Sentences with phrase «teacher evaluation reforms begin»

Only then will teacher evaluation reforms begin to impact teachers» professional growth and, ultimately, students» learning.

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We are at the very beginning stages of teacher evaluation reform.

As statewide teacher - evaluation laws, Common Core implementation, tougher assessments, and other reforms really begin influencing suburbia, the ed - reform debate is going to seriously evolve.

Real reform can only begin when we deepen the conversation of teacher and leader practice from a focus on evaluation checklists and labels to what is needed to affect change: time and resources to focus on what truly matters higher levels of student achievement.

Her answer points to what has been a major problem in teacher evaluation for decades, a problem recent education reforms are now beginning to address.

Race to the Top began in 2009, requiring states interested in competing for a slice of $ 4.35 billion in stimulus money to prepare plans that satisfied the Obama administration's education - reform criteria, which include the growth of charter schools and linking student standardized test scores to teacher evaluations.

Today, U.S. Secretary Arnie Duncan and Governor Dan Malloy will be holding a press conference about «education reform» and the Connecticut legislation that increases the number of standardized tests, seeks to improve test scores and begins the process of tying test scores to teacher evaluations so that administrators can determine which teachers to keep and which to let go.

And, at a recent education reform summit he convened earlier this month, as he began to get to the crux of his speech on how he plans to tackle the highly controversial teacher evaluation issue, the sound equipment cut out.

Put that data point together with this survey just released by Education Sector, and a picture begins to emerge where teachers are beginning to embrace some reforms focused on the profession such as «evaluation, pay, and tenure, and the role of unions in pushing for or against these reforms.»