Sentences with phrase «characterize high performing schools»

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Because high - performing, high - poverty schools are places of reflection and inquiry, leaders» work in these schools is better characterized in the form of questions than in formulaic lists of strategies.

Hess explains that previous research on high - performing schools suggests that the best schools are characterized by focus and by an ability to develop expertise in specific approaches to teaching and learning.

To keep good teachers in troubled schools, we must develop the collaborative culture, collective responsibility, widely dispersed leadership, schoolwide commitment to the learning of each student, and celebration of incremental progress that characterizes high - performing professional learning communities.

My organization, McREL, confirmed those findings in 2005 when we discovered that what distinguished high - performing, high - poverty schools from low - performing ones was a culture characterized by a clear mission and goals, a press for achievement, and teacher involvement in decision making.