Sentences with phrase «quality teachers in the district»

The report also found that since teacher salaries and benefits make up the bulk of school budgets, a fair funding system was needed to provide an equitable distribution of high - quality teachers in all districts.

If they are truly serious about retaining quality teachers in the district, building the capacity and institutional knowledge needed to reach Superintendent Wilson's stated goal, OUSD and OEA must work together to support teachers as they search for opportunities to continue their professional development.

Not exact matches

The Alliance for Quality Education, a statewide coalition of education groups including teacher unions, contends that all additional state financial assistance allotted to districts in 2016 - 17 should be distributed according to the state's «foundation» formula, which gives extra weight in funding distribution to districts with students who are poor or non-English speaking.

The Alliance for Quality Education has launched a video contest dubbed «Dear Governor Cuomo» in which students, teachers, parents and other «concerned community members» are being asked to go on camera to explain how the governor's proposed spending cuts directly impact them and their school districts.

The Alliance for Quality Education is firing back at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this morning accused school districts of playing politics when they say his proposed funding cuts would force teachers to lose their jobs, hurting kids in the process.

States and districts across the country have set out to implement new teacher evaluation systems in an effort to improve teacher quality and raise student achievement.

By ensuring that teachers have 21st century knowledge, providing science and math curriculum in elementary school, having school districts identify gaps in availability of high quality math and science courses, and providing those courses to all students, we will be able to improve the outcomes of our students in the critical areas of math, science, technology and engineering.

Delaware's grade in teacher quality receives a boost because the state finances professional development for all its districts and requires and finances mentoring...

Successful programs do exist for recruiting quality teachers (targeting males, minorities, and people with specialties) in high - need areas; eliminating barriers for them to move to where they are needed; and increasing the ability of low - wealth districts to pay for them.

Second, shifting compensation back to salary (in the aggregate) provides greater opportunity for districts to use salary differentials to retain and recruit higher - quality teachers.

Teacher turnover is often assumed to have a universally negative influence on school quality, and replacing teachers in schools with high rates of turnover can place strong demands on district recruitment efforts.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for instance, spent some $ 700 million on teacher - quality initiatives alone, much of it on attempts to set up improved teacher - evaluation systems in a handful of school districts.

Kronholz cites findings from the National Council on Teacher Quality's database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, which show that district contracts give their teachers an average of 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

So it's important for districts to think carefully about what they're looking for in teachers and about potential trade - offs if they focus on just one or two aspects of teacher quality.

Charter parents also vary more in their satisfaction with teacher quality than do district - school parents.

On most matters, charters and district schools are equally varied, but we do see greater variation within the charter sector in parents» satisfaction with school location and teacher quality.

«At such a critical time, when so many districts face a shortfall in certified teachers, this free service may have a tremendous impact on the way school districts find quality teachers,» Riley wrote in a statement released Sunday.

Knee also misses an opportunity to address the elephant in the room that any education business must face: the impact of such companies on their customers or end users, including effects on student learning, teacher quality, school productivity, or district cost savings.

However, there is greater variation among charter parents in how frequently they report communicating about teacher quality than among parents in either private or district schools.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

In education we tend to talk about pieces of a school or district (teacher quality, technology, early - childhood education, etc.) and pay too little attention to what makes schools coherent and productive organizations and how government can promote or detract from those attributes.

And, as we learned in the National Council on Teacher Quality's report, Invisible Ink, many of the key policies that protect teachers and create complacency are enshrined in state law, not in district contracts.

With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to train teachers to become content curators, as opposed to content consumers, OER is helping to mobilize educators and librarians to bring quality, curated content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.

In districts such as Minneapolis, teachers have begun assuming greater responsibility for how quality is assessed and how quality standards are enforced, and they have gained greater authority over their work lives.

In PAR, the local teachers union and district administrators jointly manage a program to improve teacher quality by having expert teachers mentor and evaluate their peers.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), which maintains a database on collective - bargaining agreements in 113 large school districts, reports that the contracts give their teachers, on average, 13.5 days of sick and personal leave per school year.

CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.

The linchpin of the state's work has been providing incentives for districts and schools statewide to adopt and implement a high - quality and coherent curriculum, particularly in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and to use that curriculum as the hook on which everything else hangs: assessment, professional development, and teacher training.

States and districts are currently given billions of dollars each year in Title II funding to improve teacher and principal quality without any accountability at all.

NCLB has been a great success in the sense that no one disagrees with its goals: accountability for results, addressing issues of teacher quality, putting a spotlight on the learning of all students, and better targeting of funds to districts serving the most disadvantaged students.

Moving the scale of quality of the United States» teaching force toward this higher level would, he recognizes, require significant changes in school districts» employment practices, basing recruitment, compensation, and retention policies on the identification and compensation of teachers according to their effectiveness.

In addition to the idea that raising the economic benefits of being a teacher could improve the quality of the teaching workforce, the results also suggest one upside to recessions: they may provide a window of opportunity for school districts to recruit strong teachers who might otherwise have chosen a different career path.

According to the National Council on Teacher Quality, 32 states and the District of Columbia altered their teacher - evaluation policies in recent years to incorporate multiple methods of assessing and evaluating teachers, spurred in part by the federal Race to the Top compeTeacher Quality, 32 states and the District of Columbia altered their teacher - evaluation policies in recent years to incorporate multiple methods of assessing and evaluating teachers, spurred in part by the federal Race to the Top competeacher - evaluation policies in recent years to incorporate multiple methods of assessing and evaluating teachers, spurred in part by the federal Race to the Top competition.

In Denver, when the school district did a deep - dive analysis to improve the quality of teacher applicants (it had already determined quantity was not a problem), it collected information from charter and district schools.

Walsh emphasizes that better consumer education — informing aspiring teachers and school districts about the quality of programs across the nation — can play a key role in motivating institutions to «change in the direction of effective training.»

Kathy Sims of Knox County schools in Tennessee will share lessons her district learned through its own efforts to improve the quality of substitute teachers.

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

Salaries paid to personnel in public schools impact both the ability to attract high - quality professionals to serve students and the budgets of the school districts in which teachers, central office administrators, school leaders, and support personnel work.

We can also describe instruction as it exists across a wide variety of U.S. classrooms, for example, asking whether — as is often assumed — instruction in urban districts is inferior to those in other areas and whether differences in instructional or teacher quality by academic track (honors, general, or remedial) exist.

Called Book Banter, administrators at Central Elementary School in Wilmette Public Schools District 39 started the program four years ago and have seen improvement in the amount and quality of teacher - parent dialogue, staff members at the K - 4 school told an audience at the 2007 Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD) conference.

Make your voice heard by tweeting, posting and sharing why you, your students, your teachers, your community and your school district #LovePublicEducation and why every student in America deserves access to a high - quality public school.

In this webinar, Karen Cator, chief executive officer of Digital Promise and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, will lead a conversation with assistant state superintendents from the Florida, Tennessee, and Delaware Departments of Education to discuss: • Each state's work on competency - based professional development using micro-credentials, • What changes they believe states and districts will look to make in the future, and • What the impact on teacher quality and retention will bIn this webinar, Karen Cator, chief executive officer of Digital Promise and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, will lead a conversation with assistant state superintendents from the Florida, Tennessee, and Delaware Departments of Education to discuss: • Each state's work on competency - based professional development using micro-credentials, • What changes they believe states and districts will look to make in the future, and • What the impact on teacher quality and retention will bin the future, and • What the impact on teacher quality and retention will be.

However, states and school districts often struggle to prepare and retain high - quality educators, and in 2014, the Department of Education made having an equal distribution of effective teachers a national priority with its announcement of the «Excellent Educators for All» initiative.

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In 2013, CCSSO and the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) jointly released Commitments on High - Quality Assessments which is a set of principles to guide state and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents, and teacherIn 2013, CCSSO and the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) jointly released Commitments on High - Quality Assessments which is a set of principles to guide state and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents, and teQuality Assessments which is a set of principles to guide state and district leaders in making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents, and teacherin making sure every assessment administered is high - quality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents, and tequality, coherent, and meaningful to students, parents, and teachers.

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The quality of teacher training will be crucial to the success of the new Common Core State Standards in math, educators say, and the pressure is on districts to give elementary school teachers the skills they'll need to provide students with a firm foundation in early arithmetic.

A former high school teacher and administrator in a Denver school district, she is a champion of high quality induction programs for novice teachers, research - based professional development opportunities for practicing teachers, and the creation of mutually beneficial partnerships among higher education, K - 12 schools, and communities.

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Grow - your - own programs could be delivered in rural areas using distance - learning options provided by higher education institutions and district - provided coaching and mentoring — giving prospective teachers greater access to high - quality training while remaining in their local community.