Sentences with phrase «quality of teachers hired»

This is because the excellence of the school depends on the quality of teachers they hire who will to teach their students.

Not exact matches

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

The assumption undergirding the contemporary approach to teacher certification is that public school hiring personnel are either unable or unwilling to gauge the quality of applicants.

IMPACT's effects also depend on the direct impact of teacher turnover and the quality of newly hired teachers.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first thire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first tHire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

The Chicago school board has agreed to hire hundreds of additional teachers and other employees in order to end a four - year dispute with the U.S. Education Department over the quality of the school system's services for handicapped pupils.

So I hire a highly qualified online teacher, and my kids get the same opportunity for a quality education as kids in Eagle, an affluent suburb outside of Boise.»

The number - one quality that probably binds all of our principals in hiring teachers is measuring the candidate's willingness to self - reflect, which is why all of our teachers first have to do a sample lesson before they get hired.

One possibility is that the rigidity of public sector budgets or wage schedules causes schools to mechanically hire teachers of lower quality when the price of skill rises.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

Second, hiring more teachers may dilute the quality of the workforce, thereby negating any gains among the students of good teachers.

A principal's impact on the quality of the teaching staff (whether negative or positive), for example, probably increases over time as the share of teachers who were hired on her watch rises.

Districts and schools wishing to hire more - effective teachers could benefit from collecting a broader set of information on their candidates, concludes a new working paper by several well - known teacher - quality researchers.

The Commission will examine factors contributing to teacher recruitment and performance including: incentives to hire and retain high - quality teachers; improvements in the teacher evaluation system to ensure New York is implementing one of the strongest evaluation systems in the country; the use of teacher evaluations for decisions regarding promotion, hiring and termination as required in the teacher evaluation law; and teacher preparation, certification and education programs to ensure that teachers are properly trained to best educate our students.

This webinar will feature the leaders of both the Learning Policy Institute and the National Council on Teacher Quality, who will both present their research and conclusions of the scope of the teacher shortage — and their solutions to curb the hirinTeacher Quality, who will both present their research and conclusions of the scope of the teacher shortage — and their solutions to curb the hirinteacher shortage — and their solutions to curb the hiring gaps.

Second, TNTP does not view policy reform efforts as separate from the daily work of recruiting, training, and hiring high - quality teachers, but rather as an integral part of it.

It does not address the changes we need to see in teacher compensation, the organization of the school day, the role of instructional leadership, and a range of other key factors crucial to getting the teacher - quality equation right in a workforce of 3,000,000 facing 200,000 teacher hires a year, due to high rates of turnover and mounting retirements.

Interestingly, we find that these measures are only weakly, if at all, associated with the likelihood of being hired, suggesting considerable scope for improving teacher quality through the hiring process.

Measuring teachers promises administrators and policymakers that they can make hiring and firing decisions with an eye toward quality of instruction.

TFA appears to be a viable alternative source of high - quality teachers, compared with both the pool of new teachers available for hire in Houston and the district's entire workforce of current teachers.

Likewise, schools are deeply concerned with the quality of their teachers, but quality is difficult to discern when hiring a new teacher.

Institutions evolve to address the challenges we hire them to solve, and rating teacher preparation programs based on the track records of their graduates would have sharpened their focus on teacher quality challenges.

Teacher quality emerged as one of the highest educational priorities — second only to school safety — in the public opinion poll released last week by Recruiting New Teachers Inc., a Belmont, Mass., nonprofit group that advocates better school - hiring practices.

Because Phoenix # 1 wants to ensure they hire only quality educators despite the teacher sourcing challenges they face, they use tools and technology to reach more candidates, quickly identify and hire the best, and streamline onboarding process so they can promptly place them in front of students.

Adamowski and his lackeys at the National Council on Teacher Quality (he's on the board, which he did not disclose when he hired them to assess Hartford schools) stated that it would be better if districts just cut the number of paid sick days teachers have.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

We absolutely make it a priority to hire minority teachers who have backgrounds that are similar to our students — and we've done a good job of doings so — but there are other qualities that are even more important.

Like Framingham Public Schools, thousands of schools and districts trust TalentEd to provide world - class customer support alongside solutions that help them transform the way they recruit, hire, onboard, manage, develop and retain quality teachers and staff.

We use matched employee - employer records from the teacher labor market to explore the trade - offs between the timing of hiring and match quality.

Beyond that, Jarvis - Cedeño spent most of her budget hiring accomplished, experienced teachers, in line with research suggesting that high - quality teachers are perhaps the most important ingredient in closing the achievement gap.

Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, said it is vital that aspiring teachers — and school districts that hire them — have information about qQuality, said it is vital that aspiring teachers — and school districts that hire them — have information about qualityquality.

Now, she worries the new rules will increase the quantity, not quality, of hiring pools for teacher jobs.

MAISD is proud to provide high quality special education services in collaboration with our local districts that include the hiring and employment of occupational and physical therapists, school psychologists, and teacher consultants for the entire county as part of our ISD special education plan.

How Principals «Bridge and Buffer» the New Demands of Teacher Quality and Accountability: A Mixed - Methods Analysis of Teacher Hiring

In this piece, University of Alaska Fairbanks Researcher Barbara Adams writes about how rural schools in Alaska and around the country face challenges in hiring and keeping high - quality teachers.

Test scores reflect not just the quality of schools or their teachers, but all kinds of other factors in children's lives, including their home environment; whether they attended a good preschool; traumas they have experienced; and whether their parents read to them at night or hire tutors.

Because the benefits of quality improvements are large, we need to evaluate experiments with many different designs of pre-K, which explore different ways of hiring and training teachers, and different approaches to delivering pre-K.

By explicitly incorporating language around assessment audits, training for teachers and school leaders that develops sound assessment practices, hiring of personnel with assessment certifications, and parental engagement through assessment literacy into state ESSA applications, states can enhance student learning by leveraging funds to develop assessment policies and systems that reflect balanced and quality practices.

Many schools have hired math specialists to make up for teachers» shortfalls, according to a 2008 report by the National Mathematics Advisory Panel — although the panel «found no high - quality research showing that the use of any of these types of math specialist teachers improves students» learning.»

While an AP (and Testing Coordinator), I was able to hire, train, and retain high - quality teachers, create an environment where teachers and students felt they had a voice, and support the core - values of The Main Street Academy.

Our goal should be hiring and retaining quality teachers that want to live, play, and worship in our communities long - term, instead of marking off days until a loan is forgiven and entrance to graduate school is accomplished.

In addition, as reasonable and necessary, Title II, Part A funds may be used to pay for substitute teachers if, and only if, those regular classroom teachers they are replacing were hired with Title II, Part A funds to reduce class size or the teachers are participating in Title II - funded «programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teacher force, such as... innovative professional development programs» [Section 2123 (a)(5)(A)-RSB-.

Given the importance of hiring and retaining high - quality principals and teachers in turnaround schools, this report provides lessons learned by UVA / PLE about strategic talent development in a turnaround environment.

At the end of each of our school visits, we asked teachers — and students: What qualities should a school seek when hiring teachers explicitly to teach in a student - centered setting?

I am blown away by the quality of teachers being hired.

Ultimately, through the hiring of superior teachers and principals, AISD will continue providing students with a quality education that lays the foundation for their success — a task Chris takes very seriously.

Kency Nittler, manager for teacher trends at the National Council on Teacher Quality, said their 2011 survey of LA Unified principals found that «the majority of principals in LAUSD were rarely or never satisfied with the teachers they were forced to hire from the must - placteacher trends at the National Council on Teacher Quality, said their 2011 survey of LA Unified principals found that «the majority of principals in LAUSD were rarely or never satisfied with the teachers they were forced to hire from the must - placTeacher Quality, said their 2011 survey of LA Unified principals found that «the majority of principals in LAUSD were rarely or never satisfied with the teachers they were forced to hire from the must - place list.

First, the hiring of new public school teachers would become more selective, thus increasing the quality of public school teachers.

In the area of improving teacher quality, nearly one - half of the constraints that principals ran up against were real, such as prohibitions against hiring outside the district.

Last week the Center for Retirement Research released a research brief looking at whether teacher salaries and teacher pensions affect the quality of new teacher hires, measured by SAT scores.