Sentences with phrase «teacher education reform strategy»

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They brought teachers and their unions to the table for discussions of education reform strategy and won their trust by listening hard to what the teachers had to say and then providing the needed support.

Within the exploration of school reform, participants considered topics including high quality teachers, national education reform, public / private partnerships, and implementation strategies.

It's great that more Americans are going to learn about promising education reform strategies, and the various ways that the teachers unions and the rest of the education blob tries to strangle them in their crib.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

Likewise in education, a more strategic compensation structure would tie teacher pay to education reform goals and strategies.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about whether teacher quality is eclipsing accountability and choice as a reform strategy and what role research plays in this.

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In «Statewide Approaches to Recruiting and Retaining Teachers: Employing Partnerships and Systemic Strategies for Addressing Critical Teacher Shortages,» the University of Cincinnati's Stephen Kroeger was joined by Mary Brownell, director of the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability, and Reform (CEEDAR) Center at the University of Florida, and Jessica Mercerhill, director of P - 16 initiatives at the Ohio Department of Higher Education.

Current education reform strategies amount to a Taylorist carrot and stick approach, resented by teachers, particularly the most thoughtful ones.

This is, indeed, a «war on teacher tenure» that, funded by this «latest batch of tech tycoons... follows in the footsteps of a long line of older magnates, from the Carnegies and Rockefellers to Walmart's Waltons, who have also funneled their fortunes into education - reform projects built on private - sector management strategies.»

Green says that «the Connecticut Education Association is at war with Gov. Malloy over his education reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the statEducation Association is at war with Gov. Malloy over his education reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the stateducation reform strategy,» that Malloy is only trying to «convince taxpayers, parents and teachers that his plan is a moderate, unified effort to improve schools» and that the «CEA is telling teachers that the strategy is a threat to every teacher in the state.»

The study — being billed as the first scientific study in the U.S. of teacher performance pay — is only the latest blow to merit pay, which the Obama administration continues to advocate as part of its education reform strategy.

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SEDL's policy research focused on the following school reform strategies as they played out in selected states and local districts: resource allocation in local districts, teacher mentoring, policymaker participation in community dialogues on education reform, and the charter school as a policy instrument affecting school - site influence over education reform.

I would also contend that giving schools greater flexibility and empowering our teachers to teach would be a more powerful strategy to make public education a success than many of the so - called education reforms.

A teacher, analyst and product of public education, she designs custom reform strategies that help educators and administrators increase equity while maximizing school performance.

IEL staff Helen Janc Malone and Reuben Jacobson contributed to a recent book and highlighted strategies community schools use to flip the system and empower teachers to redesign equity - driven education reform.

Michael Morton — the new Communications Manager who recently transferred from Texas to take on the task of explaining to Connecticut voters why charter schools, privatization and Malloy's damaging education reform strategies are what Connecticut's students, parents, teachers and public schools need to ensure a better future.

Malone and Jacobson's chapter, «Supporting and Empowering Teachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships,» highlights strategies and practices that community schools use to flip the system and empower teachers to redesign an equity - driven approach to educationTeachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships,» highlights strategies and practices that community schools use to flip the system and empower teachers to redesign an equity - driven approach to educationteachers to redesign an equity - driven approach to education reform.

As both a former teacher and a MBA, I'm struck these days by two things: first, the ubiquity of «business thinking» in today's education reform strategies; and second, the complete absence of the sort of business thinking we actually need to be heeding.

Despite the cacophony over the Common Core State Standards, new assessments, teacher evaluation, portfolio districts, and other hot - button issues, education leaders are bearing down ever harder on tried - and - true school reform strategies.

In his latest column entitled, Already Feeling Squeezed As I Attempt to «Align» With Common Core, Barth Keck provides a direct view into the challenges facing teachers and the chaos being created by the corporate education reform industry and their elected and appointed lackeys who are implementing their strategies.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.

There she oversaw the implementation of K - 12 reform efforts, supervised or presented workshops aimed at retooling teachers to address student behavior, promoting literacy instruction through strategies based on evidence - based practices, and engaging parents in their children's education.