Sentences with phrase «making tenure decisions»

Assessing the Potential of Using Value Added - Estimates of Teacher Job Performance for Making Tenure Decisions

Another survey released in 2015, sponsored by the pro-reform group Teach Plus, found that 65 percent of California teachers think that a probationary period between three and five years makes sense for administrators making tenure decisions.

Assessing the Potential of Using Value - Added Estimates of Teacher Job Performance for Making Tenure Decisions

«Assessing the potential of using value - added estimates of teacher job performance for making tenure decisions.»

But he continues: «Also, the university makes tenure decisions with a long - term view, so that is the reason for the elaborate procedures to grant it.»

First, it provided those making the tenure decision with more information on teacher effectiveness including a district - developed Effectiveness Framework, a tool designed to guide principals and superintendents through a rigorous process for determining which teachers have earned tenure.

Are we denying them a fair shot if we make tenure decisions so soon?»

He also tried to undercut the former superintendent's testimony that school administrators had sufficient time to make tenure decisions, pointing out that most of the teachers whom Seymour evaluated were already experienced teachers, which required less time.

I think it's also possible that — having watched a lot of school districts over the years — not having a moment at which you have to make a tenure decision could allow districts to just keep fairly mediocre teachers along, without doing the due diligence of making a decision in the early years that would protect kids from teachers just kind of hanging on.

Last year the group primarily focused on supporting Mayor Bloomberg's effort to destroy tenure in the New York City Schools, writing, «We applaud Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to make tenure decisions more meaningful.»

They wrote, «We applaud Mayor Bloomberg's efforts to make tenure decisions more meaningful.»

Not exact matches

But, he added that the speed at which the board made decisions and enforced them was hindered during his tenure.

Early into her tenure as a talk show host, Winfrey made a conscious decision to establish a personal mission of bringing «service» to her viewers.

Tenure, credentials, or titles are not reliable predictors of good decision - making ability.»

After all, a report that a fanciful connection probably isn't true is not the stuff of which scientific prizes, grant money, and tenure decisions are made.

The single least expected and most significant finding of our study of junior faculty was that their success — defined as tenure or extension of contract — is a function not of how well they perform but of decisions the institution makes before they arrive.

One university divinity school dean told me that he himself values the writing his faculty does for laypeople in the church, but tenure decisions are made by a universitywide committee, and chemists, economists and other scholars will dismiss more popular writing as «obviously not scholarship.»

Fuller Seminary decided not to offer tenure to a New Testament professor, J. R. Daniel Kirk, whose view of marriage does not comport with Jesus's view.Although a decision such as this is never made happily or easily, I am grateful for the courage of senior faculty at Fuller Seminary in asserting....

I'm sure that he has had to make some really tough decisions during his tenure.

Doc Rivers» tenure as Boston's head coach sounds like it will continue, but the coach said repeatedly that he hasn't made a decision yet.

Star forward Gareth Bale is expected to miss the game due to an injury, which will leave Zidane to make the first major formation decision of his short tenure.

Gettleman's decision at no. 2 might be more important than any pick that Reese made for his entire tenure.

The attacks only put May under more scrutiny for national security decisions she made during her tenure as Home Secretary, a role she held for six years in the government of her predecessor, David Cameron.

Boris Johnson acknowledged their had been an increase in tube strikes during his tenure, but insisted it was due to the fact his office made tough decisions regarding London's transport.

The Nwodo - led NEC is insisting that the Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro - led youth wing had been disbanded by the Ime - Obi, Ohanaeze's highest decision making organ, in 2016 while the tenure of the women wing had expired in 2017.

Rosenblum cited a twofold rationale for her candidacy: a belief that her experience as a Town Board member — and as deputy supervisor during much of former supervisor Jeff Moran's four - year tenure — will enable her to push projects and decisions through to completion; and a determination to make better use of the local talent pool.

He tried it out, and made the «tough decision to give up tenure.»

During my 3 - year tenure at Accenture, I developed a set of skills that were key to business success: leading a team, making tough decisions and communicating them, presenting ideas clearly, and making changes even when it meant overcoming resistance.

So how do those all - important admissions decisions, which essentially determine who will be landing tenure - track jobs 5 to 10 years hence, get made?

Remember that in making your promotion / tenure decision, your department will seek the advice of leaders in your field and the broader area of your research.

«The decision to go with an advanced notice [of proposed rule making] or not was ultimately Steve Johnson's» (the EPA administrator at the end of the Bush tenure), Connaughton says.

Everyone is expected to perform at a high level, but no one endures a single, make - or - break tenure decision.

Appointments, tenure decisions, and promotions are never made on the basis of service work, Anderson says.

But the groundbreaking decision in the Vergara case makes it clear that early, and effectively irreversible, decisions about teacher tenure have real costs for students and ultimately all of society.

Second, school and district leaders can use VAMs to make workforce decisions — recognizing and rewarding effective teachers and denying tenure and dismissing the lowest - performing teachers, according to Corcoran and Goldhaber.

Because a tenure decision involves thousands of future students as well as future colleagues and supervisors at other schools in a district where a teacher might work, it makes no sense to leave the decision in the hands of their current supervisor alone.

Given this simple dichotomy, the public says test - score gains should be given more than half the weight (62 percent) in making salary and tenure decisions.

There should be reasonable due - process requirements for schools to make layoff decisions even after tenure.

Is it in children's interest to make teacher - tenure decisions in 18 months?

They could make a much better decision about which teachers to retain for tenure if they had an extra few years of data.

Then, to defend the last - in, first - out laws, they had to make an about - face and argue that districts knew nothing about effectiveness after tenure, that using seniority was the only way to ensure that favoritism was not the basis of retention decisions.

First, under state law, tenure decisions had to be made within 18 months.

Moreover, districts will do a better job evaluating and providing feedback to teachers after tenure, so employment decisions can be made on the basis of the quality of instruction.

It uses two years of information before making any decisions, and it defers to districts and individual teachers to make the ultimate decisions (the teachers aren't necessarily fired, they just lose their tenured status).

Additionally, supermajorities of California voters support policy changes to elevate teacher quality, including either eliminating teacher tenure or lengthening the time before teachers receive tenure from the current eighteen months to at least four years, taking performance into account when making layoff decisions, and making it easier to let go of underperforming teachers.

However, save for anecdotal evidence, we know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take their voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

The advantage that we now have as experienced, tenured teachers is that we can and should speak up when our school leaders make unwise decisions.

We know very little about whether and how state education policy makers take teacher voices into account — or any other voices, for that matter — when making policy decisions related to teacher evaluation and tenure.

She pointed out that the California Teachers Association has racked up three wins since spring, with the appellate court's unanimous ruling to overturn Vergara, the Supreme Court's decision this week to decline to review the case and the thwarting of her own bill that would have made changes to teacher tenure and dismissal procedures.

This will allow the new tenure reform legislation to be implemented fairly and personnel decisions to be made based on reliable and valid data.