Sentences with phrase «stakes for educators»

This time, however, there are higher stakes for educators, since many states and districts are tying student test performance to teacher evaluation — which largely misses the boat.

Not exact matches

UFT President Michael Mulgrew informed the April 15 Delegate Assembly of developments at a federal level that could provide long - term relief for students and educators fed up with high - stakes testing.

Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.

We live in a stressful world, and the stress is heightened for students and educators when it's time to prepare for high - stakes tests.

Educators then need to adopt processes — such as discovery - driven innovation — for testing, iterating, and refining their blended - learning models in low - cost, low - stakes ways before taking them to scale across a school or district.

This was a only a small - scale study, but that didn't stop Rothstein from drawing the far - fetched conclusion that «educators have a stake in promoting a federal income policy that focuses on immediate income support for the unemployed, because this in itself could make instruction more effective.»

Some use these tests to create «high stakes» for students (preventing them from advancing to the next grade or graduating) or for educators (taking over underperforming schools, requiring the schools to accept external assistance, or simply shaming them by identifying them as poor schools).

He said, «In the present environment of high stakes testing, budgetary challenges, increased demands on educators and competition for students attention, everyone in the school benefits when humor is part of the pedagogy.

Behavior issues are typically high on the list of school problems educators talk about each year, but often not as high on the list of professional development topics school administrators stake out for the staff.

In this era of No Child Left Behind, the elephant in the room is high - stakes testing, which holds educators and students accountable for test scores.

Although 11 educators were convicted of cheating on state tests (and it would likely have been 12 if not for the death of former Superintendent Beverly Hall), the city made remarkable improvements on low - stakes measures of educational progress such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

The challenge for educators and policymakers will be to develop a system that captures the obvious benefits of high - stakes testing as a means of providing incentives while minimizing the possible distortions that these measures induce.

Educators and policymakers seek the right formula to promote achievement and improvement, and the stakes are high for students, teachers, and school districts alike.

High Stakes Testing and No Child Left Behind: Information and Strategies for Educators.

Who We Are DQC strives to ensure that everyone with a stake in education — especially families and educators — can access and use quality student data to raise achievement for all students.

It's time to hit the «pause button» on high stakes while, at the same time, increasing support for students, parents and educators.

BOSTON (Reuters)- U.S. educators on Wednesday endorsed a Harvard University - developed proposal to reform college admissions by relying less on high - stakes tests, and more on teens demonstrating a passion for learning and long - term volunteer projects.

Beset by lists of content standards and accompanying «high - stakes» accountability tests, many educators sense that both teaching and learning have been redirected in ways that are potentially impoverishing for those who teach and those who learn.

The stakes — the voices of those who work with children daily, the building of educators» capacities to care fully and advocate for those they teach, the valuing of teaching as a profession — have rarely been higher.

NASSP shares the position of many educators who are concerned that pay - for - performance plans will consider only high - stakes tests and disregard other important school and student performance factors.

By producing a growth measure for each student that is predictive of performance on high stakes tests and, for the first time, deeply connected to instructional resources in the core curriculum, the strategic partnership gives educators more time and support to focus on differentiating instruction.

In this age of federal mandates for high - stakes assessment and accountability, educators need easily accessed data that will help them predict if all students are on - track to meet grade level expectations.

While the Indiana Department of Education's Office of School Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the school over.

Parents and educators alike have increasingly lashed out against the high number of standardized tests students must take, the high stakes attached to those test results, and the narrowed curriculum that occurs when schools are held accountable for students» test results in only two or three subjects.

Miami, FL — November 19, 2014 Students, alumni, educators and parents represented the Dade Coalition for Education and Economic Justice at a meeting with the Miami - Dade School Board in an effort to end high - stakes testing and call for all low - performing schools to be transformed into sustainable community schools.

Still showing outward public collaboration with the Gates Foundation, funder of ill - conceived high stakes testing and teacher evaluation policies, continued to prompt parents to opt their children out of standardized tests and by this time, the punitive practices imbued by these policies have sent invaluable educators leaving the profession or fighting for MORE.

In almost every state in the United States, and in many countries around the world, there is serious policy and political focus on standards - based reform and the use of increasingly «high - stakes» assessments for students and, in turn, for educators responsible for student performance.

The Web site of Marylanders Against High - Stakes Testing (www.geocities.com/stophsa) is also a strong resource for educators interested in advocating against current assessment policies.

NEW YORK — On October 9th at 4:00 p.m, activists from all over the city will gather at UFT headquarters to protest the emphasis on high - stakes testing that education advocates denounce for harming students, educators, and public schools.

A recent survey initiated by State Board of Education Chair Donna Bahorich, and to which over 27,000 educators, members of the public, and even students responded, indicates that there is very little support for our current system of high - stakes testing.

To millions of parents and educators nationwide, the implementation of Common Core still fits that image of confused people with measuring sticks because Common Core and the high stakes tests that have come along with it have created more anxiety and confusion for students and teachers alike than ever before.

«Collective bargaining rights allow educators, like me, to speak up for their students on important issues such as class sizes and high - stakes standardized tests,» said CTA President Eric C. Heins.

Moreover, one might wonder whether the threat conditions we've created for many schools with high - stakes accountability are serving us well, or if it may be time to begin to reframe accountability in terms of a challenge condition that encourages educators to harness their collective ingenuity to create better learning environments for all students.

Early childhood experts have questioned the competition's emphasis on assessment, fearing it could lead to high - stakes testing of young children, make unfair employment decisions for early educators based on test results, and detract from the importance of play and exploratory learning.

We urge educators working in states that have yet to add edTPA to the list of teacher licensure requirements to resist pressures to accept what might appear to be an inevitable change, and encourage those who, like us, work in states that have adopted the edTPA as a high - stakes assessment instrument, to lobby for its elimination as a mandated licensure requirement.

Cruz, WEAC member and president of the Racine Education Association, which represents hundreds of educators in the district, and a coalition of several other public education stakeholders, including students, parents, and community leaders, have asked the Board of Education for an audit of all the high - stakes standardized tests district students are required to take.

Achieve3000's ongoing and embedded assessments empower educators to monitor students» success — and forecast their readiness for today's high - stakes assessments!

Similarly, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), which is arguably the leading international educator organization comprised of 125,000 members in more than 130 nations, also recently released a policy brief that also calls for a two - year moratorium on high stakes use of state tests — including their use for educator evaluations.

However, in order for educators and policymakers to be candid about how well a system of inputs and processes is working, states ought to think carefully about what, if any, stakes are attached to the results.

The ASA, in its attempt to provide guidance, identified problems with the current use of VAM for educator evaluation and raised important questions about the potential effects of high stakes use of VAM for educator evaluation:

We partnered with TNTP to design a solution to provide Nevada's best and brightest educators a no - cost and low - stakes opportunity to determine if school leadership is right for them.

Without establishing collective stakes in the efforts — and rewards — of data - driven decision - making, educators will struggle to affect the kind of real, comprehensive institutional changes that establish the conditions of possibility for student improvement.

That no educator should be disciplined for discussing with students, parents or community members the options for opting students out of high - stakes tests.

No longer is the school day just about preparing for high stakes testing — social and emotional learning has moved to the forefront of the education landscape and educators have an increased awareness that when kids feel safe, have healthy connections with others and can understand and manage emotions, the stage is set, not only for an improvement in academics, but also for changes that impact lifelong success.

Changes associated with tenure and educator effectiveness have increased the stakes for teachers and administrators as it relates to teacher evaluation.

When combined with frameworks, rubrics, and high - stake consequences, the nature of teacher evaluation has dramatically changed, and narratives from educators across the United States document that it has changed for the worse.»

Highlights of this interactive webinar include how educators can ensure students get daily practice for high - stakes assessments without disrupting core instruction; how to build literacy across the content areas and engage all teachers in reading instruction; and how a blended approach can extend learning beyond the school day for even greater time on task.

The stakes are high for educators who want a voice in working and learning conditions, noted ISEA President Tammy Wawro in a recent video.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).