Michelle Rhee, The Equity Project, the New Teacher Project, etc.
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Basing layoffs on seniority "is a sad example of how policies aren't aligned for what's best for schoolkids, " said Tim Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit that helps school districts recruit and retain quality teachers.
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In 2007 Public Agenda surveyed 865 first-year teachers in high-needs schools, some of whom had graduated from traditional teaching programs, others who entered the profession through Teach for America, the New Teacher Project, and Troops to Teachers.
Today teachers at half of all the public schools in the nation have had at least one teacher post a project to DonorsChoose.org, whose supporters include board member Stephen Colbert, Oprah Winfrey and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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They were working on a research project their teacher Megan Wiggins had assigned: Create a simulated Facebook profile for a U.S. president.
At Manor, a history teacher might get together with a math teacher and develop a project about the impact of castles on world history and the engineering behind building castles.
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Where supportive policy and appropriate incentives have been addressed, results have shown significant improvement, for example, the in-service teacher trainees in NTU project, teachers were given higher status and a salary boost when they accomplished their training courses.
Best said about half of all U.S. public schools have at least one teacher who has posted a project on DonorsChoose.org since the site went live in 2000.
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During 2006-2010, UNESCO, USAID, and National Accreditation Council for Teacher Education (NACTE) have jointly supported the spade work for standardization and accreditation of teacher education in Pakistan, under STEP (Strengthening Teacher Education in Pakistan) Project.
And one of the things I tried to do that year was to begin work on rewriting what we had done for Congress as a book that I would put out and my co-author who would work with me on the project was my former teacher and collaborator, Karl Brunner.
Barry Bradford, a history teacher from Illinois, turned a school project into a search for justice.
Every student and teacher that is part off the BBC project at Holy family Catholic School Keighley are all very happy that the project is finally done.
Starting in early 2013, the four-year initiative will focus on enhancing teacher education systems in eight countries so as to train an adequate number of qualified teachers to achieve EFA. Project activities will boost national capacity in ministries and key teacher training institutions, staff skills and competencies and supporting resources such as a knowledge base, with ICT as a major component.
Lecturers from the School of Education in the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education were trained during this project to provide in-service teacher training for primary school teachers.
Ms. Stavney's work as a master teacher is informed by a three-year project our foundation funded to better understand how to build an evaluation and feedback system for educators.
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.
Materials developed through the project will be made available to all 133 teacher training institutions and 63 provincial Departments of Education and Training in the country.
The United Federation of Teachers opposed New York City's recent release of teacher rankings, saying the data were part of a pilot project and contained unreliable information.
First of all, the project calls for substantial improvements in pre-service teacher training, not only promoting the entry of the best candidates into the profession, but also fundamentally strengthening the quality of programmes available in terms of curriculum content, training and assessment strategies, training in working with diverse groups, and staff quality.
Drawing input from 3, 000 classroom teachers, the project highlighted several measures that schools should use to assess teacher performance, including test data, student surveys and assessments by trained evaluators.
The project also found that using multiple measures to understand a teacher's performance -- including classroom observations, student surveys and growth in student achievement -- provides a richer and more reliable picture of a teacher's strengths and areas for improvement than any one measure alone.
The workshop is expected to lead to a regional project that will mobilize a broad range of partners involved in teacher education.
The work in the Solomon Islands will be a continuation of an earlier project supported by JFIT (Japanese Funds in Trust) on strengthening the capacity of education ministries, teacher training institutions, teachers and principals completed in the last biennium.
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