Female
teachers in large urban school districts would require a 25 percent initial increase in compensation, rising to more than 40 percent when they reach three to five years of experience.
Not exact matches
Throughout the spring, VOISE designers have been up to their laptops
in the typical challenges of opening a new
school in a
large urban district: community outreach,
teacher recruitment, student enrollment, fundraising, and a bit of bureaucracy, to boot.
Advocating at
school meetings several days per week at one of the
largest urban school districts in the country, invariably I see tremendously frustrated
teachers, mind - numbing paperwork and by definition dissatisfied parents.
A research team led by Harvard Graduate
School of Education's Susan Moore Johnson at the Project on the Next Generation of
Teachers spoke to 95 teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban d
Teachers spoke to 95
teachers and administrators in six high - poverty, high - minority schools in a large, urban d
teachers and administrators
in six high - poverty, high - minority
schools in a
large,
urban district.
The interviews suggest that the
teacher unions are typically the most powerful participants
in school - board elections and that their power is common across
districts of all sizes (and not restricted to
large urban districts).
Even if 1
in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter
schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000
teachers currently working
in the member
districts of the Council of Great City
Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school sy
Schools (the nations 66
largest urban public -
school systems).
Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary:
In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school district
In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public
School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school dist
School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student,
teacher, and
school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school dist
school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the
teacher hiring and match process
in large urban school district
in large urban school dist
school districts.
This article by researchers at Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis finds that principal turnover
in one
large urban school district is detrimental to student performance and
teacher retention.
Even
in large urban school districts, where the student body is largely minority, only about 18 percent of
teachers are black and 9 percent Hispanic.
In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instructio
In several of the higher - performing
districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instructio
in our sample (including
large urban / suburban as well as rural
districts), for example,
district leaders and
school personnel described recent and ongoing
district - wide efforts to support
teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.
Findings are based on interviews with state education officials
in all states and surveys of nationally - representative samples of
districts, principals, and
teachers conducted
in 2004 - 05 and 2006 - 07, as well as surveys of parents
in eight
large urban school districts in those same years.
Sen. Bob Hall, R - Edgewood, noted that while a program like the one introduced
in Richardson may work for
larger,
urban school districts, it would put small, rural
districts at even more of a disadvantage
in staffing classrooms with high quality
teachers.
«Illinois must prepare prospective
teachers to succeed and excel
in a
large,
urban school district.»
The AFT is the nation's second -
largest teachers union and represents
school employees
in most of the major
urban school districts.
Many
large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to
schools in the hiring of
teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority.
Public
school teachers in large urban districts, such as Chicago and New York City, can earn close more than double that amount, pulling
in close to or well over $ 100,000.
However, AUSL recognized that transforming
teacher talent alone wouldn't suffice
in improving educational outcomes for these students, so it expanded its scope and became the first non-profit organization
in the country to contract with a
large urban school district to transform the lowest - performing
schools from inside the public
school system.
These data include
teachers from a
large urban district and an entire state
in the Western United States, allowing for an investigation of the dynamics of turnover
in both high cost - of - living
urban areas and rural
school districts over the past fifteen years.
We sought input from
teachers who are currently or have recently been involved
in either formal or informal
teacher leadership programs at state,
district or
school levels — and coincidentally, three of the four work
in Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public
Schools, the largest district in Kentucky with more than 150 schools and representing both urban and suburban se
Schools, the
largest district in Kentucky with more than 150
schools and representing both urban and suburban se
schools and representing both
urban and suburban settings.
The pilot study quantifies the real costs of
teacher turnover
in five
school districts, representing a range of communities,
large and small,
urban and rural.
The goal is to test the following: If an
urban district, and its principal training programs, provide a
large number of talented aspiring principals with the right pre-service training and on - the - job support, the result will be a pipeline of principals able to improve
teacher quality and student achievement, especially
in schools with the greatest needs.
Lisa Marie Lacy was a former Special Education
teacher who taught for six years
in an
urban school district in a
large metropolitan area
in the southwestern region of the United States.
Gail comes to CEC with 19 years of experience
in a
large urban district as a special education
teacher,
school improvement coach and professional development coordinator.
Ten
urban districts in California — including the Los Angeles Unified
School District, the nation's second
largest — collectively called CORE (California Office to Reform Education)
districts, have designed a system to make
schools answerable for improving students» social and emotional skills by using data from student, parent, and
teacher surveys, among other factors, to assess whether students are improving
in these areas.
Data were collected from 230 students and 20
teachers in two high - poverty, low - performing
schools in a
large urban school district in the Midwest Students were 93 % African American.