Sentences with phrase «teachers and principals»

Its policies, practices, habits, systems, contracts, and so much more conspire to stymie great teachers and principals.

But the teachers and principals get all the credit for their outcomes.

In places like the United States, teachers and principals are taking responsibility for the learning.

Minority students have high expectations for their future, but many of their teachers and principals don't share that view, concludes a report released last week.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has bluntly asserted, «We're still waiting to get great teachers and principals into underperforming schools... We're still waiting and we can't wait any longer.»

The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring value to the diploma; redesigning the high school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high - school teachers and principals; holding high schools accountable for their results; and streamlining «education governance.»

Teachers and principals report that the stronger specialists help them analyze lesson plans and student work in the context of the new standards, while the weaker ones add little value at best and misinformation at worst.

ED's press release explains, «The administration's proposal for fixing NCLB calls for college and career - ready standards, more great teachers and principals, robust use of data and a more flexible and targeted accountability system based on measuring annual student growth.

«That's a critical difference for us in terms of the agreed process, that it doesn't unfairly over-emphasise a particular data source, that it embraces a wide range of data sources, and teachers and principals cooperatively have developed an approach that will see those real - time issues built - in to whatever process is undertaken,» Bates told Education Matters magazine.

Many teachers and principals were Jews, and members of that religious group, as schoolteachers, social workers, shopkeepers, and small landlords, were seen by black militants as the exploiters of African Americans.

By the end of the 1990s «New Labour» made a commitment to teacher workforce reforms designed to remove administrative burdens from teachers and principals.

«What this process is about is recognising professionalism, respecting the role that teachers play and it will be a negotiated process between teachers and principals that will outline a set of goals for professional learning and practice that teachers will embrace over the course of 12 months.»

They shared smaller incentives among large numbers of teachers and principals rather than giving larger awards to the highest - achieving staff.

Walk - throughs are all about teachers and principals working together to reflect on teaching practices.

They negotiated a memo of understanding with the teachers union, then asked teachers and principals to make proposals.

Although it's too early to assess that last question, the early results of the study bear out many of the project's hopes, suggesting that video has the potential to transform the observation process into a far more meaningful tool for teachers and principals.

Since the walk - through has a specific focus «it puts teachers and principals on the same page in terms of expectations.»

Developing the skills of teachers and principals plays a critical role in school improvement.

Spellings: I'm really impressed by the way most of our teachers and principals have responded to No Child Left Behind.

Arnup and Bowles also highlight data from the OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)-- focusing on lower secondary school teachers and their principals — suggesting «the majority of teachers are satisfied with their jobs, but teaching classrooms with a high proportion of challenging students is associated with lower levels of job satisfaction (OECD, 2014)».

States and participating districts were to evaluate teachers and principals using multiple measures, including, «in significant part,» student growth.

The district quickly introduced a series of math courses and summits for teachers and principals.

As he noted several times during the conference, we shouldn't expect teachers and principals alone to shoulder the burden of making change.

In today's world of standards, testing, scripted literacy models, and the use of strictly - followed commercial programs for teaching math, many teachers and principals in elementary schools do not think project - based learning is possible.

NSNO established a framework of basic PL principles to help create common language and understanding across teachers and principals in the nation's most decentralized school system.

Now the teachers and principals are part of a network where they can discuss what they saw and learned.»

Often even the most dedicated teachers and principals are hampered by severe limitations on spending and programmatic decisions by ineffective state regulations, constraints such as those that come with categorical funding, and a variety of state and local laws and contractual arrangements.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

We need to address the shortage of teachers and principals, respond to increases in student enrollment, to build safe and modern schools, make effective educational technology accessible to all students, and prepare young people to compete internationally.

You'll see an evaluation system for teachers and principals, with student achievement built in as a meaningful component.

If we were going to close the schools, we wanted teachers and principals to know in advance, and we had agreed on specific times for that to happen.

It seems to me that many teachers and principals feel that way.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

It is also something that teachers and principals can cultivate.

The simple conclusion: we need better evaluations of both teachers and principals, and we need to use these in personnel decisions.

Research has shown that performance - based assessment provides a means to assess higher - order thinking skills and helps teachers and principals support students in developing a deeper understanding of content.

My research reveals that resistance to the new law was, in many schools and districts, quite intense, indicating the depth of support for bilingual education among teachers and principals.

... You'll see the rollout of a statewide data system that will give a lot more useful information to teachers and principals about student performance and a lot more useful data for policymakers.

As students» diversity in language, background, and needs expands, many dedicated teachers and principals are working harder and harder, and yet, the needle of student learning has moved very little.

That's a grave blow to Carnegie - style professionalism - and becomes more damaging as evidence emerges that such schools perform just as well as, and possibly better than, traditional public schools with all their certified teachers and principals.

Some perceived harms might be unavoidable, including closing schools, terminating the least effective teachers and principals, or reducing central office employment and contracting.

Several essays analyze the ways that market incentives and deregulation might be used to get and keep great teachers and principals.

Once the survey was done, Huntington and the other 50 middle and high schools that took part in the initiative were given reports in clear, accessible language that summarized the results, plus a set of resources and customized strategies that teachers and principals could use to make changes based on their results.

How many teachers and principals should receive extra compensation, be protected from layoffs, be given additional responsibilities, and encouraged to stay on the job?

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

With the help of teachers and principals, Ward and Steele - Pierce led the district to identify two core reform goals: fostering a vigorous academic setting and ensuring that every student is known well by at least one adult.

Just provide the data to teachers and principals — and continue to train the latter on how to conduct high - quality teacher observations — and call it a day.

This is not surprising in some ways, given problems in current educational practice: we tend to provide less funding, have fewer outstanding teachers and principals, and require less rigorous coursework in schools that serve lower - income students.

Tens of thousands of black teachers and principals were out of work.

State and local officials describe the system as one in which the state will provide descriptions of the major functions of teachers and principals and will leave most of the evaluation process and use of its results up to local districts.