Sentences with phrase «mandate around teacher»

Everything else will be left on the cutting room floor — specific requirements about interventions in failing schools; mandates around teacher evaluations or «highly qualified teachers»; competitive grant programs a la Race to the Top.

Not exact matches

I've still got a lot of beefs with it (especially around its high school interventions and inclusion of the highly - qualified teachers mandate).

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

Tennessee, where lawmakers passed legislation that mandates using student achievement as half of a teacher's annual evaluation in every district, stood out for its mature «value - added» data system that has been around for nearly two decades.

Events focused around three key demands: ending zero - tolerance policies and implementing Restorative Justice, hiring more Black teachers in their schools, and mandating Black History / Ethnic Studies in grades K - 12.

The two - year contracts and building transfers allow TFA candidates to maneuver around teacher effectiveness mandates and the accountability required of real teachers.

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

Because of the strict quantitative assessment methods, teachers may feel pressured to «teach to the test» and structure their curriculum exclusively around state - mandated content rather than purposeful learning outcomes.

The NAACP and its teacher union benefactors never get around to explaining the above - mentioned Stanford study or why there are over a million kids nationwide on charter school wait - lists, desperately trying to escape their zip - code mandated school.

In communities where the shift has been mandated — high schools in and around Portland, Me., for example — it has faced considerable resistance from parents and teachers annoyed that the time - consuming, and sometimes confusing, change in classroom life has come from top - tier school administrators.

We also know that banning suspensions and mandating progressive policies around restorative justice won't work with resistant teachers and in chaotic schools.