Sentences with phrase «teachers in districts around»

The Arizona Career Ladder Program is a performance - based compensation plan that provides incentives to teachers in districts around the state who choose to make career advancements without leaving the classroom or the profession.

Not exact matches

moving abusive teachers around from school district to school district is so common in the profession that it is called «passing the trash».

I just grew up in an area where many teachers made around 70 - 100k (with bonuses, yeah our school districts gave various bonuses and I know this because all their salaries are online) so my judgements may have been biased.

The school district responded with a statement saying, «The homework worksheet in question was downloaded from a website that allows teachers around the world to share educational resources.

From the late 1990s to the early aughts school districts were putting in less than one percent of teachers» salaries, while teachers contributed around 3 percent because the economy was doing well.

[113][114] Harig won the support of the Buffalo Teachers Federation and AFL - CIO, [113] while Paladino received the endorsement of The Buffalo News editorial board, which wrote: «Despite all his defects — his offensive comments, his bullying, his sometime inability to function effectively on the board — it is because of his influence that the board is even interested in turning around an underperforming district.»

Requests for STEM volunteers to assist teachers in classrooms around Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia were recently published by The Washington Post.

My son, Daniel teaches mindfulness practices to teachers and children in school districts around the country.

While there are practitioners around the country who have been implementing deeper learning for decades, many districts are not yet equipped to make it happen in their schools, with their teachers and students.

Other strategies LACES faculty has used include participating in district - supported site leadership for closing the achievement gap; designing opportunities for teacher collaboration around increasingly common assessments; and offering professional development for highly differentiated instruction, noted the California Best Practices Study.

In meeting with teachers around the world, she notes that they are most surprised by the depth of research available, and by the fact that most school districts are not taking advantage of the research.

Each summer, the district provides a «boot camp» for first - year immersion teachers around the state, in which they learn how to teach content and manage students in immersion classrooms.

Teachers in Salem, Mass., returned to work last week after a two - week walkout, and several districts around the country neared settlements in contract disputes.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomeIn their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomein Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

ePals, a free, online global learning community for K — 12 teachers and students that enables educators to find one another and protect children from unfiltered content, is already in use in many school districts around the country.

You will learn so much from just talking with colleagues about what projects and lessons they are using with their students.I teach at a summer program for gifted and advanced students, where I work with other teachers of gifted in the school district, and I always pick up new ideas and methods from hanging around them.

Mathematica was selected by the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate one approach that uses selective teacher transfer incentives in school districts around the country.

Silas Kulkarni is Executive Director of Teaching Lab, leading powerful professional learning experiences in school districts around the country by applying lessons learned as a record - busting middle school teacher in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

Eliminating tracking might be effective in small classes where teachers can give personal attention to a manageable group of students, but budget constraints — in New Jersey and in many districts around the country — necessitate a high student - to - teacher ratio.

Last time around, the school board — with the same 5 - 2 pro-union majority it has now — approved a 10 percent raise for teachers, which was more than the union was asking for and in spite of the district's projected deficits.

During the recent 2012 - 2013 APPR Conference held in Albany, 200 educators heard a panel representing school districts from around New York State share reflections on their experience in developing a working APPR agreement for teachers and principals.

«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.»

Since it seems likely that teachers unions will be around for many years to come, it would be wise to find ways to collaborate with them to devise peer review programs like those that have shown promise in districts such as Toledo, Ohio, and Rochester, New York.

Study: Once - a-Year Teacher Evaluations Not Enough Associated Press, January 6, 2012 «Those surveys, also being piloted by the foundation in school districts around the nation, are not popularity contests, [Professor Thomas] Kane said.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

Broad, whose nonprofit foundation has pushed for mayoral control in urban districts around the nation, criticized the Los Angeles plan because it would force the mayor to share power with the school board and the teachers union.

Beginning in the 2000 - 2001 school year, the district began using a range of variables around the promotion cutoff to make promotion decisions; recommendations from teachers and principals, for example, were then incorporated into the promotion decisions.

The administration doesn't want to let reform - minded school districts miss out on Race to the Top funding just because their states are recalcitrant dinosaurs in the grip of teacher unions, etc.S o they're going to try something unusual: channeling dollars AROUND the states and directly to districts.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

Tennessee, where lawmakers passed legislation that mandates using student achievement as half of a teacher's annual evaluation in every district, stood out for its mature «value - added» data system that has been around for nearly two decades.

In addition, I work with teachers, leaders, and districts around the country to build the capacity needed to have rich conversations about learning space design.

We believe in the importance of informed, empowered educators so we hosted a house party to bring together teachers from both charter and district schools in order to discuss the current state of the budget and to engage in a conversation around ideas to involve and inform more teachers.

Even without charter schools, school districts around Washington have plenty of major initiatives to keep them busy, such as preparing for new teacher evaluation systems that must be in place by the fall.

Thursday's LA Times editorial about the use of student achievement data in teacher evaluations around the country (Bill Gates» warning on test scores) makes some valuable points about the dangers of rushed, half - baked teacher evaluation schemes that count test scores as more than half of a teacher's evaluation (as is being done in some states and districts)...

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

Factors such as whether the district had appointed a district - level science teacher on «special assignment» to assist other instructors, developed professional learning communities around science, and completed most aspects of Common Core implementation were considered in the selection process.

UTLA said in a statement that thousands of students and teachers around the district were wearing stickers today that highlighted their class size and student / teacher ratios, KNBC reported.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

Artificial inflation is a term I recently coined to represent what is / was happening in Houston, and elsewhere (e.g., Tennessee), when district leaders (e.g., superintendents) mandate or force principals and other teacher effectiveness appraisers or evaluators to align their observational ratings of teachers» effectiveness with teachers» value - added scores, with the latter being (sometimes relentlessly) considered the «objective measure» around which all other measures (e.g., subjective observational measures) should revolve, or align.

In this case, this might be observed when VAM estimates of teacher (or school / district) effectiveness relate, or more specifically correlate well with other measures (e.g., supervisor evaluation scores) that are also developed to measure the same construct (e.g., teacher effectiveness) at or around the same time.

We've done similar work in other districts around the country, creating custom folders with the aligned content in each teacher's online account, making it easy to find relevant content for a given standard or concept.

In our school district, the primary instructional practices revolve around a gradual release of responsibility instructional framework.2 We believe that in every lesson, every day, students should understand the purpose for the learning and witness their teacher's expert thinking through modelinIn our school district, the primary instructional practices revolve around a gradual release of responsibility instructional framework.2 We believe that in every lesson, every day, students should understand the purpose for the learning and witness their teacher's expert thinking through modelinin every lesson, every day, students should understand the purpose for the learning and witness their teacher's expert thinking through modeling.

If you were a teacher in the state of California, chances are you do... On March 15, 2008, the Los Angeles Unified School District sent out thousands of notices (somewhere around 7,000 of them).

More than 100 elementary school teachers from around the Los Angeles school district gathered Monday at Theodore Roosevelt High School in east LA as one of the first group of instructors to learn how to use the Apple iPad, a key teaching device in the academic year that opens next Tuesday.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum.

Among these are the implementation of LCFF, with all school districts approving their Local Control Accountability Plans (LCAPs) by July 1, the primary election for Superintendent of Public Instruction, the deadline for districts» administration of pilot versions of Common Core State Standards tests, and a ruling in the Vergara lawsuit, around teacher tenure and job protection laws and students» right to access equal education.

Unfortunately for the naysayers, standardized tests are now being used as part of a teacher's evaluation in various school districts around the country.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is requireIn the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is requirein school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.