Sentences with phrase «principals who»

A Regents panel voted to allow teachers and principals who could be fired based on poor student performance on Common Core exams this year or last year to defend themselves by citing the botched rollout of the tough new curriculum.

Residents gain great coaching and a year to practice as part of a team of teachers or principals who provide a network of support — with pay and benefits.

Findings from three studies (Fennell, 1999; Ryan, 1999; Silins et al., 1999) suggested that teacher leaders developed into stronger leaders by working with principals who were actively involved in teaching and learning (Fennell, 1999; Silins et al., 1999) and supportive of opportunities for teacher leaders to participate in administrative decision - making (Fennell, 1999; Ryan, 1999).

New sponsor account login information will be sent automatically to principals who had students participate with the program in the 2013 - 2014 school year.

Principals who are looking for ways to ex tend the currently scarce time for science may want to identify STEM afterschool programs that complement — without mimicking — their math and science curricula.

Team teachers report positive experiences from the support they receive from their multi-classroom leaders — support that should be extended to all aspiring teachers in the U.S. Opportunity Culture schools with principals who lead strong, schoolwide teams of multi-classroom leaders in core subjects have shown the largest, fastest gains schoolwide in the first years of the Opportunity Culture initiative.

Principals who have developed into exemplary practitioners deserve to be recognized by the profession for their accomplishments.

Glanz et al. (2006) reported that principals who were seen as instructional leaders collaborated with teacher leaders to supervise classroom teachers, while principals without instructional expertise abdicated supervision responsibility to teacher leaders.

SBDM: The Prinicpal's Role is a session created for principals who would like insight on effectively leading the school council.

Whether you call it a school improvement team, school leaders committee, or creative leadership team (CLT), principals who empower a group of teacher leaders to share the creative leadership role radiate energy that is contagious.

Getz, who was one of 50 principals who signed a letter to New York Education Commission John King citing concerns about the quality of the spring 2013 assessments, hopes policymakers will acknowledge that standardized test scores are imperfect measures of what students are supposed to learn under the new standards.

Adding to the problem is the lack of diversity among superintendents and other school administrators, such as principals who actually make hiring decisions.

Principals who believe they are working collaboratively toward clear and common goals — with district personnel, other principals, and teachers in their schools — are more confident in their leadership.

The webinar, jointly sponsored by UCEA and the Wallace Foundation in collaboration with NASSP and NAESP, features a new Wallace Foundation Report, «Making Time for Instructional Leadership» as well as two celebrated principals who will discuss strategies they use to implement instructional leadership behaviors in their schools and lessons they learned for overcoming the obstacles that limit time spent on instructional leadership.

When schools have failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress, it has mostly been teachers and principals who've been slapped on the wrist or let go from their jobs.

Data coaches are available in a relatively small proportion of schools and districts, but among principals who have access to data coaches, 71 % say they have improved student learning.

Including student learning growth as a significant factor among the multiple measures used to determine performance levels is important as an objective measure to differentiate among teachers and principals who have made significantly different contributions to student learning growth and closing achievement gaps.

This was situation was encouraging some principals who were facing an uncertain future to get out «while the getting is good.»

Principals who voice the importance of early learning will lead staff to value its importance.

Across the 14 schools, 93 teacher surveys and 11 principal surveys were returned from the 104 teachers and 14 principals who participated in the study, for a return rate of 88 %.

Principals who rated low on Factor 2 and whose schools were lowest in mathematics achievement numbered 2 at the elementary level and 7 at the secondary level.

There were no secondary school principals who scored high on Factor 2 whose schools also had high mathematics achievement.

Schools with more community stakeholders on their site councils or building leadership teams tend to have principals who are more open to community - level involvement.

Principals who opt - out of services will take on roles they previously left to someone else.

Nor did the application speak to any fair and rigorous process for removing ineffective tenured teachers and principals who have had ample opportunities to improve but haven't.

Although there have been charter schools in Los Angeles since the early 1990s, the movement took flight early in this decade behind such figures as philanthropist Eli Broad, former school board president Caprice Young, former Mayor Richard Riordan and a long list of teachers and principals who were fed up by the ever - shifting reform agendas of Los Angeles Unified — and by what many saw as a recalcitrant teachers union, the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles.

Elementary school principals who scored high in both Instructional Climate and Instructional Actions also led schools in which student achievement was relatively high.

It is a distinction between principals who provided support to teachers by «popping in» and «being visible» as compared with principals who were very intentional about each classroom visit and conversation, with the explicit purpose of engaging with teachers about well - defined instructional ideas and issues.

The superintendent explains that students need principals who have high expectations and track records of having turned schools around, and that they need teachers who will emphasize learning, not merely trying to make students feel better.

Washington law requires principals who place a teacher on probation (the first step for removal) to document classroom observation of the teacher twice a month for 60 school days, which can take as long as three calendar months.

Principals who believe themselves to be working collaboratively toward clear, common goals with district personnel, other principals, and teachers in their schools are more confident in their leadership.

To start making a dent in a supply problem that plagues schools nationwide, Bloomberg and Klein turned their backs on old - school education administration programs at universities and instead opted to create a nonprofit leadership academy to train school leaders to be the kind of principals who can transform struggling schools.

The superintendent, in turn, has an incentive to hire and retain principals who will use the value - added results to hire and promote the best teachers.

However, in the wake of the policy there were still many principals who did not dismiss any teachers, including in the lowest performing schools.

Another study reported that, coupled with collaboration, «principals who rated highly for the strength of their actions (commitment) to improve instruction were also more apt to encourage the staff to work collaboratively.»

Advice for First - Year Teachers — From the Principals Who Hired Them Most principals were teachers too.

The authors also looked at the dynamics of the principal labor market, and noted that, constrained by salary inertia and the absence of good performance measures, the market does not effectively weed out principals who are least successful in raising student achievement.

Like other principals who have used this idea, I found that having those toys available helped conferences go on undisturbed.

Thank you to the thirteen principals who contributed to this article.

Philadelphia, Guilford County, N.C., and four small districts in northern New Mexico have scooped up the last of the $ 42 million in federal grant money on offer this fall for rewarding teachers and principals who get higher student test scores in needy schools.

There are basically no consequences for principals who disregard the results of value - added assessments in making decisions about employees, and they're more likely to disregard those results if they consider value - added assessment an unreliable analytical technique.

The money includes $ 30 million for K - 12 schools to provide incentives for teachers and principals who commit to working in New Orleans - area public schools for at least three years.

Hamilton and Baker were led by principals who supported the reform effort and who already understood how to hustle for resources within the district bureaucracy and through private organizations.

«The programs offered by HGSE dovetail with our overarching mission to create a leadership development framework that prepares and encourages principals and assistant principals who will be ready to serve as CEO's and top executives in their schools.»

I have appointed roughly 75 — 80 percent of the principals who are now leading our schools.

With the National Outstanding Assistant Principal Award Program, we wish to honor assistant principals who are doing a superb job in their roles.

Districts know they need principals who are strong instructional leaders, but rarely do all of school leaders have knowledge and skills necessary to improve instruction in a systemic way.

The question the initiative seeks to answer is: «If an urban district and its principal training programs provide large numbers of talented, aspiring principals with the right training and on - the - job evaluation and support, will the result be a pipeline of principals who can improve teaching and student achievement district - wide, especially in schools with the greatest needs?»

The program was established in 1984 to recognize and celebrate elementary and middle - level principals who set high standards for instruction, student achievement, character, and climate for the students, families, and staffs in their learning communities.

The year - long Miles Family Fellowship programming is designed to increase leadership capacity in experienced assistant principals who are preparing to lead a KIPP school, either as a Fisher Fellow or successor within the next two years.