Sentences with phrase «teacher equity strategy»

For example, «Florida prohibits districts from disproportionately assigning poorly performing and out - of - field teachers to the lowest performing schools... Done well, the Department's teacher equity strategy can make this kind of leadership the rule rather than the exception.»

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Her research interests are related to the effective technology - use in education, equity issues in STEM Education, and sustainable professional development strategies for teachers.

This brief from The Teacher Salary Project summarizes how teacher salary strategies were included in 24 of the 2015 state equityTeacher Salary Project summarizes how teacher salary strategies were included in 24 of the 2015 state equityteacher salary strategies were included in 24 of the 2015 state equity plans.

The portfolio strategy is not a distraction from discussions about supporting great teachers and advancing equity.

Here are a few specific teaching strategies that elementary teachers can use to promote student engagement and foster classroom equity.

Cooperative learning strategies are perhaps one of the simplest ways teachers can effectively keep their students engaged while promoting equity in the classroom.

The excerpt below, taken from my recent book, Reaching and Teaching Students in Poverty: Strategies for Erasing the Opportunity Gap (Teachers College Press, 2013), describes what I call Equity Literacy, a framework first used by my super-genius colleague, Katy Swalwell, to describe a kind of literacy youth should learn in school.

School - and community - based teams — including school leaders, teachers, middle and high school students, counselors, parent leaders or coordinators, and nonprofit partners — will practice useful and transferable strategies that strengthen cross-sector school - community leadership and engage in conversations on race, class, and equity.

Armed with a mandate to foster excellence and equity, Klein prioritized four strategies: establish the Three C's (centralized control stripped of bureaucratic inefficiencies; a coherent citywide curriculum; and capacity - building for teachers), dramatically expand school choice, empower principals by coupling increased autonomy with strict accountability, and catalyze innovation.

Listeners can expect to hear discussions about principal leadership, teacher leadership and effectiveness, student engagement, best practices for professional learning, assessment strategies, poverty and equity, and many more key subjects.

Respectfully, Action United Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Alliance for Multilingual Multicultural Education American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education American Association of State Colleges and Universities American Federation of Teachers ASPIRA Association Association of University Centers on Disabilities Autistic Self Advocacy Network Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network California Association for Bilingual Education California Latino School Boards Association Californians for Justice Californians Together Campaign for Fiscal Equity Campaign for Quality Education Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning Center for Teaching Quality Citizens for Effective Schools Coalition for Educational Justice Council for Exceptional Children Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Easter Seals ELC, Education Law Center FairTest, The National Center for Fair & Open Testing Higher Education Consortium for Special Education Justice Matters Latino Elected and Appointed Officials National Taskforce on Education Lawyers» Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Learning Disabilities Association of America Los Angeles Educational Partnership Movement Strategy Center NAACP National Alliance of Black School Educators National Center for Learning Disabilities National Council for Educating Black Children National Council of Teachers of English National Disability Rights Network National Down Syndrome Congress National Down Syndrome Society National Education Association National Latino / a Education Research and Policy Project National League of United Latin American Citizens Parent - U-Turn Parents for Unity Philadelphia Education Fund Public Advocates Inc..

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Officials said they would come up with a «50 - state strategy» to tackle teacher equity instead by much earlier this year, but advocacy groups including The Education Trust said the department was allowing states to sweep teacher quality gaps under the rug.

From the beginning, the project executed a formula for success that combined equity principles and specific strategies to confront the teacher shortage and quality challenges facing Texas schools.

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

Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY $ 150,000 over one year for operational support of the Campaign for Educational Equity to research and analyze policy strategies for developing sustainable financing for high - quality, universal preschool in New York State across diverse program settings.

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.

Two years in a row, teachers responded that they desperately wanted the type of training that Equity & Diversity University provides (i.e. explicit conversations around implicit bias, racism and systemic oppression, culturally responsive classrooms, family engagement strategies).

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.

In 2011, we helped organize a broad coalition of partners, including the Oakland Education Association (OEA), SEIU Local 1021, Youth UpRising, National Equity Project, California Teachers Association, Urban Strategies Council, Oakland Parents Together, Bay Area Parent Leadership Action Network (PLAN), Oakland Schools Foundation, and Teach for America to support AB 609 to reverse millions of dollars in audit fines to OUSD incurred during the period of state administration.

Ray Pecheone, co-director of the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity, calls the paper «a «must read» for anyone interested in balancing and aligning formative and summative assessment and looking for new ideas and strategies that are practical, smart, and provocative, and that can change the face of accountability and student learning — putting teachers and students at the center of reform.»

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.