Sentences with phrase «year evaluation focusing»

AIR is conducting a three - year evaluation focusing on a variety of outcomes (e.g., educator perceptions, teacher retention, teacher effectiveness, and student achievement) associated with the contract and associated initiatives.

The 3 - year evaluation focused on the 1,303 families that were involved in the Family Nurse Partnership in the 10 pilot sites.

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Specifically, management's business transformation is «deeper» than what it committed to over the past few years, including the merchant organization now focusing on differentiated products and digital merchandising, opening a sourcing office in Shanghai, and an evaluation of the supply chain that could result in greater investments in fulfillment.

After years of false starts we instituted a real teacher evaluation process that focuses on performance rather than merely growing the bureaucracy.

Throughout the year, the FIRE group offered several events to showcase different evaluation methods, collaborating with affinity groups that focus on big data and social science.

Format: Website Years Covered: Cumulative to 2017/02/01 Search Strategy: Software search registry by keywords, augmented by human evaluation Project Focus: MSC trials only from ClinicalTrials.gov Special Notes: on - line sort by 6 parameters

Extended day and year, a relentless focus on academic achievement, value - added evaluations for teachers, data - driven decision - making, and others were scooped up by schools impelled to keep up with the Joneses» College Prep.

This PAIR (Partnerships for Arts Integration Research) report is an evaluation of a four year project with Chicago Public Schools involving three pairings of school populations (three arts - integrated schools paired with a world languages - focused school, a fine - arts focused school; and a math and science focused school).

In the coming years, Muralidharan expects his research to focus on systematically evaluating the effectiveness of various policy options to improve education in developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluations.

Rather than focus solely on a teacher's performance during the most recent academic year, the teacher evaluation system should allow tenured teachers to accumulate a longer - term track record of excellence.

Only after a few years of stripped - down tenure and evaluations focused on performance, and after a few locales craft some promising approaches, will it make sense for state legislatures to wade in more aggressively.

We are just finishing our research and evaluation for the programs from our 2013/14 school year and in two of our major initiatives, we are seeing statistically significant gains in Mathematics - it's in Math that these two schools have focused their blended methods on (often we pick a specific subject area to do a small scale pilot).

Titled «Third - Year Evaluation of the Nine - Site Program Improvement Initiative,» it focused on 68 schools in the Title I compensatory - education program, then known as Chapter 1.

Thirty districts, encompassing over 15,000 teachers and principals, piloted aspects of the new evaluation system so that the Department could discover first - hand what works, what doesn't, and what districts should focus on in the first couple of years of implementation.

After years of focusing on Common Core, common assessments, and teacher evaluation, many of those interested in large - scale K — 12 improvements are turning their attention back to state accountability systems.

The most heated discussion focused on the state's merit - pay program, which lawmakers decided to fund for the 1985 - 86 school year at $ 16.6 million, despite a rancorous debate over the quality of the evaluation process that has been used to choose the first year's crop of merit teachers.

School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy - handed focus on test scores.

Prior to joining NCTR, Tamara focused on state and federal education policy around educator quality, preparation, training, and evaluation for nearly 15 years.

As a teacher, I am learning the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model by focusing on a few design questions each year.

Earlier in the year, we focused our newsletter on teacher evaluation.

Then they analyzed various forms of data — such as language assessment results from the beginning of the year, attendance reports, and teacher self - evaluations — and determined a focus for the observations.

The draft now up for review is 1,900 pages long, and getting it to this point was a years» long process involving multiple committees, including the Science Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee, focus groups and public meetings.

CEI has spent 10 years refining a framework for principal evaluation that focuses on growth and meets state regulations and federal best practice standards.

The delivery will be to the whole school, though the evaluation will focus on selected year groups.

The Evaluation of the Comprehensive School Reform Program Implementation and Outcomes: Third Year Report (2008) provides third - year study findings regarding schools receiving comprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achievement gaYear Report (2008) provides third - year study findings regarding schools receiving comprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achievement gayear study findings regarding schools receiving comprehensive school reform (CSR) assistance awards in 2002, focusing on how CSR award receipt was related to subsequent changes in achievement and whether aspects of program implementation were associated with achievement gains.

Denver Public Schools has been using SGOs for many years; their 2008 - 2009 Teacher Handbook states that an SGO must be «focused on the expected growth of [a teacher's] students in areas identified in collaboration with their principal,» as well as that the objectives must be «Job - based; Measurable; Focused on student growth in learning; Based on learning content and teaching strategies; Discussed collaboratively at least three times during the school year; May be adjusted during the school year; Are not directly related to the teacher evaluation process; [and] Recorded online» (for more information clickfocused on the expected growth of [a teacher's] students in areas identified in collaboration with their principal,» as well as that the objectives must be «Job - based; Measurable; Focused on student growth in learning; Based on learning content and teaching strategies; Discussed collaboratively at least three times during the school year; May be adjusted during the school year; Are not directly related to the teacher evaluation process; [and] Recorded online» (for more information clickFocused on student growth in learning; Based on learning content and teaching strategies; Discussed collaboratively at least three times during the school year; May be adjusted during the school year; Are not directly related to the teacher evaluation process; [and] Recorded online» (for more information click here).

Allowing administrators to waive subsequent observations and evaluations for math teachers who perform well early in the year, for example, could both gratify math teachers and free principals to focus their evaluation efforts where they may be more useful.

Their findings, which come as many teachers are signing next year's contacts, suggest educators at all grade and experience levels are frustrated and disheartened by a nationwide focus on standardized tests, scripted curriculum and punitive teacher - evaluation systems.

He spoke on Wednesday evening before about 100 public school teachers at a panel hosted by Educators 4 Excellence, an advocacy group for public school teachers, at the Scholastic Corporation headquarters in SoHo, focusing on two of the most controversial issues of the last year: Common Core implementation and teacher evaluations.

The Indiana Charter School Board (ICSB) released its first annual report on March 20, 2014, highlighting the ICSB's five - year strategic plan, focus on innovation, processes for applicant evaluation and accountability, and school performance.

Paul oversees a number of programmatic areas focusing on educator preparation initiatives, educator support and evaluation, educator professional development, and overseeing the nation's oldest and most prestigious educator recognition program: The National Teacher of the Year Program.

«If you're going to wean school administrations away from focusing on the SBAC score as opposed to formative tests throughout the school year that identify the specific needs of the student, then you've got to stop treating SBAC like a high - stakes test that not only goes potentially to teacher evaluation, but to administrator evaluation, and to school ranking.

With just two weeks remaining before a mandatory deadline for a teacher evaluation deal, Educators 4 Excellence classroom teachers have launched a 2013 New Year's Resolution video campaign focused on why a comprehensive evaluation system is sorely needed in New York City.

And no matter what is decided, he said, changes to principals» evaluations would likely come as a surprise to many school leaders who have been more focused this year on the prospect of changing the way they rate teachers.

The new evaluation system, designed to keep administrators and teachers focused on instruction, is unrolling amid a historic — and historically distracting — year in the nation's third - largest school district.

In it is a description of the child, learning goals and objectives for the year, particular learning needs and focus areas, and past evaluations of the student is learning, completed by the student, their previous teacher, and their parents.

In recent years policymakers have focused on reforming teacher evaluation to sharpen the consequences for persistently low - performing teachers.

Elizabeth Barkowski is a senior researcher at AIR with more than 10 years of experience in education program evaluation, research, and technical assistance, with a particular focus on educator effectiveness and human capital management.

Dr. McCann has more than 15 years of experience designing and implementing evaluation studies for federal, state, and local - level contracts with a general focus on examining factors that influence school improvement processes and practices.

Rockman et al has developed a strong reputation over its 25 year history for providing high - quality research and evaluation services to programs focused on social studies and history education, as well as arts education and arts integration.

Teachers whose practice has been rated at the «proficient» (3) or «distinguished» (4) level of performance on the Comprehensive evaluation are moved to a Focused evaluation for the ensuing three years, where they focus on one specific criterion.

He spent 8 years with the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) focused on competency - based assessment for core content areas.

This evaluation of the first two years of the national demonstration of ExpandED Schools (the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years) focused on the implementation of TASC's model and on strategies used by schools and community partners to scale up and institutionalize expanded learning.

Conducted by Policy Studies Associates (PSA), the evaluation of the first two years of the national demonstration of ExpandED Schools (the 2011 - 12 and 2012 - 13 school years) focused on the implementation of TASC's model and on strategies used by schools and community partners to scale up and institutionalize expanded learning.

The 2017 Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model is coming soon to iObservation and will be available for the 2017 - 2018 school - year.

With the new Common Core tests a year away, is this the best time for reformers to focus so much attention in Sacramento on teacher evaluation legislation incorporating student growth?

Turner, who has been with the district since 2006, said she will focus on closing out the school year, making sure graduations go smoothly, completing teacher evaluations, and «ensuring the public remains confident in our kids.»

The evaluation of the North Carolina IMPACT project by the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University focused, in part, on assessing teacher characteristics related to technology adoption before and after a 3 - year infusion of technology funding at 11 elementary and middle schools located in low - socioeconomic - status districts (No Child Left Behind Act of 2001).

At the moment, I'm focused on my year - end evaluation report because contrary to what is written in your editorial, there ARE consequences to my current locally - determined evaluation system.The Education Committee was acting in a responsible way when they listened to the concerns of the professionals — the educators who work with students every day — and moved Substitute Bill 24 out of committee.

Each year, CEP selects schools and districts that demonstrate through a rigorous evaluation process that their focus on character development has had a positive impact on academic achievement, student behavior, and school climate.