On March 6, the New Jersey Department of Education submitted to the State Board new teacher and
principal evaluation regulations, which will be required to be fully implemented beginning in September 2013.
Not exact matches
Other provisions include an agreement to implement yet to be finalized changes in employee health care intended to save at least $ 3.4 billion, a loosening of
regulations intended to allow greater control by individual
principals and teachers, an increase in parent / teacher interactions, changes in teacher professional development and
evaluations and an enhanced ability of the City to terminate teachers who behave inappropriately and teachers who are in the Absent Teacher Reserve.
Earlier this week, the Regents passed emergency
regulations putting a hold on the use of state test scores on teacher and
principal evaluations.
«I believe Governor Cuomo's recommendations to improve these
regulations will lead to an even stronger teacher and
principal evaluation system for New York,» Tisch said in a statement.
That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into
regulations creating the framework of
evaluation for
principals and teachers.
Tilles was one of three members of the state's Board of Regents to vote no on proposed
principal and teacher
evaluation regulations.
The new report did not capture a precise measure on what proportion of tests were required by teacher
evaluation, but it does point out that many states have put in place new assessments «to satisfy state
regulations and laws for teacher and
principal evaluation driven by and approved by U.S. Department of Education policies.»
On February 11, 2014, the Board of Regents adopted emergency
regulations to address concerns that have been raised by the field and by stakeholders to adjust and improve the implementation of the Common Core Standards and teacher /
principal evaluation.
New Jersey public schools will begin grading teachers and
principals using a new
evaluation system this fall, and educators received their first look last week at proposed
regulations spelling out in greater detail exactly how they will be judged.
A central piece of Maryland's application is a new state law and
regulations that require new teacher and
principal evaluations, half of which will be based on growth in student achievement, said William Reinhard, the spokesman for the Maryland education department.
CEI has spent 10 years refining a framework for
principal evaluation that focuses on growth and meets state
regulations and federal best practice standards.
The
regulations adopted by the New York State Board of Regents based on the 2010 law changing how the
evaluations must work includings a line that says the new
evaluations must be «a significant factor in employment decisions such as promotion, retention, tenure determinations, termination, and supplemental compensation,» as well as how teacher and
principal development is approached.
Although
evaluations from the professional growth and effectiveness system are not tied to tenure decisions by statute and / or
regulation, evidences gathered during this process are nonetheless informative to
principals.
«That includes the expansion of our Inter-District School Choice program, the passage of the Urban Hope Act, the agreement on a groundbreaking contract in Newark, and the
regulations on teacher and
principal evaluations we will be introducing in the coming months,» she said in an email.
Baker is the
principal external researcher for a U.S. Department of Education Investing in Innovations grant to support the development and
evaluation of a mindfulness and self -
regulation intervention in 30 Chicago Public Schools.