Sentences with phrase «approach school improvement»

It gives us another framework by which we can approach school improvement.

Education leaders should approach school improvement and other complex situations by intentionally balancing tensions, or seemingly opposing approaches, to optimize...

Education leaders should approach school improvement and other complex situations by intentionally balancing tensions, or seemingly opposing approaches, to optimize desired results.

MEF invests in partners that seek to transform education differently, in order to change the DNA of how various systems and partners approach school improvement.

Not exact matches

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As we approach the Child Nutrition Reauthorization in Congress — the every - five - year funding of child nutrition programs — lawmakers will have the opportunity to weaken some of 2010's biggest school meal improvements with respect to sodium, whole grains and fruits and vegetables.

As we approach the Child Nutrition Reauthorization in Congress - the every - five - year funding of child nutrition programs - lawmakers will have the opportunity to weaken some of 2010's biggest school meal improvements with respect to sodium, whole... [Continue reading]

The Government has also committed to investing # 150m a year until 2020 to improve the quality of sport provision in every state primary school in England in the form of the PE and sport premium, because high quality provision — resulting from approaches like HDHK — can lead to dramatic improvements in children's health, behaviour and attainment.

The HSN School Grant encourages approaches to inquiry such as the Healthy Schools Process as seen in the Healthy Schools BC Resource Guide for Teaching and Learning and the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework, which is a framework of inquiry and action to support improvements in health and learning in school communities across British Columbia, as well as the Spiral of Inquiry, developed by the Networks of Inquiry and Innovation (School Grant encourages approaches to inquiry such as the Healthy Schools Process as seen in the Healthy Schools BC Resource Guide for Teaching and Learning and the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework, which is a framework of inquiry and action to support improvements in health and learning in school communities across British Columbia, as well as the Spiral of Inquiry, developed by the Networks of Inquiry and Innovation (school communities across British Columbia, as well as the Spiral of Inquiry, developed by the Networks of Inquiry and Innovation (NOII).

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

A continuous improvement approach, like that adopted in California, would track progress on all of the measures in the dashboard, using scale scores to better measure growth and progress for all students, so that schools can continually assess and fine - tune their efforts.

The power of that approach was amplified by another school - improvement effort: Skandera's department had also been reworking the state's end - of - course exams and early - grade assessments, as part of its efforts to implement Common Core standards.

School improvement has been part of Louisiana's accountability standards for years, but many principals approached improvement plans as something to check off their to - do list, Guidry says.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

The 43 percent court - ordered budget increase, from around $ 13 billion in operating expenditures to something approaching $ 19 billion (not including some $ 9 billion over five years for building improvements), is the largest school finance «adequacy» judgment ever awarded.

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.

This approach to school improvement requires an environment of trust and a culture of ongoing or continuous learning and risk - taking by the school leadership and staff.

As Reckhow and others have noted, the focus in grant making has been on pushing new approaches and broader policy changes that might indirectly foster improvement in high schools — through higher standards, stronger graduation requirements, and better teacher training.

When coaching and mentoring approaches to school improvement are valued they are embedded into performance and school development policies.

But it isn't entirely clear yet whether XQ truly represents a more promising way of approaching high school redesign and education philanthropy or is simply a return to an old, somewhat discredited model in which funders let a thousand flowers bloom but never achieved large - scale improvement.

Dept.'s priorities and reform approaches within Race to the Top, and the stimulus - funded school improvement grants are the right reform priorities for your school systems?

This San Jose, CA elementary school shows improvement on math scores with a blended learning approach

Each of these programs address a particular problem of practice — using data, observing and analyzing teaching and learning in the classroom, engaging families meaningfully — and provides proven tools, protocols, and approaches for educators to practice and implement together for school and system - wide improvement efforts.

Most important, they have no way of determining that introduction of the «similar approaches» was the cause of improvement, as opposed to being just present when other systematic or idiosyncratic factors promoted improvement in these several schools.

Early - career school leaders seeking to improve leadership skills and develop a more focused approach to managing instructional improvement

It remains possible that the regulation - heavy approach they prefer will lead over time to quality improvements among private schools that decide to participate in choice programs.

The goal of Leading 21st Century High Schools — being held on campus June 23 — 27 — is to help leaders cultivate effective teaching practices, enhance social dynamics, and implement innovative leadership approaches as key levers in the overall improvement of contemporary high sSchools — being held on campus June 23 — 27 — is to help leaders cultivate effective teaching practices, enhance social dynamics, and implement innovative leadership approaches as key levers in the overall improvement of contemporary high schoolsschools.

It will give one of the grants, a $ 1.45 million gift, to the Education Development Center in Newton, Mass., to help eight school districts determine whether a standards - based approach can produce «significant improvement» in students» academic performance.

Perhaps most intriguing is Douglas County's forthright embrace of a constructivist approach to school improvement.

This game - based approach to math has been linked to significant improvement on standardized tests in schools, but unfortunately it is not available to families in the home.

But I believe these activities demonstrate that teaching schools are recognising and embracing a collaborative approach to school improvement.

Head teacher Derek Peaple said: «Our partnership with Achievement for All has developed at the heart of a wider approach to school improvement that has seen Park House identified as one of the top 100 state schools in the county for closing the achievement gap and securing continuous improvement in good GCSE results.

Reworking the school curriculum, testing students» numeracy levels and maintaining existing approaches to teacher professional development are unlikely to produce world - class improvements.

Dave Smith, Computing and ICT advisor for Havering School Improvement Services, believes that Ofsted will be looking particularly closely at a school's approach to implementing the ICT national curriculum, which is an area arguably requiring the most cSchool Improvement Services, believes that Ofsted will be looking particularly closely at a school's approach to implementing the ICT national curriculum, which is an area arguably requiring the most cschool's approach to implementing the ICT national curriculum, which is an area arguably requiring the most change.

Mr Wright said: «This supports so many positive approaches to school led improvement and it leads to far greater awareness and collaboration around strategic planning.

Block - bid for Condition Improvement Funding The current approach, whereby funding is allocated to individual schools does not secure adequate funding to cost - effectively address repair and refurbishment works.

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Instead of mandating a uniform approach to school turnarounds, convert the School Improvement Grants program into a competition and support states that take this effort serischool turnarounds, convert the School Improvement Grants program into a competition and support states that take this effort seriSchool Improvement Grants program into a competition and support states that take this effort seriously.

Our calculations using a school improvement approach based on data from Massachusetts suggest a national gap of perhaps $ 8 billion a year, concentrated in a few states.

The need to do something different is pronounced because of the long history of unsuccessful «school turnaround» approaches and the failure of the Obama administration's School Improvement Grant prschool turnaround» approaches and the failure of the Obama administration's School Improvement Grant prSchool Improvement Grant program.

Chartering can advance district improvement efforts through R&D, i.e., be a laboratory for testing different approaches and ideas that are replicated in district schools.

I also wanted to encourage an all - hands - on - deck approach to school improvement.

Second, as we move to a sector - agnostic approach in urban schooling and rely on a continuous improvement process based on new starts, expansions, and closures, we must develop rigorous, transparent systems for these activities.

His approach further recommends a much greater emphasis on improvement from within, requiring teachers - particularly those in leadership positions - to see themselves as having wider responsibility for all children and young people, not just those that attend their own schools.

A San Jose, CA elementary school shows improvement on math scores with a blended learning approach.

Teitel's research focuses on principal and superintendent leadership development, on interorganizational collaboration and other partnerships, especially between schools and universities, and on improvement of teaching and learning through approaches like Instructional Rounds.

Gibb also stressed that proposals to bring back grammars would «complement our wider approach to school improvement» and specifically focussed on the government's academy programme, which was the central part of the education reform under former Prime Minister David Cameron.

Finally, the authors provide some intriguing suggestive evidence that the improvement in charter school quality is associated with the growing prevalence of charter schools that adhere to a «No Excuses» approach that focuses on strict discipline, high expectations, and increased learning time.

Schools are facing a pivotal opportunity to rethink approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment — due to school improvement initiatives, robust technical infrastructures, and the proliferation of digital devices.