These conversations were very different than the philosophical fights about the advisability of big reforms
like educator effectiveness and Common Core.
Not exact matches
I would commend this memo to just about anyone in our field, but particularly groups
like TNTP that do this work day in and day out, officials at USED interested in witnessing the difficulty of bringing an Administration priority to life, the Gates Foundation MET team (who I've been pestering about next steps), academics who study policy implementation, and anyone else with an interest in today's work on
educator effectiveness.
This study is evaluating these performance - based compensation systems to examine issues
like the impact of pay - for - performance on student achievement and
educator effectiveness, and helping to answer pressing policy questions about how the programs are designed, communicated, and implemented.
As I
like to say, this is not a recipe, it is a framework that supports transforming professional learning that improves
educator effectiveness and learning for ALL students.
Our school district clients are dealing with
educator effectiveness and professional growth initiatives that can sometimes cause them to feel
like they're climbing a mountain.
In turn, the project team is trying to prove that assessing student understanding in this manner will feel
like a more authentic way of measuring
educator effectiveness and will yield stronger student outcomes and ownership over learning.
They use key metrics
like student achievement, teacher
effectiveness and teacher retention to assess the performance of schools and individual
educators, and they put research - based teacher induction and instructional coaching programs in place that help everyone on the team to continuously improve.
Drawing from ASCD's Common Core State Standards summits in Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, and Utah, the report shares that
educators» knowledge of the standards is growing exponentially, but many do not understand the instructional shifts necessary for helping students reach the higher standards;
educators are focused on the new common assessments and the technology issues associated with their deployment; and there is widespread initiative fatigue in the field because of the standards implementation efforts, new
educator effectiveness initiatives, and other initiatives
like Race to the Top.