Sentences with phrase «of holding teachers accountable»

LaPres, the drama teacher at Chalmette High, who is an alumna of Teach for America, said she philosophically supports the idea of holding teachers accountable.

Regardless of what the court decides, the idea of holding teachers accountable for student performance seems here to stay.

Whatever the future uses of value - added measures, the idea of holding teachers accountable for student performance seems here to stay.

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By writing and teaching publicly, you declare yourself a representative of God's Word and teacher, and as such will be held to a much greater standard by God, accountable for every word you write, every person you influence.

It is this insistence which has caused disunity in the Body of Christ and I believe they (preachers / teachers) will be held accountable for that by the Almighty.

What if teachers were held accountable for maximizing industry, enthusiasm for learning, increasing social competence and self - discovery in the context of a curriculum?

On the other hand, while providing all of those supports, we understand if teachers and principals are not held accountable to high expectations for these children.

And I would go further to say that whole concept of holding teachers and students accountable for these skills doesn't make sense and isn't supported in the research.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

One of the tasks set forth by the original Race to the Top competition was simple design a teacher evaluation system that holds teachers accountable for their performance.

Elia told reporters after the Regents meeting that teachers still would be held accountable in their jobs on the basis of the «transition» ratings.

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

If this concern is valid for teachers then it is equally important that members of the legislature be held accountable for filing false documents.

With this veto, the governor has decided that teachers are the only ones who should be held accountable for the state's failed implementation of the Common Core.

Elia talked about the importance of holding schools and teachers accountable for their performance in the weeks before the election.

«If you hold teachers accountable for children who may not test well or do well on the day of an observation, then it will drive away the teachers we do have and discourage future teachers from entering the most amazing profession,» she said.

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

It has only held one program accountable for its consistently low performance by reducing the number of new teacher candidates that the institution could admit.

A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

We propose to study more than a decade of data from North Carolina, where teachers and schools are held accountable for the proportion of their students who pass end - of - year exams.

Oddly enough, teacher preparation programs occasionally argue against being held accountable for things like placement rates because they don't believe they have any control over how many of their teachers receive jobs.

It would be serious about untying the hands of managers, especially so they can «hold accountable» teachers and other staff who don't pull their weight.

AFT's poll showed that 74 percent of respondents are worried that students, teachers and schools will be held accountable for the results of those assessments before they have been fully implemented.

Parents should, through membership of parent teacher associations and as parent governors, hold the governance and management of the school accountable for the appropriate time, resources, facilities and value given to art and design on the curriculum and in the professional development of its teachers and support staff

Delaware also does not hold its teacher education programs accountable for the quality of preparation that their students receive, nor does it identify low - performing teacher - preparation programs or publish passing rates or rankings by institution.

But it does not hold teacher - preparation programs accountable for the performance of their graduates in the classroom.

American Federation of Teacher President Randi Weingarten says we hold schools accountable for how much money they have and the types of programs they build with that money.

It is a story of collective courage, of teachers and school leaders coming together to hold each other accountable.

To fix the NCLB accountability system, we need to find ways of holding accountable the individuals, that is, the students and teachers, who are involved in the education process.

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

(The law is named for its sponsor, now - deceased Republican Assemblyman John Stull of San Diego, who received bipartisan support at the time for this statutory requirement that teachers be held accountable for the academic achievement of their pupils.)

Eighteen of the 25 institutions that train teachers in Florida have lost state approval of one or more of their education programs under a law that holds them accountable for their students» performance on the state's basic - skills test for teachers.

These results are consistent with the view that children of low - income parents, arguably the least vocal in holding teachers accountable, benefit the most from inspections.

Evaluating teachers based on the student test results is bad for everyone: «It's like if the measure of your health and wellness were what you weighed every day — and so, if you were held accountable only for what you weighed, you'd be tempted to take diet pills,» he says.

It quickly became a liability to hold teachers accountable for results on tests they had never seen before, and much of the Republican establishment seized on Common Core as the embodiment of federal overreach.

In other states strong teachers unions may mobilize high turnout among members, their families, and friends, and punish and reward board members for their treatment of teachers rather than hold them accountable for student test scores.

The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring value to the diploma; redesigning the high school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high - school teachers and principals; holding high schools accountable for their results; and streamlining «education governance.»

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement gap.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

With the growing awareness that traditional schools of education are failing to produce exceptional teachers, however, a national effort is under way to ensure that education schools are held accountable for the impact their graduates have on student achievement.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

When people are given a fuller definition, including the public nature of charters, the freedom charters have to be more innovative while being held accountable for improved student achievement, and the greater partnerships among parents, teachers, and students often found at charters, we see support grow across partisan and ideological lines.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

Indeed, the main use of standardized tests many years ago, when I was in school, was to improve instruction, not to hold teachers accountable.

But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to hold them accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.

In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

Raising the expected performance standard in each year of school and holding all teachers and students accountable for achieving these higher standards may not be the most effective way to improve levels of performance in Australian schools.

Initiatives to provide better incentives for improvement have included the creation of stronger performance cultures in schools, with teachers and school leaders being held personally accountable for improving students» performances.