Mr. Thompson also suggested changes to the teacher evaluation system, making it less focused on tests.
First, any system of performance-based teacher evaluation is going to be extremely hard to manage properly.
"We're very happy that the teacher evaluation system is ensconced inside the collective bargaining process, " Mulgrew said.
The teacher evaluation system (TEVAL) has student learning, instructional practices, and professional values as its core components.
The district's new teacher evaluation system uses results from the MAP and state achievement exams to assign teacher ratings.
Add to this landscape powerful education reform initiatives such as overhauled teacher evaluation systems, new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and an increased focus on social and emotional learning.
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The schools lost that increase from last year because the United Federation of Teachers union and Mayor Michael Bloomberg failed to agree to a teacher evaluation system by a deadline set in state law.
In an unusual development for a local school board campaign, the race had captured some national attention as it pitted a reform slate favoring policies such as revamping teacher evaluation, tenure and dismissal rules, against candidates backed by labor unions.
The memo sent Monday was in response to a letter from the state last month after New York City was one of few districts around the state that failed to meet a deadline to come up with a teacher evaluation system.
Meanwhile, all manner of reform advocates continue their decades-long scramble for solutions: smaller classes, longer days, better teachers, better principals, better superintendents, improved student testing, more rigorous teacher evaluation, more imaginative use of technology.
Last month, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback unveiled a teacher-evaluation overhaul that would give parents access to teacher evaluations, but the proposal has faced resistance in the state legislature.
His merit-pay proposal would expand the uses of a teacher-evaluation system still being hammered out for the city's teachers.
He said that student-achievement data is only one component of the district's teacher-evaluation system, which relies heavily on principal observations.
These would eventually include requiring all states to adopt higher standards for student proficiency and teacher-evaluation systems that included student achievement.
The judge noted the governor has decided to impose a teacher-evaluation system on the city if the two sides can't reach a deal by June.
The statewide teacher-evaluation system would be very different than the city's pilot program, with most of the weight put on principals' opinions and other subjective measures.
We could see why Mary Ann is a master teacher, a distinction given to the school's best teachers and an important component of a teacher-evaluation system in Eagle County.
Mr. Weiner said a new teacher-evaluation system, which is expected to be in place next fall but has been mired in negotiations with the union, should help with that task.
The deal reached in Albany this week would ensure that the terms of a teacher-evaluation agreement would remain in place after it expires, much the same as contractual protections do.
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said Thursday the district would move to fire teachers who receive low ratings due to incompetence in two consecutive years if a new teacher-evaluation system isn't in place by the time school starts this fall.
The United Federation of Teachers also asked a state labor board to intervene in a standoff with the city over a teacher-evaluation system at most of those schools, though the city said the board had no right to weigh in on the matter.
The state education commissioner threatened Friday to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid unless New York City showed it was prepared to put a new teacher-evaluation system in place, ratcheting up pressure on the city a day after a deal on new evaluations fell apart.
In New York City, the main point of contention was what happens after a teacher flunks an evaluation.
Many of the proposed improvements in teacher education and evaluation, student assessment, and school design in traditional public schools do not seem to be novel.
Part of the savings could then be used to give the top teachers a raise. ( In a 2008 survey funded by the Gates Foundation, 83 percent of teachers said they would be happy to teach more students for more pay.) The rest of the savings could go toward improving teacher support and evaluation systems, to help more teachers become great.
Ms Gordillo has rejected moves to link a teacher's continued employment to an evaluation.
Further institutional capacity building of MoI Literacy Department in project planning, implementation, management, teacher training, materials development and monitoring and evaluation are envisaged to be carried out in LEAP 2 together with the MoI.
The foundation and others have estimated that it could cost between 1.5% and 2% of the overall budget for teacher compensation and benefits to implement a feedback and evaluation system based on multiple measures of teaching performance.
It is of fundamental importance to establish the links between learning evaluation results and pre-service and in-service teacher education and training, in order to effectively renovate the learning process in the classrooms.
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