The zone is a public - private partnership that gives principals and teachers more
control over curriculum, schedules, staff, and budgets.
These schools would break away from local authority control and have more
freedom over the curriculum while continuing to be funded by the state.
But in schools where teachers acting collectively as a union had a lot of
influence over the curriculum, students performed 32 points worse in math, 18 points in science.
She said the autonomy of academy status has allowed
flexibility over the curriculum, while the freedom to set pay and conditions has helped staff recruitment.
Catholic schools close and stop teaching the faith, and
authority over curriculum and instruction is turned over to a state - authorized public school.
The charter allows our school flexibility in many areas of school management (budget, staff selection) as well as school site control
over curriculum selections and school - based enrichment.
Given our historical lack of
consensus over curricula, it thus falls to assessments to influence the depth and quality of instruction.
Behind the scenes, transformational teachers
labor over curriculum plans that look simple and even elegant to classroom observers.
To be sure, there are master teachers to whom we should eagerly grant nearly complete classroom autonomy,
including over curriculum.
They operate under higher levels of performance accountability in exchange for more
freedom over curriculum, budget and staffing decisions.
Pilot schools have some charter - like
autonomy over curriculum, budget and staffing, but participate as full members of the district.
Supporters of free schools say they bring greater educational autonomy to parents and communities and that
flexibility over the curriculum and qualifications required to teach can improve learning.
In predominantly Catholic Belgium, after the nation won its independence in 1830, the Church had either maintained its own schools with the support of public funds or exercised strong influence
over the curriculum in municipal schools.
Conservatives in government have responded with scorn, pointing out that until recently Labour's policy was to take away freedoms
over the curriculum away from academies.
The solution I see is to have teachers
take over the curriculum delivery in public schools and have non-ed business managers oversee the non-ed functions of the schools.
They discuss regents reforms, Race for the Top funding, how to improve teacher training, and whether it is possible to
make over curriculum in a meaningful way.
They have influence
over the curriculum taught, flexibility regarding the use of their funding, including salaries paid to staff, and overall, greater control of the school's strategic direction and ability to innovate.
But if designed correctly, a system of choice that honored the convictions of educators (and other constituents) would take many of the most intractable issues off the table, especially those that touch us most closely -
disagreement over curriculum, pedagogy, and standards of personal comportment.
There is a clear aversion to taking on the reform
fight over curriculum writ large, beyond reading, even by people who normally have no problem landing a blow.
A Note to Educators: Pedagogy Surpasses Curriculum — In this blog series, Carrie and our CEO, Kristyn Klei Borrero, discuss the power of
pedagogy over curriculum and high - leverage pedagogical strategies that make up any effective lesson.
Would an Ofsted
intervention over curriculum cause more harm than good, driving heads into a frenzied panic to fit the inspectorate's requirements?
This paper presents the findings of a research project in which we transformed a primary (grade) 3 science curriculum for delivery via mobile technologies, and a teacher enacted the lessons over the
As states and school districts across the United States continue to fight their battles
over curriculum content, educators should not be satisfied — even if their state standards include the content they desire — unless schools make a commitment to also promote the values of ideological diversity and tolerance.
Tom Adams, director of the CDE's
division over curriculum and instructional resources, said there is an additional problem driving the full adoption request for satisfying the needs at middle schools.
This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) announced a tentative contract agreement that creates more autonomy for teachers, giving them greater flexibility in the
classroom over curricula, materials, hiring practices, and finances.
In all of the
storm over a curriculum that has been on the books for years, I go back to one central question: With all this supposed indoctrination going on, where's the evidence that students have converted to Islam?
The charter arrangement could result in a new type of school, Dr. Budde said, that would give teachers increased
responsibility over curriculum and instruction in exchange for a greater degree of accountability for student achievement.
The massive emphasis on new external, standardized exams, often with high stakes attached, has intensified the domination of summative
tests over curriculum and instruction — even though the research examined by Black and William supports the conclusion that summative assessments tend to have a negative effect on student learning.
Will the influence of law
societies over curriculums change now that the FLSC is monitoring law programs to determine if graduates meet the national requirement?
UTLA president A. J. Duffy sensed an opening, negotiating with Villaraigosa to grant teachers greater
control over curriculum and pedagogical practices.
The network has said that the contract would allow the city to significantly interfere with its program by giving the city's Education Department
authority over the curriculum, schedule and even the number of field trips it could take.
Greater
power over the curriculum and the choice of texts has been a long - standing goal of the California teachers unions, which have sought, unsuccessfully, to pass state legislation that would have placed the issue squarely into collective bargaining negotiations.
Academies have greater
autonomy over the curriculum, school budgets, admissions (within the statutory code) and teachers» pay than other state - funded schools.