AP: This process has enabled me to have hundreds of conversations
with teachers around the state, to get some real insights into the conditions that are faced by our students and teachers on a daily basis, in very grounded, concrete ways.
Each summer, the district provides a «boot camp» for first - year
immersion teachers around the state, in which they learn how to teach content and manage students in immersion classrooms.
The educators honored today represent the thousands of
great teachers around the state who are dedicated to preparing students for college and a future career.»
Julie Doyle, a teacher in Jefferson County, Colo., holds up a sign while marching with
fellow teachers around the State Capitol during a rally Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Denver.
In addition, during the moratorium year, the state Department of Education should seek feedback on the TEAM model
from teachers around the state and make necessary changes as it relates to common core.
As teachers around the state are writing, emailing, and calling their legislators, asking them to pass a bill to permanently decouple SBAC from their evaluations, the committee that advises the State Board of Education on educator evaluations is still meeting to discuss revisions to other parts of the evaluation guidelines.
Teachers around the state already have raised complaints about the governor's agenda in local meetings, letters - to - the - editor and other forums, but Tuesday's rally allowed them share their opinions directly — and loudly — with lawmakers gathered in Indianapolis for the 2011 legislative session.
Kelli Gauthier, a spokeswoman for the state's Education Department, wrote in an e-mail that the state spent a year developing the evaluation system after consulting administrators and
teachers around the state.