Sentences with phrase «effective education for all students»

I supported the adoption of the Standards as Commissioner of Education in New York State because I believed — and continue to believe — that they represent a major step towards a more effective education for our students, many of whom have hitherto been subject to unpredictable and often under - demanding learning expectations.

Public schools are responsible for providing effective education for all students.

By using these five questions to guide their assessment of test scores policymakers can help states and districts ensure an enriching, equitable and effective education for every student.

To continue to inform and involve parents and guardians in our efforts to design the most exciting, engaging and effective education for our student body we invite you parents and guardians to take our Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) survey.

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He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

So, although speakers agreed that the need for new approaches to graduate education is pressing, effective reform to prepare students for existing nonacademic opportunities will take strong action by entities that are currently finding it hard to work together.

Drawing from education research on self - regulated learning and evidence from social psychology on effective approaches to interventions, Chen and colleagues developed a brief exercise for students aimed at guiding their thinking about how they use learning resources.

«Although acceleration is widely supported by research as an effective strategy for meeting the needs of advanced learners, it's still rarely used, and most schools do not systematically look for students who need it,» said study co-author Paula Olszewski - Kubilius, director of the Center for Talent Development at the Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

Responding to the country's critical need for STEM teachers, and for teaching that supports students all the way to graduation and employment in ever - expanding STEM fields, education researchers and practitioners have fought hard to build effective approaches, and AAAS has helped to spearhead those efforts, said Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

Researchers at Wake Forest University have found that medical schools simply do not provide obesity education to their students, and only a small minority of major medical centers even provide adequate, effective training to students in caring for obese patients.

Accountability has been a central theme of education reform for almost two decades, driven by the unchallenged central finding of James Coleman's seminal 1966 study: Although some interventions are demonstrably more effective than others, there's no direct link between what goes into a school by way of resources and what comes out by way of student learning.

Kate Copping - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Using Data to Develop Collaborative Practice and Improve Student Learning Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western Australia

In August, Mapp will lead a three - day Program in Professional Education institute called «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success.»

But those enthusiasts are outliers in education, for Direct Instruction, however effective, goes against the grain of generations of teachers trained and flattered into the certain belief that they alone know what's best for their students.

While this could be seen as damning proof that technology does not have the capability to improve educational outcomes, and instead provides a platform for students to be become distracted from learning, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills, concluded that schools systems «need to find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning».

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and...

The AIM Center provides technical assistance to state educational agencies, local education agencies, and other stakeholders to develop effective systems for the timely delivery of high - quality accessible instructional materials to all students with disabilities who need them.

However, high - performing countries tend to require high academic achievement of entering teacher education students, and then select on the basis of skills and personal attributes required for effective teaching.

Addressing this means beefing up effective technology - integration programs at schools of education, encouraging and enabling students to create media and to participate in collaborations with others around the world, and making sure that every computer lab — whether at a school or elsewhere — has a way for users to tap into an educational component.

It used to be that the Department for Education (DfE) and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) published reports on the efficacy of the computing curriculum, but this has recently dwindled, and thus, we have no authoritative research on how well we're doing, how effective the government sponsored support mechanisms have been or how teaching computing really benefits our students.

«Lizzie Adelman exemplifies well the leadership and service orientation that is characteristic of students in the International Education Policy group, and their skills and creating effective networks for distributed thinking and learning,» says Professor...

Digital learning offers the potential for more cost - effective use of taxpayer funds for education, Finn observes, as the influence of good teachers can grow exponentially through technology, and students can customize the learning process to fit their needs.

Aware that engaging, high - quality early childhood education has ongoing positive benefits for students, Sarah wanted to make sure her classroom strategies were as effective as they could be.

Cooper, P (2011) Teacher strategies for effective intervention with students presenting social, emotional and behavioural difficulties: an international review, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 26:1, 71 - 86, DOI: 10.1080 / 08856257.2011.543547

More time for teachers to collaborate, to share ideas, to support one another, to program cooperatively and develop more effective teaching and learning approaches is good for students and will overall enhance the quality of public education.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

This summer Mapp led her first Program in Professional Education (PPE) institute, «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student ouStudent Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student oustudent learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student oustudent outcomes.

It's just one more reason to set aside the silly debate about whether online education can possibly be effective for high school students.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Changes Needed for Successful Family Engagement Education Week, June 23, 2012 «The answer to that question turns out to be a key to effective parent and family engagement, says Karen L. Mapp, a lecturer on education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and presenter in Education Week's recent webinar «Engaging Parents in Schools and Student Learning,» of which an archive copy is availablEducation Week, June 23, 2012 «The answer to that question turns out to be a key to effective parent and family engagement, says Karen L. Mapp, a lecturer on education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and presenter in Education Week's recent webinar «Engaging Parents in Schools and Student Learning,» of which an archive copy is availableducation at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and presenter in Education Week's recent webinar «Engaging Parents in Schools and Student Learning,» of which an archive copy is availablEducation and presenter in Education Week's recent webinar «Engaging Parents in Schools and Student Learning,» of which an archive copy is availablEducation Week's recent webinar «Engaging Parents in Schools and Student Learning,» of which an archive copy is available.»

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their families.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

The exhibit, in which 15 teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.»

If present evidence is to be used, two potent contributions to raising student achievement will be widespread: effective preschool programs for all children and intensive interventions that build capacities of families to support the education of their children.

With colleagues from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence, a federal research center at the University of California campus here, Tharp has identified five standards that he says mark effective instruction in classrooms with high concentrations of students from backgrounds outside the U.S. cultural mainstream.

The week long program, run by the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education (PPE), attracted 23 participants from around the world and examined the challenges of managing effective schools in order to provide a quality education for all Education (PPE), attracted 23 participants from around the world and examined the challenges of managing effective schools in order to provide a quality education for all education for all students.

As part of the Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, Improving Quality in Education Systems: Building Quality Schools, participants spent two weeks tackling tough issues like how to build sustainable schools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality schools.

The report we produced, Putting Learning First: Governing and Managing the Schools for High Achievement, was the CED's fifth education study and the product of more than 10 years of ongoing research and vigorous debate by a committed group of business leaders on the most effective strategies for improving student achievement.

Nonetheless, I persist, both hoping for an effective panel and believing that the group will provide a model for integrating student input about their education into schooling and planning.

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

Our secondary education system, designed largely in and for the industrial era, is in desperate need of revision if it is to remain effective in preparing students for their adult lives.

To take on this task, Governor Cuomo has brought together top education and business leaders from across the country to help build an effective education system that puts students first and holds schools accountable for the results they achieve and the dollars they spend.

The Federal Government's response [ii] to the TEMAG Report recommendations said that timely, high - quality, structured and supported practical experience was critical for teacher education students to develop the knowledge and skills they needed to be effective teachers.

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

«Lizzie Adelman exemplifies well the leadership and service orientation that is characteristic of students in the International Education Policy group, and their skills and creating effective networks for distributed thinking and learning,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of the IEP.

Some of the reasons that parents rejected charters as placements were that «parents of students with disabilities may be more risk - averse,» «parents of students with disabilities may be able to use IEP process to get services from the district,» «transportation poses a particular barrier for students with disabilities,» «lower charter special education rates may reflect use of effective strategies to prevent or remediate common learning challenges,» and «district special education rates may reflect over-identification of students with disabilities.»

I'm the production lead for Common Sense Education's EdTech Tips project, where we create short, actionable, video - and web - based content to help teachers and students learn new, innovative, and effective ways to use edtech tools.

Misunderstanding the Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching Project Education Next, January 10, 2013 «MET argues for a more balanced set of weights among value added, classroom observations, and feedback from student surveys on other grounds.

It offered bespoke voice amplification solutions for mainstream education and also showcased Juno, lesson capture technology that addresses the demands of the modern «flipped» learning environment, giving students home access to lesson content in an effective and engaging way.