Sentences with phrase «based decisions about school»

Connecting and supporting educators across urban, rural and suburban districts to make research - based decisions about school improvement.

Not exact matches

«My biggest concern is people who put serious weight into these rankings, make decisions about where to choose to apply, where to go to school, what tuition to pay when there's so little tangible, evidence - based information that lies below that ranking.»

These are some of the principles on which the schools of thought based their decisions: all things are fundamentally allowable, unless specifically prohibited; toleration and the lifting of restrictions should be the aim of legislation; eradication of mischief is the aim of administration; necessity permits benefiting by things not otherwise allowable; necessity is given due appreciation; preventing mischief has priority over bringing about welfare; commit the lesser of two evils; mischief is not removed by mischief; one should suffer private damage to avert general disaster.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

Read the OSA's decision: https://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/AD2410The-London-Oratory-Hammersmith-Fulham-28August13.docx Read the BHA's previous press release on the OSA decision: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/08/29/schools-adjudicator-london-oratory-school-must-overhaul-admissions-criteria-after-bha-complaint/ Read the BHA's press release on the threat of judicial review: https://humanism.org.uk/2013/11/05/london-oratory-school-challenges-schools-adjudicators-decision-must-rewrite-admissions-policy/ Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools View the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

This written notice will include the specific basis for the determination, the date when the child will no longer be able to attend school in the district, and information about appealing the decision to the New York State Education Commissioner.

The BHA has put the data in a spreadsheet for convenience - attached to this email and online at http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/List-of-proposed-Free-Schools.xlsx Read the previous BHA press release, «Landmark Freedom of Information victory for BHA vs Department for Education», 15 January 2013: http://humanism.org.uk/2013/01/15/landmark-freedom-of-information-victory-for-bha-vs-department-for-education/ Read the Information Tribunal's decision: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/20130115-Decision-EA20120136-0166-0167.pdf Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/faith-schools The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

We have about 30 new NYSUT members that are now sitting on school boards, and what's great about that is they make decisions based on education.

I was interested how the brain processes the information about normative concepts in healthy people to extend our understanding of the neural basis of decision making in social conditions,» said study author Oksana Zinchenko, a PhD student at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Parents need to have information on which to base decisions about what school is best for their child.

«We want to make decisions about the school and academic needs based on data,» principal Kathy Ouellette explains.

Charter school authorizers are getting «choosier» about which applications for schools they will accept and are basing decisions not to renew charters more on student - achievement issues than previously recognized, an analysis by a pro-charter organization finds.

When decision making about resources, chiefly personnel, is decentralized to the school level, the principal and other site - based leaders can further their improvement efforts by hiring teachers and staff with qualifications that match the school's needs.

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

«While those five factors are not representative of all schools it's helpful for teachers to know that these are the different ways students think about responsibility so that in their engagement with students and the way they structure their curriculum, develop policies in schools, this is part of the knowledge base that can inform their decision making.»

Most tests gaining attention today are achievement tests, including those commonly referred to as «high stakes,» meaning that crucial decisions are made about a student, teacher, or school based on the results of the test.

And even if some parents base their decisions on educational quality, many observers worry that low - income and minority parents will be less informed about or interested in school quality, placing their children at a disadvantage in the education marketplace.

Columbia University professor Amy Stuart Wells, for example, concluded that the decisions of St. Louis parents participating in a voluntary desegregation program were based «on a perception that county is better than city and white is better than black, not on factual information about the schools.»

The authorizing mission of ACNW is to ensure quality academic and environmental literacy outcomes for students in Minnesota by conducting effective oversight and evaluation of its authorized schools, providing strategic support to schools, and making informed and merit - based decisions about its portfolio of charter schools.

In some schools, for example, teachers used diagnostic and formative assessment data to make decisions about student placement in remedial reading or math programs, or in school - based tutoring programs.

He said: «They must now make a decision on our funding based on the real evidence about the difficulties our schools face.

Using standardized tests, which represent one snapshot in time, as the sole point in making decisions about student and school progress has been found by researchers time and again to be an improper use of assessment with little scientific basis.

Making decisions about student readiness, teacher performance, and school quality that have far - reaching ramifications should never be based on a single state assessment.

Now 35 states require student achievement to be a significant factor in teacher evaluations, and many school districts are using those evaluations to make decisions about teacher bonuses and as a basis for firings.

Authorizers in Florida are just now completing their review of new charter proposals using a much more robust process, and we are hearing that authorizers are making better decisions about which schools to open based on better information.

School districts continue to make high - stakes decisions about teacher performance based on how well students perform on state mandated...

Teachers can continue to tailor their instruction based upon their students» needs, and local school boards will continue to make decisions about the curriculum.

Other schools can gain insights about democracy from the approach that Kentucky's legislature took to decentralize school governance and ensure representative voices on School - Based Decision - Making (SBDM) Couschool governance and ensure representative voices on School - Based Decision - Making (SBDM) CouSchool - Based Decision - Making (SBDM) Councils.

Schools also begin conducting data reviews to evaluate their programs and make data - based decisions about students.

NSBA looks forward to joining the president and Congress in a conversation about «protecting our children's information» while safeguarding school districts» efforts to promote student achievement and make informed governance decisions based on student data.

Parents make decisions about where their child will go to school based on what is important to them.

Although state law also allows local school districts to use teacher appraisal systems developed by district and campus site - based decision - making committees that include the same two criteria as the state system, it is estimated about 86 percent of Texas school districts use PDAS.

«the inclusion of student voice can be achieved in a variety of different methods that allow multiple opportunities for students to be included in the planning and decision - making about their own learning environment but that it will be the leadership of the principal that ultimately determines which school - based decisions will be inclusive of student voice.»

First, public officials and school administrators often use these scores as a basis for important decisions about school funding and access.

«Of course, it's funny only if those tests aren't being used to make actual decisions about students, teachers, and schools — if those decisions are being made based on the work I used to do, that seems pretty insane to me.»

Key features of these systems include not only the instruments used for evaluation but also the expertise of the consulting teachers or mentors — skilled teachers in the same subject areas and school levels who have released time to serve as mentors to support their fellow teachers — and the system of due process and review that involve a panel of both teachers and administrators in making recommendations about personnel decisions based on the evidence presented to them from the evaluations.

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But there are exceptions that show families don't make decisions about schools just on the basis of test scores.

In this abstract from Education Leadership, three schools show how the data - based inquiry and decision - making process can improve decisions about curriculum, instruction, and policy.

From the middle of the 20th century, when states began experimenting with mandatory yearly testing through the Obama era and the «Race to the Top» program, we have seen states take a greater share of the power to assess learning and make decisions about student promotion, teacher ability, and school effectiveness based on these assessments.

Our decisions about school closings, delayed openings, and / or early dismissals are based on local weather reports.

The research base is currently insufficient to support the use of VAM for high - stakes decisions about individual teachers or schools.

Concurrent with these troubling findings, school administrators and law enforcement officials find themselves in the untenable position of having to make critical decisions about bomb threat incidents with few established best practices, outdated protocols, and a complete lack of education - based training.

Make a school based decision about the chosen approach — which subjects will be taught discretely but possibly linked to a theme, which will be connected under a theme etc..

Government does this by: maintaining a high bar for charter school authorization; holding schools accountable for performance; ensuring all schools are equitably serving all students; and communicating transparently with the public and with schools themselves about school performance — not by making day - to - day school - based decisions.

His rural district, which has about 600 stdents, already had been working to create more personalized learning environments for students, involve them in school governance decisions, and retrain teachers to take an inquiry - based approach.

They are able to make decisions about curriculum, staffing, and budgets based on the specific students enrolled in their schools.

They can be a good resource when making decisions about which neighborhood or area of a city might be the best choice based on what the family is looking for in a school.

Based on two key events during the 2008 - 2009 school year, a group of families, educators, and community members began building GO Public Schools Oakland to ensure that our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accouSchools Oakland to ensure that our community had information and opportunities to shape decisions about our public schools and hold leaders accouschools and hold leaders accountable.

But with the right tools, school and district leaders can elicit responses that empower data - based hiring decisions about teachers, principals and support staff, every time.