Sentences with phrase «educational outcomes for students»

By sharing data, child welfare and education agencies can work together to significantly improve educational outcomes for students in foster care.

We need to get back to focusing on improving educational outcomes for student in our classrooms.

These grants are awarded to states that have developed a plan to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities.

He has dedicated his career to developing teachers and school administrators to impact educational outcomes for students of diverse cultural backgrounds.

Although school psychologists work to enhance important educational outcomes for students, their scope of practice is often limited to K - 12 settings.

We have a simple definition of what a results - focused learning environment is — one where trusting individuals are committed to asking the right questions to ensure positive educational outcomes for all students.

Far too often, ZIP code determines educational outcomes for students, and this is an injustice.

The literature on effective schools emphasizes the importance of a quality teaching force in improving educational outcomes for students.

Similar laws in other states have proven to yield multiple benefits, including better educational outcomes for the students who accept the scholarships, better outcomes for those students who opted to stay in traditional public schools, and significant savings to taxpayers.

We can more effectively reach our goal of increasing educational outcomes for all students if we increase the capacity and the number of organizations that serve and support students and their communities, including our FBOs.

The Capitol Riverfront staff takes pride in delivering excellent educational outcomes for students in a nurturing environment.

As Norwalk contemplates who would best serve as their school superintendent, they should be especially cognizant of the policy issues surrounding how to improve educational outcomes for those students who enter the school system without the English language skills necessary to succeed.

And policymakers could stand to read these briefs as well to simplify archaic, input - based regulations that don't further educational outcomes for students given today's world — but create a lot of headaches for the educators serving them.

Dr McGrath - Champ also said that anonymous comments made by survey respondents reflect a strong sense that layer upon layer of government reform is diverting teachers away from their primary task of ensuring the best possible educational outcomes for students.

No Child Left Behind was supposed to improve educational outcomes for students long overlooked — including those who were black, Hispanic and low - income.

Across our work at Match Education — in our preK - 12 public charter school, in our graduate school of education, in our alternative college and jobs program, and in our dissemination division — we seek outstanding educational outcomes for the students and clients we serve.

Districts, states, and schools can, at least in theory, generate gains in educational outcomes for students using value - added measures in three ways: creating information on effective programs, making better decisions about human resources, and establishing incentives for higher performance from teachers.

This brief developed by the Center on Great Teachers & Leaders outlines a framework for coherence that supports states in connecting college and career readiness standards, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), and educator effectiveness by capitalizing on their shared goal: improving instructional quality to enhance educational outcomes for students.

Mead and Green recommend that state legislatures explicitly state in their laws that charter schools aim to «enhance equitable educational outcomes for all students, particularly those who have historically struggled,» and that «charter schools must comply with all federal laws.»

In «Eliminating Ableism in Education,» Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Thomas Hehir describes the effects of ableism in education and outlines ways to begin improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities.

Civic - minded entrepreneur Martin Koldyke, alongside then CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan, saw this as an opportunity to affect real change in education by transforming educational outcomes for students in the lowest - performing schools, helping all students overcome systemic barriers and become contributing members of society — regardless of zip code and they wanted to do it from inside the Chicago Public Schools system.

The Capitol Riverfront staff takes pride in delivering excellent educational outcomes for students in a nurturing environment with small classroom sizes, high performing test scores, and extended learning opportunities.

Desegregation also improves other important educational outcomes for all students — poor, working class, and middle class alike — including, intellectual self - confidence, leadership skills, critical thinking, creativity, problem - solving, and teamwork.

During the intervening years, it has become more and more apparent that the best strategy for improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities is to focus more attention and resources on improving instructional practices in the regular classroom for all students.

In the following report, we underscore the fact that simply sitting next to a white student does not guarantee better educational outcomes for students of color.

We expect Seton Catholic Schools to be assessed by parents and the public on our ability to increase educational outcomes for all students who walk through our doors.

AUSL is a Chicago - based nonprofit school management organization that creates schools of excellence by developing highly effective teachers and transforming educational outcomes for students in the lowest performing schools.

These eight districts joined our original five districts — Dallas ISD (Dallas, TX), Little Rock (AR), Memphis City Schools (TN), Orange County Public Schools (FL), and Prince George's County Public Schools (MD)-- in the work of increasing access to, and participation in, the federally - funded School Breakfast Program, with the goal of reducing childhood hunger, and improving health and educational outcome for students.

Current research on mindfulness, brain science, and education suggests that mindfulness-wise application of neuroscience in the classroom may improve social - emotional and educational outcomes for students.

Program, she examines how TFA regional staff and corps cultures — specifically staff and corps member engagement and inclusion — can catalyze efforts to improve educational outcomes for students in each local context.

In class, I considered ways public policy could be influenced to improve educational outcomes for students.

«There's been a lot of research done [around the world]... on school turnaround, using sample schools and whole districts, to look at what are the key elements that will turn around educational outcomes for students.

It is also launching a new CPD platform to help educators make better use of digital tools to improve educational outcomes for their students.

By identifying what works, what doesn't, and why, we aim to improve educational outcomes for all students, particularly those at risk of failure.

Through the Fellowship Program, graduate students who are committed to improving educational outcomes for students have the opportunity to directly impact the quality of the charter school sector.

Under this plan, state education agencies would be granted flexibility in meeting certain NCLB requirements in exchange for «rigorous State - developed plans designed to improve educational outcomes for all students, close achievement gaps, increase equity, and improve the quality of instruction» (Department of Education, October 2011).

The Teacher Standards define the elements necessary to deliver high - quality, effective teaching that improve educational outcomes for students.

The bottom line is this: If we are serious about eliminating long - standing academic achievement gaps and improving learning for all students, we can not ignore the critical role of school district central offices in improving educational outcomes for all students.

Charter schools exist to improve educational outcomes for students and are awarded autonomy in a variety of ways to allow this to happen.

And there are many in our ranks who believe central offices add no value whatsoever to improving educational outcomes for students.

The Topic: Educational experts agree that quality teaching is the single most important factor in improving educational outcomes for all students.

Leading Charlotte foundations formed a funding collaborative to support a five - year district turnaround initiative to dramatically improve educational outcomes for students in the West Charlotte High School corridor, one of the city's lowest - performing feeder zones.

Charter public schools provide school teachers, administrators, and board members the flexibility to shape important decisions about working conditions; the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.

«Until Ofsted can convince the education profession that its inspections are reliable and consistent, leaders, teachers and TAs will continue to regard it as part of the problem, not the solution, to improving educational outcomes for students and educational standards overall.»

Fefferman is representative of the many dedicated educators from across the country who are committed to disrupting the status quo and improving educational outcomes for students.