Sentences with phrase «district curriculum standards»

A few talked about the development of diagnostic and formative assessments, aligned with state and district curriculum standards, used by teachers to track student performance.

A typical state or district curriculum standard might say, «Students will demonstrate knowledge of people, events, ideas, and movements that contributed to the development of the United States.»

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She spoke with parents, students, teachers, and school and district leaders to hear what they had to say about the State's learning standards, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and principal evaluations.

Dietz then reopened the case this past January, hearing testimony on how the extra funding and curriculum standards overhaul had affected school districts.

The Regents also plan to work with local school districts to cut down on unnecessary tests and develop a different curriculum for mentally disabled children, instead of holding them to the standards of non-disabled students.

Publishers are aggressively pushing curricula that claim to be aligned with the new standards, but district purchasing officers can not just go to the clearinghouse and search for tested Common Core curricula.

States and districts have always created their own curricula and reading lists using their state standards as the guide.

L., From what I have learned about RTTP, I would say that the reform priorities will be much in line with what our district will have to consider if (or should I say when) we adopt national standards and curriculum.

A range of initiatives from the New York State Education Department (SED) regarding standards, assessments, and graduation requirements has been very helpful in [forming] such important district strategies as aligning our curriculum, more effectively focusing our staff development, and instituting additional summer and afterschool programs.

When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.

The study ranked each state and the District of Columbia on 22 indicators in four areas: alignment of tests with the state's curriculum standards; test quality; the openness of the testing program to public scrutiny; and the extent to which test data are used to support better teaching and learning.

It has, as you know, historically been very much left to not only the local districts, but often the local school and I think while we have standards of course, those standards have translated uncomfortably into what we would call a curriculum.

The district found that the majority of teachers still used the textbook as the primary resource for instructional planning, rather than the district curriculum or state academic standards.

CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.

Teachers seemed to have somewhat mixed feelings about the standards and accountability policies that drove the district's effort to align the curriculum.

The alternative role is for districts to do everything in their power to align curricula and teaching practices in all their schools with the state's academic standards.

11, has worked more closely with the new standards than most: She is an ELA Common Core curriculum writer for the Lake Elsinore Unified School District in California.

Surely, a school district could allow a public academy to use assessment measures better aligned to its SEL curriculum and standards framework than an existing model — but in addition to, not a replacement for, state and host district assessments.

Today a core group of educators is hard at work, through a committee called Curriculum 2010, to meld the best aspects of project - based and interdisciplinary learning with the school district's core curriculum and state Curriculum 2010, to meld the best aspects of project - based and interdisciplinary learning with the school district's core curriculum and state curriculum and state standards.

In having its teachers build the textbooks, the district touted the money it saved, noting too that the teachers were able to craft curriculum specifically suited to Minnesota standards.

Pedagogically, if states and districts don't write a curriculum, as CCSS recommends, they fail to provide students the necessary «training program» to achieve the goals the standards set.

Although required to administer the state tests, school districts are not required to align their curriculum with the state standards.

The signers of the Counter-Manifesto do not necessarily agree with each other about whether standards, curriculum, and assessments are best handled at the school, district, or state level, but we all agree that centralization to the federal level is undesirable.

Beginning this spring, the district will search for a more comprehensive core curriculum that is aligned with state standards and includes more explicit lessons on reading comprehension.

Post school information — including curriculum standards, homework assignments, exemplary student work, Acceptable Use Policies, frequently asked questions, and so on — on a multilingual district Web site.

In order for a makerspace to thrive within a school, district, or community, educators must prepare curricula so that projects built within the space are standards - aligned and link directly to the work that students are doing in their classroom.

Reaching that goal requires establishment of a curriculum that has rigor and coherence; alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment; incorporation of internationally benchmarked performance standards that are understood by students and teachers; a system of professional development; and a culture of continuous learning throughout the district.

Recriminations will be directed at state departments of education for not providing sufficient curriculum materials, at district leaders for not preparing students and teachers adequately, at testing contractors for logistical snafus and at federal bureaucrats for interfering with state standard - setting.

Patty Quinones, who was then the school's principal and is now the district's assistant superintendent of innovation, worked backward to translate the end goals into curricula that met the state's academic standards.

Does your district's curriculum meet the quality of evidence required in the new ESSA standards?

The goal was to develop a math curriculum that districts could choose to use that would be carefully and thoughtfully aligned to new, more rigorous college - and career - ready standards, known as the Common Core.

Our experienced consultants have helped schools and districts, including First Nation schools, create culturally relevant, engaging, standards - based curricula that motivates learning, boosts academic achievement, and increases student efficacy, creating a foundation for a high - quality education for all students.

The C3 Framework was developed to serve two audiences: for states to upgrade their state social studies standards and for practitioners — local school districts, schools, teachers and curriculum writers — to strengthen their social studies programs.

Assessing the Quality of Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Educational Researcher, May 2011 Commenting on «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors whether the CCSS are an improvement over most state mathematics standards and question whether schools and districts have the capacity to support effective implementation.

The Common Core standards are not a panacea; much depends on the curricula that states and districts select to implement them.

During his six year tenure, the district raised student achievement by elevating academic standards, aligning the curriculum and focusing on principal leadership and teachers» quality of instruction.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

Before the state had even adopted the new standards, Alief began changing its curriculum, said Earl Snyder, the district's elementary school math coordinator.

In a rebuff to state lawmakers, the Michigan board of education has voted to make new state curriculum standards voluntary for school districts rather than set mandatory standards as the legislature had envisioned.

A group of grade - level teachers, physical education teachers and counselors will analyze scholarly resources to determine how to integrate food, nutrition, health and culture (while maintaining Park City School District's rigorous academic standards) into existing curriculum.

States and districts will need to recruit, prepare, and retain talented teachers and principals and support them with high - quality professional development, curriculum and instructional materials aligned with standards, and the tools to support data - based decisions.

The report about the fourth year of the law's implementation, issued by the Center on Education Policy, also found that the law is having the positive effect of spurring schools and districts to more closely align instruction with their states» curriculum standards, and...

The district actively seeks and expands upon state direction for curriculum, standards, and assessment planning to establish a baseline for professional practice and student achievement.

In addition, district administrators in higher - performing districts are more likely to be positive about state curriculum standards and the validity of accountability indicators than those in districts that perform less well.

To address his concerns about weak attention to academic learning in the early grades, the district revamped the curriculum and developed new report cards linked to state standards that addressed ambiguity in reporting student progress.

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.

The district has also established more rigorous expectations for teachers and principals regarding their pedagogy and the expectations they hold for students, and developed (with external consultation) has developed a tool to help teachers align curriculum with the new grade - level expectations as well as state and national standards, assessments, suggested teaching strategies, and resources.

The district utilizes data - driven decision making to determine priorities for curriculum and standards alignment.

In terms of the impact of literacy standards and assessments, it is clear that policy tools such as conceptual frameworks, curriculum guides, and assessments can and do influence district and classroom practice.

From district leaders in our higher - performing settings, we have learned that once standard expectations for curriculum, instruction, and leadership are implemented and sustained with a reasonable degree of fidelity and quality, further improvement in the quality of teaching and learning is unlikely to be gained by doing more of the same.