CCSSO releases today learning progressions for teachers during its Annual Summit on Educator Effectiveness in Louisville, KY. The InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards and Learning Progressions for Teachers 1.0: A Resource for Ongoing Teacher Development are designed to be used by state, district, and local policy makers and staff to inform what knowledge and skills should be required for teacher licensure, developing a tiered licensure system that promotes continued growth, and building robust support components of evaluation systems.
New Jersey's tenure law was modified by state education officials to reduce the role of standardized test scores in annual teacher evaluations. Test scores will now count for no more than 35 percent of teacher evaluations, down from up to 50 percent for fourth through eighth grade teachers.
A memorandum of understanding signed April 1 by Kansas Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker and Académie d’Orléans-Tours Recteur Marie Reynier aims to establish cooperative programs to teach French in K-12 classrooms in Kansas and English in classrooms in the region southwest of Paris, France.
The New York State Education Department will provide $22.5 million in School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the Buffalo City School District.
Educator-preparation policy is important to student learning by preparing educators ahead of time for the tough work ahead. In most states, education authority is within the department of education, but legislatures often make laws that deal with education, leaving the finer points of teacher preparation and credentialing to state education boards.
Guam's Department of Education (DOE) recently issued a draft policy to update the teacher evaluation process. The proposed evaluation system would include student academic growth, as well as teacher observation done by administrators.
The Hawaii State Board of Education and the State Department of Education (DOE) have created the Leadership Institute, which will be led by Douglas Murata, the DOE's assistant superintendent for the office of human resources, as part of an initiative to focus on developing effective school leadership.
Charlotte Danielson, creator of the "Framework for Teaching," says under the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), teachers will have to adopt instructional strategies that allow students to explore concepts, discuss them with their peers, and question and challenge their classmates in a respectable manner.
The third Annual International Summit on the Teaching Profession, is being held in Amsterdam March 13-14, 2013. This year the focus of the summit is on teacher evaluation and professional standards.
This week in Chiefline: Wallace Foundation releases new report on Principal Effectiveness; PARCC Releases new tool to prepare schools for new assessments.
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