Sentences with phrase «rigorous evaluation systems»

Yet many local, state, and national union leaders have not pressed for more rigorous evaluation systems for fear that such systems may result in the dismissal of additional teachers for poor performance and may strengthen the case for performance - based pay at the expense of the single - salary schedule.

The assurances underlying ARRA underscore the importance of improving the usefulness of information on teacher effectiveness through robust data systems and rigorous evaluation systems.

The paper tackles what we are calling «infrastructure» or the foundation needed for states to use information about teachers, 3 such as robust data systems, professional standards for teaching, and rigorous evaluation systems.

That work rested on a particular theory of action — that more rigorous evaluation systems would empower districts to make better decisions about which teachers to put at the front of the room and thereby improve student outcomes.

More promising is the possibility of tracing teacher evaluation ratings back to the institution, particularly in states that have embraced more rigorous evaluation systems.

The Governor's framework outlined a reasonable and rigorous evaluation system based on multiple measures of performance and fulfilled the commitment made by New York in its application for Race to the Top grant funding.

But Cincinnati administrators offered to allow current teachers to return to the traditional salary schedule if their salary ever decreased under the new plan, according to former associate superintendent Ware, and to exempt first - year teachers from the rigorous evaluation system.

At the heart of PICCS is a rigorous evaluation system.

Tennessee has a new, more rigorous evaluation system.

At the heart of the HCMS approach in PICCS is a rigorous evaluation system.

Not exact matches

Examples of focal areas include: developing and implementing a rigorous evaluation of home visiting; selecting, adapting, and developing culturally appropriate data collection tools and measures; tracking and measuring benchmarks; developing and modifying existing data systems; continuous quality improvement; data protection and privacy; and ethical dissemination and translation of evaluation findings derived from research with AIAN to external audiences.

«The State Education Department should act with urgency and within the timeline prescribed by the legislature to create a fair and rigorous teacher evaluation system,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

They implemented a rigorous teacher evaluation system, based on multiple measures of performance.

This guide proposes six design standards that any rigorous and fair evaluation system should meet.

«While the UFT focuses on political stunts and lobbying to keep bad teachers in the classroom, the mayor, governor, and State Education Department are working collaboratively to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation system that will help ensure our students have the best teachers,» she said in a statement.

The new evaluation system will provide clear standards and significant guidance to local school districts for implementation of teacher evaluations based on multiple measures of performance including student achievement and rigorous classroom observations.

The authors, who hail from public health agencies, academia, and the private sector, highlight the need for future rigorous evaluation and validation of standards before NDS can effectively reinforce existing public health surveillance systems.

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

ABOUT THE SCHOOL The state - sponsored Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an accredited, online virtual school has a rigorous system of teacher support and evaluation that emphasizes not only academic content but also student engagement, collaboration, and critical thinking.

For example, two of the current top priorities of the U.S. Department of Education are to get states to implement rigorous teacher evaluation systems and to improve the quality of the nation's teacher preparation programs.

So to the Regents and the NY state department of ed I say this: Your newfangled evaluation system is going to be miles more rigorous than what virtually all your districts have today, regardless of whether one - fifth or two - fifths of the ratings comes down to test scores.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

«I support a rigorous system of evaluation,» writes Tilles, who has great credentials, including service on two state Boards of Education, teaching at education schools of three universities, and being on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

NCATE claims to be improving the quality of teacher education through its stringent standards and rigorous system of evaluation.

While Duncan's arrival in Washington in early 2009 was followed by a national emphasis on refining teacher evaluation systems, his departure from Chicago marked a move away from the rigorous year one implementation of the EITP pilot.

Neither a licensure system nor evaluation alone can accomplish what these quality - control mechanisms can do if they are complementary and rigorous.

While this approach contrasts starkly with status quo «principal walk - through» styles of class observation, its use is on the rise in new and proposed evaluation systems in which rigorous classroom observation is often combined with other measures, such as teacher value - added based on student test scores.

Identify opportunities to participate in rigorous data collection and evaluation in your system

The waiver application contains the same commitments that all states seeking waivers were required to meet: implementing Common Core or other rigorous standards preparing students for college and careers, developing a teacher evaluation process that includes the results of local and state tests, and creating an accountability system that recognizes that success is more than students» test scores.

A: Every charter school must develop and implement a high - quality, rigorous educator evaluation system, which must be approved by their board of trustees (subject to the review and approval of the Commissioner).

To be eligible for that program, states had to adopt Common Core (or similarly rigorous standards and assessments), and they had to put into place teacher evaluation systems that use student test score growth as a «significant» part of both teacher and school principal evaluations.

Peter Dolton, professor of economics at the University of Sussex, who has recently carried out research on the cost - effectiveness of education systems, said the OECD was «right to suggest that there needs to be more rigorous evaluation of new education policy initiatives».

Rigorous evaluation studies investigating the impact of new funding systems following implementation

We have seen urban public schools successfully adopt many charter school «secrets,» including the nine - hour school day (e.g., United for Success Academies in Oakland); a rigorous, standard curriculum (e.g., the more than a dozen Chicago public schools that offer the International Baccalaureate); merit pay (e.g., the Washington, D.C., system); and the regular use of teacher video in professional development and evaluation (e.g., the Houston system, which was using video in this way as early as the 1980s).

School districts have a historic opportunity to redevelop their teacher evaluation systems to create aligned, rigorous, and fair processes that support teacher growth and development.

CEI works diligently with schools to ensure that their evaluation system is considered equitable and rigorous by stakeholders within their school communities.

As a founding member, he has recruited other reform - oriented teachers and become the group's most forceful advocate for inclusion of a rigorous teacher evaluation system in the new UTLA / LAUSD collective bargaining agreement.

Applying LEAs must detail their efforts to institute rigorous teacher and principal evaluation systems, data systems that specifically connect individual teachers with individual students, and data systems that compile student - level data from preschool through higher education.

At Cochiti, her students have averaged 1.4 years of reading growth and a 1.845 value - added growth score on the PARCC assessment, earning her the distinction of Highly Effective on the rigorous New Mexico teacher evaluation system.

Requires a rigorous and transparent teacher and principal evaluation system based on multiple criteria, including student achievement and classroom practice.

Whatever system is used, require that it be subject to rigorous outcome monitoring; that is, locally designed review and evaluation.

Thankfully, more school systems are instituting rigorous evaluations to understand how both students and teachers are performing.But, as in teaching, there is also always room for improvement in evaluation methods.

We hope the new Commissioner will take the lead in pushing for an evaluation system that is fair, rigorous, and focuses on helping teachers improve.

What's surprising in a new survey published today by 50CAN, a reform - oriented advocacy group that supports more rigorous teacher evaluations and early education, is the relatively lukewarm response to some of the most favored ideas for improving the school system among education advocates and many elected officials.

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

With the recent Race to the Top mandates, evaluation systems may be more rigorous than ever, though they often judge teachers by a rigidly and often inaccurate value - added measure of their effectiveness in raising test scores (Özek & Xu, 2015; Raudenbush, 2015).

Despite their efforts to gum up the works, higher standards, rigorous state tests and a teacher evaluation system remain in place in New York State.

But the program also has prompted a number of states to lift arbitrary caps on charter schools and, perhaps most importantly, has gotten 36 states and the District of Columbia to introduce more rigorous teacher - evaluation systems.