are required to involve a wide range of stakeholders — including teachers and school leaders — in the law's implementation planning.

It is based on interviews conducted with 92 educators, including teachers and school leaders during the 2011 — 2012 school year, which was the evaluation program's second year of existence.

Beyond that, practitioners (including teachers and school leaders) have attained appropriate levels of assessment literacy when they can adjust assessment practices to fit different purposes (support or certify learning), routinely rely on clear learning targets, actually gather dependable evidence of student learning, communicate results effectively to intended users, and maximize the positive motivational impact of assessments.

CMS school design teams, which include teachers and school leaders, will integrate the new models into 17 more schools this year, and more schools will join the implementation in each of the two years after that, with almost half of the district's schools implementing by 2017 — 18.

And I am pleased to announce that this group will be chaired by Professor Becky Allen and the membership will include teachers and school leaders, as well as Ofsted and the unions — and I very much welcome NAHT's commitment to take part.

In fact, many of these topics are interwoven into our discussion of our three chosen levers, and some — including teacher and school leader recruitment and retention, and school finance — have been the explicit focus of several other recent Forum study groups.

Not exact matches

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

Now, those leaders are beginning to craft their legislative priorities, which will include eliminating the state's cap on charter schools, increasing funding for established charters, and establishing more accountability measures for district schools and teachers.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

In the interim, the federal government has set up an advisory board of business and education leaders — including American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, SUNY chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Stan Litow, an IBM executive and former deputy chancellor of New York City schools — assigned to look at current community college funding programs and formulate the best strategies for the national program.

«All stakeholders in the school district community, including taxpayers, parents, teachers, students, school boards and other school leaders play an important role.

The applications are then reviewed by a panel of state educational leaders from various professional associations, including the School Administrators Association of N.Y. State; N.Y. State United Teachers; the United Federation of Teachers; and the N.Y. State Parent Teacher Association, along with the assistant provost for educator preparation at the State University of New York (SUNY).

A coalition of education leaders joined DonorsChoose.org founder Charles Best to announce the effort, including state Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor; Newtown Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson; U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan; Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Melodie Peters, president of AFT Connecticut; and Tom Kuroski, president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers.

Attendees at today's kickoff included: City of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Public Schools Interim Superintendent Donald Ogilvie, SUNY Trustee Dr. Eunice Lewin, University at Buffalo President Dr. Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo State President Dr. Katherine Conway - Turner, Erie Community College President Jack Quinn, Regional Economic Development Council Co-Chair, businessman and developer Howard Zemsky, Staff Scientist Mwita Phelps of Life Technologies / Thermo Fisher Scientific, Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Libraries Mary Jean Jakubowski, Dr. Norma J. Nowak, Director of Science and Technology, UB's NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, as well as a number of invited guests, including elected leaders, teachers and students.

Several education leaders, including Cash and Buffalo Teachers Federation President Philip Rumore, used a news event last month to promote community schools as a platform to call on the mayor to help pay for the programs.

Comrie honored 16 women in total, including Gaye Anderson, community affairs site developer manager for Healthfirst; June Bunch, 33rd state Assembly District leader; Jacqueline Grace Boyce, 29th Assembly District leader; Latasha Smith - Bondswell, CEO of Occasions Banquet and Catering Hall; Beverly Bazil Edge, founder and teacher at The Edge School of the Arts; Gular Hamilton Glover, a minister at the United Church of Christ; Jolander Headly, vice president of Willis Global Energy; Moira Jack, president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc..

They interviewed, via a web survey, 602 community members, including teachers and school administrators, leaders of non-profits, business owners and others.

Working with school leaders, new training opportunities will be developed to boost career progression and support the record number of teachers in our schools to become leaders in their field, including:

They will be representing the majority of teachers and a voice for the education profession, including support staff, lecturers and leaders working in state - funded and independent schools and colleges.

Naace members include teachers, school leaders, advisors and consultants working within and across all phases of UK education.

Teams can be comprised of district or school staff, including classroom teachers, instructional leaders, teacher leaders, and administrators

Working with school leaders, new high - quality training opportunities will be developed to boost career progression and support the record number of teachers in our schools to become leaders in their field, including: extending on - the - job training and support for trainee and new teachers to two years, so they get the best possible start to their career; and creating early career development opportunities for teachers through a new framework that schools will follow, developed in partnership with teachers, school leaders and education experts.

PAI offers a suite of workshops supporting school leaders and their communities, including Teacher Wellbeing, Principal Wellbeing, Youth Mental Health First Aid, Graduate and Grow (mentoring and supporting early - career teachers), Leading Change (change management in schools), and more.

In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a positive impact on student outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to work collaboratively to learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional learning culture that provides a safe and authentic environment for professional enquiry and ensuring school leaders take an active role in developing professional learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.

A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

But it's not just developing great teachers and leaders — our offer extends to other programmes that we know are priorities for schools, including our highly successful Futures programme which helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities.

PAI offers a suite of workshops supporting school leaders and their communities, including Teacher Wellbeing, Graduate and Grow (mentoring and supporting early - career teachers), Leading Change (change management in schools), and more.

President Bush included business leaders, university presidents, union and association leaders, policy analysts, and a public - school teacher, among others, on his 24 - member education - policy advisory committee, established last fall to provide him with innovative ideas.

Several teachers in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school district face discipline for posting images and material on the social - networking site Facebook that school leaders find objectionable, including one teacher who wrote, «I hate my students!»

UTLA leaders, including the mayor's old friend, Joshua Pechthalt, worry that new Democrats, like Flores, Villaraigosa, and even President Obama, are «looking to have one teacher competing against another, one school against another.»

By developing a framework for effective teacher teams that includes five criteria — leadership, task focus, collaborative climate, structure and process, and personal accountability — Troen and Boles provide school leaders with the tools needed to navigate this relatively new terrain and to make effective teacher teams a reality.

Teach Plus continues to recruit, develop, and support teacher leaders through partnerships with 13 schools in three districts, including Boston (see sidebar).

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.

School leaders and other educators including superintendents, assistant superintendents, directors of curriculum and instruction, principals, assistant principals, teachers, and teacher leaders, are encouraged to enroll, as are teams of educators from the same community.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

These include: reforming National Professional Qualifications to equip school leaders with skills on how to deal with bad behaviour; encouraging providers to bid for funding from a pot of # 75 million from the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund; and revising existing advice for schools including the mental health and behaviour guidance to ensure they support teachers and school leaders.

This is troubling, as the demands of leading such schools, including the need to attract and retain high - quality teachers despite less desirable working conditions, may amplify the importance of having an effective leader.

The move to promote a schools chief from within the system came despite suggestions from some, including Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, that the board should have conducted a national search for a permanent leader for the district's innovative experiments in teacher accountability and higher pay.

As a result of the funding from HCNY and matching funds from the schools, 127 teachers and school leaders in the Bronx have taken part in six different online courses including Teaching for Understanding, Getting Started with Data Wise, and Using Multiple Intelligences.

«Hall of Fame members include school teachers and leaders, thinkers, policy experts, and funders that have paved the way for the success and growth of public charter schools.

He has received national attention for moves favored by reformers, such as opening 75 new schools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay - for - performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - schoolschools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay - for - performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - schoolschools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - schoolSchools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - school route.

Downloads from the toolkit include a variety of resources to help school leaders, teachers, teacher leaders, instructional coaches, and personal learning networks prepare for, launch, and evaluate the success of video observations in school communities.

Negotiations between the district's school board and the East St. Louis Federation of Teachers broke down last month after union leaders rejected a contract offer that did not include...

The measures announced by Hinds included a commitment to working with Ofsted, regional schools commissioners, the Education and Skills Funding Agency and multi-academy trusts — to clarify their roles, and ensure teachers and school leaders have a clear understanding of who they are accountable to, and for what.

That team might include the principal, the team leader / grade - level chairman, and other teacher leaders from the school.

Individual teachers, school leaders and teaching assistants also say they are providing a range of essential items for their pupils and students, including food, books, stationery, PE kit, uniform, sanitary protection, personal hygiene products and transport costs.

Following commencement, he worked as a teacher and principal, and cofounded two schools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lschools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leSchool of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leschool that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lLeaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lSchools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leschool leadersleaders.

For principals and other school administrators, this list of videos, blogs, and articles includes advice and tips on effective leadership strategies, partnering with teachers, and cultivating and retaining strong leaders.