Sentences with phrase «teacher ongoing efforts»

Staying connected, interested, and involved in student / teacher ongoing efforts allows critical information to be shared.

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At the Buffalo news gathering, the governor mentioned ongoing efforts to revise tests but made no reference to teacher evaluations.

New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

What is needed is an increased effort among individual parents and teachers to establish an ongoing relationship, one that will allow them to successfully guide a child together, in a spirit of trust and cooperation.

But the research on effective professional development points more toward ongoing efforts that are school based and tied directly to teachers work.

The MET findings have a number of implications for ongoing efforts to provide more meaningful feedback to teachers:

As part of our ongoing effort to explore and promote citizenship education at AEI (see, for instance, here), we had the pleasure of convening an array of terrific charter school leaders and teachers in San Francisco yesterday.

Norby spoke to Education World about the Smithsonian's new education Web site, its annual Teachers» Night, and the Institution's ongoing efforts to foster partnerships between museums and schools.

There is recognition that high quality instruction is the key to improved student learning, and teachers and school leaders are engaged in ongoing efforts to understand and meet the needs of individual learners and to improve on current teaching practices.

Although it's tempting to continue with mentors who have a proven track record, selecting new mentors will ensure that additional successful teaching practices will be highlighted; that more teachers will be recognized for their ongoing efforts; and that more faculty members will be influenced by the program.

In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

The list of potential headaches for new teachers is long, starting with the ongoing, ideological fisticuffs over the Common Core State Standards, high - stakes testing and efforts to link test results to teacher evaluations.

At the same time, she facilitated ongoing improvement efforts mandated at the district level prior to her appointment (curriculum writing, implementation of a commercial mathematics program)-- collaborating with grade team and subject leaders, specialist teachers, and trainers provided by the externally developed mathematics program.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

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Highlights of this initiative include the development and support of a collaborative framework that empowers administrators, coaches, and teacher leaders as they work together; the creation and implementation of school - level action plans and follow - up activities that integrate ongoing school - based professional development activities; and the institution of leadership learning meetings to share implementation efforts.

Shortages are projected to grow based on declines in teacher education enrollments, coupled with student enrollment growth, efforts to reduce pupil - teacher ratios, and ongoing high attrition rates.

During the two - and - a-half hour session, «Teacher Evaluation In the Classroom,» attended by about 200 people, stakeholders affected by the ongoing reform effort shared their perspectives with the audience while answering questions from both moderator John Mooney, education writer and co-founder of New Jersey Spotlight magazine, and audience members comprised largely of concerned parents and educators.

When teachers are not strong in classroom management, they do not have the flexibility and skill to manage the range of learning tasks and organizational responsibilities needed to have a variety of tasks ongoing at the same time and may end up quitting such efforts after a few tries.

The report is certain to add fuel to the fire in the ongoing debate in California and elsewhere over how to measure teacher quality and the effort or resistance of some government bodies to tie teacher evaluations to standardized test scores.

She then presents a dilemma facing education systems now with the move to standardised practices: «Standards for teachers and students have the potential to deny educators the opportunities they need to develop their personal pedagogies which are the product of ongoing efforts to marry content and strategies together in a manner that is personally meaningful for both teacher and students.»

Teachers need ongoing support while they make efforts to develop and sustain effective technology integration.

In addition, schools need to implement ongoing staff development efforts, including instructional strategy workshops, self - study, teacher inquiry projects, and action research in the various content areas in the middle and high school curriculums.

Yet ongoing efforts to improve public education focus primarily on the role of teachers, principals, and superintendents and, to a lesser extent, on state and federal policymakers.

California's ongoing teacher shortage undermines its efforts to implement new standards, to improve learning, and to close achievement gaps.

This framework can be used to design professional development offerings, serve as a discussion tool to address the dilemmas that arise when leadership is shared and contribute to the ongoing dialogue about the roles teacher leaders assume in efforts to improve student learning.

The ongoing data collection and analysis helps teachers to really feel confident about what they are teaching, feel confident in knowing that they are really focusing their efforts on the needs of their students within a classroom.

As part of its ongoing effort to persuade Connecticut teachers to support Governor Malloy's bid for re-election, the CEA has sent out information to its members including a «Fact Sheet» called EXAMINE THE FACTS.

As parents, teachers and pro-public education allies have learned, these ongoing efforts to undermine public education are not coming from some wing - nut Teabag Republican but from Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy and his band of corporate education reform industry supporters.

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Clark Elementary School's parents, teachers and community have a right to know what is really going on behind the scenes in the ongoing effort to stifle parental involvement and hand Clark over to an out - of - state charter school company.

The question that arises over and over again is why Connecticut's elected and appointed public officials are engaged in their ongoing effort to undermine and privatize public education in Connecticut, denigrate teachers and turn our public schools into little more than taxpayer funded testing factories.

But rather than use the Duncan appearance as an opportunity to ensure that Connecticut's students, teachers and parents are properly represented, today's event will be just another celebration of the corporate education reform industry's ongoing efforts to destroy America's public education system.

This package of emails is yet another reminder of just how committed the Malloy administration has become in their effort to silence parents, teachers and public school advocates as part of their ongoing effort to push through their corporate education reform industry agenda.

Our hope is to advance ongoing efforts in global citizenship education towards greater rigor, depth and access as we advance the conversation on global education and provide resources which allow large scale collaborations among teachers in developing the tools we need to offer transformative learning opportunities to our students.

In an educational landscape where only 30 % of teachers say they receive timely and meaningful feedback, I would suggest that more leaders should make a concerted and ongoing effort to build a culture of feedback.

To the Democrats and Republicans who support the Corporate Education Reform Industry, the Common Core and its unfair, inappropriate and expensive Common Core Testing Scheme and the ongoing effort to destroy teachers and the teaching profession — we have a threat and a warning... and we repeat it as a pledge to Karen Lewis.

When participating in Lead Learn Excel, both instructional leaders and professional development providers will learn how to lead continuous quality improvement efforts in their program and how to facilitate ongoing, on - the - job learning with teachers to improve instruction.

Although Ohio has yet to define the exact scope of these pilots, part of this work will focus on supporting the state's ongoing efforts to keep highly effective teachers in the classroom while maximizing the impact of their talents through various leadership roles at LEAs.

As part of the ongoing effort to inform students, parents, teacher and Connecticut citizens about the absurd, unfair and inappropriate Common Core testing scheme, the Wait, What?

Teacher quality is an important school - level factor in student achievement (Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2005) and the focus of ongoing effort by policy makers and practitioners to ensure that all students have effective teachers throughout their school years.

The group is part of an ongoing and massive $ 40 million standards preparation effort that's been taking place across the Volunteer State for the last three years, during which more than 70,000 teachers have participated in multiple training sessions.

By selecting adaptations that are concrete and easy to implement, providing opportunities for ongoing dialogue about the implementation, and supporting teachers in their efforts to learn selected techniques, you can begin to change the practices of your general education colleagues (Gersten & Woodward, 1990).

As part of its ongoing Roundtable Series, NJ Spotlight on Saturday hosted a panel discussion on New Jersey's efforts to overhaul the way school districts evaluate teachers, principals and other staff.

The leaders of six home visiting programs, including the CEO of Parents as Teachers, Constance Gully, recently traveled to Capitol Hill to discuss ongoing efforts to reauthorize the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV).

The numbers were alarming enough to create the impetus for the SOS program, which will be an ongoing effort by teachers, school psychologists, social workers and outside clinicians trained in analyzing the screening data.

«By providing teachers with a comprehensive, intuitive platform that incorporates so many of the essential aspects of high quality teaching and learning, they're able to use insights from ongoing, formative assessment to provide more personalized instruction for every child, optimize their planning and reporting efforts and, most importantly, spend more time with those who matter most: the children.»

Additionally, there will be several parent nights offered, ongoing teacher training, and opportunities for the community to be engaged with and support these important efforts.