Sentences with phrase «recruit high quality teachers»

National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel issued a statement saying the North Carolina legislature's attempt to eliminate tenure was misguided and would have hurt the ability of districts to recruit high quality teachers.

Among a number of other measures, Gibb outlined the introduction of a new National Teaching Service (NTS) which will aim to recruit high quality teachers and place them in challenging schools.

Oberholzer added: «We are worried we won't be able to recruit high quality teacher trainees without the incentive of high value bursaries in the future.»

Title II of the law — «Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals» — is the federal government's chance to make a strategic investment in creating a quality teaching workforce.

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City Law Department spokesman Nick Paolucci said tenure job protections help the city recruit and retain high - quality teachers.

The delays in the process, the Daily News reported a few weeks ago, has the greatest effect on the same high - quality new recruits whose jobs Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he wanted to save during this year's fight over how to determine teacher layoffs.

The president has also asked for $ 75 million to recruit and train 10,000 high - quality STEM teachers over the next 2 years as part of his push for 100,000 STEM teachers.

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.

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.»

At a minimum, education policymakers should consider experiments that provide actuarially fair alternatives to traditional DB plans for new teaching recruits, and evaluate their utility for recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers.

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.

Children and young people are being short changed by this government as they can not receive their entitlement to high quality education when talented teachers are leaving and potential recruits can find jobs in other graduate occupations which recognise and better reward their talents.»

The President is also proposing support for training teachers in math, science, and technology and for recruiting quality teachers into poor schools and high - need subjects like math and science.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

It will launch in September next year and will mirror entry criteria and high - quality course content currently required of all other teacher trainees and will give schools across the country the opportunity to use the apprenticeship to recruit and train new teachers in - house.

«We are continuing to recruit high - quality candidates at primary level and have already exceeded our teacher training targets for this year, four months before the recruitment cycle ends.

There has been a steady decline in the number of students choosing to study languages over the last two decades, which has in turn led to issues in recruiting and training enough high quality teachers in the subject.

They can try to do so indirectly, via initiatives to recruit and retain talented teachers, to implement high - quality curricula, or to include measures of student engagement in school accountability systems.

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.

This «how - to» guide provides help in recruiting, hiring, and retaining high - quality teachers.

As teacher shortages once again become widespread in California and across the nation, discussions of how to recruit and retain high - quality teachers are occupying center stage in policy circles.

Title II of the ESSA remains geared toward preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and principals.

Supporting Effective Instruction grants provide federal funding to states for recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.

The Obama administration's $ 650 million Investing in Innovation Fund — designed to spur investments in innovative educational providers and practices — specified that applicants needed to «demonstrate their previous success in closing achievement gaps, improving student progress toward proficiency, increasing graduation rates, or recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.»

Schools with relatively few disadvantaged students are widely thought to be able to recruit teachers of higher and more uniform quality.

EW: As schools struggle to recruit and retain effective teachers — particularly schools in low - income areas — what would an Obama administration do to help districts hire and retain high - quality teachers?

Ensuring quality teachers in every classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating career ladders and increasing pay for effective teachers who serve as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such as math and science, and who excel in the classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.

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.

The projects will take on various tasks, such as recruiting high - quality teachers, providing professional development to current teachers, improving textbook material, and encouraging students to take challenging coursework.

States and districts will need to recruit, prepare, and retain talented teachers and principals and support them with high - quality professional development, curriculum and instructional materials aligned with standards, and the tools to support data - based decisions.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

Kris Nordstrom, a consultant for the progressive N.C. Justice Center (the parent nonprofit for N.C. Policy Watch) and a former fiscal analyst for the legislature, warned legislators that their efforts would be better spent on proven methods, such as increasing access to pre-K programs, expanding instructional time, recruiting and retaining high - quality teachers, and addressing poverty - related issues such as mental health and child nutrition.

Recruiting, retaining, training, and rewarding high - quality teachers and principals must be a high priority.

and more competitive teacher compensation (permitting schools and districts to recruit and retain a higher quality teacher workforce).

Mr Gibb conceded that schools face a «challenge» when it comes to recruiting enough high - quality teachers and schools leaders.

The unions note the STRB's view «that uncompetitive teacher pay, in a strong labour market with increasing opportunities for graduates, makes it a difficult environment in which to recruit and retain high quality graduates as teachers.

It is worth noting then, that the connection between being able to recruit and retain great teachers and deliver strong results for kids is not accidental; rather, it is embedded into the fabric of high quality schools.

The pilot, «Differentiated Pay for Highly Effective Teachers,» comes at a time when the state is facing what some say is a crisis when it comes to recruiting and retaining high quality tTeachers,» comes at a time when the state is facing what some say is a crisis when it comes to recruiting and retaining high quality teachersteachers.

This economic analysis argues that this suggests that increasing teachers pay would attract higher - quality recruits, which is linked to higher results.

In order to recruit, retain, and support the highest - quality teachers, the Minnesota Legislature must proceed with plans to implement the teacher evaluation system state - wide.

As The Mind Trust's director of talent strategy, Jackie Gantzer works to ensure Indianapolis schools have access to robust talent pipelines and help school operators implement innovative strategies to recruit and retain high - quality teachers and leaders.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

For additional strategies on recruiting high quality substitute teachers, register for the next cohort in the Fill - Rate Academy.

It will also share information about the Teacher Incentive Fund, a federal program that helps high - need schools develop and implement performance - based teacher and principal compensation systems, and Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which focuses on preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and prinTeacher Incentive Fund, a federal program that helps high - need schools develop and implement performance - based teacher and principal compensation systems, and Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which focuses on preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and printeacher and principal compensation systems, and Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which focuses on preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and principals.

Inspectors said the Kings Science Academy in Bradford needed to secure «experienced leadership» and recruit «high - quality, experienced» teachers.

Teachers are grossly underpaid and in order to effectively recruit and retain quality educators, public schools must ensure that the teaching profession is financial viable to counter their high attrition rate in the public school system.NEA provides strategies to advance the teaching profession and ultimately improve student learning.

«Combined with relatively low starting pay for teachers in England, these three features of our school system have clear risks for recruiting, retaining and developing a high quality teacher workforce.»

The government said it had recruited more maths teachers this year than last, with the number and quality of teachers in England's schools «at a record high».

She goes on to illustrate how difficult it will be for Hillsborough — and by extension all of Florida — to recruit and retain high quality teachers to prepare our children for their future.