Not exact matches
Guidance Materials: The State Board of Education and the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training Program provides
districts with wellness policy resources, including a Local Wellness Policy Toolkit (2005) that includes an action plan checklist, a needs
assessment and annual evaluation tool, a model policy developed under a USDA
Team Nutrition grant, and other resources for developing local wellness policies.
School / School
District: This assessment is more appropriate to be completed by a healthy school team or individuals who are working at the whole school or school distric
District: This
assessment is more appropriate to be completed by a healthy school
team or individuals who are working at the whole school or school
districtdistrict level.
The school's leadership
team had the option to view the year's
assessments well beforehand to be sure the school's lesson plans and pacing would prepare kids for the
district's year - end tests.
Jermall Wright, principal of southeast Washington's Leckie Elementary, told me that his leadership
team tried it when they decided that the
district's
assessments were inadequate.
Early on, the teachers at Mesquite created their own weekly
assessments; now there is a
team of teachers at the
district level that writes them.
And unimpressed by the statewide teacher evaluation system, Fagen and her
team designed a «Continuous Improvement of Teacher Effectiveness» system tied partly to
district - generated standardized
assessments.
Barb Reinert from Scottsdale Unified School
District, Ariz., will share how her
team has garnered widespread science gains by helping educators prepare students for state
assessments using a targeted collected of digital resources.
The
team recommended the
district improve its collection and analysis of interim student performance data, establish and enforce expectations for student learning and classroom
assessment, and ask principals to consistently monitor curriculum delivery and differentiation.
Each school shall participate in an
assessment of the educational program by a joint intervention
team appointed by the commissioner which shall include
district representation and may include a distinguished educator.
Several years ago as an instructional coach in a
district new to the work of collaborative
teams in a professional learning community, I learned we should calibrate our grading of common
assessments.
We recommend that school
districts establish behavioral threat
assessment teams to identify potential at - risk students and to provide resources to prevent potential violent incidents to prevent targeted violence.
For example, the
district «s Director of Evaluation helped a
team of university people put together an
assessment training program for experienced teachers.
As full implementation of both the teacher and principal evaluation systems looms for September 2013, it is imperative that boards of education,
district leaders, and the DOE ensure that principals and teachers have a viable curriculum based on the Common Core Standards; valid and reliable
assessment tools to measure growth in every subject area (tested and nontested); and time to work in professional
teams to set growth targets, analyze data, and provide the appropriate instructional interventions for every student.
Districts contributed by offering training in the use of curriculumlinked classroom
assessments, school - wide data analysis events, coaching of teacher
teams (grade or subject
teams, professional learning community groups), and the purchase and training in the use of data software.
Whereas large
districts were likely to employ
assessment and evaluation specialists (individuals or
teams), small
districts were more likely to rely on
district administrators or curriculum directors with expertise in
assessment matters.
Share
Assessments Teachers can easily share assessments that they create or import with other teachers from their team, school, district, or Naiku world if
Assessments Teachers can easily share
assessments that they create or import with other teachers from their team, school, district, or Naiku world if
assessments that they create or import with other teachers from their
team, school,
district, or Naiku world if they wish.
A
district school superintendent may assign to instructional personnel in an instructional
team the student learning growth of the instructional
team's students on statewide
assessments.
If FastBridge
assessments are being piloted in one school in a
district, it can be helpful for the building
team to keep a record of how they selected the measures and why; such information can be reviewed by other schools in subsequent years.
Teams also review the capacity, fidelity, and student
assessment data from the
districts and schools they serve.
Ideally, this is done by a
district - wide
team that reviews existing
assessments and considers what each
assessment is designed to measure and how the data contribute to student learning.
The site
team advises the board and the advisory committee about developing the annual budget and creates an instruction and curriculum improvement plan to align curriculum,
assessment of student progress, and growth in meeting state and
district academic standards and instruction.»
A day after a judge ruled that Los Angeles Unified School
District must start incorporating student growth data into annual teacher evaluations, E4E - LA's policy
team made up entirely of current classroom teachers is proposing a unique framework for teacher evaluation that would include a mix of State and new, locally developed
assessments as part of a multi-measured evaluation system.
The appointed review
team then undertakes an intensive visit to the country spanning at least one full week that includes visits to schools, teacher education programs, inspection and
assessment services, local school
districts, teachers» and administrators» organizations, university and Ministry research departments, and the offices of Ministers and their senior staff.
Bring DNA Mathematics experts to your school or
district for a deep dive into relevant mathematics content, effective pedagogical actions, appropriate classroom norms, meaningful
assessment, and collaborative teacher
team efforts.
Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her Curriculum 21
team to explore solutions to contemporary education challenges, including the modernization of curriculum and upgrading classroom and
district assessments.
A CEC audit
team interviews stakeholders and reviews evidence to give the
district or school an external validation of, or contrast to, its own self -
assessment.
Require the use of ongoing
assessment and progress monitoring to inform instruction at the
district, school, and teacher -
team level?
Bj STONE works with a variety of state and local agencies to facilitate learning professional development for teachers, principals,
district administrators and leadership
teams in the areas of Balanced Leadership, Classroom Instruction that Works strategies, vocabulary instruction, guaranteed and viable curriculum, and
assessment design.
Lyn is the former Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction Services in the York Region
District School Board, a large Canadian school district, where she and her curriculum team analyzed assessment data and developed a comprehensive literacy improvement program, which they launched with the cooperation of senior leadership, principals, and over 9000 t
District School Board, a large Canadian school
district, where she and her curriculum team analyzed assessment data and developed a comprehensive literacy improvement program, which they launched with the cooperation of senior leadership, principals, and over 9000 t
district, where she and her curriculum
team analyzed
assessment data and developed a comprehensive literacy improvement program, which they launched with the cooperation of senior leadership, principals, and over 9000 teachers.
A leadership
team — composed of the principal, core teachers and the school or
district's Certified Tribes TLC on - site or
district trainers — coordinate overall action planning, implementation and
assessment.
His experience includes leading
teams of researchers, psychometricians, and data analysts, as well as overseeing the development of products and solutions for national, state, and
district assessment programs.
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.
The
district's curriculum development
team populated the module with their curriculum, resources, and
assessments that they tied to the standards already existing in the module.
In January 2016, the
team collectively took a
district self -
assessment to gauge the
district's digital learning readiness.
The sixth edition of the PARCC Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual is a comprehensive policy document that provides guidance to
districts and decision - making
teams to ensure that the PARCC summative
assessments provide valid results for all participating students.
She was a member of a
district - wide writing
team to develop rubrics and
assessment and a part of her school's Social Emotional Learning
team to create curriculum around character development.
The system involves trained
teams of practicing educators from neighboring
districts visiting schools throughout a
district, observing to what extent the schools are meeting eight indicators of school quality — from using performance - based
assessments to providing equity in student learning.
Teams might ask, Has the
district developed a systemwide definition of performance - based
assessments?
She works with schools and
districts, as well as with state agencies and other educational organizations nationwide, to build systems to support high student performance through standards - based curriculum, instruction, and
assessment design and implementation with a focus on the Common Core State Standards; leadership development and coaching for administrators, instructional coaches, and leadership
teams; process facilitation and professional development workshops; data analysis and use; and program evaluation, collaborative data analysis, and curriculum audits.
In Cromwell, utilizing state grants, the
district assembled a
team to analyze
assessments in grades kindergarten through five and were able to reduce duplicative testing by 13 percent.
During the two - year project, Safe Havens evaluated the
district's current emergency plans and policies relating to safety, security and emergency preparedness, conducted safety, security and emergency preparedness
assessments at
district schools, trained an internal
team to conduct future annual
assessments, trained the
district's plan development
team and community public safety agency partner representatives on four phase school crisis planning, helped the
team develop new integrated plan components including:
How Naiku Impacts Her Teaching: Naiku has made it so much easier and more efficient for me to collaborate with my grade level content
team as well as share
assessments with other 8th grade science teachers in our
district.
He has led
teams of educators in the development, revision, and standard settings of a
district's interim
assessments in traditionally non-tested subjects, and as part of this process scaled all of the
district's interim
assessments using item response theory.
CTAC helped the
district involve more than 9,200 parents in school reform, and trained principals, school leadership
teams and central administrative staff on organizational
assessment, analyzing data, and school - based planning.
The CORE
team found failures in the No Child Left Behind model;
districts adopting the new
assessment tools received a federal waiver from some of its requirements last year.
The training was so popular that Safe Havens was asked to return to Hawaii in 2010 to do additional training sessions for the
assessment team and to train additional personnel due to the number of requests from
district personnel who had heard about the training.
The sixth edition of the PARCC Accessibility Features and Accommodations Manual (August 2017), is a comprehensive policy document that provides guidance to
districts and decision - making
teams to ensure that the PARCC,
assessments provide valid results for all participating students.
NWEA and Odysseyware have
teamed up to enhance a
district's capacity to take action on rich MAP ® GrowthTM
assessment data and help students grow further, faster.
With a bid that cost less than half of the next lowest bidder, Safe Havens was selected by competitive bid process to assist the
district in training an internal
team to conduct annual school safety, security and emergency preparedness
assessments for the 1,700 school facilities it operates in 2009.
The IEP
team decides if the student will take the
assessments without accommodations, with accommodations or whether the student will participate in the state's /
district's Alternate Assessment.