Sentences with phrase «teacher retention efforts»

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But maybe the problem is retention — what's the point in putting effort into recruiting teachers if we can't keep them in the profession?

In response to a serious shortage of women in computer science and information technology, GirlTECH works to promote participation by girls and women through K - 12 student and teacher programs, university - student admission and retention programs, and national outreach and awareness efforts.

The policy's greatest benefits could result not from retention itself, but rather from increased efforts on the part of teachers and even students to avoid being retained in the first place.

Data suggest that some states should be investing much more heavily in teacher recruitment and retention efforts.

The Department for Education can not show that its efforts to improve teacher retention and quality are having a positive impact, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

A crusading local superintendent's effort to change his district's teacher recruitment and retention practices can be brought to a halt by the state's seniority law, tenure law, and collective - bargaining statutes.

We welcome the measures already taken to address the supply crisis, particularly: the removal of caps on most recruitment to ITT programmes; the relaxation of skills test requirements; efforts to reduce teacher workload; the continued payment of ITT bursaries; and the introduction of some retention incentives.

The 1999 results showed that more than 75 percent of teachers and almost 90 percent of principals indicated that they «felt supported in their efforts to help students who had been retained and who were at risk of retention.»

What to know: One of Nebraska's key retention efforts involves the Attracting Excellence to Teaching Program (AETP), which provides a forgivable loan to teacher candidates for their education preparation program experience.

And, a growing body of empirical research shows that positive school climate improvement efforts increase academic achievement, reduce bully - victim - bystander behavior as well as student dropout rates and increase teacher retention rates.

We are launching efforts focused first on understanding teachers» experiences and what's driving their satisfaction and retention in order to provide responsive professional development, community building, and leadership training to retain our highly effective Black teachers in Oakland.

That said, we are inspired by the TNTP report titled, which makes the case for focusing retention efforts on «irreplaceable» teachers.

As Oklahoma continues to lose its teachers to surrounding higher - paying states, students see a revolving door of educators entering and leaving their school — a process that research shows hurts student achievement.56 Instead of loosening requirements for entry into the profession to solve this problem, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) assembled a Teacher Shortage Task Force to implement changes that would strengthen the teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in theTeacher Shortage Task Force to implement changes that would strengthen the teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in theteacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in the state.

What to know: The Mississippi Department of Education's (MDE) plan stands out for aligning its teacher recruitment and retention efforts with its ambitious goals for increasing student academic achievement by 2025 and clearly stating its role in supporting districts to address equity concerns.10 The MDE recognizes that in order to reach its stated goals — which include a proposed graduation rate of 90 percent for all students by 2025 — they must also support districts in recruiting and retaining teachers of color who are prepared to improve student outcomes.

These projects include efforts to offer greater educational support to foster children, bolster summer education offerings and increase teacher retention.

The government can not prove its efforts to boost teacher retention and quality are having a positive impact or achieving value for money, the National Audit Office has said in a damning new report.

The institute will unite a group of national leaders at colleges and universities across the United States to spotlight and explore innovative efforts for addressing racial / ethnic teacher diversity across five key areas: recruitment and retention, teacher preparation, mentorship, induction and professional development, and advocacy.

We are a diverse team of 13 teachers who met over several months to review research on different national efforts to address teacher attraction and retention, as well as local strategies being proposed or piloted by UTLA, Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) and local charter networks.

Last spring, as members of Educate78's Teacher Advisory Group, we had the opportunity to research housing affordability — an issue near and dear to our hearts — as part of our group's multi-faceted efforts to improve teacher retention in OTeacher Advisory Group, we had the opportunity to research housing affordability — an issue near and dear to our hearts — as part of our group's multi-faceted efforts to improve teacher retention in Oteacher retention in Oakland.

But ambiguous actions like «provide for effective teacher hiring and recruitment... and retention practices» leaves one wondering if this is just a euphemism for salary and benefit increases (at the same time the district is offering every single parcel of «excess» property it owns for sale in an effort to balance it's huge budget deficit, really?).

The government is under pressure to reveal more about its efforts to boost teacher recruitment and retention following a landmark report by an influential committee of MPs.

In an effort to improve teacher retention, one popular strategy is to raise teacher salaries, often in targeted areas.

For this effort to succeed, a stronger focus on hiring diverse teachers in schools and their retention is needed.

«If administrators and policy makers continue to focus solely on recruitment efforts, without attention to retention, they run the risk of creating a revolving door of teachers in our public schools.»

In most states, there is a large and growing gap between the percentage of students of color1 and the percentage of teachers of color.2 Efforts to increase teacher diversity have led to marginal increases in the percentage of teachers of color — from 12 percent to 17 percent from 1987 through 2012 — but this positive statistic obscures other troubling facts, such as the decline in the percentage of African American teachers in many large urban districts and the lower retention rates for teachers of color across the country.3

In recognition of the pivotal role of quality teaching and school leadership, the Foundation also supports teacher and principal recruitment and retention efforts as well as leadership development strategies.

In a video testimonial to the program's ability to cultivate durable educators, Smyrna School District Superintendent Deborah Wicks credited local grow - your - own efforts with Smyrna's position as having the best teacher retention out of all districts in the state.

These efforts are likely to be welcomed — and to lead to some improvement in the recruitment and retention of minority teachers.

Turning around the declines will need to include reexamining how students are recruited to education colleges as well as retention efforts aimed at teachers in their first few years in the classroom.

The government must put far more effort into teacher recruitment and retention.»

On average, teachers with less than five years of experience make up more than half of staff resignations every school year in the Appleton Area School District, putting additional pressure on the district's retention efforts.

The settlement implements an intervention program for targeted schools that includes teacher effectiveness provisions, a collaborative effort to fill teacher vacancies as quickly as possible (including those that occur mid-year), retention incentives — including financial bonuses — for teachers who remain at a targeted school beyond a certain number of years, plus further incentives if that school experiences growth as measured by the school's value - added score.

National data suggests that efforts to boost charter school teacher retention may be starting to pay off.

Even more than teacher inexperience, it is this disruptive effect that plagues WCCUSD's lowest - performing schools, and it is this burden the district's retention effort should address at these schools in particular.

Alliance joins The College - Ready Promise (TCRP), a $ 60 million Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Initiative to improve teacher recruitment, training, and retention efforts.

These efforts, combined with better recruiting, retention, and dismissal policies, could put a top teacher in charge of nearly every classroom, reaching all students, not just a lucky few.

In March 2018, The Mind Trust and UNCF hosted an engaging conversation around teacher recruitment and retention efforts in Indianapolis.

But the data suggest that some states should be investing much more heavily in teacher recruitment and retention efforts, while other states may have a harder time dealing with the coming retirements of the Baby Boomer generation.

A district boosting retention rates for just early - career teachers is likely to see higher cumulative retention than a district focusing its efforts at the back end.

Districts should be investing the majority of their retention efforts on early - career teachers.

Contrary to current practices, districts should be investing the majority of their retention efforts on early - career teachers.

Teach For America to Pilot Yearlong Teacher Training, Retention Efforts Teach For America will implement two new pilot programs to address training and retention of TFA corps members.

Or should we also try to address issues surrounding teacher support and retention, exploring promising efforts aimed at developing teachers and keeping them in the classroom?

I want to step back first and be clear about what we want to accomplish, and then talk about teacher retention as one of a number of critical issues facing the overall effort to ensure educational opportunity for all.