Sentences with phrase «accountability beyond test scores»

• Amendments to expand accountability beyond test scores and expand full - service community schools models.

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Expand the use of «accountability indexes» to include measures beyond test scores and to give schools credit for students well above and below the proficient level.

Thomas Dee looks beyond test scores to examine the effects of accountability on high - school graduation rates and students» employment prospects.

Responding to the need to look beyond test scores to measure school quality, an increasing number of school districts are striving to incorporate socio - emotional learning measures in their accountability policies.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

As districts — as well as states — now have the opportunity under ESSA to design accountability systems that consider measures beyond state standardized test scores, system leaders must understand the need for coherence.

The biggest goal in the new accountability plan is to broaden how school success is measured, reaching beyond test scores and graduation rates.

One positive trend is states» expansion of their accountability systems beyond reading and math test scores to other subjects such as science, physical education, art and school climate.

Overview The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures beyond test scores.

The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures beyond test scores.

Overview The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures of assessment beyond test scores.

beyond test scores (like SBAC state testing) to include a variety of other important topics like teacher retention, the history of superintendents, and the accountability through the new CA data dashboard.

«I am pleased that we have developed an accountability system that goes beyond test scores and moves away from a compliance mentality to encourage continuous improvement for all our students,» Commissioner of Education Stephen Pruitt said.

But, more importantly, we hold ourselves to an accountability that goes beyond test scores.

The ESSA requires states to measure school quality and improves on the No Child Left Behind Act by allowing states and districts to round out their accountability rubrics with measures beyond test scores.

TCTA was excited about this opportunity, as, in an attempt to provide a more holistic evaluation of school success beyond test scores, we have advocated for years for the state to incorporate a «learning environment index» into the state accountability system, comprised of indicators such as rates of out - of - field and inexperienced teacher assignments, class sizes, educator engagement survey results, and school climate survey results.

She says the fact that lawmakers didn't act on the A-F grading system plan is a «positive,» because now MDE can move to develop an accountability system for schools that goes beyond test scores.

Finally, the one point upon which we agree, with some distinction, is that ESSA «is also an opportunity because it requires schools to move beyond test scores in accountability.

After months of negotiations, Congress outlined new requirements for statewide accountability systems that give states the opportunity to design their own systems that move beyond just test scores, while maintaining a clear federal role to protect historically underserved students.

ESSA replaces many provisions contained in the previous reauthorization — the No Child Left Behind Act — to give states more authority in the design of their school accountability systems and to encourage them to use measures beyond test scores to measure school performance.

The Obama administration's 2011 waivers from particular NCLB provisions, known as ESEA flexibility, marked the beginning of a departure from this limited focus.6 By 2015, the U.S. Department of Education had approved 42 states and the District of Columbia for ESEA flexibility, giving them the opportunity to expand accountability measures beyond test scores and graduation rates.

The recently signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states with greater flexibility to design accountability systems that use multiple measures of assessment beyond test scores.

Mission High (2015) also challenges the accountability movement's validity to reflect the work that teachers are doing in developing their students beyond test scores.

The State Senate leadership wants an accountability system that moves beyond test scores and values college and career readiness.

NAESP is always looking for ways to support principals in developing the leadership qualities that can help make them, and their entire school communities, more focused on accountability to the whole child — beyond test scores.

This concept of defining an authentic accountability — beyond test scores — is also a premise of NAESP's position on the development and implementation of principal evaluation systems, outlined in Rethinking Principal Evaluation (visit www.naesp.org/principaleval to read the report).