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Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

This is the basic measure of value - added assessment in use today; teachers in many states across the country are evaluated (and sometimes compensated or fired) based on similar measures.

Students and teachers across the country have already begun using their school gardens for benefits that go beyond the classroom.

I have created free resources for you to take - away and use and there are a growing number of Love Creates Love Groups which are facilitated by Blossom & Berry trained teachers and take place across the country / world.

In an effort to make retrieval practice a common strategy in classrooms across the country, the Washington University team (with the help of research associate Pooja K. Agarwal, now at Harvard University) developed a manual for teachers, How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning.

Like Garcia, teachers across the country sometimes must travel circuitous paths to use online resources in the classroom.

Five years ago, I was trained by the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project, based in Sacramento, California, whose model is used by educators across the country.

Using social media allows teachers and students to reach beyond the walls of the classroom and make connections across the country and the globe.

Although many parents and politicians argue passionately against mobile classrooms — the majority of which never move — teachers across the country seem much less perturbed by their use, and in many cases, actually prefer them.

It will launch in September next year and will mirror entry criteria and high - quality course content currently required of all other teacher trainees and will give schools across the country the opportunity to use the apprenticeship to recruit and train new teachers in - house.

Across the country, a substitute shortage is leaving schools shorthanded while teachers struggle to prep lesson plans for subs to use.

Once Bergmann's and Sams's lessons were posted online, it wasn't long before other students and teachers across the country were using the lessons, and making their own.

Discover how K - 12 students and teachers from across the country are using virtual technology to create enhancements to their learning experiences and new success in their lives.

Running the Ashden LESS CO2 programme and working with schools across the country to help them to reduce their energy use, I meet lots of teachers, school business managers and site managers.

Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day Teachers across the country and around the world are discovering the many valuable uses for digital cameras; uses that both engage students and make their own professional lives easier.

Teachers who use innovative teaching methods are becoming more common but were few and far between, and opportunities for students to develop problem - solving and collaboration skills remain quite low across the seven countries studied.

This year, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) is partnering with Panorama Education to offer the Student Perception Survey, a research - based, confidential student survey used across the country to provide teachers with students» feedback about their classroom experiences.

With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, WestEd is exploring how teachers make decisions about which instructional materials to use in their classrooms to inform efforts aimed at improving the quality and consistency of instructional materials across the country.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

But, in fact, many teachers across the country are reading to students in middle and high schools, too, and some education researchers say more teachers of adolescents ought to be using the same strategy.

«The Measures of Effective Teaching project will examine the work of 3,700 teachers from across the country, using videotapes, surveys, and student assessments to figure out what works and what doesn't.»

In order for schools to comply with federal mandates, an abundance of new evaluation instruments for teachers have been placed in use across the country.

States and teacher preparation programs across the country are increasingly using a teacher candidate assessment called edTPA.

The writer explores some of her positive experiences with edTPA, namely its use to facilitate deeper conversation about practice with teacher candidates, its alignment with evaluation processes in P - 12 settings, and the collegial effort it has inspired across the country.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 11 by Douglas N. Harris States and districts across the country are using multiple measures to make personnel decisions about teachers based on a weighted average of the separate measures.

Leading Educators uses your contribution where it is needed most, helping us to reach more teacher leaders across the country.

Teachers and administrators from across the country will gather for four days to re-imagine assessment and accountability, learn how to use performance assessments to drive deeper learning for all students, and develop materials and strategies they can implement in their schools and districts.

Thousands of educators across the country use the Understanding by Design (UbD ®) framework, created by the late Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, to get a handle on standards, align programs to assessments, and guide teachers in implementing a standards - based curriculum that leads to student understanding and achievement.

Since then she has also co-founded the Institute for Social and Emotional Learning (IFSEL), a dynamic consulting and teacher training organization that operates using mostly a consensus model, and works with schools across the country to implement SEL best practices, strengthening policies and systems that promote empathy and respect.

And teachers across the country are trying to do just that, using a pedagogical theory known as trauma - informed education, which calls for muted reactions to misbehavior, direct instruction on interpersonal skills, and strong teacher - student relationships.

The challenge, which called upon educator teams across the country to create plans that detailed innovative uses for federal funding for professional learning and student outcomes under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), named the Hope Street Group State Teacher Fellow team of Trey Ferguson (NC), Cassie Reding (KY), Carly Baldwin (KY), Natalie Coleman (TN) and Debbie Hickerson (TN) as finalists.

Teachers from across the country are now engaged in a project to create common assignments using the LDC.

But here's the real issue: In this case, and exponentially growing numbers of cases like this across the country, the district decided to use a national versus state test (i.e., the SAT 10) which can (but should not) be used to test students in kindergarten and 1st grades, and then more importantly used to attribute growth on these tests over time to their teachers, again, to include more teachers in these evaluation systems.

I work for the Buck Institute for Education, and we provide professional development across the country, supporting educators, teachers, leaders, instructional coaches in using Project Based Learning or what we call PBL.

This kind of informational learning can be found in collaborative teacher teams in schools across the country as well: an ELA teacher team discusses incorporating a new book into the curriculum or a grade team learns how to use a new software program to input grades.

While some educators are very savvy about assessment and how best to use the results in their districts, schools, and classrooms, a lot of administrators and teachers across the country aren't so knowledgeable about it.

An additional $ 45 million will be used to gather data from 3,700 teachers across the country.

The have been objections raised by teachers across the country based on concerns about the validity of using proficiency targets as indicators of individual teacher performance.

2011 — Word of the Parent Trigger spread across the country and parents tried to establish it in Connecticut, but in a story first reported by RiShawn Biddle, the American Federation of Teachers used slimy tactics to effectively neuter the law.

His book, The Teacher of the Year Handbook, is being used by the country's top Teacher Leaders to develop and strengthen the skills necessary to truly lead within our schools, and across our communities.

By 2015, the anti-testing backlash had gained steam across the country, in part because the federal government had pushed for test scores to be used to evaluate teachers across all grades and subjects.

What I know is that in classrooms across the country where I see educators flipping the way they think about and use assessments, teachers are connecting planning and assessment and instruction.

The value - added assessments of teachers — which use improvements in student test scores to evaluate teacher effectiveness — has grown in popularity across the country with support from the federal Department of Education, which has tied teacher evaluations to the Race to the Top state - grant program, reports the New York Times.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

Research from educational experts and districts across the country have shown that using a combination of teacher practice and student learning data provides a more accurate picture of teachers» performance than using either measure on its own.

The TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement is implemented in school districts across the country, affecting approximately 15,000 teachers and 200,000 students.46 With support from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, school districts create multiple career paths for teachers, including career, mentor, and master teacher.47 Teacher leaders participate in school leadership teams with administrators, provide colleagues with regular professional learning opportunities and individualized coaching, observe and provide feedback for instructional improvement, and are compensated for these additional responsibilities.48 Trained teacher leaders in schools using the TAP System have demonstrated an ability to evaluate classroom instruction with accuracy and consistency, and their observations are closely aligned to student learning gains in classrooms.49 According to Lori Johnson, a participating TAP master teacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professiTeacher and Student Advancement is implemented in school districts across the country, affecting approximately 15,000 teachers and 200,000 students.46 With support from the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, school districts create multiple career paths for teachers, including career, mentor, and master teacher.47 Teacher leaders participate in school leadership teams with administrators, provide colleagues with regular professional learning opportunities and individualized coaching, observe and provide feedback for instructional improvement, and are compensated for these additional responsibilities.48 Trained teacher leaders in schools using the TAP System have demonstrated an ability to evaluate classroom instruction with accuracy and consistency, and their observations are closely aligned to student learning gains in classrooms.49 According to Lori Johnson, a participating TAP master teacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professiteacher.47 Teacher leaders participate in school leadership teams with administrators, provide colleagues with regular professional learning opportunities and individualized coaching, observe and provide feedback for instructional improvement, and are compensated for these additional responsibilities.48 Trained teacher leaders in schools using the TAP System have demonstrated an ability to evaluate classroom instruction with accuracy and consistency, and their observations are closely aligned to student learning gains in classrooms.49 According to Lori Johnson, a participating TAP master teacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professiTeacher leaders participate in school leadership teams with administrators, provide colleagues with regular professional learning opportunities and individualized coaching, observe and provide feedback for instructional improvement, and are compensated for these additional responsibilities.48 Trained teacher leaders in schools using the TAP System have demonstrated an ability to evaluate classroom instruction with accuracy and consistency, and their observations are closely aligned to student learning gains in classrooms.49 According to Lori Johnson, a participating TAP master teacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professiteacher leaders in schools using the TAP System have demonstrated an ability to evaluate classroom instruction with accuracy and consistency, and their observations are closely aligned to student learning gains in classrooms.49 According to Lori Johnson, a participating TAP master teacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professiteacher in Phoenix, «It was the best decision I ever made professionally.

Accordingly, across the country we now have teachers, justifiably nervous, who without telling their students that their professional lives are on the line — which is true in many cases — or otherwise lying to their students (e.g., your grades on these tests will be used to place you into college)-- which is false in all cases — could face serious consequences, now because their students who as per Cuomo don't have to care about their test performance (e.g., for five years)

WestEd collected data from 13 schools across the country using teacher and student surveys (N = 216 and 842 respectively), phone interviews with teachers (N = 19) and principals (N = 12), and analyzed student achievement in 26 schools implementing Tribes TLC for one or more years, and in a select set of high - growth schools.

If these groups» resources keep growing, more of their favored reforms — such as closing failing schools, expanding charter schools and using test scores to grade teachers — will likely spread across the country.