Sentences with phrase «new peac»

Click here to read a draft copy of the new PEAC Guidelines for Educator Support and Evaluation Programs.

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This new funding will allow the Virtual PERA Coach Newsletter to continue to be sent and provide educators with updates from the PEAC, which will have limited resources, if any, to communicate the results of its work.

At today's meeting, PEAC members were asked to identify issues that need addressing in the new evaluation system and pinpoint positives that seem to be emerging.

Until a new version of ESEA comes out of Washington, PEAC members are focusing on improving the state's evaluation system as it currently stands.

At today's PEAC meeting, CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg and President Sheila Cohen held a small group discussion with SDE Commissioner Dianna Wentzell and New Haven Federation of Teachers President David Cicarello on the question of the appropriate use of state mastery tests.

PEAC unanimously agreed to recommend new guidelines for educator support and evaluation programs to the State Board of Education.

CEA President Cohen was quoted as saying, «Today's PEAC changes will foster a new climate that moves away from the rigidity and moves toward the healthy flexibility that our schools communities sorely need...,» while AFT - CT President Peters added, «With PEAC's approval of new flexibility options, our state's children will be the primary beneficiaries of this course correction.»

The state Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC) has been consumed in recent years by reports from consultants, disagreements about what's best for students and teachers, and plenty of eduspeak — all in pursuit of a new teacher evaluation system.

But it only took commonsense comments from thousands of teachers for PEAC to reach consensus about new flexibility in the implementation of the new evaluation and support system, and to relieve the significant demands and pressures on teachers and administrators who simultaneously must also implement the Common Core State Standards.

UConn Neag School of Education researcher Morgaen Donaldson presented PEAC with five recommendations based on an interim report of a study of the statewide pilot of new teacher evaluation guidelines.

For background on the Performance Evaluation and Advisory Council (PEAC), read The Point on PEAC and New Framework for Teacher Evaluations on cea.org.