Sentences with phrase «things like teacher evaluation»

Bitter fights over things like teacher evaluation reform and testing have only worsened divides between practitioners and policymakers.

``... Do I think they're going to look at things like teacher evaluations?

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Walcott warned that his successor will be in a «unique» situation after he leaves on Dec. 31, jumping in mid-year to take over «a lot of new things that [are] in process right now, like our teacher evaluation, the total ramping up of the new Common Core and making sure we continue in our special ed reform.

«School reform» has taken on a very particular meaning in the past decade: reformers are those who support things like charter schooling, accountability, test - based teacher evaluation, and the Common Core.

If you believe autonomy, cooperation, and some degree of commitment are necessary to make things like the Common Core, School Improvement Grants, or teacher evaluation deliver (and I do), then this is a strategy that ensures lots of troubled implementation and disappointing outcomes.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

Chris Cerf argued for the critical role of big system changes around things like accountability, standards, and teacher evaluation.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

Although there may be certain teachers leaving the profession in Illinois because of things like the Common Core (adopted in 2010) or new teacher evaluations (implemented in 2013), the data do not support the notion that waves of teachers are retiring because of these developments.

Teacher evaluation is at the top of the list of things to talk about in the education reform world.While I disagree with its spot atop the Education Reform «To Do» List, I'd still like to share a...

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

«The current UTLA leadership has basically tried to deal with things in an overwhelmingly defensive and reactive way, taking things issue by issue — like teacher evaluations.»

He says even though Indiana has a waiver from some of the federal No Child Left Behind law's strictest provisions, things like school letter grades and teacher evaluations are still tied to standardized test scores.

«It turned out that the teachers we talked to were just as concerned about the things that I worry about, like Common Core, teacher evaluation, testing, and the time constraints teachers face.»

In doing so, it hands more control to states over things like accountability, testing, standards and teacher evaluations.