Sentences with phrase «while improvements in student learning»

While improvements in student learning of mathematics has often occurred in pockets of school or district student populations, implementing and sustaining systems for improvement is best achieved as a collective whole through school teams.

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«While others make excuses and point fingers for the problems in education, Governor Cuomo has delivered real improvements that will make schools better and help our students learn.

We'll identify areas of effectiveness and help you set priorities for areas that most need improvement, while keeping in mind the critical importance of developing curricula that can be reasonably taught in the time allotted, allowing teachers to help students develop deep knowledge of what they're learning.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Another part of the problem is that the federal approach pays only a passing nod to the improvement made by individual students, while Florida's own method takes into account how much specific students have learned in a given year - exactly what parents care about.

While these are promising developments for Illinois, the results are not yet in: we don't yet know that the new leadership preparation policies and partnerships in the state will necessarily lead to improvements in student learning.

Clearly, change is coming, and while NJPSA supports many school - reform initiatives, we must take advantage of the opportunity we have in front of us to do it right and ensure that change equals improvement in student learning.

While each district featured had its own way of organizing its work for making and sustaining improvements in instructional practice and student learning, each of them implemented a set of practices that, when used in an aligned and coherent manner, are associated with higher student achievement.

While in reality implementing these changes is no small project, the worthiness of these efforts will be reflected ultimately in the improvement in student learning.

We believe that evaluation goes hand in hand with deepening the expertise of teachers to engage students in high - quality learning while simultaneously increasing the expertise of school leaders to guide and support teachers in this improvement process.

From an «Introduction to Education» to «Advanced Topics in Learning Technologies,» the school offers a host of classes on a range of topics that will help students understand historical and contemporary education issues and learn analytic and methodological skills to assess and investigate the now while making improvements for the future.

While the intent to give a common assessment was worthy, the planning and execution did not result in an improvement of student learning.

If the objective is not just to rank teachers and slice off those at the bottom, irrespective of accuracy, but instead to support improvement while providing evidence needed for action, this modest proposal suggests we might make more headway by allowing educators to design systems that truly add value to their knowledge of how students are learning in relation to how teachers are teaching.