Sentences with phrase «policies affecting teachers»

To satisfy the administration's requirements, states will have to change policies affecting teachers, intervene in failing schools, support charters, and more.

Discriminatory admissions policies affect pupils; discriminatory hiring policies affect teachers.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

Not exact matches

The College of Teachers, together with the faculty, sets and carries out important policy directions affecting the school's educational programs, academic standards, and curriculum development.

At 9:15 a.m., Regent Judith Johnson and Regent Nan Mead will participate in a discussion on legislative policies and proposals affecting schools and students at the first - ever Scarsdale Public Schools Parent Teacher Council Legislative Advocacy Breakfast, Quaker Ridge School, 125 Weaver St., Scarsdale.

It amounts to a great deal of effort and energy and political capital expended on one policy matter, albeit an extremely important one affecting over 1 million students, their parents, teachers, and others, while the rest of the de Blasio Albany agenda sits somewhat neglected.

«I hope that through these conversations, teachers will feel empowered to have a voice around policy issues that affect their students» futures.»

Beyond inflammatory rhetoric about teacher unions, pay - for - performance, and other hot - button school policies, we need to be thoughtful about how our decisions affect teachers — and, ultimately, our children.

A school's resources — everything from teacher salaries to curriculum to non-academic support programs — affect the quality of education it's able to deliver, but schools have no power to tax residents, and things like teacher salaries and teacher placement policies are determined at the district level.

We compare changes in student performance in schools that were more affected by the policy because they employed more experienced teachers to changes in schools that were less affected.

The policy, which will initially affect more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students, was unveiled last month and aims to integrate technology into the college curriculum as well as the profession as a whole, said Lawrence Abraham, an associate dean for teacher education.

Of course, the latter survey doesn't indicate whether teachers are ambivalent because the unions aren't fighting hard enough against policy changes affecting job security or because they're fighting too hard to defend poor performers.

When school policy and visions are planned, there often seems to be a major disconnect between the administration (usually the ones making or voting on the policy) and the rest of the school (the teachers and students whom the decisions affect).

Other policies include introducing free school meals for all primary school children; ending the public sector pay cap, which affects teachers; giving teachers «more direct involvement» in the curriculum; and extending school - based counselling to all schools.

Despite the minute share of teachers unfairly affected by these policies, they helped fuel a backlash against testing in general.

Based on the author's experiences as a teacher and as an anthropologist, it discusses how both using and anxiously suppressing race labels (being what Pollock calls «colormute») affect everyday and policy discussions about achievement, discipline, curriculum, reform, and educational opportunity.

Only a few of our data points (like teacher - employment policies) are apt to affect achievement directly.

That policy, however, affects only a few teachers in selected parts of the country.

Recent changes in collective bargaining rights in states such as Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan may offer new insights into how changing specific aspects of collective bargaining affects students in order to inform optimal teacher bargaining policy.

With further research focused on these key questions, we may come to better understand the implications of discipline policy reforms — how they affect suspension use, and also how they change school climate; interactions among students, peers, and teachers; and the academic performance of all students.

These costs would be steep, as they would likely negatively affect some of the most vocal constituents in education policy: current teachers.

They explore complex contemporary issues and problems facing education and society — including issues of community - focused leadership development for high - poverty rural schools, college access and student success, sexual violence, cross cultural counseling, community college leadership, and state and institutional policies that affect children and adult learning — with a view toward solutions that will make a real, positive difference for students, teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, and communities.

The Disproportionate Impact of Seniority - Based Layoffs on Poor, Minority Students Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect...

Teacher shortages are not felt uniformly across all communities and classrooms, but instead affect some states, subject areas, and student populations more than others, based on differences in wages, working conditions, concentrations of teacher preparation institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and retTeacher shortages are not felt uniformly across all communities and classrooms, but instead affect some states, subject areas, and student populations more than others, based on differences in wages, working conditions, concentrations of teacher preparation institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and retteacher preparation institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and retention.

These policies arose, at least in part, from the recognition that teachers affect not only student learning in the short - run, but also long - run outcomes such as college attendance and earnings as adults.

People are not fully embracing policy reforms affecting teachers.

Finally, teachers and principals believed that the policy affected instruction positively.

They contended that California's brief 18 - month window for awarding tenure, onerous teacher - dismissal policies, and last - in, first - out requirements adversely affected minority students.

Teachers who seek to affect policy, should keep in mind that policy makers usually want to do the right thing but that they often don't know how their policies are playing out in real world, and are eager to hear from practitioners who show up with practical ideas and workable solutions.

They found that active efforts «by district - level administrators to mediate sense - making affected teachers «attitudes toward accountability policies and standards - driven reform» (2005, p. 177).

The multiple linkages model asserts a prominent role for «situational variables» — the size of the work group, organizational policies and procedures, the prior training and experience of members — which mediate what the leader is able to do.131 For example, the size of the school will have a significant effect on how well teachers know other teachers; it also will affect the way in which teachers form workgroups or departments to talk about their work.132 The fragmented nature of professional communities, rather than size per se, becomes a constraint on how principals try to organize professional communities to focus on instruction and student learning.

For teachers, by teachers, Teacher Voice podcast sits down with real educators to discuss the policies and issues that are affecting their classrooms, profession, and most importantly their students.

E4E is a teacher - led organization of nearly 30,000 educators based in six chapters across the nation dedicated to ensuring that teachers have a leading voice in the policies that affect their students and profession.

A new study released this month in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis found that pay - for - performance programs do not affect teacher motivation.

This work involves (1) hearing about the strategies BMTN teachers are testing and refining, and having teachers the leaders are working with test out the strategies in their classrooms; (2) sharing resources and strategies that BMTN teachers might use in their improvement projects, (3) providing insights into policies that might affect the instructional work of the network; and (4) helping recruit additional teachers and instructional leaders to the network.

Looking at the 15 largest districts in California authors Cristina Sepe and Marguerite Roza, demonstrate that teachers at risk of layoff are concentrated in schools with more poor and minority students, concluding that «last in, first out» policies disproportionately affect the programs and students in their poorer and more minority schools than in their wealthier, less minority counterparts.

[34] It is conceivable that changes to TPP admissions or graduation policies could affect the diversity of students who enter or graduate from TPPs, ultimately affecting the diversity of the teacher workforce.

Her research addresses teacher policy, looking specifically at how teachers» preferences affect the distribution of teaching quality across schools, how pre-service coursework requirements affect the quality of teacher candidates, and how reforms affect teachers» career decisions.

The Virginia Association for the Gifted will present an annual «Leader of the Year» award to an individual at any level (parent, teacher, coordinator, administrator, legislator, other) whose exemplary leadership and outstanding contribution to gifted education has affected Virginia's children, teachers, schools, programs, services, and / or policies.

The Virginia Association for the Gifted will present an annual «Parent of the Year» award to a parent whose exemplary contribution to gifted education has affected Virginia's children, teachers, schools, programs, services, and / or policies.

While it's critical that teachers have voice in policy decisions affecting students, how should they approach this challenge if they don't have the necessary background or deep knowledge of policy?

The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) recently released a new study detailing key factors that affect teacher supply and attrition.

Being part of the E4E - New York Teacher Policy Team on School Climate and Student Discipline, I had the opportunity to work with other passionate NYC educators in proposing recommendations to improve school discipline issues affecting our schools.

«Rather, teachers are leaving largely because oppressive policies and practices are affecting their working conditions and beliefs about themselves and education.»

Put on hold the policy push to use student test scores to evaluate teachers and principals, unless and until data demonstrate the likelihood that such an evaluation approach will positively, not negatively, affect student learning and its accuracy morally justifies its use.

But crowdsourcing tools are slowly working their way into the education policy world, designed to give teachers and district employees more say on big decisions that affect their school environment.

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

Our research study on a citywide initiative to increase teacher leadership opportunities offers an example of Eskolta's research work focused on understanding how district policy rollout affects educators and can be improved.

The initiative seeks to spur fundamental changes in the culture of schools and the teaching profession so that teachers can play a more central role in the development of policies that affect their work.

But pensions aren't just some technical policy that exists in a vacuum — they affect the lives of millions of teachers.