Sentences with phrase «laggard teachers»

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance as required under Stull, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

Your editor has long criticized the law's Highly Qualified Effective Teacher provision for being a rather wishy - washy element that merely allowed states and districts to simply allow laggard teachers to keep their jobs by magically certifying them as high quality.

And this year, Malloy has done plenty to sell state Senate Bill 24, which would end near - lifetime employment, require the use of student test performance data in evaluating teachers, allowing the results of evaluations to be used in awarding tenure and dismissing laggard teachers, and provide charter school operators with funding equivalent to traditional district counterparts.

This includes requiring the use of student test score growth data in performance management, and requiring laggard teachers rated below grade for two years to leave the profession.

The plights of legendary math teacher Jaime Escalante, famed instructor John Taylor Gatto, are just the most - visible examples of what happens when good and great teachers either shine too brightly, or challenge the views of laggard teachers and school leaders who would rather hide in plain sight.

Based on all the data on the depths of the nation's education crisis — including the fact that three out of every 10 fourth - graders are functionally illiterate as well as how traditional policies and practices keep laggard teachers in classrooms — you would think valid criticism, internal and external, would be welcomed.

In Hartford, for example, it can take as long as two years to for Perry to remove a laggard teacher from his school.

More than likely, laggard teachers and school leaders who realized they couldn't hack it under increased scrutiny of their performance decided to take the easy way out, and in the process, cheated children out of accurate assessment of their knowledge that they need in order to get the remediation they deserve.

Some of the central office administrators were once the laggard teachers and principals that perpetuated the district's failure factory status.

You'd sort of hope professional educators could remedy that for the rest of us, because they're the ones demanding perpetual tests and holding every underachiever accountable — underachieving students, laggard teachers and flaccid schools.