Sentences with phrase «across classrooms and schools»

Sharing interpretations of criteria for judging student work quality across classrooms and schools also helps to ensure fairness as teachers learn to hold each other to similar standards.

Every child deserves equity - oriented principals who partner with families, staff and colleagues to elevate teaching practices and the achievement of students across classrooms and schools.

Whatever the outcome, students and parents will likely see more testing, more standardization across classrooms and schools, and «it's possible, if things went well, that you'd see better instruction,» UW - Madison's Harris said.

By facilitating the social collaboration occurring in professional learning communities and cross-functional teams, Cornerstone enables education organizations to retain and share knowledge from the most experienced and effective educators and staff, as well as improve collaboration and idea sharing across classrooms and schools.

The Times» analysis usefully illuminates the wide variation in the test scores of students across classrooms and schools.

Includes 78 tools, a four - point scale, and capability with the Administrator Version to aggregate data across classrooms and schools.

This, in turn, has required better measures of student performance and, in particular, measures that can be compared reliably across classrooms and schools.

Can these assessments be shared to compare across classrooms and schools and improve teaching and learning?

In Sacramento, administrator Lyn McCarty will be focusing her efforts on staff development and monitoring / coaching activities bent on the notion that more consistent literacy instruction can be achieved across classrooms and school sites within the district.

Not exact matches

On the Classes 4 Classes website, students have already worked hard in classrooms across the country to raise money to buy Samsung Chromebooks and iPads for students in other schools.

This past Friday, students across the country walked out of their classroom to protest gun violence and while students were participating, walking out at Flour Bluff High School three seniors there decided to take another position.

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

When the shooter opened fire at 7:57 a.m., bystanders fled into nearby classrooms, some out of the building, some away from the school and across the street.

In one case the Bishop of Lancaster, Patrick O'Donoghue, instructed Catholic schools across much of north - west England to stop «safe - sex» education and place crucifixes in all classrooms.

And when I was at school I once came across a group of kids playing strip poker in a classroom.

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

In Northern Michigan Kids news, schools across northwest Michigan have been serving up local food experiences in cafeterias, classrooms, and school gardens, and we'll be sharing some of those stories each month.

The most commonly heard selling points for computers in schools — and what the author discovered to be true in classrooms across the country.

Students and teachers across the country have already begun using their school gardens for benefits that go beyond the classroom.

We are thrilled to be back in Texas, offering schools and districts across the state the opportunity to bring breakfast - in - the - classroom to their students.

Although school was out for students and teachers, we continued to work with school nutrition directors, managers, and their staffs across the country, preparing for the implementation of breakfast - in - the - classroom in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, and beyond.

* 16 new classrooms constructed across 3 primary schools (Duu, Nabare and Baasa), and new gender separate latrines attached to each.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

A new, more rigorous curriculum was put in place in public schools in 2012 and the impacts of that exploded in classrooms across the state this past year.

Projects funded this year include numerous classroom upgrades, the creation of new media centers, library renovations, technology upgrades, playgrounds, auditorium renovations and other physical plant improvements in public schools across The Bronx.

This year's event, which took place in Texas in February in conjunction with the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, brought 32 scientists into middle and high school classrooms across Austin, Dallas and Houston reaching more than 5,000 students — a significant jump from the 20 scientists who participated in Boston in 2017.

A total of 120 kindergarten and first - grade classrooms across 22 urban, low - income elementary schools were included in the study.

Through a mixture of News, Reviews, Perspectives, Education Forums, and an Editorial, we explore the obstacles to progress, be they within the classroom, across the school system, or in the larger social arena.

The exhortation rings through many a primary school classroom and across the family dinner table.

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

The Community of Practice provides professional development opportunities for middle and high school teachers across the country to learn more about current heliophysics research and incorporate it into their classroom.

Schools across the country are beginning to see this dream come true as they introduce yoga into their physical education programs, classroom setting and after - school club offerings.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

The program — for and about teachers — will focus on the most important challenges and opportunities facing America's teachers, and feature examples of great teaching from various schools and classrooms across the country.

Edcamps, however, are geared toward collaborating across schools and districts, while this post will focus on using OST within a school (or even your own classroom) to realize similar benefits.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

Open to 13 -15-year-olds students across the UK, the competition — a collaboration between BBC Learning, BBC Comedy and the National Literacy Trust - called on secondary school students to become classroom jokers and was given backing by some of the UK's top comedy talent, including Charlie Higson, Kerry Howard, Marcus Brigstocke and David Walliams.

Even as schools across eastern Louisiana are closed today — some of them indefinitely — local and state officials are laying plans to assure that students have classrooms to go to as soon as possible.

It is now seeking eight new classroom teachers to join as trustees, who will be involved in leading the organisation as it opens membership to teachers and schools across the country.

The Victorian Budget 2017/18 invested $ 685 million to improve classrooms, upgrade facilities and build new schools across the state.

Teachers are using Voxer in their classrooms, schools, and PLNs to share meaningful feedback, expand authentic communication, hold back - channel conversations, and connect across boundaries.

Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as allowing for the sharing of devices across several students, a classroom application which will provide in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created in bulk and managed by the school district.

This online resource is a highly organized repository of pacing calendars, classroom - tested lesson plans, presentations, and activities shared by teachers throughout the district, as well as 40 other partner districts and charter schools across the state.

A recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report deemed that schools across the developed world have failed to «take advantage» of the potential of technology in the classroom.

In classrooms across the United States, teachers, students, and society are being bombarded by what Harvard Graduate School of Education Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth calls, «math wars» — an ongoing battle over how to teach and assess mathematics.

The menu is discussed at morning registration and copies of the menu can be found in all of the classrooms and at parent collection points across the school.

Davis, who teaches high school technology in Camilla, Georgia, has blown out the walls of that parallel classroom by orchestrating student collaboration across continents, between places as distant as the United States and Bangladesh.

To do this requires that educators build community on multiple levels — across the school, in the classroom, and on an individual level — before a harmful interaction occurs.