Sentences with phrase «about an improvement approach»

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When pressed by journalists about why he was offering such a cautious approach when the economy is returning to growth, he explained: «I'm confident about the improvements we're seeing in the British economy but I'm equally confident we've got to stick to the plan.»

After a lifetime of struggling with weight AND Type 1 diabetes, learning about the effects of low carbohydrate diets on health — and then evolving my diet to a low carb approach, I am finally succeeding in my weight loss and health improvement efforts!

They'll use a simple traffic - light approach to explore key areas of energy, water, waste and travel, thinking about how they affect the local and global environment and spotting ideas for improvement.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

In this Q&A, Teacher editor Jo Earp chats to Beth Gilligan, Principal of Dominic College in Tasmania, about her approach to leading and communicating a school improvement agenda.

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.

Over the course of the programme they will design, implement and evaluate a «whole - school» improvement strategy that creates a coordinated approach to learning about careers and employability.

If you would like more information about the CEC's collaborative approach to school improvement or learn more about IL - EMPOWER, please contact David Osta at [email protected] or 708-267-9352.

Through frequent discussions and special workshops, the education staff of arts organizations learn about specifics of DCPS content standards and other curriculum requirements as well as other pressing topics in arts and humanities education to be able to adapt their offerings to better meet classroom needs and to plan and strategize around approaches to leading the education improvement agenda.

Education Week's Alyson Klein shares information about how states are approaching continuous improvement in their ESSA plans.

Expressing concern about increasing divisiveness between LAUSD and the teachers union, the LA Times editorial page calls for a more thoughtful, balanced approach to making much - needed improvements, including a proposal for LAUSD to make student achievement less than 30 percent of teacher evaluations:

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

Observers collect hard data, avoiding judgements, about what they see to present to teachers and ask them to craft their own approaches, with support and guidance, for improvement.

Despite student engagement being part of discussions about school improvement, very few resources are available that provide guidance in developing an integrated approach to student engagement within the school setting and aligning policies and practices across the school and community.

«All the participating schools both understand the school improvement model that they are working to, agree that it is an appropriate one to use and think that it is comprehensive; the majority of schools said that they felt they had control over their futures, and plans and a strategy to make positive change happen; 95 % reported that the process made them think about new approaches to school improvement».

Once enjoying bipartisan support, the controversial standards have become the epicenter of a heated national debate about this approach to educational improvement.

Instead of standardizing implementation of best practices, a student - centered approach to improvement requires giving attention to the specific needs of the classroom and connecting teaching practices to what we know about individual students.

What we have found is that despite nearly a decade of intensive discussions about the role and nature of assessment, and despite some important improvements, the fundamental approach of state testing programs has not changed.

Ultimately, this approach relies on hoping for some kind of superpower of a school leader and her team to go it alone and achieve the learning improvement that many others failed to bring about.

Rather than «doing to» districts and schools as in the past, the current approach is about «doing with» because it is more likely to lead to sustained improvement.

I recently blogged about our fresh approach to informed and sustained professional development (you can read this here) and part of this strategy is to develop hand - in - hand all staff whilst underpinning whole school improvement in alignment with our core values, vision and improvement plan objectives.

It could also mean that all partners learn about school improvement; equity and diversity in education; curricular approaches; leadership issues in education, and other issues.

We also describe a range of state policy approaches to leadership development, examining evidence about how these approaches shape opportunities for principal learning and school improvement.

Recently we were approached by Ben Perrault, an applicant for the rank of Eagle Scout about suggestions for capital improvements at Joe station which he might do as a leadership project.

It provides both practical suggestions for immediate improvements to the document, and broader considerations, for example, about fundamental approaches used in certain parts of the draft Assessment, and about the scope of the research that underlies the Assessment findings.

Because there are still many unanswered questions about the technology, water use, and impacts of potential commercial - scale oil shale development, we're proposing a prudent and orderly approach that could facilitate significant improvements to technology needed for commercial - scale activity,» BLM director Bob Abbey said in a prepared statement.

While we've had our eye on improvements to the imaging systems of smartphones, what about approaching the creation of phone / camera hybrid from the other side?

«You have to estimate results and talk about specific improvement goals and details of the specific technology challenges in a project and you're approach to meeting those challenges,» said McDonald, a certified professional resume writer who works with Ladders.

This approach is all about continuous improvement and learning that promotes and supports the mental health of our communities too.

The school has used the whole child approach to educate stakeholders and the community about the whole child philosophy, empower teacher leadership, and bring clarity to the school improvement process.

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Think about accountability and monitoring as part of your overall efforts to integrate continuous quality improvement into your program's service approach.

It is impossible not to speculate about what the results might be for our society if we combined both approaches to school improvement, providing both high quality early childhood programs and better incomes for the poor!