Sentences with phrase «tenure evaluation practices»

Barriers to access — including traditional means of communicating and publishing scholarly research, aggravated by traditional tenure evaluation practices, and especially publishers» restrictive copyright licensing practices — are increasingly unacceptable in an online, born - digital world.

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Third, there's a revolution underway in teacher evaluation and many of the HR practices associated with it, including retention, tenure, compensation, promotions, and layoffs.

During his tenure in Delaware, his team focused on improving policies and practices across the educator effectiveness continuum: educator preparation, licensure / certification, recruitment, placement, evaluation, professional learning, and

During his tenure in Delaware, his team focused on improving policies and practices across the educator effectiveness continuum: educator preparation, licensure / certification, recruitment, placement, evaluation, professional learning, and teacher - leader career pathways.

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.

This was one of the key lessons learned early on by EPAC and led to the recommendation to delay full implementation of the evaluation system by a year: 2012 - 2013 was scheduled in the tenure reform law as a capacity - building year for districts to choose, train in, and practice using a teacher practice instrument.

Increasingly, state legislatures have been working to weaken or even abolish the practice of teacher tenure, including the requirement to use teacher evaluation data in the decision to grant tenure.

Race to the Top initiated a long - overdue debate over how to improve teacher quality in the United States and highlighted a number of dysfunctional state practices around teacher training, placement, evaluation, tenure, and dismissal.

Three widespread practices in particular are in need of major revision: teacher evaluation and tenure systems that do not distinguish effective teachers from ineffective ones; forced placement, where teachers are assigned to schools based on seniority rather than the match of teacher skills to school preferences and needs; and LIFO (last in first out), by which teacher lay - offs are based entirely on seniority rather than teacher effectiveness.

During his tenure in New York, King ushered in practices such as teacher evaluations tied to student performance and supported the Common Core State Standards and aligned assessments, all of which garnered a significant amount of public pushback.

The four bills would increase the probationary period — the length of time before a teacher is up for tenure — from four to five years; end the practice of laying teachers off predominately based on seniority; put teachers evaluated as ineffective back on probation; make it easier to fire teachers for a broader slew of offenses; and limit collective - bargaining rights, barring unions from negotiating areas such as teacher evaluations.