Participants will be taught how to shape responses to their classroom observations and connect those responses with the broader
educational improvement goals of their schools and districts.
No doubt there's fat in many school district central offices — departments, positions, and initiatives not essential to realizing
educational improvement goals.
Not exact matches
When President Bush was asked at an April 10 news conference what single domestic policy
goal he would most like to achieve if he wins a second term, he chose
educational improvement.
«
Educational improvement is typically understood as helping
educational institutions become more effective at achieving their
goals,» he says, «but the social and economic context is changing more rapidly than education institutions.»
«By bringing these efforts together under a single initiative, we can act more strategically to advance the School's
goal of strengthening the education profession and contributing to
educational improvement.»
«By bringing these efforts together under a single initiative, we can act more strategically to advance the School's
goal of strengthening the education profession and contributing to
educational improvement,» she continues.
In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for
educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training,
goals and timetables for school test score
improvement, and state accountability based on those
goals and timetables.
The simple fact is that without effective leaders most of the
goals of
educational improvement will be very difficult to achieve.
As Michael J. Schmoker notes in his 2006 analysis of the American
educational system, Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented
Improvements in Teaching and Learning, providing teachers with time to meet regularly to carefully examine assessment data, set
goals, share and create lessons, develop common formative assessments, and review student work will ultimately lead to a better end result.
To achieve this vision, NCSI's overarching
goal is to provide technical assistance that builds State Education Agency and Lead Agency capacity to develop, implement, and evaluate their State Systemic
Improvement Plan and support local programs in improving
educational results and functional outcomes for children with disabilities.
These mutual
goals include
improvements to ensure that Desert Trails and every other school in our District offer our students and their families the very best
educational opportunities we can provide.
We acknowledge that in Chile, like in the United States, the debate over what counts as data, how data is interpreted, and the measures that are used to indicate
educational achievement and
improvement is ongoing and often influenced by broader political and economic ideologies and
goals.
«This is the
goal of any
educational improvement effort and our hope is to build on this progress and continue to improve these outcomes for Newark students.»