Sentences with phrase «curriculum improvement efforts»

There are several other scaled - up preschool programs that have been evaluated with well - implemented RCTs and found to have no immediate effects, including Even Start, the Comprehensive Child Development Program, and over a dozen curriculum improvement efforts pitting model curricula against run - of - the - mill programs (see PCER and CLIO).

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«Under her guidance, the Ed School has progressed toward a core curriculum, reorganized its master's degree programs and its academic areas, redoubled its efforts to contribute to the improvement of K - 12 education, and worked to strengthen its relationships both with other Harvard schools and with the broader community of professional educators.

Teachers and school leaders know the improvements are due to their unremitting efforts to do their best for every child and young person, whatever their background, and despite the relentless changes to the curriculum, tests and exams, imposed by the Government, that have added to their workload over the past few years.

At the same time, she facilitated ongoing improvement efforts mandated at the district level prior to her appointment (curriculum writing, implementation of a commercial mathematics program)-- collaborating with grade team and subject leaders, specialist teachers, and trainers provided by the externally developed mathematics program.

Their yearlong effort to build schoolwide civic learning illustrates how civics can be an effective conduit for connecting curriculum and leadership practices: School improvement becomes both a collective endeavor and a means for teaching active citizenship.

This effort entailed formation of five curriculum cadres, a school - site council, and a school - improvement planning process.

They designed districtwide in - service programs for principals, focused specifically on new curriculum initiatives (e.g., revision of the elementary mathematics program) or school - improvement initiatives (e.g., developing a professional learning communities effort, extending to all schools).

Meaningful Student Involvement engages students as meaningful partners throughout various school improvement efforts, including curriculum, culture, assessment, and lifelong learning.

The schools investigated in this book were low - performing schools that needed school improvement efforts in many areas, including, but not limited to, school culture, community support, behavioral expectations, curriculum needs, and expectations for both students and teachers.

A Curriculum Council is an effective means of providing leadership, coordination, and quality control of curriculum and instructional improvemenCurriculum Council is an effective means of providing leadership, coordination, and quality control of curriculum and instructional improvemencurriculum and instructional improvement efforts.

She said that the standards are central to the district's curriculum and school improvement efforts, and that the district has no plans to change course no matter what the Legislature does.

In her past and present roles she has been successful at developing strategic school - wide plans related to school improvement, assessment transformation, expansion of curriculum and turnaround school efforts.

By placing instruction and a coherent curriculum based on Common Core standards at the center of a five - to 10 - year improvement effort and by building school, district, state and organizational capacity to continuously support that implementation, we should be well on our way to a successful launch of these potentially transformative standards.

Huge shifts in pedagogical practice and that takes visionary leadership and a strong administrative team to...» plan, implement, monitor, and adjust improvement efforts, as well as to review and align district strategies, policies, protocols, practices, processes, curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, and myriad other systems that must work synchronously to meet achievement and instructional goals.

Lack of consistency in curriculum hinders sharing of experiences between classrooms and schools, makes it difficult for students transferring among schools and fragments district professional development efforts, all of which interfere with improvement in student learning.