Sentences with phrase «pilot evaluation program»

Rosemary Knab, Ph.D., associate director of Research and Economic Services for the New Jersey Education Association, told NorthJersey.com that the pilot evaluation program still places too heavy an emphasis on standardized tests.

The pilot evaluation program is designed to allow flexibility to districts to experiment with a more comprehensive system.

Sachiko Miyaji was one of five teachers in the pilot evaluation program last year at Melrose Elementary School.

Joining the Jersey City representatives were Tanya Tenturier, an Elizabeth fourth - grade teacher, principal Genar Mills of Newark's Malcolm X. Shabazz High School, and Bob Fisicaro, coordinator of the statewide pilot evaluation program, Excellent Education New Jersey (EENJ).

The state Department of Education has assured the union that a pilot evaluation program has allowed teachers to provide input on how well it works and ways to tweak it.

Principals in Tennessee judged 98 percent of teachers to be «at expectations» or better last school year, while evaluators in Georgia gave good reviews to 94 percent of teachers taking part in a pilot evaluation program.

Not exact matches

While with Mathematica Policy Research, he wrote or contributed programming for U.S. Department of Agriculture reports on the participation trends and household characteristics of SNAP participants, and also worked on national evaluations of SNAP demonstration pilots and the Summer Food Service Program.

The evaluation revealed that the nutrition integrity project had a positive impact beyond the schools that participated in the pilot; once the benefits of combi ovens were explained and publicized, other schools wanted to follow suit, either through the program or by finding other creative ways to finance their purchases.

In terms of the mayor's statement about «serious negotiations» surrounding teacher evaluations, he is the one who walked away from $ 70 million in federal money by refusing to negotiate a 33 - school pilot program of the new evaluation system.

It's been a slow start for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) pilot program to fast - track the evaluation of patent applications for so - called green technology, with the agency approving about one third of the requests it has received.

Evaluation results from the pilot phase will be used to refine program materials prior to making them available to schools throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.

This report, developed by Catherine Awsumb Nelson, synthesizes the findings of a four - year evaluation of the A + Schools Program pilot in 25 North Carolina Schools.

A new program designed to improve primary school children's attention and memory has produced significant improvements in maths and spelling, according to an evaluation of a pilot program in thirteen classes across six schools.

A University of Sydney and NSW Department of Education program to improve primary school children's attention and memory has produced significant improvements in maths and spelling, according to an evaluation of a pilot program in thirteen classes across six schools.

The plaintiffs in this case reject the proposed pilot program, which has no guarantee of ever having meaningful evaluations that actually count, even for the volunteer participants in the pilot.

A new, more - intensive teacher - evaluation program, developed and piloted largely without rancor during the previous year, was implemented citywide.

He successfully led the charge for the overhaul of the state's outdated tenure statute and launched a new teacher - evaluation pilot program.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

Across the four schools, pilot middle - school teachers used a number of different learning programs, including Achieve3000, i - Ready, Khan Academy, ST Math, iLearn, and iPass, according to an SRI International report on the pilot's first year (see First - Year Evaluation sidebar).

The evaluation found students who had participated in both the pilot program and its schoolwide rollout the next year performed significantly better on a state writing test than students who had less exposure to the program, but other measures were mixed.

Mathematica is designing an evaluation framework and pilot data system that would enhance the National Science Foundation's ability to monitor the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and to conduct evaluations with increasing level of rigor in the future.

Governor Christie's Department of Education (NJDOE) is in the second year of its «Excellent Education for New Jersey» (EE4NJ) teacher evaluation pilot program in over 30 school districts across the state right now, which will expand to every school in the state this fall.

L.A. Unified is looking to pilot a teacher evaluation program that will use student test data in measuring performance; Deasy made clear that this will come up during the district's contract negotiations with the AFT.

We have co-sponsored two NJ Spotlight roundtables on the teacher evaluation pilot program.

Copyright 1988 The study looked at student achievement in the 16 school systems participating in the three - year - old pilot program, which seeks to improve the teaching force through incentives, performance - based pay, and improved evaluation techniques.

One of those pioneers is neighboring state New Jersey, who has approved Dr. Marzano's Causal Teacher Evaluation Model to meet requirements for the state's $ 1.16 million pilot grant program.

Teacher evaluations are also a part of the education reform package, expanding upon the Pennsylvania Department of Education's existing pilot program that ties teacher evaluation to student achievement.

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After beginning in a pilot phase in 1990, the program was subject to an initial evaluation by outside analysts.

«Home Visit Pilot Project Evaluation» Center of Student Assessment and Program Accountability, Sacramento County Office of Education, 2007 by Paul Tuss

What it says about New Jersey: New Jersey fares pretty well in McGuinn's study, which finds it is taking a deliberative approach to instituting a new teacher - evaluation system through a pilot program that so far encompasses 30 districts.

As a member of EPAC for the past two years, my responsibilities have included reading research studies on teacher evaluation programs around the country, learning about evaluation tools and ways to manage data, and collaborating with educators from pilot districts.

Become part of the first cohort of schools and districts using the evaluation process to drive student outcomes by signing up to learn more about the pilot program below.

For some, there is a single evaluation model for the entire state, which very different from the pilot program in New Jersey, where each district can choose from a menu of options.

Some 300 schools have taken part in a pilot program on the teacher - evaluation framework.

This time around, she is proposing to expand a year - old pilot teacher evaluation program throughout the entire state; under the plan, teachers rated «basic» for two consecutive years would join those rated «unsatisfactory» on probation.

Melrose Elementary teachers and its principal, Bernadette Lucas, took part in Los Angeles Unified School District's pilot teacher evaluation program, which factored in student achievement to determine teacher effectiveness.

Teacher evaluations: Requires the commissioner, in consultation with UConn's Neag School of Education, to administer a teacher evaluation pilot program in 10 districts — five using the teacher evaluation framework developed earlier this year and approved by the State Board of Education, and five using a new model to be developed by Neag.»

Eight years in development, including 10 pilot studies, and applying standards based on valid research on effective teaching, the evaluations in the report provide convincing evidence that a large majority of our nation's teacher preparation programs are miserably failing our aspiring teachers and our children.

Pilot teacher evaluation programs played out this spring in nine school districts, among them Jefferson and St. Bernard.

In a letter to teachers May 24, Deasy said the district will fully implement the evaluation changes tested in the pilot program next school year.

The pilot program calls for teacher evaluations to be based half on classroom observations and half on how much progress students show in learning, including how they perform on standardized tests.

The district had already been piloting a separate teacher - evaluation program that puts as much emphasis on teacher observations as it does on student growth.

The eight districts promised to link teacher evaluations to student performance starting with pilot programs in 2014 - 15, and a full launch the following school year.

In 2012, administrators there essentially had to navigate two evaluation systems: the pilot program and the one required by the terms of existing laws and board policies.

The NJEA, never against evaluations in principle, now has some buy - in with the pilot program.

2015 Session The funding priority was to increase funds for the Network for Quality Teaching and Learning and prioritize funding for the expansion of the School District Collaboaration Fund (state - funded CLASS process); the Oregon Beginning Teacher and Principal Mentoring Program; completion and evaluation of the TeachOregon teacher preparation pilots; and funding for the new Leading for Learning initiative for new and current administrators.

She also directs a state pilot program evaluation project.

An academic study of a teacher evaluation method that looks at how much teachers are able to improve students» test scores gave the pilot program a good grade.