Sentences with phrase «assessment at the district»

Several literacy researchers have focused on classroom - based assessment at the district level (Hoffman, Worthy, Roser, McKool, Rutherford, & Strecker, 1996; Salinger & Chittenden, 1994; Valencia & Au, 1997).

Working with fellow science coach Shannon Lee and the science teachers across the district, Cerling has been instrumental in the effective implementation of common formative assessments at the district's six middle schools.

Teachers can give secured assessments at the district, building, or individual classroom level.

During the two - year project, Safe Havens evaluated the district's current emergency plans and policies relating to safety, security and emergency preparedness, conducted safety, security and emergency preparedness assessments at district schools, trained an internal team to conduct future annual assessments, trained the district's plan development team and community public safety agency partner representatives on four phase school crisis planning, helped the team develop new integrated plan components including:

Summative assessment at the district / classroom level is an accountability measure that is generally used as part of the grading process.

Not exact matches

Runcie said the district is conducting an assessment as part of a grant application and will determine what security upgrades are needed at all schools.

The Department of Education conducted a review (2008) of the content of district school wellness policies using a school wellness policy assessment tool developed in partnership with the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University.

School / School District: This assessment is more appropriate to be completed by a healthy school team or individuals who are working at the whole school or school districDistrict: This assessment is more appropriate to be completed by a healthy school team or individuals who are working at the whole school or school districtdistrict level.

Our 2013 - 14 «Webinar Wednesdays» series has begun, and our new topic will be presented on Wednesday, October 16, 2013; join us for «Sustainable Breakfast - in - the - Classroom Programs Start with Effective Assessments» at 2:00 p.m. EST for a 75 minute webinar that will help you understand the assessment process, which provides the framework for the development of a district breakfast - in - the - classroom (BIC) action plan.

He said the LGS therefore recognised the DLT as an objective assessment initiative that had the potential to engender competition among MMDAs, stimulate district level performance and further deepen efforts at decentralisation.

The LeRoy School District is expected to release a public assessment today on tests that have been performed at the LeRoy High School.

A parent at Lincoln Middle School in the Syracuse City School District says her daughter was suspended for three days because she refused to take the state English assessment test on Wednesday.

Bolden's rejoinder that no one at the Space Symposium would agree with that assessment did not persuade Brooks: «When Russia is reducing the United States of America to saying if we want to go to the space station we can do it by a trampoline, that's not the kind of preeminence I'm accustomed to, having seen the Saturn V rocket built... in the 5th congressional district of Alabama.»

«In the K - 12 public arena, school districts are expected to respond to mandates flowing from the No Child Left Behind legislation at the federal level, along with various state and local assessments,» he says.

Early on, the teachers at Mesquite created their own weekly assessments; now there is a team of teachers at the district level that writes them.

My curriculum and assessment work includes planning and review at the school, district, and state levels.

A large majority (88 %) of surveyed districts reported that at least half of their teachers used common assessments.

«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based on anecdotal observations from class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in Iowa, USA.

«We have no Y2K - related problems, all the schools are open, and everything's as it is supposed to be,» Joseph J. Kirkman, the director of educational technology services at the Broward County, Fla., schools, summed up in an assessment that was echoed in districts across the nation.

The signers of the Counter-Manifesto do not necessarily agree with each other about whether standards, curriculum, and assessments are best handled at the school, district, or state level, but we all agree that centralization to the federal level is undesirable.

They extended already long sales cycles for state and district data and assessment platforms by at least two years while buyers tried to figure out the implications of CCSS and the assessment consortia on the architecture and functionality of their statewide IIS platforms.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

A survey commissioned by the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) and conducted by Grunwald Associates earlier this year looked at the views of parents, teachers and district administrators on assessment in education — and found that in many ways, the views of all three stakeholders are aligned.

They may also look at some district measures or class - made assessments to determine students» progress in their skill development.

Thomas Payzant: Focusing on the Big Picture at Dallas ISD Dallas News, February 7, 2012 «Standards - based reform has been a game - changer in states and school districts since the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1993 - 94, which required states to develop standards in language arts and math and to develop annual student assessments aligned with those standards,» writes Professor Thomas Payzant.

Few district interim assessments assess current college and career readiness (CCR) standards, elicit evidence of students» understanding, use authentic texts, and require students to solve real - world problems at a high level of rigor.

Averaging across all five assessment indicators, the percentage of low - income parents saying they are «very satisfied» is 9 percentage points higher at charters than at assigned - district schools.

Indeed, adjusted for inflation, the average amount spent annually per pupil at the nation's district schools has approximately tripled since 1970 and yet the scores of 17 - year - olds on the Long - Term Trend Assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress have remained flat.

There were 220 taking the test on computers at Lake Shore Monday, and the district has a total of 600 signed up in different grades to take the ELA and math assessments, the superintendent said.

Provide resources to states to assist and support development of appropriate and effective assessment systems that provide accurate information to guide decision making at the school, district, state, and federal levels.

Guest Author Jeff Evancho, the Project Zero Programming Specialist at the Quaker Valley School District, describes the process of establishing the Pittsburgh Maker Educator Learning Community, including the community's interest in developing documentation and assessment strategies for the maker - centered classroom.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) requires that participating private schools administer LSP students the same assessments required of students at district schools statewide.

The Department offers this resource to encourage districts to engage in collaborative conversations about assessment opportunities available at all levels, including the early elementary level.

The «entity,» as it has been called since the idea emerged in March at the national education summit, would provide funding for technical assistance and be a source for states and school districts trying to set rigorous academic standards and conduct related assessments of student achievement.

Not unlike the faculty at Forest Elementary, London Elementary faculty members were engaged in a curriculum project (mandated by the district but organized internally) that involved writing curriculum guides and common assessments keyed to the state curriculum in core subject areas.

In a few districts, district and school leaders reported that analysis of trend data by district and / or state assessment specialists had led to the identification of early indicators of students academically at risk, based on test scores or other factors (e.g., family circumstances), in lower grade levels.

Here we examined what district administrators (e.g., superintendents, assistant superintendents, curriculum and assessment directors) from the 18 site - visit districts had to say about data use for decision making at the district and school levels.

We recommend that school districts establish behavioral threat assessment teams to identify potential at - risk students and to provide resources to prevent potential violent incidents to prevent targeted violence.

Student data from both sites were able to be reliably scored, making the assessments useful for accountability purposes at a district level.

Increasing standardization of curriculum, instruction, and assessment appears to be a universal trend in the United States — at the district and state levels.

Those frustrations were visible at a recent State Board of Education meeting, as turnaround operators offered blunt assessments of the current state of affairs in IPS schools, while district officials unsuccessfully argued state officials» funding formula for the takeovers is inequitable.

District assessments at the end of each quarter further pressure teachers to cover all content with all children, whether they are ready or not.

In fact, Cambridge Public Schools received a zero on both the Isolation of Poverty Index and the Isolation of Wealth Index, meaning none of the district's students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their peers have the same economic status as they do.100 Students in Cambridge also outperform their peers in neighboring districts on standardized assessments.101

In Common Core in the Districts: An Early Look at Early Implementers (2014), Education First researchers Katie Cristol and Brinton S. Ramsey, in collaboration with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, profile four «early implementer» school districts to examine factors that are key to successful implementations of standards - based reform: communications, leadership, curricular materials, professional development, and assessment and accounDistricts: An Early Look at Early Implementers (2014), Education First researchers Katie Cristol and Brinton S. Ramsey, in collaboration with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, profile four «early implementer» school districts to examine factors that are key to successful implementations of standards - based reform: communications, leadership, curricular materials, professional development, and assessment and accoundistricts to examine factors that are key to successful implementations of standards - based reform: communications, leadership, curricular materials, professional development, and assessment and accountability.

To meet district initiatives of improving critical literacy skills and raising ELA assessment scores, the Teacher Center of Central Westchester partnered with The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, SUNY (Kennedy Center for the Arts Partnership) to provide a literacy program, entitled Neighborhood Bridges.

The new Benchmark Performance Levels reporting widget accessible from the Teacher Dashboard summarizes multiple measures of student performance on district benchmark assessments for your entire class at once... Continue reading

Districts that have «moved their numbers» for all children have or are engaged in developing district - wide processes that allow for more collective use of relevant data to make smarter decisions, including the ongoing assessment of teaching and learning at the classroom, school, and district levels.

To identify these schools, we use Performance Matters and Unify to look at three years of data from state assessments and district assessments, as well as early warning indicators, classroom summary reports, and more.

But at its last board meeting, Keric Ashley, deputy superintendent for the District, School and Innovation Branch of the California Department of Education, said board members shouldn't feel «tied» to this timeline regarding the new science assessments.

Schools and districts must ensure that all teachers become skilled at this kind of assessment.