Sentences with phrase «pilot school evaluation»

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«[SNF consultant] Liz Campbell had come in and done the district evaluation, and spoke with our superintendent and administrators, including school nutrition director Margie Bowers; they decided to implement with five pilot schools.

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.

Evaluation of a pilot AIDS education package for schools showed teachers» inhibitions to be the main stumbling block: some teachers ignore all modules that deal with sex and condoms, leaving pupils misinformed, anxious and frustrated.

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.

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.

This 80 - page evaluation provides a clear picture of how support for pupils learning EAL currently takes place in many schools, along with useful examples of learning and teaching strategies adopted in pilot school classrooms.

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).

An independent evaluation of a three - year pilot of the effective - schools concept throughout the state found that the greatest improvements occurred among students in the primary, elementary, and middle schools, rather than in the high schools, participating in the project.

Our results indicate that while the pilot evaluation system led to large short - term, positive effects on school reading performance, these effects were concentrated in schools that, on average, served higher - achieving and less - disadvantaged students.

The Excellence in Teaching Project (EITP), a teacher evaluation system also based on the Danielson framework, was piloted in Chicago Public Schools beginning in the fall of 2008.

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).

We will be doing thorough analysis and evaluation after the initial pilot so I ask that schools stay tuned in, listen and engage with us.

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.

A principal evaluation pilot is also taking place this year and will expand to all schools this fall.

Study: Once - a-Year Teacher Evaluations Not Enough Associated Press, January 6, 2012 «Those surveys, also being piloted by the foundation in school districts around the nation, are not popularity contests, [Professor Thomas] Kane said.

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.

New Jersey schools that have been involved in a two - year pilot of the evaluation process will attest to the fact that they are still creating the building blocks to support meaningful implementation.

Pemberton Township was one of several school districts selected by the Department of Education to serve as a pilot to develop and test both the teacher and principal evaluation metrics.

We are a diverse team of 13 teachers who met for six weeks to review research on teacher evaluation systems across the nation, as well as local evaluation systems being proposed or piloted by UTLA, LAUSD and The College - Ready Promise consortium of charter schools.

- Kevin Ozar, a Farmington Public Schools teacher who was involved in the district's pilot of the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model

If you know schools that we work with, you will know their enthusiasm for our approach, its impact and the strength of their relationships with advisers, which are all evidenced by the University of Derby's independent evaluation of the NAHT Aspire Pilot group of schools.

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).

CCE also serves as the coordinating organization for the Pilot schools and Horace Mann charter scools and provides assistance in the design, implementation, and evaluation of new BPS small high schools.

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.

Results from a three - year evaluation of KSSN's pilot schools found that rates of chronic absenteeism (defined as missing between 10 and 20 percent of all possible school days) declined in half of the KSSN schools.

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

Districts across the state of Minnesota will be piloting their new teacher evaluation models during the 2013 - 14 school year.

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.

This pilot evaluation involved ten primary schools in London and the West Midlands.

That's a lot more than the 18 percent that an evaluation system piloted at 20 New York City schools identified as «ineffective.»

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

Eight school districts and one educational service district were selected to develop and implement teacher evaluation systems over a two - year pilot period under E2SSB 6696.

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.»

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

For instance, we are piloting a teacher evaluation system this year, and it goes live next school year.

Based on the implementation of the teacher evaluation system by pilot schools, there may be revisions to these training materials.

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 was a qualitative evaluation of the Visible Classroom approach based on 27 semi-structured interviews with staff in participating schools, and two classroom observation visits.

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.

Closer to home, Santa Ana Unified skirted around the teacher evaluation issue by implementing a three - level system at a single pilot school, according to Deidra Powell, chief communications officer for the southern California district.

During the 2012 - 13 school year, each of those six were in the «pilot» or «partial implementation» stage of putting their new evaluation systems in place.

For teacher evaluation pilot districts, DEAC members include: school board representative; elementary, middle, and high school teachers (as applicable given pilot participation); principal; superintendent; central office representative; administrator conducting evaluations; data coordinator; parent; and others as determined by the district.

For principal evaluation pilot districts, DEAC members must include representation from the following groups: building - level administrators from each school level (e.g., elementary, middle, high school); central office administrators supporting the principal evaluation process and / or conducting evaluations; teaching staff; and the local school board.

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.

For example, teachers and other community leaders from Teach Plus, Future is Now Schools, and Communities for Teaching Excellence have worked over the past year to develop a strong set of recommendations for how to best incorporate AGT (Academic Growth over Time) into the new district evaluations that have already been piloted by 900 teachers and principals.

Derby University's independent evaluation report [2] showed that the pilot schools made twice the improvement of schools nationally whilst their feedback about the experience was «overwhelmingly positive».