Sentences with phrase «many teacher projects»

− Stanley S. Litow, Vice President, IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs & President, IBM International Foundation (Chair) − Senator John Flanagan, Senate Education Committee Chair (Senate appointee) − Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, Assembly Education Committee Chair (Assembly appointee) − Linda Darling - Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Graduate School of Education − Todd Hathaway, Teacher, East Aurora High School (Erie County) − Alice Jackson - Jolley, Parent (Westchester County) − Anne Kress, President, Monroe Community College − Nick Lawrence, Teacher, East Bronx Academy for the Future (NYC) − Delia Pompa, Senior Vice President of Programs, National Council of La Raza − Charles Russo, Superintendent, East Moriches UFSD (Long Island) − Dan Weisberg, EVP & General Counsel, The New Teacher Project

Education reform groups like StudentsFirstNY and the New Teacher Project say a lawsuit against New York State inspired by the Vergara case could change local tenure laws and present a long - awaited opportunity to legally assess long - term sticking points with the unions, such as merit pay and seniority rules.

The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Differences in Teacher Effectiveness The New Teacher Project (TNTP), 2009 Extensive research of teacher evaluation systems in 12 schools districts highlights our pervasive and longstanding failure to recognize and respond to variations in the effectiveness of our teachers.

She looks at the classroom board, her eyes moving slowly over the words of a problem that her teacher projected there as the students came in from recess and sat down for their math lesson:

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

The New Teacher Project report cited above found just four tenured teachers out of 70,000 fired for poor performance in the five districts studied.

Conducted by the New Teacher Project, a New York City - based teacher - training organization, the report analyzes the results of a survey of more than 15,000 teachers and 1,300 administrators across four states and 12 districts.

She was a member of The Teacher Project, an in - service teacher as researcher project, initiated by Jean Bamberger at MIT and HGSE Professor Eleanor Duckworth; a collaborating teacher at Project Zero on the Making Learning Visible Project; and is a recipient of the Crystal Award for Preeminence in Teaching.

The program, created by the Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT) Parent / Teacher Project, bridges the communication gap between school and community by training teachers to conduct home visits.

An initiative of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Teachers Project, the Meritorious New Teacher Candidate program is the first regional reciprocal - licensing agreement in the country.

05, decided to sign on to the Master Teacher Project, the one thing he didn't have was much free time for something new.

Also notable was his now - complete 1000 Teachers Project to inspire and recruit new educators.

Overarching local nonprofits such as New Schools for New Orleans and Teach NOLA have coordinated and supercharged the reform initiatives, and national organizations such as Teach for America and the New Teacher Project have expanded their presence in New Orleans.

Boot camp comes twice yearly for Houston's principals, which is how often they must review each of their teachers with a team from HISD's central office with members who are trained by The New Teacher Project (TNTP).

But Ariela Rozman says The New Teacher Project has grown since Rhee left, from 140 people and a $ 20 million budget to this year's staff of 210 and budget of $ 32 million.

Ariela Rozman, CEO of The New Teacher Project (TNTP), says she's seen this often.

I asked The New Teacher Project's Ariela Rozman if Rhee ever called to cry on her shoulder.

Rhee was finishing a graduate program at Harvard and had never had a management role at TFA, but Kopp tapped Rhee to head the teacher project as a spin - off in 1997.

Before rebranding as «TNTP,» it was The New Teacher Project.

But Rhee's experience a few years later with The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is a better window on how she's doing her job in Washington.

She was so determined to fund The New Teacher Project out of the revenues it was generating through its training contracts with schools that she sorely underpaid her staff.

We learn of a pleasant childhood in Toledo, Ohio, college days at Cornell, training with Teach For America, three grueling but successful years in a Baltimore elementary school, leadership of The New Teacher Project, and testimony at an arbitration hearing where the New York Department of Education squared off against Randi Weingarten and the United Federation of Teachers («She was dazzling,» former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein tells Whitmire).

Kaya Henderson, who also moved to Washington with Rhee as her deputy chancellor, says The New Teacher Project's management style moved with them.

If all goes well, the voluntary credential would be offered sometime in 2003, said Diana W. Rigden, the vice president of the Council for Basic Education, the Washington - based nonprofit organization that is managing the Mid-Atlantic Regional Teachers Project.

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 - school route.

Opposing the assessment undermines the credibility of teachers unions, argued The New Teacher Project (TNTP) president Tim Daly in Education Week in February 2014.

Second, most school districts ignored these important differences in performance by treating all teachers as interchangeable parts, a phenomenon dubbed the «widget effect» in a timely 2009 report by TNTP (formerly The New Teacher Project).

The Gates Foundation grant for the NEA's Master Teacher project, which has thus far supported 95 teachers developing Common Core lessons, included the creation of 24,000 resources or 3,500 lessons, delivered through Better Lesson, according to the foundation.

«The Widget Effect,» a widely read 2009 report from The New Teacher Project, surveyed the teacher evaluation systems in 14 large American school districts and concluded that status quo systems provide little information on how performance differs from teacher to teacher.

A handful of reputable organizations have partnered with Digital Promise to issue micro-credentials that teachers can collect on BloomBoard's online platform, such as the Relay Graduate School of Education, Hope Street Group, Learning Forward, the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University, the Center for Teaching Quality, Teaching Matters, KQED, TNTP (The New Teacher Project), the New Teacher Center, and Arizona State University.

«In addition,» she explained, «the local Wal - Mart store sponsors teacher projects and gives a special annual donation to a teacher or classroom.

That's why we've partnered with The New Teacher Project, founded by teachers, to overhaul the way Houston's educators are evaluated and rewarded.

Teach For America and the New Teacher Project saw opportunity and beefed up their presence in New Orleans, as did a homegrown organization called Teach NOLA.

Created in the summer of 2000, NYCTF is a partnership between the New York City Department of Education and The New Teacher Project (TNTP).

Student advice to teachers includes: Trust us; Recognise that everyone is smart and talented in different ways; Let us be in the driver's seat, put more control in our hands, step back, let go; Give us a chance to surprise you, to show you what we are capable of; Remember these are student not teacher projects; Discover what we are interested in.

It has also participated in the development of the Common Core Standards initiative; created alternative - certification routes that allow organizations other than education schools to give teachers credentials; improved its teacher pipeline through strong partnerships with the New Teacher Project and Teacher for America; and experimented with performance - based compensation in 41 school districts.

The New Teacher Project, which partners with the city's education department on teacher recruitment, prepared the report, which lauds a «mutual consent» hiring system put in place in 2005.

These include large urban school districts like Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, and New York, and nonprofit education - focused groups such as Achieve, Jobs for the Future, KIPP, the New Teacher Project, the New Schools Venture Fund, and Teach For America.

The program has helped to purchase school uniforms, provided funds for field trips, and allotted money for many teacher projects that were not part of the district budget, says McGehee.

The New Teacher Project's recent report, The Widget Effect, noted that in the 12 school districts it examined, less than 1 percent of all teachers had received an unsatisfactory evaluation, even in schools where students were chronically underperforming.

The Latino and Language Minority Teacher Projects at the University of Southern California aims to help language minorities enter the teaching profession.

Emmons created an internal grant funded by parent and community donations to support teacher projects and collaboration — the Hood River Middle School (HRMS) Building Grant.

But help is available from the SHOPA Kids In Need Foundation, which donates supplies to schools and funds innovative teacher projects.

To date, their numbers are small and their scale modest, but the best known among them are prominent indeed, including Teach For America (TFA), the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), High Tech High, National Heritage Academies (NHA), the New Teacher Project (TNTP), New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), K12, and Edison Schools.

At The New Teacher Project (TNTP), we believe it is possible for organizations to implement ground - level reforms on a meaningful scale even while advocating for more fundamental policy changes.

In this webinar, Daniel Weisberg, CEO, The New Teacher Project, will be interviewed by Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, about the key insights of The Mirage report, where the field of educator professional learning is headed, and what it means for districts to ask fundamentally different questions about what great teaching means and how to achieve it.

The New Teacher Project has no greater financial resources, political savvy, experience, or dedication than our peer organizations.

Alternative programs are often run by school districts or nonprofits like Teach For America or The New Teacher Project, but the fastest - growing programs are run by for - profit corporations like Kaplan University or Teachers of Tomorrow.

Michelle Rhee is chief executive officer and president of The New Teacher Project.

The New Teacher Project finds its efforts to help districts recruit sorely needed instructors undercut by local personnel officials who routinely object to these outsiders or understate the cost of district recruiting (creating inaccurate comparisons for TNTP» s pricing).