Sentences with phrase «teachers in the district using»

The 2009 publication The Widget Effect (Weisberg, Sexton, Mulhern, & Keeling, 2009), a study of teacher evaluation practices in 12 diverse districts in four states, found that over 99 % of tenured teachers in districts using a satisfactory or unsatisfactory rating system earned a positive rating.

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Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

REVERE, Mass. (AP)-- Governor Deval Patrick has asked a task force to develop a model plan that Massachusetts school districts can use to keep students, teachers and staff safe in emergency situations.

ALBANY — Some school districts will have to go back to the negotiating table as schools begin to navigate a moratorium on the use of test scores in teacher and principal evaluations.

He said 100 % of teachers in the city school district support a better use of time in school.

This page provides links to those materials, for use by teachers in the Rochester City School District and beyond!

The repeal bill would make school districts» use of state assessments in evaluating teachers and principals optional rather than mandatory, and would allow districts to use alternative exams of their own choosing, provided such tests were approved by the commissioner.

With not enough students participating in the state exams, some teachers instead had to use local exams, but not all districts had them in place for teachers whose courses culminate in state exams.

But unions and the State Education Department have battled over how districts should handle teacher evaluations in the absence of test scores, with the union saying scores should be thrown out entirely and the state saying a backup measure should be used.

The state education department still is in the process of advising districts how the moratorium will work in their evaluation systems, but generally the locally negotiated, state - approved assessments will be used instead of the state test scores in teacher and principal evaluations.

«Cuomo's test - punish - privatize - and - segregate policy is using high - stakes testing to label students, teachers, and schools in high - poverty districts as failing.

In the final days leading to the primary, the New York State United Teachers, a powerful teachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the districIn the final days leading to the primary, the New York State United Teachers, a powerful teachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the dTeachers, a powerful teachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the dteachers» union with ties to the left - leaning Working Families party, used its independent expenditure political action committee to fund $ 178,000 in mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the districin mailers and ads claiming Grisanti wasn't conservative enough for the district.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

However, results from a new study show that teacher turnover under IMPACT, the teacher - evaluation system used in the District of Columbia Public Schools, improved student performance on average.

For teachers in many school districts, being able to buy a classroom's worth of science, technology, engineering, and math kits for student use may be impossible.

FOSS curriculum is used in all fifty states by over 100,000 teachers and 2 million students; it is in about 16 % of the nation's school districts.

We have experienced this negative phenomenon first - hand by having had a district - wide contract rescinded before the program even started due to fear caused by media attention generated from a single parent in single school who took offense to a classroom teacher leading mandala coloring and using the term, «Namaste,» with her students.

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

Breaux: New Teacher Induction provides overviews and contact information for more than 30 highly successful, easily replicable induction programs used in rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the United States.

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In order to support school leaders and teachers to become their most effective at using digital technologies with new pedagogies, it is vital that a district support the digital transformation through varied building - level and district - level professional learning opportunities.

Second, shifting compensation back to salary (in the aggregate) provides greater opportunity for districts to use salary differentials to retain and recruit higher - quality teachers.

The 93 staff members of the sole high school in Central Falls, R.I., the state's poorest school district, were told they would be dismissed, using federal regulations as a justification, after negotiations between the district superintendent and the teachers» union broke down over...

This is the first year that ThinkLink is being used at Oakleaf, but some of the teachers have used it in other schools in the district.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

Shareski conducts half - day workshops to train teachers in his district to use digital video.

One of the challenges of using digital tools to connect the schools in our district is the time it takes to familiarize our teachers and students with a new tool.

«The most important thing my district does to encourage teacher use is to assign each school a technology resource teacher (TRT) to work directly in the classrooms,» Lexington, Kentucky, district technology resource teacher Mike Johnson told Education World.

I loved the fact that kids got to know the world outside school and learned that with technology they could talk to people anywhere, said Luisa Ojeda - Vera, a kindergarten teacher at Florida's Sand Pine Elementary School, whose students used Skype to connect with a class at another school in the district.

«Our district «encourages» technology use by teachers, but not in any substantive way,» said John Tiffany, science teacher at Wauseon High School.

Using data on contributions from NASRA and pension fund annual reports where necessary, and using weights based on the number of teachers employed in each state or district as reported in the NCES Common Core of Data, it is possible to compute average employer contribution rates for teacUsing data on contributions from NASRA and pension fund annual reports where necessary, and using weights based on the number of teachers employed in each state or district as reported in the NCES Common Core of Data, it is possible to compute average employer contribution rates for teacusing weights based on the number of teachers employed in each state or district as reported in the NCES Common Core of Data, it is possible to compute average employer contribution rates for teachers.

«The district I work in had a wonderful start to encouraging teacher technology use several years ago, when we were awarded several grants.

We have found that in many schools and districts, parents, students, school board members, teachers, and administrators have embraced the 4C's and use it as the starting point for their 21st century education initiatives.

In my roles as both an instructional technology specialist and a director of technology, I used a variety of resources to make every attempt at staying ahead of the curve so that I could help the district, teachers, and parents understand what applications were out there and which of them posed an issue.

Districts and charter schools could use the extra dollars to lower class sizes, improve classroom technology, or target teacher training in grades K - 4.

We have known for decades that teachers were being pushed into using bad test prep, that states and districts were complicit in this, that scores were often badly inflated, and even that score inflation was creating an illusion of narrowing achievement gaps.

Glass said his priority is to alter the «one - minute interviews» used to make decisions on teacher hiring in too many school districts.

I know many teachers in the school system use our district's e-mail, but many others don't.

Although I generally stick to downloading related videos and embedding them in my Power Point presentation notes, other teachers might want to use such additional features as writing prompts, online quizzes, and the ability to index video content via teacher, school, or district.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

The proposal was included in the Governor's broader plan to use the state's lottery - revenue jackpot — estimated at $ 745 million this year — to raise school districts» budgets by 10 percent and provide teachers with a 5 - percent salary increase.

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.

The District of Columbia's school system uses the results from its new evaluation system to identify teacher - training institutions that produce the city's highest - rated teachers and is prioritizing those providers in its recruitment of new teachers.

The North Carolina State Board of Education has approved a plan to evaluate teachers and principals to be used in all of the state's 143 school districts beginning this year.

Over the past three years, 61 teachers have started working at the two schools of lowest socioeconomic status in the Madison school district, both of which are using the TAP.

We use the Common Core of Data to identify teachers in urban areas, the grade level of each teacher's school, and the per - pupil expenditure on instruction by each teacher's district.

«In my view,» Hutchison concluded, «if districts expect teachers to use technology, they have to support it more completely with funding, training, and support.

Sandy Gady, a design and engineering teacher in Highline Public Schools, a district outside of Seattle, Wash., has used the program to introduce her students to experts and career paths that they otherwise might not be exposed to.