Sentences with phrase «decisions about how»

California can implement the Common Core if policy provides districts with funding that is earmarked for improvement support and if Sacramento turns its back on the culture of distrust that says locals can not be trusted to make good decisions about how to spend the money.

Each day, educators make decisions about how to structure student learning.

But the state school boards organization said the package of bills takes away local school boards» ability to make decisions about how to provide the best education and educational environment for students.

They will make crucial decisions about how to make use of the $ 1.25 billion in Common Core State Standards Implementation Funds to purchase instructional materials.

In other words, decisions about how to work together are made before decisions about what to do.

Amid this debate, we can not forget to consider the obvious goal for local fair funding — making local school decisions about how to invest in local school goals.

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as who makes decisions about how it is spent.

As a beginning teacher Jason could not make effective decisions about how and when to use VeeMaps.

By giving students the opportunity to contribute to decisions about how their class is run, or about how they will complete assignments, teachers also communicate to the students that they trust and respect their ability to make positive choices.

Thus, while Kentucky purports to treat educators as professionals and empower them to make decisions about how best to meet student learning goals, the top - down, mandated Primary School Program controls and directs how elementary educators are to meet those goals.

While the No Child Left Behind era saw a strengthened federal role and increased federal funding for education, 3 states and localities have always provided the vast majority of school funding and made the majority of important decisions about how schools operate.

These informal assessment opportunities provide nuggets of information that can be powerful in helping teachers make decisions about how to individualize, differentiate, and personalize instruction and organize mathematics and other classes.

When students, their parents, teachers, and principals participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) they are helping to inform decisions about how to improve the education system in our country.

While research can inform the use of value - added measures, most decisions about how to use these measures require personal judgment, as well as a greater understanding of school and district factors than research can provide.

Finally, we consider how the current body of knowledge, and the gaps in that knowledge, can guide decisions about how to use value - added measures in evaluations of teacher effectiveness.

A random sampling of students in each state takes the tests in a variety of subjects every two years to inform decisions about how to improve the education system in America.

What if we used this research to drive some of our decisions about how to structure evaluation?

Those pension plan assumptions are the basis for consequential financial decisions about how much the state or city needs to save today in order to pay benefits in the future.

Assessment in action leads teachers to see when students are learning and be agile enough to make decisions about how to facilitate more of that learning.

At its best, the feedback and dialogue lead students to see their own learning and make decisions about how to move their learning to the next level.

States and local school districts can now make more decisions about how best to support student learning.

States can not responsibly put off making tough decisions about how to shrink government and bring their budgets back into balance.

• Level 2 (skill / concept): Standards at this level require examinees to develop some mental connections and make decisions about how to set up or approach a problem or activity to produce a response.

In one instance, both teachers used videos for assessment but made different decisions about how to do so based upon the unique characteristics of their students.

The standards are not curricula; they spell out the skills and knowledge students should have by grade, but decisions about how to teach those skills and what classroom materials to use are left to states and local school districts.

«And the fast - changing landscape of educational technology only complicates the task for policymakers and administrators who seek to make «smart» decisions about how to proceed.»

This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost - effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance.

Make research - based decisions about how to accomplish key instructional shifts as called for across the English Language arts standards with the following resources:

Decisions about how much to focus on this child versus that child should be painful enough that we don't make them cavalierly.

Cerf said decisions about how many students are allowed in a school are separate from the universal enrollment system.

Decisions about how to measure student progress in K - 2 are made by local school districts and BOCES.

Professionalism: Do students understand the professionalism of academics versus decisions about how they will interact in their social lives?

Our hope is to make this tool publicly available so that governments and agencies can track children's development globally over time, and make more informed decisions about how to allocate scarce resources to benefit the largest number of children.

This is notably so in efforts by city, state and federal government to expand access to center - based care, which involves fraught decisions about how much should be spent on each enrollee to make possible a quality program.

Helping citizens understand the tradeoffs involved in efforts to reduce class size may lead to better decisions about how to use the funds we invest in public education.

Through this kind of project, students must apply their understanding of the principles of physics they're studying, must be inventive, and must learn to collect useful data in order to make sound decisions about how to improve their product.

Only 46 per cent were involved in peer support programs and one - third said they had helped make decisions about how their school is run.

Even without empirical evidence, we can make logical decisions about how to improve the quality and quantity of the most important knowledge and skills.

The new training aims to put teachers «at the forefront of knowledge for this important area» and will support schools in making effective decisions about how to manage incidents of sexting and when to refer them to external agencies like the police or social care.

• The panelists consulted in each state make different decisions about how resources should be deployed.

Institutions must know and understand the costs of their activities in order to make informed decisions about how they price their learning and teaching programmes — of crucial importance with the advent of the new fees structure from September 2012.

Perhaps most schools across the country are making wise decisions about how to use personalized learning to enhance the educational experience, rather than squeeze all of the joy and inspiration out of it.

In Troublemakers, Carla talks about being love — the act of embodying an appreciation for each other's humanity so deep that it permeates our decisions about how we talk, act and move in the world.

Converting to an academy will require important decisions about how the schools operates to be made.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Family routine is one way to support participation because it helps children make decisions about how to fit activities into their family regimen.»

My aim is that you can download this PowerPoint, spent about 15 minutes checking it and making decisions about how you will use it and then be able...

Underlying any decisions about how to structure early education has to be a discussion of what will be of greatest benefit to the children, and quality is the key.

Educational policymakers around the globe regularly make tough decisions about how to improve their educational systems with the scarce resources available to them.

Figure 1b shows the changes in standardized test scores, across the full range of student performance, that can be attributed reasonably to teacher and school performance and to decisions about how the school allocates resources among students.