Sentences with phrase «what classroom policies»

What classroom policies or rules do students need to feel emotionally safe?

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We have an allergy policy in my town (Lexington, MA), and it states that there can be no food in the classroom other than what the kids bring from home or the food service provides.

Beyond Satisfactory: A New Teacher Evaluation System for New York Educators for Excellent (E4E), 2011 After five months of research and debate, E4E's Evaluation Policy Team issued this report detailing an evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would recommend.

This online portal supporting the Statement is a resource hub providing information and articles that can be used to further and inform discussions within labs, in policy offices, on campuses and in classrooms about what scientific freedom and responsibility mean, not just in principle, but also in practice.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

Whilst it does not enforce a procurement policy on schools, it does encourage them to look at their internal processes and products to ensure that the ethos of an environmentally friendly school goes beyond what is taught in the classroom.

What we can do in our corner of the policy world, at least, is address the spiraling retirement costs (pensions and health care) that are taking money directly out of the classroom.

With the Best Foot Forward project, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard is testing what it hopes is a better way to conduct classroom observations, making the process more valuable for teachers and administrators.

What kinds of public policy proposals would increase the benefits of mobile technology in classrooms?

«National education policy is now affecting everyday what happens in the local classrooms in a way it never did before.

As I recently told American Youth Policy Forum, «If you have a good teacher in charge of a classroom to do what is necessary to educate the kids, the kids learn.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

Unfortunately, this is also an election year, which means that political spin is likely to drown out reasoned debate about what policies are most likely to work in inner - city classrooms.

«Audrey is able to make connections between what she has seen in the classroom as a teacher in the Boston Public Schools and effective policy solutions.

What new classroom policies could you implement to manage this?

She said: «Justine Greening must turn the page on the Tories» education policy and focus on what improves standards, excellent teachers, in the classroom with the right skills and support to deliver for children.

Farr came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Tuesday to engage with students in the International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management master's programs and help foster deeper understanding about what works and what is still needed in classrooms across the world.

The articles also do not take up what is happening inside the classrooms and in interactions between and among educators and young adolescents, nor the organizational structure of the schools, nor the policy and community contexts within which those schools reside.

Edutopia.org asked several innovators in the field about what practical steps teachers and administrators could take right away — without making any major investments or waiting for policy shifts — to improve technology integration in our classrooms.

And in recent years, most states have adopted sweeping educational policy changes, including teacher evaluations tied to test scores and Common Core academic standards that have changed what and how students learn in the classroom.

One example is the role policy plays in what happens in the classroom, schools, and districts.

But my expertise is not within the procedural or within the policy, my expertise is what happens within the classroom.

At the same time actions taken at «higher» levels did not fully determine teacher actions; rather, teachers co-constructed what DI meant for their day - to - day classroom practice as they engaged in sensemaking about the tools and policies provided to them.

Our knowledge and expertise enables us to lead and support policy reform, rooted in what works in the classroom.

The Equity Assistance Center helps public schools and their communities incorporate educational equity into policies, procedures, and classroom practices to ensure that all students receive what they need to succeed academically.

Coupled with complaints from students and parents, he had been trying to determine the reasons for the dissonance between the school's grading policy — as it lives on paper — and what was actually practiced in classrooms.

In addition to our in - depth coverage of education policy, EdSource works hard to keep you informed about what is going on in the classroom.

Four webinars will take place May 14 — 15, exploring how today's school, policy, classroom, and student decisions affect what our children, societies, and economies will need and become tomorrow.

Doug Reeves suggests that leaders start the conversation with a discussion of the principles on which all stakeholders can agree; make clear what will not change under the new grading policy; be accurate in their risk analysis; and engage in systems thinking to reframe the grading debate from «my grading policies for my classroom» to a collegial responsibility for the decisions of every teacher and administrator in the system.

When it comes to making education policy decisions, teachers need to be consulted as the experts on what is best for children in our classrooms.

I'm really interested in education policy and advocacy and the way that these two areas work outside of the classroom to influence what goes on inside classrooms.

Our experience enables us to lead and support policy reform, rooted in what works in the classroom.

Policy debates rage in the press, and pedagogical pundits always have a new and better solution to offer, but inside the walls of the classroom, instruction boils down to teachers deciding what they want their students to learn, planning how to promote that learning, implementing those plans, and then determining if the plans worked.

We like most of what we've seen since Cheatham took over, though the district's student discipline policy, aimed at reducing suspensions and expulsions, remains a concern if it increases classroom disruptions.

We know what works, and yet, policy forces mandates on us that reduce us to be technicians in the classroom.

What unites teacher leadership efforts is a focus on the development and support of leadership skills among teachers in the classroom, in instruction, in advocacy and policy, and across a diverse professional community.

If grades reflect a student's progress toward learning, what might that mean for the assessment and policy procedures in their own classrooms?

I'm now in my fourth year teaching, and I feel very blessed by what I've been able to accomplish both in and outside of the classroom, especially through my writing on how education policy impacts my classroom.

A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation's training programs and education policies The question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a say as to what goes on in my child's classroom than I do?

Each time a taunt based on a child's exceptionality (such as «nerd» or «dweeb») is permitted in the classroom or on the playground, each time a highly gifted child is deliberately held back academically, each time a school policy prohibits academic acceleration or continuous progress, we need to ask, «What messages are we giving all children about developing talents, about the value of academic achievement, and about intellectual diversity?»

Too often education policy and reform efforts become stalled as policymakers struggle to decide what to address first: the happenings inside the classroom or outside the classroom that impact student learning.

In PreK - 3rd: Teacher Quality Matters, the third in the Foundation's series of Policy to Action Briefs, series editor Rima Shore describes 1) Why effective teaching matters for student outcomes; 2) How schools can organize to sustain effective teaching in every classroom; and 3) What high - quality instruction looks like in PreK - 3rd classrooms.

They conclude with policy prescriptions, starting with the need to change from a focus on standardized tests to what is still the «black box» of actual student learning and to changing classroom practices, particularly formative assessment.

I have so many ideas to improve our schools that I'd love to bring to the table, but my union (with my money) stifles my ideas and often promotes ideas and policies that are in direct opposition to what I (as a 28 year classroom teacher) feel would be beneficial to my students and to other students across this country.

It's about making a life - changing difference for students by staying involved in all aspects of the work, ensuring that policies successfully reach classrooms, and keeping parents engaged in order to build lasting, systemic momentum focused on what's best for kids.

Perhaps the worst part of this document is what it omits: there is one vague allusion to teacher tenure and no mention of seniority or any policy recommendations about how to get bad teachers out of the classroom, though these are major problems that must be dealt with.

A 2012 study by Tom Loveless of the left - leaning Brookings Institution argues that the Common Core will likely have «very little impact» on student achievement because state policies have little impact on what goes on in classrooms, which is likely to have a much greater impact on student learning, such as the quality of teaching.

What's the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent across classrooms?

Because the study has the potential to shape the way things are done in classrooms — and, ultimately, affect hiring and workplace policies — knowing what it actually says seems rather important.

In this new year, there's a lot to know about what's happening with federal education policy and how it affects your state, your classroom, and you.