Sentences with phrase «across schools as a whole»

As new practices are implemented, districts will also need to study and refine them, always mindful of keeping their eyes on the prize: more responsive and effective teaching in each classroom and across the school as a whole.

Not exact matches

The aim of the flagships is to significantly improve health and attainment across the whole population by transforming the food environment, using schools as a catalyst to drive this change.

The interdisciplinary study by data scientists Adam R. Pah and Luís Amaral and sociologist John L. Hagan reveals a persistent connection over time between unemployment and the occurrence of school shootings in the country as a whole, across various regions of the country and within affected cities, including Chicago and New York City.

The UK project shows a great example of providing equal chance, as it provided an initial deployment across the whole school system.

Karen approached her tenure as head at Worcesters by adopting the Healthy Schools model and using it as an improvement tool across the whole school.

The Department for Education insists that every school must have a rigorous whole - school literacy policy which is implemented systematically across the curriculum, that all teachers view themselves as teachers of literacy and language regardless of their subject specialism and that all schools must do everything possible to ensure pupils can read.

In light of the ongoing push to establish common academic standards across states, the authors examined data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see whether citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to the level of student performance relative to the nation as a whole or only relative to other schools within the same state.

Equally, I think it would work brilliantly as a whole school CPD with the aim of raising the profile of literacy across the curriculum.

Play as warmers, starters and plenaries across the whole school year too for maximum reinforcement - playing against a timer in teams works really well too.

As a result each member of staff and their line manager will have an in - depth, contextualised understanding of their professional development needs, which can then be fed upwards to identify trends and ensure a balance between whole school and individual development needs — all the while maintaining a focus on the specific and varied needs of students across the school.

London and the two regions closest to the capital, the South East (5.29) and East of England (5.91), all had vacancy rates per school above the national average for England as a whole, with schools across London averaging more than 6.5 advertisements per schools for main scale teachers during the period between January and the end of July 2015.

Only the two - step approach levels the playing field across schools so that «winners» and «losers» are representative of the system as a whole.

There have been recent newspaper articles calling for improved sex education in schools across the world.1, 2 Sometimes the focus is on sexuality and relationships education in a general context, other times it's concerned with specific areas of education that principals and educators believe should be implemented in as many schools as possible using a whole - school approach.

«The changing exclusion rates make it difficult to draw accurate judgments about school improvement and student progress in many schools, as well as across the system as a whole,» the report states.

Each participating school received a tailored toolkit of information to help them put on a whole day of activities across the curriculum, including supportive materials such as downloadable planning packs with suggested activities for various key stages, as well as certificates to celebrate their participation in the most active day of the year!

We facilitate whole school sustainability The Center convenes a network for sustainability professionals who work at school systems across the country and supports the advancement of their work through the Green Schools Fellowship and Scholarship Programs as well as regular webcasts and an annual summit.

Second, charter school performance is not so «mixed» if you look at the data on a state - by - state basis, rather than across the country as a whole.

I hope the Newark experience inspires parents and educators across the nation to find more ways to work together, and with other public education partners, to find innovative solutions that not only help your own school but transform public education system for your city or state as a whole.

If you are serious about changing lives and outcomes for young people, and keen to develop as a member of the senior leadership team, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a strategic difference across a whole school.

Naace aims to promote the appropriate use of ICT, not just as a specialist subject but across all curriculum areas and to assist with whole school improvement, as does the iP suite of software.

Taken as a whole, the arrow in Newark is unquestionably pointed up — among traditional schools, among charters, and, most relevantly, across the district as a whole without regard to «sector.»

Afterwards, the staff came back together as a whole group to discuss what each of the groups learned from their research, the commonalities and differences of the findings across grade levels, and some of the strategies that they as a school might adopt going forward.

«His partial and skewed picture is no reflection of the great success of the multi-academy trust model as a whole, which is transforming England's schools and creating the conditions for educational excellence across the country.»

The National Audit Office said the DfE should set out a «clearer vision» for the school system as a whole, to clarify how academies, maintained schools and local authorities should work together across the country.

This is a huge issue in itself, as the flagship schools aren't necessarily representative of the network as a whole across several states.

The letter, from state schools Superintendent Christopher Koch and the Rev. James Meeks, chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education, also warned that if CPS or any other district doesn't test students, Illinois as a whole could be at risk of losing federal funds for schools, affecting districts across the state.

So, in five years I hope we're able to help even more schools across the nation to improve public education as a whole.

Birmingham: Wednesday, 10 October 2018 Central London: Thursday, 29 November 2018 Trainer: Steve Lomax Embed a mastery curriculum across your school by joining Steve Lomax to explore the challenges and opportunities, focus on how the «Teach Up, Keep Up» approach can help your pupils, teachers and school as a whole and hear stories of success.

We offer after - school 90 - minute webinars, bespoke in - school training as well as physical teacher training days across the whole of England and Wales.

Delivered in a way that suits you We offer after - school 90 - minute webinars, bespoke in - school training as well as physical teacher training days across the whole of England and Wales.

Use the MAT tool to compare and benchmark the performance of primary or secondary schools across a trust or trust performance as a whole.

«I want every secondary school to have a stock of classics such as Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre so that whole classes across the country can enjoy them together.»

But while Goldstein assumes that the purpose of a value - added model is to assess individual teachers, it's worth noting that value - added methods can be much more useful if we focus on larger units of analysis, such as the performance of a whole school or mathematics achievement across a whole district.

Our organisations, representing the overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders, have set out our strongly held concerns about the longstanding erosion of pay across the teaching profession as a whole.

As we address this challenge, educators across Canada and around the world are re-imagining the potential of the library to be a true learning commons: the physical and virtual collaborative hub within a whole - school approach to participatory learning.

Our model as a whole explains a significant proportion (20 %) of variation in student achievement across schools.

Being somewhat limited in my freedom to be entertained as a kid, for many years of my life, gaming served as a diverse means of escape for me away from the trappings of a mostly mundane, repetitive life, at the end of the school day I would often think to myself «alright... so what are some of the good things that I have to look forward to when I get home...», one of the first things that I would do as soon as I got home after school was play FINAL FANTASY on PlayStation, I would eagerly walk home as quickly as I could just so that I could continue playing from the part where I had last left off the day before, as pathetic as this may come across, I can confidently say that many of the happiest moments that I have had in my life have been while being utterly enthralled by the developments in the games, I think that reminiscing about aspects of a video game with great fondness is a hallmark of an impactful form of entertainment, I would often be so «in the zone» while playing that anything aside from what was taking place on the screen would become completely null and void in my mind to the point where I forget that I was playing a video game, even though I did not live the events of the game, I can emphatise with them as if I had, that is the sort of impact that the emotional depth of the story, the characters, the music, the design and the overall world of the series have had on me, what appeals the most to me is that FINAL FANTASY allows us the luxury of divorcing ourselves of our current reality to assume that of a world of fantasy for a precious moment in time, which is a sentiment that makes me wish that our world as whole had a little more «FINAL FANTASY» within it so as to make us all want to wake up as soon as possible to enjoy another day

We facilitate whole school sustainability The Center convenes a network for sustainability professionals who work at school systems across the country and supports the advancement of their work through the Green Schools Fellowship and Scholarship Programs as well as regular webcasts and an annual summit.

Having a drug education plan that is documented and shared across the whole school community is protective of staff as well as students and also ensures that parents understand the school's intentions to work proactively when drug use issues arise.