Sentences with phrase «teacher staffing decisions»

First, lawmakers killed a bill that would have given school districts the ability to make teacher staffing decisions based on performance evaluations.

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Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

Responding to the report, a spokesman for the Department for Education said: «Supply teachers provide a valuable role for schools, and schools themselves are best placed to make staffing decisions to reflect their individual needs.

To the extent that the most important staffing decisions involve sanctioning incompetent teachers and rewarding the very best teachers, a principal - based assessment system may affect achievement as positively as a merit - pay system based solely on student test results.

With head teachers and decision - makers focussed on fallout from staffing changes or pressure to deliver results, staff wellbeing may not be front of mind.

Country - level variables included in the analysis were per capita GDP, teacher salary levels, average expenditure per student, external exit exams, school autonomy in budget and staffing decisions, the share of privately operated schools, and the portion of government funding for schools.

This November, voters will likely decide a ballot initiative that aims to make teacher effectiveness a key component of school - staffing decisions.

Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»

Districts throughout Michigan were now able to tie student achievement, school improvement, professional development, and staffing decisions to the outcome of teacher evaluations.

Currently, state and local education agencies control decisions about teacher certification requirements, staffing ratios, required seat time for students, and school curricula.

Known as the Small Autonomous Schools Movement, this effort subdivided large schools into multiple small schools, each with a school leader that was given flexibility with budget, staffing, and program decisions to execute a vision collaboratively created with teacher leaders and the community.

Charter public schools provide school teachers, administrators, and board members the flexibility to shape important decisions about working conditions; the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.

We urge the governor to agree only to a system that truly supports teachers, stops treating them like widgets and allows for smart staffing and compensation decisions that acknowledge that effective teaching matters.

Staffing Decisions in the Middle Grades: Balancing Quality Instruction and Teacher / Student Relations.

That's because teacher reviews affect a range of other issues, including student achievement, professional development and staffing decisions, she said.

Technology facilitates such practices through video - based teacher evaluation modules for aspiring principals and leader tracking systems, which build a district's capacity to collect and organize data on experience and performance to inform staffing and other decisions.

In charter schools, teachers, administrators, and board members shape important decisions about working conditions, including the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.

In the most recent nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey, 1 in 4 former teachers who said they would consider returning to the profession cited loan forgiveness as very important in their decision to return.

Michigan's Public Act 4 is the most extreme example, but lawmakers from New York to California are seeking ways to circumvent or eliminate public school teacher tenure, pushing for staffing decisions to be made based on merit rather than seniority.

Option # 2: The length of time in the classroom is the most important factor in teacher development, therefore awarding tenure, promotions, and making other staffing decisions based solely on the length of time teaching is most fair.

Option # 1: «It doesn't make sense to award teachers tenure, promotions, and make other staffing decisions unless they have a proven track record of effectively increasing student growth.

New York City's decision to fill staffing vacancies using the city's Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) moves our nation's largest school system further from this goal.

Unlike now, teacher performance — and not seniority — becomes the new touchstone for reassignments, transfers, and other staffing decisions.

«Because they were able to attract all these great teachers to their school, they're going to be given greater autonomy when it comes to budgetary decisions and decisions with staffing at their school,» he said.

Observations serve several purposes, including to provide actionable feedback to teachers and to provide a summative rating that can be used in staffing decisions.

Related, Alabama districts may no longer use teachers» «seniority, degrees, or credentials as a basis for determining pay or making the retention, promotion, dismissal, and staffing decisions.»

But we also know that charter administrators may prioritize teacher effectiveness and other attributes in making staffing and compensation decisions.

More specifically, the bill is to «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»