Sentences with phrase «conversation about accountability»

Are we actually having a serious conversation about accountability for sexual violence here?

She also contends that the new Every Student Succeeds Act gives states the opportunity to have a different conversation about accountability.

In every school there are people who don't follow the rules or meet their obligations — and it becomes necessary to have the hard conversation about accountability.

With the exception of isolated pockets, like the Florida Virtual School (where funding of some online courses will soon be tied to passing an external exam), the conversation about accountability for online credit recovery has not been nearly as robust and far - reaching, in either a political or a pragmatic sense.

Of recent, conversations about accountability in the education policy sphere have centered around the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

Lost in the conversations about accountability are questions like these that are dearest to teachers» hearts:

Of recent, conversations about accountability in the education policy sphere have centered around the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

Not exact matches

In a conversation with me, Paul Tough talks about how children (really) succeed and the implications of his work as California designs a new accountability system.

«Another boy then asked why they were going around collecting trash, and this gave us an opportunity for an organic conversation about our classroom community, responsibility, and accountability.

I love that these women grabbed the reins of this conversation we're having about previously accepted societal norms and took it away from just focussing on the victims and perpetrators and the salacious stories and moving it towards pay - equity, legal defense and accountability.

Our statement of principles was meant to jump - start a more extended conversation about viable new accountability models for states.

The detailed story of her son, who is now grown and living in another state, must be saved for a different day, but the myriad questions that even the synopsis raises about accountability over federal special education and disability services funds is important to keep front and center during the current reform conversation.

Even so, lesson planning with a group of teachers can lead to conversations enriched by multiple responses and build agreement about lesson goals, thus building greater accountability within the group.

We can not have an honest conversation about the transformational role charters play without also emphasizing accountability - a key ingredient in the success of charter schools.

However, within current conversations about education reform, accountability has become an issue of contention.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

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.

In all our conversations about scores, school improvement, assessment, and accountability, let's not forget about the flesh - and - blood students in our schools.

Currently PAC, along with other community organizations and SFUSD partners, is leading community conversations to hear from families and community members about their ideas to help inform SFSUD's Local Control and Accountability Plan.

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We have assembled a variety of examples of district communications materials to help inform our conversation about how districts can share the contents of their Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) development and throughout the implementation process with staff, parents, and the broader community.

As a nation, we need to have a conversation about how to mend, not end school accountability.

Perhaps most offensive of all, we equate the need for high stakes testing, and command - and - control policies, with the obligation to ensure the protection of the civil rights for our most at - risk children without any conversation about the funding, or even more necessary, accountability for those holding others accountable.

Over the next couple of months, we will engage our TOSS working group for accountability in further conversation about how we address quick scores during the transition to TNReady.

The commentaries about the inequities and irrationality of the legal class system at the 2017 CLOC Institute were fast and furious: from Richard Susskind's explanation about the importance of the ABS rules (alternative business structures) in the UK in breaking down walls to allow new ways for lawyers to collaborate and share accountability (and profits) with professionals from other disciplines and professions within the same workplace, to the battle cry so clearly articulated by Lucy Bassli (then of Microsoft and now of InnoLegal Services), demanding that we remove the term «non-lawyer» from our daily conversations and certainly from our value playbooks.

These can be a great tool for sparking conversations about ways teachers and students can improve their classroom culture and instructional supports — although we do not recommend that such assessments be used for high - stakes accountability.