Sentences with phrase «transfer teachers based»
The bill also would have given districts the right to assign or transfer teachers based on effectiveness.
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A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»
Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»
If a state chooses to implement this policy change on a school - by - school basis, teachers who choose the current traditional contract might be offered a transfer or be grandfathered, that is, allowed to continue under their current contract.
States and districts can eliminate seniority - based layoffs, which should consider effectiveness instead, and make it easier to transfer or remove ineffective teachers who can not improve.
States and districts can establish a policy of «mutual consent» that gives principals the right to choose their own teachers... States and districts can eliminate seniority - based layoffs, which should consider effectiveness instead, and make it easier to transfer or remove ineffective teachers who can not improve.»
Across the country, at Mountlake Terrace High School, in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, geometry teacher Eeva Reeder began implementing performance - based assessments when she recognized a disturbing pattern among her students: They could pass a test with flying colors but had considerable difficulty transferring knowledge and skills from one unit to the next.
The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.
Its purpose was to promote the usage of students» test scores to grade and pay teachers annual bonuses (i.e., «supplements») as per their performance, and «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make other «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»
While the previous model focused on teacher outcomes, the new version places focus on student learning outcomes, with research - based instructional strategies teachers can use to help students grasp the information and skills transferred through their instruction.
As part of the Music - in - Education National Consortium, El Dorado's Music Learning Leadership Staff (administration, classroom and music teachers) received monthly professional development in a) M+MI curriculum unit design based on fundamental concepts of literacy shared between music and language, b) teaching for transfer strategies, c) music and music integration literacy skill assessment, and d) action research based documentation of student learning through collaboration with MuST, MIENC guided practices consultants, and SF Opera.
The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students» academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement Community.
Translation: Decisions about who gets a raise, a wanted transfer or protection from layoff will continue to be based mostly on how many and what kinds of college credits teachers earn, and on that old union standby, seniority.
The course will build on professional learning and progress from the 2015 — 16 year — when students received iPads and teachers attended workshops on integrating the technology into classroom instruction — by supporting the delivery of the Georgia Standards of Excellence through common International Baccalaureate ® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) unit plans, transfering new literacy pedagogy, and experimenting with iPad - based personalized learning strategies.
The Portland, Oregon, teachers» union's new contract «bars the use of student performance on standardized tests as a basis for involuntary transfers, layoffs, placement on the salary schedule, and / or disciplinary language.»
He has previously worked in the field of education in numerous capacities; first for San Francisco Unified School District as a AVID tutor / classroom assistant, and years after he worked at an Education based non-profit, Aim High for High School, both as an in classroom teacher and then transferred over into an administrative role in the Development / fundraising department.
More specifically, the bill is to «provide a procedure for observing and evaluating teachers» to help make «significant differentiation [s] in pay, retention, promotion, dismissals, and other staffing decisions, including transfers, placements, and preferences in the event of reductions in force, [as] primarily [based] on evaluation results.»
The teacher will already migrate or will transfer to a location where it will be hard for him or her to go to the school where he or she teaches on a daily basis.