Sentences with phrase «of teachers in the district»

The top 20 percent of teachers in each district were identified using each district's own «value added» measure.

According to the study, the system has improved the performance of hundreds of teachers in the district and also encouraged some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms.

In Houston, as in so many urban districts, the accounting system pretends that every teacher earns the average salary of teachers in the district rather than accounting for the actual costs of the salaries at a particular school.

So upset that 93 percent of teachers in the district recently gave Willis a vote of no confidence.

Paige notes that in the past curriculum and assessment were left to the discretion of each teacher in the district.

A district that insists it must raise the pay of all teachers in the district because it can not recruit a certified speech pathologist is not spending money wisely.

And while there are a variety of factors that go into the evaluation of teachers in the District, the end result is that highly effective mid - and late - career teachers such as Fishman can earn top - tier salaries.

The New Teacher Project found that nearly 99 percent of teachers in some districts earned satisfactory ratings (Weisberg, Sexton, Mulhern, & Keeling, 2009).

Jerri Lynn Lippert, Pittsburgh's chief academic officer, estimates that more than two thirds of teachers in the district are on board with the classroom observations, a number she says has risen significantly over four years.

A recent study (Stuit & Smith, 2012) that analyzed federal data from the 2003 — 04 school year found that average annual teacher turnover was twice as high in charter schools as in district schools: 24 percent of charter school teachers, on average, left their school that year, compared with just 12 percent of teachers in district schools.

Traditional teacher observations have been criticized for being infrequent and indiscriminate, failing to identify even one percent of teachers in some districts as ineffective.

1) Assign talent strategy to a senior reform executive: The thinking behind this strategy is to have a single person responsible for the hiring, development, retention, and firing of teachers in the district.

Teachers with students who take standardized math and English tests (usually fewer than half of the total number of teachers in a district) are held accountable for getting students to reach this mark.

IMPACT, the controversial teacher - evaluation system recently introduced in the District of Columbia Public Schools, appears to have caused hundreds of teachers in the district to improve their performance markedly while also encouraging some low - performing teachers to voluntarily leave the district's classrooms, according to a new study from the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Overall, 3.8 percent of all teachers in the district were let go as a result of being rated «ineffective» once or after earning two consecutive «minimally effective» ratings under IMPACT between 2009 10 and 2011 12.

A 2009 study by The New Teacher Project found that «satisfactory» or «unsatisfactory» were the only ratings available to school administrators in many districts, and that more than 99 percent of teachers in those districts were deemed satisfactory.

The New York State Education Department reports that while 83 percent of teachers in the district are «Effective,» just 5 percent are «Highly Effective.»

He writes about an automated phone call he received informing him (and the rest of his colleagues) that the top 25 % of teachers in his district were to be offered four - year contracts and an additional and annual $ 500 in exchange for relinquishing their tenure rights.