Sentences with phrase «which teachers and principals»

The scores dictated which students were promoted or left back, and which teachers and principals would receive bonuses.

Under Martinez's plan, the Public Education Department would have administered the program and decided which teachers and principals received more money for exemplary performance.

They would not be used to decide which teachers and principals will be assigned improvement plans or fired.

Not exact matches

How to qualify: Once they have spent some time in front of the classroom, teachers aiming for an admin position head back to class themselves — for a master of education degree or additional specialist and principal's training, which varies depending on the province.

With the help of Challenge Success, JLS Principal Sharon Ofek several years ago created a «Shadow Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterward.

Principals, teachers, food service staff, and other community members attended the event, which featured speakers from the district, region, and country.

Both principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems when junk food is reduced in the school environment.

As principals got a better sense this week of their school's budget for the coming year, officials with the Chicago Teachers Union and privately run charter schools — which rarely agree on anything — both sounded an alarm over the effects of potential funding cuts.

Sadly, things only got worse with these parents; however the school principal and teachers were very supportive and followed Morgan's 504 Plan which required an allergen free classroom.

-LSB-...] principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary -LSB-...]

The rest of the evaluation comes in the form of a «structured review,» which the teachers design and implement in collaboration with their principal and colleagues.

The union, which has been fighting for a moratorium on using Common Core tests to evaluate teachers, said the Regents» consideration was far from a solution; teachers and principals may already make that argument, they said.

Under the Regents plan, which was tabled under pressure from Cuomo, teachers and principals who were at risk of losing their jobs because their students performed poorly on new, harder exams would have an additional defense at their disposal during disciplinary proceedings.

The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for twteachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for twTeachers, would essentially hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for twteachers, principals and students from low test scores on Common Core - aligned exams for two years.

It explained that the kidnappers, numbering about seven, had invaded the school premises at about 8 am when students were having a special session at the hall and shut sporadically into the air before kidnapping the victims, which included a vice principal and head teacher.

If the Democratic governor supports state lawmakers» push for a moratorium, he'll essentially disarm his teacher and principal evaluation system, which he has touted as a crowning achievement of his administration.

The majority of school districts, 606 of them, are using that existing teacher and principal evaluation system, having gotten a waiver letting them to push back implementing the new, Cuomo - backed system — under which teachers are scored on a matrix — until September 2016.

The Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization, which includes teachers who are union members, is recommending that its members boycott the first day of the event because its keynote speaker is charter school advocate and principal Steve Perry.

De Blasio's full - court press for universal pre-K and added social services has backing from the teachers and principals unions, which oppose many of Cuomo's reforms.

She worked as a bilingual teacher and served as principal of IS 218 in Washington Heights, and was later named superintendent of School District 8 in the Bronx, which includes some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

«For the last couple of years, superintendents and principals and teachers and parents have been saying there's something flawed with the way in which the Common Core has been implemented,» said Roberta Gerold, a former President of the Suffolk County School Superintendents Association.

Today, the New York State Education Department made available a detailed data file for the 2012 - 2013 teacher and principal evaluation results for all districts except New York City (which did not begin its teacher evaluation program until the 2013 - 14 school year).

John Dewey HS Principal Kathleen Elvin was fired in July after investigators found that students had been allowed to receive credit for classes in which they had no substantial instruction and in some csaes no contact with teachers.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Back in 2013, 12 Atlanta educators — including five teachers and a principal — were indicted following years of suspicion regarding how Atlanta students had improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, which is administered throughout the state of Georgia.

Sherri Pritchard, the school's social - studies «learning facilitator» — there are no teachers and no principal here — said 95 percent of her online students pass Virginia's end - of - course history test, which would put them well ahead of both the Hampton school district's and state's pass rates.

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

According to a 1955 Education article by Leon Mones, then an assistant superintendent in Newark, New Jersey, and a former principal, Symonds and others were openly advocating that the emotional life of the teacher become the focus of teacher preparation, since «it is the teacher's personality that is the tool with which he works rather than the content in which he gives instruction.»

Mr Birmingham says the expert panel, which is due to report at the end of April, consists of dyslexia experts, a speech pathologist, a teacher and a principal who's already applied phonics in his own Victorian government school.

«Our students must use the school - designed homework notebook in which teachers initial each assignment given (as a means of checking that students have properly recorded the assignment) and that parents initial to indicate that they have looked at the completed assignments,» said principal Heather Hamtil of St. Vincent DePaul Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.

In most schools, parents and students dread being called to the principal's office, but at Monaco Elementary, these are all «positive referrals,» for which Gerzon - Kessler reads detailed praise from a teacher to the student, in English or Spanish, as his or her family looks on.

cohort 1, for example, is leveraging the program to build on her experiences as a kindergarten teacher in the South Bronx, N.Y., and as the founding principal of Bushwick Charter School, which is part of the Achievement First Network.

Student surveys: Many teacher evaluation systems already incorporate the results of student surveys, which research suggests can also predict school and principal value - added.

And, second, it creates an unfortunate incentive for principals and teachers to fudge the numbers (though the extent to which they will actually do so remains to be seeAnd, second, it creates an unfortunate incentive for principals and teachers to fudge the numbers (though the extent to which they will actually do so remains to be seeand teachers to fudge the numbers (though the extent to which they will actually do so remains to be seen).

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

Smart principals know better and will do what they've always done, which is find a way to play the «dance of the lemons,» sending their bad teachers to another school.

Fewer than 40 of the district's 194 schools volunteered to participate in the program, in which teachers and other staff members, parents, and community members form school - community councils to provide oversight for school policy in consultation with the school principal, according to Rodney Davis, director of information services.

For this reason, we focus primarily on information from the principal survey, which likely reflects teacher behaviors or qualities that parents might learn from observing the teacher's classroom or speaking with friends and neighbors who have had experience with the teacher in the past.

The plan, which was tested in 24 North Carolina districts last year, outlines 33 standards for teachers and 41 for principals that must be used in the evaluation procedures...

State and local officials describe the system as one in which the state will provide descriptions of the major functions of teachers and principals and will leave most of the evaluation process and use of its results up to local districts.

Put simply, a principal and leadership team that knows how to use the resources and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high quality teaching to each and every class.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

Over 2000 teachers of Years 7 to 10 and 149 principals in 149 schools from the government, Catholic and independent sectors took part in the 2013 survey, which collected a range of data.

But principals have substantially higher salaries than teachers, and these salaries in combination with a full career in a single retirement system (which can include teaching years), result in lucrative pensions.

«The badges are the things that a principal can say, «Oh, this teacher has a five - star rating and those credentials,» which allows for some choice for the principal.

The grants, which are funded by the Atlantic Richfield Foundation and administered by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, are intended to enable principals, joined by their administrators and teachers, to take «essential steps» to further excellence in their schools, said Ernest L. Boyer, president of the foundation and author of High School — A Report on Secondary Education iPrincipals, are intended to enable principals, joined by their administrators and teachers, to take «essential steps» to further excellence in their schools, said Ernest L. Boyer, president of the foundation and author of High School — A Report on Secondary Education iprincipals, joined by their administrators and teachers, to take «essential steps» to further excellence in their schools, said Ernest L. Boyer, president of the foundation and author of High School — A Report on Secondary Education in America.

But then the Georgia State Board of Education balked, unwilling to back Leeper's school governance experiment, in which the teachers would be organized like attorneys in a law office's partnership, and have the power to hire and fire teachers as well as the principal.

As well as, frequently, school principals, school leaders in small communities have a range of extra responsibilities — which usually aren't found in larger centres and certainly not in metropolitan areas — to do with teacher housing, bus services, accessing specialist services to support students, and just coming to grips with the whole issue of distance.

In addition, the administration greatly expanded the TIF program, which awards grants to high - need districts to fund performance - based compensation systems, and established a new rule for winning applications: proposals would need to differentiate teacher and principal effectiveness, based in significant part on student growth, and create compensation systems that reflected those results.

He will take charge of a new team which includes Tom Richmond, a former government advisor and sixth form teacher, and Mark Lehain the principal of Bedford Free School.