A group of classroom
teachers from schools with newly created teacher leadership positions told delegates how educators in the new positions are nurturing collaboration and professional growth among their colleagues.
The emerging consensus about effective professional development suggests that teachers need opportunities to work with colleagues who face similar challenges, including
other teachers from their schools and those who have similar teaching assignments.
One is the risk that ill - conceived policies will encourage districts to
move teachers from schools and classrooms where they are effective to situations when they are less effective.
I was recently in a middle school where language arts teachers from the host school along with the language
arts teachers from another school gathered together for an entire day.
Equally exciting, there are
now teachers from both schools making the short 3 mile trip to observe each other in the classroom and share good practice.
The next month, these ideas were brought to the larger group, which includes all principals and one assistant principal or
lead teacher from each school.
Let us avoid policies that will casually or reflexively strip - mine effective
teachers from some schools in order to push them into others, especially if this will hobble schools that have been working well.
Klein also said he had streamlined legal procedures to make it easier to fire teachers and end the «dance of the lemons,» the shuffling of
bad teachers from school to school.
This means if you are a school leader from a member school you could register for $ 425 and then bring 9
teachers from your school for $ 375 each — a savings of over $ 2,000 from the standard registration rates!
First, efforts to redistribute effective teachers may
shift teachers from schools and classrooms where they are effective to environments where they will be less effective.
Four times each year, administrators, principals and approximately five
teachers from each school team up and meet with teams from all schools across the district to discuss the problems they're facing in the classroom and how they can be solved.
To
remove teachers from your school's account so that they no longer appear on your Account Administration page (nor on your school's homepage), select the box next to the name of each teacher you wish to remove from your school's account.
A K - 8 school in the Syracuse City school district is offering students who take the math state test this week a chance at a drawing where they could win $ 50, according to an e-mail to
teachers from the school principal.
The net effect of growing charter schools, closing under - enrolled traditional public schools, and only hiring back the best and most
desired teachers from those schools is a true merit pay system.
We're really thrilled to be given the opportunity to meet with so many
science teachers from schools across the UK, and look forward to providing practical ideas to help them utilise their digital resources.»
For example, administrators and
teachers from each school undertook professional learning sessions with CESA's Learning and Technology Team to more fully understand how to use LiveTiles to improve student engagement and increase classroom productivity.
That leaves school managers with current practice, shifting poor -
performing teachers from school to school until they get the message and quit — a process known as «the dance of the lemons.»
In the spring, all the fourth grade
teachers from the school district received a copy of the lesson plans created by the university students and park staff along with a kit that included all the necessary materials for the unit.
Teachers from these schools self selected to be in the program and to participate in either the first or second year of the program although researchers sought a balance of grade levels taught, years of teaching experience, and school based information for each year.
, Bridgeport's «official» education budget cut $ 1 million and 14 special
education teachers from the school - based special education programs and cut more than $ 2.6 million dollars of the funds that are used to place those students with the greatest needs in the most appropriate settings, outside of the district.
Listen to their voices: On our new «What Teachers Are Saying» page,
teachers from school design teams that chose and adapted models to fit their schools, and the teachers working within those models this year talk about what an Opportunity Culture has meant to their lives, professionally and personally.
According to Ms. I, as part of the reorganization, the superintendent and associate superintendent subjected several of her good teachers to involuntary transfer and replaced them with
subpar teachers from the school of an African American principal.
This study uses applications - to - transfer data to examine separately which teachers apply for transfer and which get hired and, in so doing,
differentiates teacher from school preferences.
The worst is the effect on teachers and the teaching profession: the erosion of public support for them and their work, the image of teachers as under attack from every quarter, the plummeting applications to teachers colleges, the flight of
teachers from schools serving disadvantaged students and from the profession generally, the fall in teachers» salaries relative to those of others and the attacks on their benefits.