Sentences with phrase «teacher policy issues»

Specifically, she takes a comparative and international approach to examining teacher policy issues that influence student learning and behavior.

Debra Viadero is an assistant managing editor at Education Week, where she oversees coverage of education research, curriculum, assessment, and college - and career - ready standards, as well as teaching and teacher policy issues.

Since joining Education Week in 2010, she has covered curriculum, instruction, state standards, and teacher policy issues as a reporter, and served as the associate editor for Education Week Teacher.

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The briefing, entitled «STEM 101: Major Policy Issues for the 115th Congress,» featured expert panelists Dr. David Evans of the National Science Teachers Association, Allyson Knox of Microsoft, Dr. Norman Fortenberry of the American Society for Engineering Education, Domenic Giandomenico of -LSB-...]

She also found a position as an online English teacher at Education First, a policy and consulting agency focused on educational issues.

This is another place where school boards should step up — to give teachers contractual guarantees that they can speak freely on policy issues without fear of repercussions, or at least to provide avenues for anonymous (but publicly accessible) commentary on policy issues.

This policy brief outlines the reasons educators need to learn more about adoption issues, explains the negative consequences of a lack of knowledge, and proposes steps that teachers, schools, curriculum developers and institutions of higher education can make progress toward placing all children and families on a level playing field in the classroom and beyond.

«I'd say, for he and I, in this last year, there hasn't been many really policy issues where we've actually disagreed,» he finally said, noting that the two had split over teacher evaluations.

NYSUT argues the SED policy prevents teachers from raising issues with state testing out of fear of reprisal.

Tuesday evening, CUNY Institute for Education Policy (CIEP) will host a one - on - one conversation with the President of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), Michael Mulgrew: «This unscripted conversation will cover a wide range of pressing issues facing New York State's teachers and their studentsTeachers (UFT), Michael Mulgrew: «This unscripted conversation will cover a wide range of pressing issues facing New York State's teachers and their studentsteachers and their students.»

Paterson tried to force the tax cap issue by including it in his last budget extender bill, (much to the pleasure of both AG Andrew Cuomo, who is also a cap supporter; and Long Island Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson), which theoretically would have made the Legislature choose between accepting an unpopular (at least among Assembly Democrats and the teachers» unions) policy proposal and shutting down the government.

Education policy issues are due to dominate the legislative session once again next year after lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to changes in the state's teacher evaluation the state's teachers unions deeply opposed in part due to the weakening of tenure and making it harder to obtain.

This policy is a dangerous distraction from the really important issues of funding and teacher supply and it should be consigned to history.»

The two warring sides in the education battle — Cuomo and the teachers union — have reached something of a détente, at least when it comes to policy issues.

Beginning at 9:00 pm host Gary Axelbank will talk with Peter Murphy, the Policy Director of the New York Charter School Association, and Dr. Jessica Shiller of the Department of Middle and High School Education at Lehman College about student performance, a cap on the number of charter schools, funding, teacher's union issues, and more.

The vote comes just days after a task force appointed by Cuomo quietly issued a report that also recommended a reversal of the new teacher evaluation policy.

Beyond Satisfactory: A New Teacher Evaluation System for New York Educators for Excellent (E4E), 2011 After five months of research and debate, E4E's Evaluation Policy Team issued this report detailing an evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would recommend.

The public sector unions have tangled with Cuomo over all sorts of policy issues — from creation of a teacher performance evalution system and Tier 6 to his refusal to reinstate the so - called millionaire's tax (later assuaged by an overhaul of the state's entire tax code).

Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, Cazenovia businessman Steve Wells and Binghamton teacher George Phillips have showed few differences on major policy issues, but there was no shortage of friction.

Whether he will weigh in on the issue that is most on the minds of many teachers and parents — the controversy over the Common Core and other education reform policies — is an open question.

Zooming outward, Cuomo's education proposals were largely free of the contentious policy issues that characterized the budget process last year, including changes to teacher evaluations and tenure.

London About Blog This blog has been established to provide research informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.The aim is to produce and promote articles that attract policy - makers, parents, teachers, educational leaders, members of school communities, politicians, and anyone who is interested in education today.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said in a BBC interview that «leadership is absolutely critical» in addressing this issue, ad that behavior policies can succeed «even in the most challenging areas» if head teachers are willing to get involved.

Most of the issues about which they have concerns — whether it's standards, assessments, teacher evaluation, or something else — are policies developed at the state or federal level.

This issue is at the heart of transformational teaching — finding ways to move effective educational practices and initiatives past the tipping point into the realm where teachers, administrators, and policy makers acknowledge their positive impact and agree on the need to integrate them into school systems.

By 2011, the governing bodies of both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers had issued new policy statements on teacher evaluation.

«I hope that through these conversations, teachers will feel empowered to have a voice around policy issues that affect their students» futures.»

In the International Education Policy (IEP) Program, you will explore some of the most challenging issues facing teachers and learners worldwide — how to educate students in refugee camps; how to improve girls education in Afghanistan; how to deliver effective HIV / AIDS education in Malawi; how to help young people develop the skills they need in the 21st century — and be constantly challenged and asked, «What would you do?»

It includes a sample discipline policy statement, techniques for improving lesson delivery, a questionnaire for assessing school discipline problems, a pretest teachers can use to assess their ability to diagnose and prevent discipline problems, and an entire section spelling out the legal parameters of many discipline issues.

Intended to give education leaders actionable intelligence on the teacher - recruitment landscape today, the stories examine both larger policy issues and more discrete school human resource practices.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

1) Urging and preparing top classroom teachers to weigh in on the implementation of controversial policy issues.

Fordham Institute Executive Vice President Mike Petrilli served as moderator, and he was joined by panelists Sandi Jacobs, Vice President and Managing Director for State Policy, National Council on Teacher Quality; Alice Johnson Cain, Vice President for Policy, Teach Plus; Chet Linton, CEO and President, School Improvement Network; and Rob Well, Director of Field Programs, Educational Issues Department, American Federation of Teachers.

This particular teacher is not at our school, but they follow the same policy of suggesting meetings only for those who have issues needing to be discussed.

On four issues — Common Core, charter schools, tax credits, and merit pay for teachers — the poll examines whether President Trump's endorsement of a policy has a polarizing effect on public opinion by telling half of the sample the president's position while not supplying this information to the other.

Joan Baratz - Snowden, the vice president for education policy and reform, has become the deputy director of the educational - issues department at the American Federation of Teachers.

96, Ed.D.» 01, is a leading expert on global education policy issues, including teacher policies, education finance systems, and early childhood development policies.

There seems a growing recognition that value - added gains are a fair and important indicator of school performance and they address an issue that has crippled education reform for decades: Poor alignment between teacher training, teaching practices, and public policy.

Several new groups work to amplify the voices of top classroom teachers as they weigh in on controversial policy issues, as with the evaluations in Los Angeles.

«It was a very complicated process, but it was a tremendous opportunity to get involved in complex policy issues,» says Wood, who now serves as executive director of the National Academy for Excellent Teaching at Columbia's Teachers College.

In «Teachers Unions at Risk of Losing «Agency Fees,»» Mike Antonucci analyzes the legal and policy issues surrounding agency fees at greater length.

Attached files include: - System overview / policy - Pupil reporting (template included)- Parent reporting (template included)- Assessment score recording (excel file)- Progress tracking (one - time teacher input and excel file updates automatically): RAG coded From June 2016 Year 6 tests results will be issued as Scaled Scores.

Several Web sites, geared toward parents, teachers, and even policy makers, offer the raw data on these and other issues — including how much a school spends on special education programs or what percentage of students graduate.

At the same time that the board was debating the policy, wrangling over credentialing rules for teachers of limited - English - proficient students was pointing up sharp divisions on the issue among California teachers.

In addition to producing award - winning and policy - relevant scholarship on the influence of culture in education, she is a superb teacher whose courses deftly address highly - charged issues of race, ethnicity, and social status,» Ryan said.

The fifth annual survey conducted by Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance and Education Next magazine on a wide range of education policy issues uncovered growing divisions between teachers and the general pPolicy and Governance and Education Next magazine on a wide range of education policy issues uncovered growing divisions between teachers and the general ppolicy issues uncovered growing divisions between teachers and the general public.

Entering the Ed School both as an aspiring teacher and as someone with little knowledge of education as a whole, my goals were to acquire a repertoire of skills that would allow me to leave HGSE with a solid foundation in preparation my first year in the classroom and to gain as much knowledge about current issues, policies, and trends in education as possible.

Also in this issue: six recommendations to fix Detroit's broken school system, three expert opinions on whether high schools should offer two - tiered diplomas, and a piece on the Vergara v. California case that considers whether litigation is the best approach to reforming teacher tenure policies.

Download the ACER Centre for Education Policy and Practice report, The Teacher Workforce in Australia: Supply, demand and data issues.

The study, issued last month by the Louisiana Education Policy Research Center at Louisiana State University, paints a picture of frustration and low morale among new teachers in the state's 64 parish school systems.