Sentences with phrase «embrace better assessments»

Because you can not embrace higher standards if you don't also embrace better assessments.

Michael Petrilli: What I think I'm hearing Rick, is that you agree with our position, that we should embrace the Common Core, embrace good assessment and make sure that the states are [unintelligible].

Not exact matches

Griffith argues that educators need to embrace ongoing progress in SEL measurement and assessment, «and to not allow «the perfect to be the enemy of the good.»

As Moss and Brookhart emphasize, the goal is not to «do» formative assessment, but to embrace a major cultural change that moves away from teacher - led instruction to a «partnership of intentional inquiry» between student and teacher, with better teaching and learning as the outcome.

By waiting and checking to make sure that assessments are good and we are getting good information from them, teachers won't feel that assessments are the enemy and will embrace their primary function — to improve achievement.

The objective of this one - day programme on November 17th, was to bring educational leaders together with human resource professionals to establish an ongoing dialogue for raising assessment standards by embracing world class best practices and exploring new technologies.

«What we do know is that charter schools embrace assessment and measurement, and look forward to using these results to better serve their students.

In the closing statement of the piece, Lomborg writes, «realists should now embrace the view that the world is doing much better... We should guide our future attention not on the basis of the scariest stories or loudest pressure groups, but on objective assessments of where we can do the most good.»