Educators know that there is no consistency in the meaning of letter grades on report cards across classrooms at the same grade level within the same building, let alone
across schools or districts.
Educators then need to adopt processes — such as discovery - driven innovation — for testing, iterating, and refining their blended - learning models in low - cost, low - stakes ways before taking them to scale
across a school or district.
Rolling out a restorative - justice program, whether in the classroom or
across a school or district, requires comprehensive planning.
In this webinar, the former chief academic officer for Partnerships to Uplift Communities Schools and now the current chief implementation officer at BloomBoard, Kelly Montes De Oca, will discuss how you can drive more effective professional learning
across your school or district by using a framework for instructional improvement focused on data and mastery rather than seat time and credit hours.
Solution Tree's experts will help you build strong leadership
across your school or district.
Our popular assessment resources offer tried - and - true strategies and techniques you can use immediately to improve assessment
across your school or district.
The Solution Tree Assessment Center will help you develop assessment literacy
across your school or district to ensure every student, regardless of background, is college and career ready.
Equip your staff with the knowledge and skills they need to redeliver CORE professional development events so that essential knowledge and proven instructional practices can be shared and implemented effectively
across your school or district.
NetSupport's award - winning IT Management solutions provide instructors with the tools to monitor and collaborate with all student devices in the classroom, while allowing IT staff to centrally manage and support all IT assets and endpoints
across a school or district network.
Not exact matches
The course, ideal for whole staff teams
or for lead team members
across a
district or schools cluster, helps you to:
«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.
Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation
across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously
or not, to move to neighborhoods and
school districts with fewer minorities.
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.
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.
Across all four
districts, which together serve more than 465,000 students, the researchers found new elementary teachers were assigned students who had performed.1 to.3 of a standard deviation below their peers who were assigned to teachers with four years of experience
or more — meaning that these students were about three to nine months of
schooling behind their classmates.
It partners with all 67 Florida
school districts to bring a complete high -
school curriculum moderated by certified teachers to the homes of residents
across the state, many of whom live on isolated produce farms
or ranches.
program costs compare
across online vendors,
district course providers,
or state virtual
schools?
There is a wide range of different themes for the 504 California magnets, which are scattered
across 87
school districts.8 Most people probably think of the «gifted»
or «high achieving» version of magnet
schools with selective admissions criteria, but these are less than 20 percent of California magnet
schools (81 of the 504).
Today, 45 of 50 states and the
District of Columbia have a state virtual
school or online initiative, full - time online
school,
or both, according to «Keeping Pace with K - 12 Online Learning,» (3M) a 2009 report sponsored by ten
schools and organizations
across the country.
And if
school staffing operates differently in different
districts or screening assessments capture different information about applicants, then maybe we should expect results to vary
across settings.
Tax hikes that would have raised more money for education in Illinois were voted down in 48 of 60 local
school district referendums,
or 80 percent of the ballot initiatives held
across the state on Nov. 5.
States and
school districts across the country are reevaluating the practice of educating young adolescents in stand - alone middle
schools, which typically span grades 6 through 8
or 5 through 8, rather than keeping them in K — 8
schools.
If there are multiple lesson study teams in a
school or district, they will identify a common research theme to guide their work and teams may use the same theme
across multiple cycles.
At that time, any student who attended one of four magnet cluster
schools had the option of remaining in his
or her neighborhood
school; the additional students were recruited from
across the
district.
To find out how much those resources vary, and to help you determine how your
school or district compares with others
across the country, we asked members of the Education World Tech Team to tell us about their jobs and responsibilities; to describe the resources they provide and the resources provided to them.
Measuring
school or student performance is fraught with problems, especially if the goal is to make comparisons
across classrooms,
schools,
districts,
or states.
A number of years ago, I studied 57 urban
school districts across the U.S. and found that they had launched an average of 13 major reforms in a three - year period —
or three to four every year.
In a
district, progress reports would enable the leader to evaluate the
school - level leaders and
district team members responsible for implementing changes by tracking the results achieved for defined groups of students within
or across schools.
These sites all offer users the ability to compare their
school with others in the same
school district or state (because standard tests in each state vary, it's difficult to make such comparisons
across districts in different states), and a few rank
schools based on test performance
or other factors.
Finally, we evaluate the degree to which differences in relative test score performance (
or growth) of high - SES versus low - SES students are largely occurring within
school districts or across school districts.
The pattern of differences
across schools,
across and within
school districts, argues for enacting
school accountability policies that hold
schools accountable for the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels
or gains.
Missouri's pension boundaries would make it practically impossible for high - performing
school districts to operate a program, run a
school,
or loan teachers within the Saint Louis
or Kansas City boundaries, just as state pension boundaries would make it impossible for
schools to effectively work
across state lines.
Letters from the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to
school district officials, threatening prosecution if disparities in discipline rates and resources
across racial and ethnic lines are not justified, will be withdrawn
or simply ignored.
Across the country, a small number of
schools and
districts are modifying
or extending the academic year.
For example, a single high
school with 1,000 students will pay $ 7 per student,
or $ 7,000 a year, while a
district with 10,000 students
across five
schools will pay closer to $ 5 per student,
or $ 50,000 a year.
At the high -
school level, the comparison group is likely to be, for example, all history teachers
or all science teachers
across the
district.
The greatest insight we have gained in our work with
school districts across the continent is that organisation that take the plunge and actually begin doing the work of a PLC develop their capacity to help all students learn at high levels far more effectively than
schools that spend years preparing to become PLCs through reading
or even training.
Unfortunately, this is a common headline
across the country with «U.S.» interchangeable with any number of
school,
district,
or state names.
Having served 1,400 students annually for the past two years, and hundreds annually before that, and boasting an average pass - rate for original credit courses of 91 % each year, Bend - La Pine has fine - tuned their online learning programs to meet the many and varied needs of students
across the
district, including: • How to use online learning to help balance student schedules • How to monitoring student progress carefully to stay on track • How to involve parents to keep them aware of their child's achievement
or problem areas • Lessons learned from launching a Virtual
School Program
We also offer a consortium for
school leadership teams
across a state, region,
or district and Training - of - Trainer sessions for staff developers wishing to become certified providers.
Analyzing how
districts distributed their state allocations
across schools under California's landmark 2013 weighted student funding overhaul,
districts varied enormously on whether they distributed more
or fewer of the new and newly flexible dollars to the highest - needs
schools.
Our experience working
across the country tells us that while attendance improvements can begin in a single classroom
or school, the most effective and sustainable approaches are data - driven, supported by strong
district,
school and community leadership.
State and
District Administrators Learn how NISL can strengthen school leadership across your state or d
District Administrators Learn how NISL can strengthen
school leadership
across your state
or districtdistrict.
According to a nationwide survey to be released soon by the National Education Association (nea), more than one in three of the 1,326 elementary - and secondary -
school teachers chosen randomly from different - sized
school districts across the country said they «certainly»
or «probably» would not become teachers again if they were given the choice.
MindQuest21sm certified and experienced consultant team prepares
school leaders,
districts and teacher teams to transform instruction and systems with the adoption and /
or expansion of Project - Based Learning
across the curriculum aimed to produce deeper learning outcomes for all students.
To find out — and to help you determine how your
school or district compares with others
across the country — we asked our Tech Team to tell us about their jobs and responsibilities; to describe the resources they provide and the resources provided to them.
How will parents make informed
school choices, within
or across districts, if they are presented with a different data profile at every turn?
«The Departments» continued issuance of guidance absent public comment is not serving the best interests of students, parents,
or schools, and it imposes greater expense and liability
across school districts.»
Districts with very high or low FRPL rates can do little to remedy segregation within their district boundaries (although they can often do a lot by working with neighboring districts to allow students to attend schools across distri
Districts with very high
or low FRPL rates can do little to remedy segregation within their
district boundaries (although they can often do a lot by working with neighboring
districts to allow students to attend schools across distri
districts to allow students to attend
schools across district lines)
If states
or districts tested math
or literacy proficiency in more than one grade in elementary
or in secondary
schools, we averaged the percentages
across the grades within the building level, resulting in a single achievement score for each
school.