Sentences with phrase «achieving school effectiveness»

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Over 2000 schools have achieved this quality mark and can demonstrate their effectiveness in their use of ICT delivering benefits to all aspects of school and student life and extending more broadly into the community.

Yes, not all that long ago AFT advocated for an ESEA that «judges school effectiveness — the only valid and fair basis for accountability — by measuring the progress that schools achieve with the same students over time.»

While this does not say much about the effectiveness of reducing class sizes in various environments, it does demonstrate that it is possible to have a high - achieving school system with relatively large classes.

All of Hattie's factors need to be arranged in a hierarchy that will allow schools to focus on sets of related factors, progressively addressing and achieving more sophisticated levels of effectiveness.

The walls and roof of Richmond Hill School achieve optimum thermal insulation effectiveness, far exceeding the requirements of the current building regulations.

The heavily weighted criteria (for example, implementing standards, improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around the lowest - achieving schools, supporting high - performing charters) formed a coherent and comprehensive core.

'... Teachers take responsibility for changes in practice required to achieve school targets and are using data on a regular basis to monitor the effectiveness of their own efforts to meet those targets.»

Such buy - in does make up a sizable chunk of points, but 48 percent of points are attached to the quality of a state's plan in four key areas: standards and assessments, data systems, teacher and principal effectiveness, and turning around the lowest - achieving schools.

After constant improvements, including adding letters from parents, and the first of the annual 10 - year class reunions, the 2015/16 School Effectiveness Indices (SEI) achieved at the original middle school was the highest in all of Dallas ISD among the 35 middle scSchool Effectiveness Indices (SEI) achieved at the original middle school was the highest in all of Dallas ISD among the 35 middle scschool was the highest in all of Dallas ISD among the 35 middle schools!

The effectiveness of schools has been measured by the number of grades students achieve in certain examinations and the stakes have become higher each year.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

«At LAUSD, we are charting a bold course to achieve that goal, including school choice, performance management, and new tools to measure educator effectiveness.»

In contrast, 22 percent of the new teachers in the higher - achieving schools were in the lowest quartile, which only increased to 24 percent for those remaining after five years.2 Second, the generally high teacher turnover in lower - performing schools disadvantage students in those schools since the effectiveness of teachers increases over the first few years of their careers.

The department will give competitive preference to those projects that propose evaluation plans to improve project design, implementation, and outcomes; are supported by strong evidence; focus on turning around the persistently lowest - achieving schools; or use technology to improve student achievement or teacher effectiveness.

Achieve Intensive is uniquely designed to put actionable data right at school and district leaders» fingertips, to maximize teacher effectiveness while minimizing planning time and administrative tasks, and to strengthen the home - school connection!

By elevating the expertise and effectiveness of educators working in the out - of - school field the children served will achieve better development in important areas such as social emotional learning and literacy.

The Gates Foundation has avoided systematic efforts to achieve equity of resources for schools and the children who attend them; instead, it asserts that teacher effectiveness is the best lever in this regard, and it has focused most of its research and advocacy on promoting public investment in systems that measure and promote teacher effectiveness.

To achieve this goal, PARCC will develop «assessments to help educators improve teacher, school, and system effectiveness by providing a wider variety of data that is useful for the purposes of analyzing effectiveness, calibrating interventions, holding school professionals accountable for student outcomes, supporting strategic management of human resources, and identifying mid-year professional development and support needs for educators.

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.28 — 33 Small - scale reviews of school - based programs run by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been conducted in Kenya, but there has not been a review of the government's sexuality education program in schools.34, 35

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.10, 24 — 27 This report provides a detailed snapshot of how the policies related to sexuality education in Ghana are translated into practice and what students, teachers and heads of schools think about them.