The school staff finds itself asking,
What school characteristics and practices have been most successful in helping all students achieve at high levels?
Not exact matches
Future research should not only compare how embryonic stem cells, iPS cells and adult stem cells differentiate, but focus on
what effects the niche in which these cells will reside, when transplanted, will have on their
characteristics, including tendencies to mutate into cancer cells, notes cell and stem cell biologist Olga Genbacev at the University of California, San Francisco, (U.C.S.F.)
School of Medicine.
«
What characteristics do
school shooters share?
You would think that
what all this prefrontal cortex real estate would do for us is allow us to do all these wonderful things like paint and make music and speak and build churches and cities and
schools and have systems of justice, but at an anatomical level one of its most distinguishing
characteristics is that it's full of inhibitory circuits.
We eventually learn that Lester works as a high
school substitute teacher — it's
characteristic of the chummy, upscale narrowness of Baumbach's world that details such as
what people do for a living usually aren't accorded much importance.
Any analysis has its limitations, but
what I especially appreciate about the report is the care researchers paid to controlling for the measurable student
characteristics most strongly related to
school performance.
Having a strong
school professional learning community benefits students and teachers alike, but
what are the
characteristics of such communities and how do you go about building one?
«The ability to understand why others do
what they do and think the way they do takes precedence over all other
characteristics,» agreed Robert B. Cormany, executive director of the Pennsylvania
School Counselor Association.
WHAT TO DO WHEN ENCOUNTERING SUSPICIOUS ITEMS The following protocol should be abided to by a
school's staff member should a suspicious item be identified at the establishment: • Use the following HOT protocol to confirm if the item exhibits suspicious
characteristics • Is the item Hidden?
«
What I've discovered to be the single most important
characteristic [in a teacher] would be their compassion for children, as that is the essence of the profession,» said Paul McCarty, vice principal at Martins» Achievement
School in Sacramento.
These yardsticks can elucidate
what makes effective principals — including the
characteristics and training they bring to the profession and the organization of their
schools.
What if students knew from the start of the
school year that all of their work would be in support of two or three essential questions, such as:
What are the
characteristics of good problem solvers?
In management consulting, the crucial assumptions are that 1) each organization possesses a unique culture and set of goals; therefore, the same intervention is likely to elicit different results depending on a
school's history, organization, personnel, and politics; and 2) suggestions for change should creatively blend knowledge from many different sources — from general organizational theories, from deep insight into the district or
schools under study, and from «craft» knowledge of
what is likely to improve
schools or districts with particular
characteristics.
As
school leaders nationwide are increasingly being held responsible for
what students learn, Delaware has crafted a method for evaluating its public
school administrators that is drawing acclaim for its attention to leadership
characteristics connected to student achievement.
Our ethos is summed up through
what are known as the 12
characteristics of a Mary Ward
School - Mary Ward being our inspirational 17th century foundress who believed that «By God's grace, women in time to come will do much».
So, just reiterating
what Tham was saying - so we were looking at the influence the
school can have when you control for those individual student
characteristics, when we're looking at both cognitive and an emotional engagement.
The report examines the role of states in the charter movement, describes basic
characteristics of charter
schools and their students, and examines why people create charter
schools and
what barriers they encounter.
By contrast, our study adds a «bottom - up» approach, focusing not on governance but on salient
school characteristics such as instructional hours, academic orientation, grade span, and extracurricular activities — factors that determine
what students and families actually experience.
A
characteristic of high performing
schools is strong and effective leadership; but,
what is it about leadership (at all levels in a
school) that can move a
school towards improvement and transformation?
As research has demonstrated,
school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about one - third of
what student and family background
characteristics explain.
They have no idea
what topics are being taught in
school and their job is done when tests show certain technical
characteristics.
However, recent studies using randomized admission lotteries at charter
schools and the random assignment of teachers has suggested that simple, low - cost methods, when they control for students» prior achievement and
characteristics, can yield estimates of teacher and
school effects that are similar to
what one observes with a randomized field trial.
This week, the IES launched a new version of its
What Works Clearinghouse that allows
school and district leaders to search for research - proven programs based on the specific
characteristics of their
schools.
2) the indirect channel that works through families» choices of
schools, in which the
school characteristics relevant to achievement are more fully captured by
what parents observe than by the short list of
school descriptors in the regression (for instance, well - educated parents choose teachers with higher value - added); or
Second, why did I specify
school characteristics «relevant to achievement [that] are more fully captured by
what parents observe than by the short list of
school descriptors»?
There was one commonality in the
schools where they did see a notable change in how students were acknowledging and embracing the traits good learners should possess and exemplify: a shared agreement of the adults as to
what a good learner was and how to help develop those
characteristics.
The
School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/the-school-principal-as-leader-guiding-schools-to-better-teaching-and-learning.aspx This Wallace Perspective is a summary of a decade of research, identifying what effective school principals do and describing five key practices that are characteristic of those le
School Principal as Leader: Guiding
Schools to Better Teaching and Learning www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/the-
school-principal-as-leader-guiding-schools-to-better-teaching-and-learning.aspx This Wallace Perspective is a summary of a decade of research, identifying what effective school principals do and describing five key practices that are characteristic of those le
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schools-to-better-teaching-and-learning.aspx This Wallace Perspective is a summary of a decade of research, identifying
what effective
school principals do and describing five key practices that are characteristic of those le
school principals do and describing five key practices that are
characteristic of those leaders.
The moderating effects of organizational
characteristics are to be expected, since district size and
school size almost always «make a difference,» no matter
what the focus of the research is.180 Elementary
schools are typically more sensitive than secondary
schools to leadership influence, although previous leader - efficacy research has reported mostly non-significant effects.181 And the rapid turnover of principals has been widely decried as anathema to
school improvement efforts.182 Now we have some evidence that the positive effects of leader efficacy are also moderated by
school and district size (the larger the organization, the less sense of efficacy among principals).
The general idea of this line of work was to identify
characteristics of
schools that were performing well beyond
what would be predicted from one or more demographic variables.
In other words, the New York University professor wrote, the scores «reflected something other than
what the teachers did, such as the students» ability and motivation, or the
characteristics of a class or conditions in the
school.»
Teacher beliefs, teacher
characteristics, and
school contextual factors:
what are the relationships?
To start with the end in mind, our approach is designed to provide each
school we work with the tools and support they need to achieve personalised improvement goals, within the context of the national education agenda and
what our research has shown to be the distinctive
characteristics of a highly performing
school.
Finally, standardized test scores are strongly correlated with students» demographic
characteristics, which means they tend to tell us more about the number of economically advantaged students in any particular
school than
what they are learning.
Schools must ensure that all students are on track to graduate, prepared for college.Public schools can do what they choose to educate their students within certain limits and parameters, but they are accountable for educating all learners to high academic standards and outcomes regardless of differing characteristics of those le
Schools must ensure that all students are on track to graduate, prepared for college.Public
schools can do what they choose to educate their students within certain limits and parameters, but they are accountable for educating all learners to high academic standards and outcomes regardless of differing characteristics of those le
schools can do
what they choose to educate their students within certain limits and parameters, but they are accountable for educating all learners to high academic standards and outcomes regardless of differing
characteristics of those learners.
When codifying
school models,
what are the
characteristics of the format, packaging, and dissemination strategy that will most effectively facilitate adoption by others?
In Trusting Teachers with
School Success: What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots we found that teachers who have authority to make the decisions influencing school success create cultures consistent with the characteristics of high - performing organiza
School Success:
What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots we found that teachers who have authority to make the decisions influencing
school success create cultures consistent with the characteristics of high - performing organiza
school success create cultures consistent with the
characteristics of high - performing organizations.
To find out how the individual states performed in 2000 compared with
what we might expect on the basis of conditions in each state, I computed the correlation of completion rates with expectations based on three factors: state average socioeconomic
characteristics (family income, education, and occupation); the percentage of two - parent families; and the rate at which students change
schools.
Review the questions on pp. 33 — 34 about
school culture, in particular «
What are the
characteristics of students who succeed?»
What characteristics must
school leaders possess to lead
schools that will best prepare students for their future?
What are the demographic
characteristics and academic performance outcomes of language minority and English learner students in California public
schools?
By selecting Spotlight HOT
schools in this way virtually any K - 12 educator can visit a
school or classroom with
characteristics similar to their own to see
what steps / strategies have been and continue to be taken towards «Becoming HOT.»
The authors delineate the most noticeable
characteristics of depression in children and adolescents, and
what these symptoms tend to look like in
school.
What student performance outcomes do professionals predict based on changes in student
characteristics and
school - level resources?
My sense is that the efforts to identify high - performing
schools, high - quality
schools regardless of
what sector they're in — public, charter or private — identifying the
characteristics of high - performing
schools regardless of sector, and trying to replicate them.
And the final two are «how consistent are students, parents, and their public
school professional staff in their perception of the effectiveness of their magnet
schools, and
what characteristics do the highly successful magnet
school share?»
As research has found,
school factors explain only about 20 percent of achievement scores — about a third of
what student and family background
characteristics explain.
In Trusting Teachers with
School Success:
What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots, Kim Farris - Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, and Amy Junge found that when teachers have collective autonomy to design and run
schools, they make decisions that emulate the nine cultural
characteristics of high - performing organizations.
Important topics for the network are aspects of policy or practice with regard to data use that have positive impacts in different countries» contexts; factors that hinder or enable the use of data; effects and side effects of data use; definitions of effective data use (i.e.
what does data use in different countries look like); support of
schools in the use of data; and
characteristics of effective professional development in the use of data.
What are some of the key
characteristics of effective
schools?
The hidden curriculum of the
school is
what it teaches implicitly because of its
characteristics.