The bill appears to provide for broad disclosure
of teacher and principal evaluations to parents and would also require school districts to notify parents of their right to view the information.
Her research has focused on policies intended to improve educator effectiveness such
as teacher and principal evaluation, pay - for - performance, and intensive professional development.
Those reforms include «college - and career - ready standards,» targeted intervention in low - performing schools and
new teacher and principal evaluations — that include student test score data.
State of the states: Evaluating teaching, leading, and learning; and American Institutes for Research (AIR) Center on Great Teachers & Leaders Databases on State Teacher and Principal Evaluation Policies
The goal of EPAC is to collaborate with and advise the NJDOE throughout implementation of the EE4NJ
teacher and principal evaluation pilots, providing feedback about issues and challenges and issuing recommendations on the development and implementation of a statewide evaluation system based on:
The renewals will allow states to continue their work implementing accountability systems that target the lowest - performing schools and schools with the biggest achievement gaps and
implementing teacher and principal evaluation and support systems.
That being not enough, he then decreed that states could apply for flexibility waivers to get out of the terrible mandates of NCLB as long as they agreed to the terrible mandates of Arne Duncan: to adopt the Common Core state standards, the common core national tests,
link teacher and principal evaluations to standardized test scores, and, instead of all students being «proficient» by 2014, assure that all students will be «college ready» by 2020.
Today, the New York State Education Department made available a detailed data file for the 2012 - 2013
teacher and principal evaluation results for all districts except New York City (which did not begin its teacher evaluation program until the 2013 - 14 school year).
In exchange for relief, the administration is requiring a quid pro quo: States must adopt changes that include
meaningful teacher and principal evaluation systems, make sure all students are ready for college or careers, upgrade academic standards and lift up their lowest - performing schools.
Her expertise includes assessment design, coaching, Danielson's Framework for Teaching, the development of highly effective teams, the successful design and implementation of effective
teacher and principal evaluation plans, including the implementation of the Performance Evaluation Reform Act (PERA).
In his letter, Duncan expressed his disappointment in the failure of Washington state's legislature to heed his instruction «to put in
place teacher and principal evaluation and support systems that take into account information on student learning growth based on high - quality college - and career - ready (CCR) state assessments as a significant factor in determining teacher and principal performance levels.»
She attributed the dramatic progress to three pieces of legislation passed in the run - up to round two: laws that created new
teacher and principal evaluations based in part on student progress, alternative teacher and principal certification, and improvements to the state's data system.
In December the state Board of Regents passed a moratorium putting a hold on the use of the third - through eighth - grade test scores on
teacher and principal evaluations through the 2019 - 2020 school year.
The session, at Spackenkill High School, was filled with parents and teachers opposed to King's policy agenda, including the state's rush to the Common Core standards, high - stakes Common Core tests and
teacher and principal evaluations tied to those tests.
Meanwhile, the nine California districts seeking flexibility from the law's requirements just resubmitted their waiver application after spending weeks revising it to address the department's questions related to their
proposed teacher and principal evaluation plan and school improvement system.
«But to get our waiver renewed for next year, the Department of Education was clear: The Legislature needed to amend state law to
require teacher and principal evaluations to include student growth on state tests, when appropriate.
The worst thing we could do at this time
with teacher and principal evaluations related to student achievement, even though I think it is the Holy Grail of school reform, is to impose any version from Washington.
Carol Conklin - Spillane of the Empire State School Administrators Association speaks during a learning summit on
teacher and principal evaluation at the New York State Museum on Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Albany, N.Y.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today detailed an agreement to guarantee every school district has a
permanent teacher and principal evaluation system in place by June 1st.