Sentences with phrase «reform models»

A complete instructional reform model designed to develop instructional excellence at school sites by maintaining a relentless focus on what occurs inside the classroom each day.

Our pilot schools and other district reform models took what we learned from charters and we brought it inside the district.

So he picks a few prominent reform models that have not demonstrated large gains using the most rigorous evaluation techniques.

To date, more than 250,000 students are now served in this growing portfolio of reform models, which include single - gender academies, partnership schools, in - district teacher led academies called «pilot» schools that operate under a reform labor contract and charter schools.

MicroSociety is a whole school reform model in which teachers, students, parents, and community partners...

A team can be coached, or a company managed, or an education reform model implemented under either management style (or variations thereof), but one is clearly superior in its recognition and application of what motivates people, what generates commitment and loyalty, and what creates authentic learning and nurtures creativity.

As one principal in an urban, high - poverty school described the problem in her context, district - level leaders continued to send pallets of workbooks linked to the district - adopted curriculum although the school had adopted a comprehensive school reform model with an altogether different set of curricular materials.

I forgot to mention that, with the assembly line reform model created by the corporate reformers, notably Adamowski, we pass students along from the elementary grades to the middle grades, to high school without their ever having had to pass any class or even attend school.

and REGRETTING that the mayor's dictatorial corporate reform model with its emphasis on high stakes testing, a narrow test driven curriculum, competition, so called «school choice», no real public voice in decision making, school closings that punish rather than support and privatization policies has failed to uphold fundamental principles of democracy, equity, transparency, system accountability, student - centered pedagogy, and respect for diversity and our local communities;

He shares the award with Lowry Hemphill of Wheelock College for their paper, «Comparing Four Literacy Reform Models in High - Poverty Schools: Patterns of First - Grade Achievement.»

Comprehensive School Reform (CSR): The National Forum counts among its membership developers of several comprehensive school reform models aimed at bringing about whole - school change.

So, during the summer of 2001, UNO pitched a bold proposal to create a charter school district of 10 existing public schools and turn those schools into laboratories for national reform models.

Moreover, the study revealed that only 3 of 18 reform models implemented in the city had boosted student achievement; none of the three was a NAS design.

Robert Balfanz is a research professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Education, where he is also co-director of the Talent Development Secondary reform model, co-director of the Everyone Graduates Center, and co-operator of Baltimore Talent Development High School, an Innovation High School operated in partnership with the Baltimore City Public Schools.

As for additional reform, in fairness, there are a number of well - intentioned and well - crafted proposals directed toward incremental improvement in the current reform model, but, with few exceptions, there seems to be little sentiment for serious introspection or candid appraisal of the current status of the reforms that have produced what has been dubbed «The Texas Miracle».

The December vote was a victory for charter schools and the RSD, one that boldy advances a school reform model as innovative as it is controversial.

Leaders in the Boston Public School system raised a question about different approaches to teaching reading: Were the four literacy reform models used in their elementary schools helping first - grade children in high - poverty schools learn to read?

Schoolwide reform models provide all students with access to services.

Indices of student achievement — such as college and workplace readiness, national norm - referenced test scores, and reading ability — offer mounting evidence of the pressing need to objectively revisit the Texas reform model and courageously pursue corrections in course.

In studying family engagement, I too believe that if we don't begin to reach more parents and communities, then our school turn around plans will start to follow the same pattern as previously failed reform models.

Tennessee's new teacher licensure policies, set for a final vote by the state board Friday, are a second example of state reforms modeled after those recently implemented under the leadership of Democrats in other parts of the country.

Seeing their local schools starved of resources and threatened with closure, while millions were siphoned to private companies and charter operators with unproven results, Newark voters responded sensibly and rejected the NOLA reform model despite Wall Street interests who lavished Baraka's opponent with incredible donations and outspent the teachers unions who supported Baraka by 8 - to - 1.

The Quality Review Tool, or QRT, is a set of forms, rubrics, and evaluation criteria that have been carefully designed to guide the CSRQ Center reviews of CSR reform models.

The privately funded NASDC would support R&D teams tasked with designing innovative reform models to be implemented in these schools.

The January, 2011 edition of Reach examines how Rossier faculty research is impacting critical issues of K - 12 governance, management, alternative reform models and measures of success.

Once the CSRQ Center has collected enough formative information about the CSR reform model under review, CSRQ reviewers analyze the model's evidence of effectiveness and research base.

Mubenga said the remaining 10 or 11 schools would still receive the attention they need, just not under the Restart reform model.

EL's whole - school reform model combines a highly detailed, interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on active learning, teamwork, and character education with training and coaching for teachers and school leaders.

He recalled that Egypt had been lauded as a regional neoliberal reform model, and that international financial institutions are continuing with the privatisation drive in Egypt today.

Cannabis reform models have been comprehensively catalogued by Transform Drug Policy Foundation in their Practical Guide; it's time we ask: Can we afford to ignore the evidence for much longer?

New American Schools, the group that spearheaded the adoption of whole - school reform models nationwide, plans to unite with the much larger American Institutes for Research, with the full merger effective next Jan. 1.

They don't present evidence regarding effects of these initial efforts on student achievement but do explain how RAND diagnosed the weaknesses in the Qatari system, devised the Education for a New Era reform model, and the challenges of implementing standards, independent schools, and the Qatar Student Assessment System.

Money is Kozol's only reform model, and it will hardly preserve the smile on those children's faces.

As pointed our by Senior Lecturer in Education Policy at the University of Melbourne, Glenn Savage, the increase in funds falls «short of the $ 4.5 billion promised by Labor between 2018 - 19 as part of the Gonski reform model».

«This book offers well - grounded insights about the leadership practices of > educateeducators involved in the implementation of Comprehensive School > Reform models.

Arguing that current federal reform models are failing struggling rural schools, a new report makes the case for a new «community schools» turnaround option.

Over a decade, this mandate would transform New American Schools from a privately funded R&D center that would support only effective whole - school reform models into a savvy service provider for research teams that needed to market and fund their designs.