Measuring School And Teacher Effectiveness In Epic Charter School Consortium

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Measuring School and Teacher Effectiveness in EPIC Charter School Consortium

Author : Liz Potamites
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Measuring School and Teacher Effectiveness in EPIC Charter School Consortium written by Liz Potamites and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit organization committed to training school principals, heads the Effective Practices Incentive Community (EPIC), an initiative that offers financial awards to effective educators. Through this initiative, New Leaders offers financial awards to educators in two urban school districts and a consortium of charter schools. New Leaders contracted with Mathematica Policy Research to help design the methods for identifying effective schools and teachers. The approach used for each partner differs, depending on the priorities of the partner and the type of information available to measure school and teacher performance. This report presents the methods used to identify effective schools and teachers for a consortium of over 140 charter schools in 17 states and the District of Columbia during the second year of this project. This year's model differs from that of last year in four respects. First, the authors used a shrinkage method to help ensure that schools (and teachers) with small numbers of students in their model were not overrepresented at the top (and bottom) of the resulting performance measures. Second, they added teacher-level estimates for charter schools. Third, they estimated models using two years of performance data rather than just one. Finally, they changed the treatment of schools that cover multiple grade spans. Last year, those schools had multiple chances for winning awards (one for each grade span). This year, they altered their model so each school had only one chance of getting an award. More details on these changes are presented in the discussion of this year's methods. A section on Technical Details of the Value-Added Model is appended. (Contains 2 tables, and 7 figures, and 26 footnotes.).

Measuring School Effectiveness in Memphis. MPR Reference

Author : Kevin Booker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Measuring School Effectiveness in Memphis. MPR Reference written by Kevin Booker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Leaders for New Schools, a non-profit organization committed to training high-quality urban public school principals, received grants from the U.S. Department of Education in 2006 and 2007 to support the development of innovative teacher compensation strategies. New Leaders is partnering with four urban school districts and a consortium of charter schools to implement the Effective Practices Incentive Community (EPIC), offering two types of financial awards to educators: (1) a reward for principals and instructional staff in schools that are effective in raising student achievement and (2) a financial incentive for teachers who are identified as effective and are willing to document and share their practices. New Leaders contracted with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) to help design methods for identifying effective schools and teachers. The approach used for each partner differs, depending on the priorities of the partner and the type of information available to measure school and teacher performance. This report presents the method used to identify effective schools in the Memphis City Schools (MCS), one of the partner school districts, during the first year of this project. The methodology focuses on a "value-added model" that measures how much a school contributes to test score improvements for their students rather than average test score levels or the percentage of students who meet state proficiency levels. The model "handicaps" both the students' starting point and factors that affect their growth over the year, to account for factors that systematically affect the academic growth of different types of students and initial student performance differences across schools. MPR will work with New Leaders and MCS to revise the model in future years, and to incorporate any additional data that become available. The results of this work were given to New Leaders but are not presented here in order to maintain the confidentiality of the individual schools. The identification of effective teachers will be addressed in later reports. An appendix presents technical details of the value-added model (estimation sample; dosage variables for students who attended multiple schools during the 2006-07 school year; controlling for measurement error; the value-added model; and estimating effects by grade and subject). (Contains 1 footnote and 1 table.) [This report was submitted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. to New Leaders for New Schools.].

The School Leadership Playbook

Author : Jean Desravines
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119044219
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The School Leadership Playbook written by Jean Desravines and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven framework for whole-school improvement The School Leadership Playbook is a practical guide for education leaders looking to push their school's and students' achievement to the next level. Developed by renowned leadership preparation program New Leaders, the Transformational Leadership Framework focuses on the five categories that drive a school's success: Learning and Teaching, School Culture, Talent Management, Operations and Systems, and Personal Leadership. This book illustrates how each of these factors contributes to breakthrough gains, and outlines a plan for implementing changes in your own school. You'll learn how to accurately diagnose the current state of your school's academics and culture and create an action plan for the year ahead. The TLF is grounded in the latest research and case studies of the highest-gaining turnaround schools, and shows you the specific actions you can take to attract, retain, and support high-performing teachers; improve school culture; successfully involve parents and the community; and ultimately drive student success. New Leaders developed the UEF to pinpoint what schools achieving significant student academic gains were doing, and how they were doing it. This book provides a practical breakdown of the framework to help you begin leading these changes in your own school. Ensure rigorous goal- and data-driven teaching and learning Build and manage a high-performance faculty aligned to the school's vision Implement effective and efficient operations and systems Model the tone you would like to see from students and teachers school-wide By matching the needs of the school to effective principal actions and school practices, leaders can create a plan for transformational change.

Education Strategy in the Developing World

Author : Christopher S. Collins
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780522762
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Education Strategy in the Developing World written by Christopher S. Collins and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the development of a "Concept Note" for the World Bank Education Strategy 2020, the World Bank engaged in a series of activities to garner feedback about the strategy. In early 2011, a revised strategy was published, "Learning for All: Investing in People's Knowledge and Skills to Promote Development." This title deals with this topic.

Making Your Doctoral Research Project Ambitious

Author : Nadia Siddiqui
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000572633
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Making Your Doctoral Research Project Ambitious written by Nadia Siddiqui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the doctoral dissertation process as not just a way of getting a qualification or even a method of learning how to do research better, but as a substantial and significant piece of research in its own right. The book will inspire current and prospective PhD scholars to take up ambitious and large-scale study projects, dedicating this most important time to a worthy piece of research. This edited collection provides real and outstanding examples of multiple research design methodologies which will allow doctoral researchers to develop a wide set of research skills, leading to the development of a high-quality academic thesis from which peer reviewed research papers and books can emerge. Each main chapter presents the summary of a doctoral thesis, followed by focused aspects from the projects where the contributors highlight the development of a research design, the process involved in executing the design, and present selected findings with their implications. Each chapter concludes with the researchers’ experiences of learning through this journey and the implications of the process for the development of the discipline and their own career. Ideal reading for doctoral students and supervisors, this book is a source of encouragement and motivation for new researchers seeking to challenge general perceptions in the social sciences that PhD or other doctoral research projects must be small-scale rather trivial studies, but can instead produce robust findings that have real-world implications.

Baseline Statistics for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community. Final Report

Author : Scott Cody
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Baseline Statistics for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community. Final Report written by Scott Cody and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of Education awarded Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants for the development of innovative strategies for teacher compensation. New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), with five partner organizations--Memphis City Schools (MCS), the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), Denver Public Schools, Prince Georges County Public Schools, and a consortium of charter schools--received five of these grants and is using them to implement their Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) intervention. EPIC offers performance-based awards to staff in high-performing schools in return for their agreement to work with NLNS in documenting and sharing effective teaching practices. Mathematica Policy Research Inc. was hired to evaluate the EPIC initiative. This report provides a general overview of EPIC, compares student characteristics across the three partners, and compares the data used to determine which schools receive EPIC awards with data on all the students attending these schools. Four chapters comprise this report. Chapter I provides a general overview of EPIC, compares student characteristics across the three partners, and compares the data used to determine which schools receive EPIC awards with data on all the students attending these schools. Chapters II, III, and IV present baseline characteristics by partner: Chapter II focuses on Memphis, Chapter III on DC, and Chapter IV on the charter school consortium. The results are broken out by whether or not the schools received awards, by their performance levels, and by whether or not they were eligible for EPIC. Selected baseline statistics are appended. Findings from this analysis lead to several conclusions about the baseline characteristics of schools in EPIC partner districts. Among them was that the schools that won EPIC awards resemble non-award-winning schools in terms of many student characteristics. However, schools that won EPIC awards are more likely to score high on other measures of achievement than schools that did not win EPIC awards. (Contains 16 tables and 33 footnotes.).

Factors that Influence Student Achievement and Teacher Effectiveness in One Urban Charter School

Author : Rodney Bradley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Factors that Influence Student Achievement and Teacher Effectiveness in One Urban Charter School written by Rodney Bradley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative case study examined teachers' perceptions of the factors that influence student achievement and teacher effectiveness in one urban charter school. Three research questions guided this study: (1) What are teachers' perceptions regarding the factors that are present in the school that influence student achievement? (2) What are teachers' perceptions of professional development initiatives provided by the school and the effect these initiatives have on student achievement? (3) What are teachers' perceptions regarding the factors that should be present in a school for students to learn? Researcher-designed surveys and interviews were completed by teachers from an urban charter school in southeastern Pennsylvania. Data analysis indicated that the majority of teachers perceived parent involvement benefits students, including raising their academic achievement. Parent-teacher relationships were perceived as being the most effective component. The factors perceived by the participants that influence student learning and teacher effectiveness included: viable professional development workshops, the integration of technology in the classrooms, school climate, team teaching, and cooperative groups.

Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems

Author : Thomas Kane
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118837185
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems written by Thomas Kane and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT IS EFFECTIVE TEACHING? It’s not enough to say “I know it when I see it” – not when we’re expecting so much more from students and teachers than in the past. To help teachers achieve greater success with their students we need new and better ways to identify and develop effective teaching. The Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project represents a groundbreaking effort to find out what works in the classroom. With funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the MET project brought together leading academics, education groups, and 3,000 teachers to study teaching and learning from every angle. Its reports on student surveys, observations, and other measures have shaped policy and practice at multiple levels. This book shares the latest lessons from the MET project. With 15 original studies, some of the field’s most preeminent experts tap the MET project’s unprecedented collection of data to offer new insights on evaluation methods and the current state of teaching in our schools. As feedback and evaluation methods evolve rapidly across the country, Designing Teacher Evaluation Systems is a must read and timely resource for those working on this critical task. PRAISE FOR DESIGNING TEACHER EVALUATION SYSTEMS “This book brings together an all-star team to provide true data-driven, policy-relevant guidance for improving teaching and learning. From student achievement to student perceptions, from teacher knowledge to teacher practices, the authors address key issues surrounding the elements of a comprehensive teacher evaluation and improvement system. Highly recommended for anyone seriously interested in reform.” —PETE GOLDSCHMIDT, Assistant Secretary, New Mexico Public Education Department “This book is an invaluable resource for district and state leaders who are looking to develop growth and performance systems that capture the complexity of teaching and provide educators with the feedback needed to develop in their profession.” —TOM BOASBERG, Superintendent, Denver Public Schools “A rare example of practical questions driving top quality research and a must read for anyone interested in improving the quality of teaching.” —ROBERT C. GRANGER, Former President (Ret.), The William T. Grant Foundation “This will be the ‘go to’ source in years to come for those involved in rethinking how teachers will be evaluated and how evaluation can and should be used to increase teacher effectiveness. The superb panel of contributors to this book presents work that is incisive, informative, and accessible, providing a real service to the national efforts around teacher evaluation reform.” —JOHN H. TYLER, Professor of Education, Brown University

Charter High Schools

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book Charter High Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teacher Attrition and Mobility

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book Teacher Attrition and Mobility written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) is a one-year follow-up of a sample of approximately 8,400 teachers who were originally selected for the teacher component in the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). This report examines the characteristics of teachers who left the teaching profession between the 1999-2000 and 2000-01 school years (leavers), teachers who continued teaching but changed schools (movers), and teachers who continued teaching in the same school in 2000-01 (stayers).

Education for Life and Work

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309256496
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Education for Life and Work written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families, neighborhoods, and communities. Education is even more critical today, in the face of economic, environmental, and social challenges. Today's children can meet future challenges if their schooling and informal learning activities prepare them for adult roles as citizens, employees, managers, parents, volunteers, and entrepreneurs. To achieve their full potential as adults, young people need to develop a range of skills and knowledge that facilitate mastery and application of English, mathematics, and other school subjects. At the same time, business and political leaders are increasingly asking schools to develop skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and self-management - often referred to as "21st century skills." Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century describes this important set of key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. These labels include both cognitive and non-cognitive skills- such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to learn. 21st century skills also include creativity, innovation, and ethics that are important to later success and may be developed in formal or informal learning environments. This report also describes how these skills relate to each other and to more traditional academic skills and content in the key disciplines of reading, mathematics, and science. Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century summarizes the findings of the research that investigates the importance of such skills to success in education, work, and other areas of adult responsibility and that demonstrates the importance of developing these skills in K-16 education. In this report, features related to learning these skills are identified, which include teacher professional development, curriculum, assessment, after-school and out-of-school programs, and informal learning centers such as exhibits and museums.

The Handbook for SMART School Teams

Author : Anne E. Conzemius
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 1936764792
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook for SMART School Teams written by Anne E. Conzemius and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare your students for the future while juggling the expectations of multiple stakeholders! A fresh take on the classic first edition, this guide defines and advocates SMART goals—goals that are Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results oriented, and Time bound. Gain a schoolwide understanding of how to cultivate a productive collaborative culture, and engage every member of your team in the process.

Public and Private Schools

Author : James S. Coleman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book Public and Private Schools written by James S. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The One Percent Solution

Author : Gordon Lafer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501708171
Total Pages : 327 pages
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Download or read book The One Percent Solution written by Gordon Lafer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the 2010 Citizens United decision, it's become commonplace to note the growing political dominance of a small segment of the economic elite. But what exactly are those members of the elite doing with their newfound influence? The One Percent Solution provides an answer to this question for the first time. Gordon Lafer's book is a comprehensive account of legislation promoted by the nation's biggest corporate lobbies across all fifty state legislatures and encompassing a wide range of labor and economic policies.In an era of growing economic insecurity, it turns out that one of the main reasons life is becoming harder for American workers is a relentless—and concerted—offensive by the country’s best-funded and most powerful political forces: corporate lobbies empowered by the Supreme Court to influence legislative outcomes with an endless supply of cash. These actors have successfully championed hundreds of new laws that lower wages, eliminate paid sick leave, undo the right to sue over job discrimination, and cut essential public services.Lafer shows how corporate strategies have been shaped by twenty-first-century conditions—including globalization, economic decline, and the populism reflected in both the Trump and Sanders campaigns of 2016. Perhaps most important, Lafer shows that the corporate legislative agenda has come to endanger the scope of democracy itself. For anyone who wants to know what to expect from corporate-backed Republican leadership in Washington, D.C., there is no better guide than this record of what the same set of actors has been doing in the state legislatures under its control.

Reign of Error

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806352
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Reign of Error written by Diane Ravitch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today’s American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In a chapter-by-chapter breakdown she puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve our public schools. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it.

Sweating the Small Stuff

Author : David Whitman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sweating the Small Stuff written by David Whitman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of six secondary schools that have succeeded in eliminating or dramatically shrinking the achievement gap between whites and disadvantaged black and Hispanic students. It recounts the stories of the University Park Campus School (UPCS) in Worcester, the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, Amistad Academy in New Haven, the Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, the KIPP Academy in the Bronx, and the SEED school in Washington, D.C.

Building Shared Responsibility for Student Learning

Author : Anne Conzemius
Publisher : ASCD
ISBN 13 : 0871205971
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Building Shared Responsibility for Student Learning written by Anne Conzemius and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is responsible for student learning? Walk into an effective school and ask this question of anyone--a teacher, a student, the principal, a parent volunteer, a secretary--and you'll get the same answer: "I am."Shared responsibility is something school communities build from within. It's what happens when all school people accept that what they do makes a difference in how all students learn . . . when they have the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about the best way to promote learning . . . and when they have the skills and opportunities to translate their ideas into effective action.Anne Conzemius and Jan O'Neill present a practical framework for building shared responsibility within schools and school systems. They identify three critical components:* Focus--The common vision, mission, values, and expectations that provide clarity and lead to new levels of performance.* Reflection--The commitment to test assumptions, learn from data, and adjust practices accordingly. * Collaboration--The process of developing relationships where all work toward the same objectives and rely on each other to achieve their goals.Building shared responsibility for student learning is an ongoing activity--a journey and not a destination. This research-based resource provides a map in the form of effective structures, systems, processes, and policies. It explains how to set powerful goals and shares inspiring stories of educators who have embarked on this journey toward higher professional competency, increased staff satisfaction, rising test scores, and improved student results.