Sentences with phrase «retaining effective teachers»

A better system for schools: Developing, supporting and retaining effective teachers.

Given the importance of school leaders to improving schools, closing student achievement gaps, and attracting and retaining effective teachers, states should consider leveraging the number of opportunities available within ESSA to invest in school leadership (see text box that follows).

Any policy change aimed at retaining effective teachers must alter the structure of pay, not just the magnitude.

For a discussion of teacher preparation program admissions policies in other countries, see OECD study Teachers Matter: Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2005).

These include attracting a diverse group of promising teacher candidates, retaining effective teachers in schools serving low - income and diverse families, and creating a teacher development continuum with strong leadership and learning opportunities.

Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most.

Not only were there few candidates in the preservice pipeline, but the state no longer had functioning systems for recruiting, supporting, and retaining effective teachers.

Race to the Top encourages states to develop innovative ideas around several themes, including recruiting, evaluating and retaining effective teachers and principals.

3) Alignment of districts systems for recruiting, developing, supporting, and retaining effective teachers and principals — between districts.

«Attracting and retaining effective teachers to these schools must be the highest priority, but the trial court's decision will only make that much harder.»

These sections of the federal law place identifying and addressing childhood trauma and other variables linked to poverty alongside policy options for recruiting and retaining effective teachers and school leaders, maximizing the impact of early childhood education, using data to improve student achievement, and serving students with disabilities.

As a chancellor who became well known for firing more than 20 teachers during her first year on the job, Rhee stood by her position on the importance of recruiting and retaining effective teachers while removing ineffective teachers.

Last but not least, Cohen resorts to speculation when it comes to describing the non-academic benefits of unionization, especially when it comes to attracting and retaining effective teachers.

The four - day seminar was based on a 2005 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published report called Teachers Matter: Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Effective Teachers.

(2005), Teachers Matter: Attracting, Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers.

We expect highly rated principals to be more successful both at retaining effective teachers and at moving out less - effective ones.

Low - income schools often have great difficulty retaining effective teachers, who tend to transfer to whiter, wealthier schools when positions become available.

The winning states are making dramatic changes in how they do business — adopting common standards and assessments, building data systems that measure student growth and success, retaining effective teachers and principals, and turning around their lowest performing schools.

High - poverty schools may be at a disadvantage in hiring and retaining effective teachers as well.

In the report, StudentsFirstNY also presents recommendations for New York City schools including financial incentives for retaining effective teachers and an agreement between the City and the teachers» union on a new teacher evaluation system.

«The ability to recruit and retain effective teachers is reaching a crisis point due to retirement of veteran teachers compounded, in some areas, with exploding student growth,» adds Hessel.

The schools these young men would attend are typically in high - poverty urban neighborhoods, have high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.

Working conditions and teacher retention: Several new initiatives aimed to improve school leadership, the ability of school leadership to recruit and retain effective teachers, the school learning environment, and teacher supports.

Colleen also led the research and writing of The Decade - Plus Teaching Career: How to Retain Effective Teachers Through Teacher Leadership while working at Teach Plus.

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?

It also makes it easier for schools to retain effective teachers (such as Ms. Brooks), who might otherwise be driven by the pull - push incentives of pension spikes.

«SEED funding will ensure we are able to continue our pursuit of the best practices to retain effective teachers; reposition teaching as a profession; improve student learning and lives; and ensure equity for students.»

Hybrid teaching positions retain effective teachers in classroom positions, while providing them leadership opportunities, and keeping them from succumbing to burnout in high - poverty situations.

For example, a principal might want to retain an effective teacher, but an assistant superintendent of personnel might have a policy that no further teachers may accede to permanent («tenured») status.

While we have learned much about VAM through statistical research, further work is needed to understand how VAM estimates should (or should not) be combined with other metrics to identify and retain effective teachers.»

By contrast, decisions about firing teachers are inherently about trade - offs: It is important to dismiss ineffective teachers, but also to attract and retain effective teachers.

Reformers thus set out to devise a system that hired and retained effective teachers while also driving ineffective ones from the classroom.

Failure to retain effective teachers not only is costing our school systems billions of dollars, but also is negatively affecting student achievement (Teoh & Coggins, 2013).

A school is more likely to retain effective teachers, a new study reports, if it is led by a principal who promotes professional development for teachers, is characterized by collaborative relationships among teachers, has a safe and orderly learning environment and sets high expectations for academic achievement among students, a new study reports.

Ken Futernick, Director of the WestEd School Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievement.

The House proposal would review teacher compensation plans that recruit and retain effective teachers and provide a better salary schedule for educators.

Although there is no overall shortage of good, licensed teachers, spot shortages in some specialties and in certain geographic locations DO exist and the unions have not done much to help school boards recruit and retain effective teachers in those areas.

Barnett Berry, Diana Montgomery, Rachel Curtis, Mindy Hernandez, Judy Wurtzel, and Jon Snyder, Creating and Sustaining Urban Teacher Residencies: A New Way to Recruit, Prepare, and Retain Effective Teachers in High - Needs Districts (Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, 2008).

Teacher Quality focuses on the need to recruit and retain effective teachers while supporting and enhancing the knowledge and skills of current staff with job - embedded professional learning.

Among other things, the plan seeks to recruit and retain effective teachers, link students to college and careers, expand educators» role and responsibility in state governance, restructure mandates, and fund education based on local needs.

How do we not only retain effective teachers, but also help them continue to grow?

And while some interventions have helped to make improvements, research shows that segregation greatly hinders a school's ability to recruit and retain effective teachers and administrators, to offer advanced courses, to raise money for special programs, and so on.

To do so, she addresses «what might be done to train, recruit, and retain effective teachers: the single most important factor in student achievement.»

As teachers continually leave these schools and the education profession altogether, many new teachers are needed, and as such, induction and mentoring offer an avenue to prepare and retain effective teachers.

However, high performing schools with high poverty and minority populations also retain effective teachers, which indicates that teacher turnover is more closely related to the environment and support that teachers receive than socioeconomic and ethnic status of the students (Johnson, Kraft, & Papay, 2012).

«increasing access to effective teachers or adopting incentives to recruit and retain effective teachers;

E4E - New York is asking the state Legislature to fund a $ 30 million pilot incentive program to recruit and retain effective teachers in some of the state's...

The Head Start program will be hard pressed to retain effective teachers and staff without some level of job security.

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Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee's report Retaining and Developing the Teaching Workforce, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «We have now had numerous official public bodies highlighting the lack of effective action by this Government to address the deep teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

The Governor's policies would ensure we recruit and retain high performing teachers, that we don't give lifetime jobs to teachers who are not effective, that we can remove low performers from classrooms, and that the interests of students are put first.»