Sentences with phrase «teacher evaluation piece»

Our interest was only in the teacher evaluation piece with respect to Race to the Top... It seemed that the charter piece was not a critical part of the Race to the Top application itself.

No Child Left Behind was not great for us either, but certainly Race to the Top» ratcheted everything up, because it became clear that for districts in need to get money that they would have to make all these kinds of measure and punish ideas that they'd put across, like the teacher evaluation piece and all of that.

Not exact matches

In addition to 2012 - 13 being the final school year before the largest piece of the comprehensive elementary redistricting plan is put into action, there's also a new state - mandated teacher evaluation system in place.

Ravitch has a piece in The New York Review of Books this month arguing against this kind of reliance on teacher evaluations.

Making teacher evaluations more dependent on test scores, reforming tenure and adding charter schools in the city were all priorities of StudentsFirstNY and became significant pieces of the governor's agenda for the 2015 legislative session, which he announced in his State of the State speech on Jan. 21.

In a recent New York Times opinion piece even Bill Gates, a harsh critic of the old system of teacher evaluation, cautions against shaming educators by publishing teacher scores in the media.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

In this piece, I attempt to assess what went right, what went wrong, and what we can learn from the Obama administration's efforts to improve teacher evaluation systems.

Secondly, the negotiation with the teachers union and the subsequent ratification of that agreement by the Regents and by the legislature, putting into place the teacher / principal evaluation piece.

Colorado enacted the single most important piece of legislation to come out of the RTT process — its remarkable Senate Bill 191 (arduously carried by Mike Johnston) which overhauled teacher evaluation and tenure and introduced a smart statewide framework for gauging teacher performance.

The evaluations are upwards of 20 pages for ineffective teachers, with three «pieces of evidence» required for dozens of indicators.

In my piece I cited a randomized controlled trial of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), which provided competitive grants for districts to revamp their evaluation and compensation systems.

Proponents of the tests, and of the teacher evaluations now attached to them, usually argue that the tests should be one piece of an evaluation of student performance that includes formative tests, too, and that teachers should also be graded on classroom observations and lesson planning.

But he said one piece, the specific language describing what level of student growth would rate as a four versus a three versus a two, still is being fine - tuned among officials representing the Oregon Education Association, the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators, the state education agency and the Chalkboard Project, a Portland - based nonprofit that has helped many school districts pioneer new approaches to teacher evaluation.

«That piece about student achievement and teacher evaluation, and doing all those things in a collaborative way, I don't think anybody else has got them all together,» said Roger A. Erskine, the executive director of the Seattle Education...

RI: Our buy - in was built around the [teacher] evaluation language, not around the charter school piece.

A key piece of the state's Race to the Top plan is to overhaul teacher evaluations.

A central piece of Maryland's application is a new state law and regulations that require new teacher and principal evaluations, half of which will be based on growth in student achievement, said William Reinhard, the spokesman for the Maryland education department.

A key piece of reform that falls into the latter category involves the ever - changing Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES).

As I wrote in the Brookings piece, teacher compensation, working conditions, and even evaluation may all matter for the quantity and quality of the teacher supply, but seem to me have been unjustifiably neglected.

«The last piece is professional development, and we're building that collectively, as there is a process where the teachers will come together and share their evaluation of the classroom.»

As usual frankb1 presents only part of the truth Here's another piece of what Kein wrote in addressing Randi Wiengarten's ideas for better teacher evaluations:

Time - Saving Teacher Evaluation Solutions Put all the pieces together with these tactics from the nation's top principals.

Although the use of test scores remains the most controversial piece of the evaluations, it remains to be seen how the main portion of the evaluations, which are based on intensive, time - consuming qualitative measures of a teacher's performance, will affect schools and classrooms.

And read this piece by Thomas Toch in the Atlantic describing some practical, lasting effect of the Obama Administration's work to bring commonsense to teacher evaluation.

The data — resulting from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative and teacher and principal evaluations, to start — can seem like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that must be ordered in a way that feels cohesive, and then ultimately benefits children.

• The other six recipients — Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Georgia (the last of which had a piece of its grant taken away for slipping up on, you guessed it, teacher evaluation) are at least partway there, GAO found.

It is the most critical piece of making this support and evaluation tool work to push teachers to improve their practice and share insights into teaching and learning.

«If the goal is truly to improve the quality of the teachers and not just punish people, how do you move this through without the evaluation piece in place?»

The focus of this report is on one piece of this very large set of transformations: the multiple measures and multiple methods used in new teacher evaluation systems, including the weighting of these measures, to determine a composite score of teacher effectiveness.

See also my story on the board meeting yesterday (Zimmer Postpones His Teacher Evaluation Proposal), as well as a piece in The Atlantic (Chicago Teachers Strike Puts Charter Schools in the Spotlight).

Thank you for helping get the Global Awareness piece of the teacher evaluation checked off in a meaningful way!»

Mark Zuckerberg, fresh from his disastrous $ 100 million investment in Newark schools (The Best Posts & Articles For Learning About Newark's $ 100 Million From Facebook) has decided he wants his own piece of the teacher evaluation business.

Though part of the initial Common Core «package» that was pushed on states by the Obama administration, teacher unions fought back against the evaluation piece.

Anyhow, in this piece author Ehrenfreuend discusses with Rothstein teacher evaluation and teacher tenure.

The Washington Post editorial board has also supported test - based teacher evaluation, including in this piece on the strike.

In her commentary piece last week, public education advocate Wendy Lecker returned to the issue of Governor Dannel Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman's unfair, inappropriate and fundamentally flawed teacher evaluation system.

When you take a break from digging out from the «Great Blizzard of 2013,» I strongly urge you to take a moment today to read Heart Newspaper columnist and fellow blogger, Wendy Lecker's, latest commentary piece entitled «Connecticut's teacher evaluation plan — even worse than we thought.»

NECSN President Bill Phillips is quoted in this piece on New York's teacher evaluations in this June 7 piece from Governing.

This is in stark contradiction to authors» claims throughout this piece, for example, when they write «Structured teacher observations, as integral components of teacher evaluations, are poised to be a very powerful lever for changing principal leadership and the influence of principals on schools, teachers, and learning.»

In a recent commentary piece, Jeffrey Villar, Executive Director of the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, praises the Connecticut State Board of Education's support for using student SBAC results in teacher evaluations.

In this commentary piece she lays out why the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) testing system fails to provide accurate and useable information about student performance, why it should not be used as part of an effective teacher evaluation system and why Connecticut's elected officials should defund the SBAC testing madness and use those funds to help address Connecticut's budget crisis.

As you read Littman's piece, remember that these are the same people who have forced the Common Core on our children, promoted the absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core testing scheme and the equally absurd, unfair and wasteful new teacher evaluation program.

Video takes the angst out of evaluation because it gives teachers and their observers a common, objective piece of evidence on which to base their conversation.

Legislators also cut millions requested for new charter schools and teacher evaluation and training — other key pieces of the reform bill.

HB 198, as introduced, was a more complicated piece of legislation seemingly modeled after the evaluation and salary system devised by Dallas ISD, the Teacher Excellence Initiative.

Now, when issues like test - based teacher evaluations arise, Duncan is quick to stress that they're just «one piece of a puzzle,» and that «multiple measures» should be used to review teacher performance.

Kantrowitz's latest piece examines the significant problems associated with the faulty teacher evaluation programs that are being pushed by the corporate education reform industry and their political allies.

To get a piece of the billions authorized for the federal School Turnaround Grant program, states must ensure that districts use one of four strategies for each target school: fire the principal and at least one - half of the staff; reopen the school as a charter school; close the school and transfer students to better schools in the district; or fire the principal and overhaul teacher evaluation, schedules, and instruction (U.S. Department of Education, 2009).

As you read Peter Greene's piece on Cuomo, recall Malloy's unprecedented assault on teachers and the teaching profession and the failure of the Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly to derail Malloy's unfair, inappropriate and counter-productive initiatives on teacher evaluation and the massive expansion of the Common Core Standardized Testing scheme.