Sentences with phrase «comprehensive accountability systems»

As a result, states have been building toward more comprehensive accountability systems in recent years.

Comprehensive accountability systems are thus essential to ensuring that all children receive a high - quality education.

Comprehensive accountability systems are essential to ensuring that all children receive a high - quality education.

Districts should be key drivers within comprehensive accountability systems by supporting continuous improvement, tracking additional measures of school quality and student success, using these measures to inform local decisions about resources and supports, and serving as laboratories of innovation for the state;

The state has a well - established and comprehensive accountability system.

The state has adopted all the pieces of a comprehensive accountability system.

The CORE is a consortium of nine California school districts that implemented a pilot to create a comprehensive accountability system by assessing school performance through a variety of measures that go beyond academic achievement tests.

ESSA provides an exciting opportunity for California to have a single, comprehensive accountability system based on performance, equity, and improvement that would meet both state and federal requirements.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

Michael Kirst («Swing State,» Feature, Summer 2002) doubts that California has the will to stay the course and improve on the essential components of a comprehensive accountability system.

FairTest supports the authentic accountability plan proposed by the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE) proposed a comprehensive accountability system that uses a balance of local and state assessments to describe school improvement and student progress.

Among them, Utah asserts its «absolute and exclusive right» to modify Utah Core Standards, SAGE assessments, the Utah Comprehensive Accountability System, and its own teacher and principal evaluations systems without approval from or sanction by the U.S. Department of Education.

«I am pleased to hear that the Assembly is looking forward to discussing a comprehensive accountability system for Wisconsin,» Farrow said.

Our intent is a more comprehensive accountability system.»

As states select indicators for their school classification systems, which are just one part a comprehensive accountability system, they should include measures that are valid, reliable, and drive behavior at the local level, such as rates of chronic absenteeism and measures of college and career readiness.

«Utah has one of the most comprehensive school accountability systems in the nation,» the website reads, referring to UCAS, or Utah Comprehensive Accountability System, which groups schools into percentiles.

While the state is moving toward a more robust and comprehensive accountability system instead of relying mostly on student test scores, CORE says its breakdown uses more parameters to measure a school's performance.

Not exact matches

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

Performance - based accountability evaluates teachers» effectiveness through a comprehensive, research - based system that combines such criteria as position responsibilities, classroom observations, and students» gains in test scores.

But the report, based on a survey of states, indicates that states have been slower to embrace assessments, high school graduation requirements, and, most especially, «comprehensive» accountability systems to match the standards.

In requiring states to identify certain categories of schools for «comprehensive» and «targeted» support based on their accountability systems, ESSA depends upon some sort of summative rating system (which could be A-F grades, a star or numeric system, some sort of color - coding, etc.).

It also looks at what impact using new headline measures has on the composition of the top 500 comprehensives, and considers the implications of the new accountability system for comprehensive recruitment in the future.

This faith - based charter compromise could lead to a renewed urban school system — one based on equitable funding, more diverse options, parental choice, and comprehensive transparency and accountability.

It is also comprehensive enough that it could be used by the state to produce a school performance evaluation system to replace the A through F school accountability grading system, an idea WakeEd supports here and here.

IL - EMPOWER is the structure for a new statewide system for schools identified as «Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools» and «Targeted Support and Improvement Schools» as part of the new ESSA accountability system.

With potential changes coming with the pending reauthorization of the IDEA, there has been a shift toward a results - driven accountability system which requires states to compose comprehensive plans for improving student achievement for students with an IEP.

Alexandria, VA (6/29/2015)-- ASCD, a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, has released a new white paper on multimetric accountability that details the ways in which more comprehensive education systems can be developed to support student success.

We supported the comprehensive redesign of two urban school districts (Oakland and Emery Unified) to create systems of equitable resource allocation, accountability, central office support for schools, and community engagement.

Brian has helped develop solutions including educationally valuable and technically defensible state accountability systems and innovative assessments (e.g., science performance, writing portfolio, learning progressions, growth, non-cognitive, comprehensive assessment systems).

Certainly there is a need for accountability systems to provide comprehensive - yet - simplified data, and A-to-F grading, in particular, attempts to make that a reality.

LA School Report on Monday published a comprehensive top - to - bottom list of all 714 schools that were evaluated by a new accountability system LA Unified developed along with five other California districts, but missing from the data were independent charter schools.

They also must have accountability systems that recognize and reward high - performing schools and those that are making significant gains, while targeting rigorous and comprehensive interventions for the lowest - performing schools.

CORE, she says, has added SEL indicators as part of its accountability system «with a good buy - in from educators across different roles and communities» after comprehensive conversations with stakeholders about what constitutes SEL skills and competencies — and why they matter.

• States should set a vision for their accountability systems and be purposeful about the incentives they create when selecting system indicators; • States must weigh the trade - offs between simplicity and complexity to create a tailored yet comprehensive system of accountability; and • States, districts, and schools should increase transparency and clarity of school accountability and rating methodology for communities and families.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Florida School Boards Association calls on the Governor of Florida to establish a diverse committee, to include Florida teachers and district personnel, charged with conducting a comprehensive review of Florida's assessment and accountability system and with providing a report and recommendations, including but not limited to recommendations on the appropriate components of the system, the appropriate use of data derived from assessments; an assessment of the capacity of districts and schools to administer the required assessments without interruption in the ongoing delivery of instruction to students who are not being assessed; a feasible timeline for the transition and full implementation of the system; and the appropriate role of the system with regard to personnel evaluations.

Construct comprehensive and coherent systems of state and local assessments of student learning that: • work together to support instruction, educational improvement and accountability • use multiple indicators at multiple points in time • link assessment to instruction and curriculum • strengthen teacher capacity to assess.

The Texas Legislature should tie to a new school finance system that meets the needs of equity and adequacy bold, comprehensive reform legislation to take Texas to the next level of accountability.

He directly supervised the Divisions of Talent, Performance, Information Technology and led education priorities including the development of a new comprehensive school accountability system under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.)

Lawmakers plan to meet this summer to iron out legislation that creates a comprehensive school accountability system after passing a limited school accountability bill in March that didn't impose consequences for low - performing voucher schools or make changes to the state's school report card system.

Purpose — The primary purpose of the accountability system the state must develop in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is to appropriately identify schools with performance issues for comprehensive and targeted support and improvement efforts as required under ESSA.

It will be essential for state leaders to work with local stakeholder groups to define student success and to then design comprehensive and thoughtful accountability systems to help meet that goal.

He highlighted several opportunities within ESSA that will help schools prioritize a comprehensive education for students, including the student supports in ESSA's new Title IV and the inclusion of nonacademic indicators in accountability systems.

All four of these areas of reform must «hang together» as a comprehensive whole, but it begins with the state system of accountability for results, for without the infrastructure provided by this system the other pieces have no coherence.

- Construct comprehensive and coherent systems of state and local assessments of student learning that work together to support instruction, educational improvement and accountability.

The toolkit is not meant to be prescriptive; rather it is designed to enable you to become better advocates for teacher evaluation and accountability systems that are transparent, fair, comprehensive, and improve teaching and learning.

As Commissioner, Dr. Driscoll oversaw the development of the state's curriculum frameworks, the implementation and expansion of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the development of the state's School and District Accountability System, and the development and administration of the state's educator certification tests and new licensure regulations.

She currently supports the Texas Comprehensive Center's work on Texas» Accountability System for Educator Preparation and is the data collection and instrument development task lead for a randomized control trial examining the impact of National Board Certified Teachers on student outcomes.

Develop comprehensive performance accountability systems that identify, measure, and report on all programs.

We leverage the resources available from a range of federal networks, including the Regional Educational Laboratories, Equity Assistance Centers, and our partner comprehensive centers, to provide the most up - to - date information about states» standards, assessment, and accountability systems.

This comprehensive system of support, encouragement and accountability is what makes College Success Arizona so effective.