Sentences with phrase «emphasis on student achievement»

Karen Lewis, whose granddaughter is among the high - scoring fourth graders, said she has noticed the curriculum puts a greater emphasis on student achievement compared to years past.

The «soft bigotry of low expectations» has been replaced with an emphasis on student achievement for all students by requiring the disaggregation of performance data by race, gender, and socioeconomic status.

SBA is leading to an increased emphasis on student achievement, and many educators laud this focus, but a single - minded emphasis on student proficiency on tests has some potentially negative consequences such as narrowing curriculum and declining staff morale.

Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo sought to change the agreement by calling for an increased emphasis on student achievement on tests, much to the dismay of NYSUT.

Not exact matches

In the fall of 2015, Elm City Preparatory Elementary School in New Haven, Connecticut, one of the founding schools of the Achievement First network, introduced a wholesale redesign of its curriculum that includes an embrace of many of the beliefs and practices of deeper learning, including an increased emphasis on experiential learning and student autonomy.

Researchers caution colleges not to put too much emphasis on AP when considering applicants, since research is inconclusive on whether AP experience alone impacts student achievement in college.

Lucero feels that there is not enough emphasis on science in classes at LES, and students typically have a poor showing in achievement tests on science and math compared to the national average.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

Agreement between school boards and superintendents over achievement goals, an emphasis on the lowest - performing students, and the adoption of districtwide curricula are among the most successful strategies being used in four urban school districts, concludes a report released last week.

The pilot also rightly places increased emphasis on how their students learn in the course of a school year, regardless of where they start the year on the achievement spectrum.

The key to this new emphasis on achievement was the TRIAND data - management system, developed in partnership with a local software vendor to capture, analyze, and share specific student achievement data among administrators, school leaders, teachers, and even parents.

The high scores of students in a wealthy suburban New Jersey school will reflect the contributions of well - educated parents, a communal emphasis on academic achievement, a stable learning environment at home, and enriching extracurricular opportunities.

Up to eight states would be authorized to conduct demonstration programs testing whether state control of Head Start actually leads to better coordination of preschool programs, greater emphasis on school readiness, improvement in poor children's preschool test scores, and progress in closing the achievement gap between poor and advantaged students.

Their study of teaching styles finds that «teaching style matters for student achievement, but in the opposite direction than anticipated by conventional wisdom: an emphasis on lecture - style presentations (rather than problem - solving activities) is associated with an increase — not a decrease — in student achievement.»

Ironically, although Catholics historically placed less emphasis on education than did adherents of many other religions, their resistance to state - run schooling in many countries helped create institutional configurations that continue to spur student achievement.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

At the Saracens High School we will combine our sporting beliefs to create a unique school environment where every individual student matters, academic achievement is important and a real emphasis is placed on teamwork and the creation of great memories.

We find that teaching style matters for student achievement, but in the opposite direction than anticipated by conventional wisdom: an emphasis on lecture - style presentations (rather than problem - solving activities) is associated with an increase — not a decrease — in student achievement.

What the coaches bring to their role is an emphasis on raising student achievement.

While this is a reasonable approach, given the high percentages of students from low - income families in CEP schools, such a policy tends to conflict with the heavy emphasis placed by the ESEA on measuring achievement gaps between students from low - income families and other students in establishing performance consequences for schools.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

When used together, the Marzano models achieve a tightly coupled organizational structure with an emphasis on measurable student achievement as supported by data.

But this welcome new emphasis on the early grades may not yield the hoped - for improvements in equity and overall achievement if, while correcting for an earlier neglect, we persist in ignoring the content taught in students» formative years.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

Interestingly, in this case and in others where district - wide differentiated instruction initiatives were underway, the explicit rationale provided by district personnel was to help teachers ensure that the needs of «high - ability learners» were not being ignored, given the predominant state emphasis on interventions to close the achievement gap between low - and high - achieving students.

Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the principal «s role.

The more specific claim is as follows: Study researchers found a «strong [emphasis added, see discussion forthcoming] correlation between Dr. Marzano's nine Design Questions [within the model's Domain 1] and increased student achievement on state math and reading scores.»

NASSP recognizes that successful schools, particularly schools serving large numbers of high - poverty students and students of color, have placed an emphasis on literacy instruction and achievement (NASSP, 2005).

This new emphasis on empathic joy makes it possible for schools to use empathy not only to boost student achievement, but also to reframe lessons in history and civics on the importance of kindness and mutual understanding in fostering constructive solutions.

CEL, known for its emphasis on building leadership capacity and embedded professional development that targets student achievement, is providing that support.

For now, I think it is important to note that my colleague Valerie Strauss's distress about the president's emphasis on teachers improving student achievement harks back to an earlier era that will never return.

Ferlazzo thinks ESSA could potentially benefit English Learners because of its emphasis on these students» achievement levels.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

In his speech he said: «Firing teachers and closing schools if student test scores and graduation rates do not meet a certain bar is not an effective way to raise achievement across a district or a state... Linking student achievement to teacher appraisal, as sensible as it might seem on the surface, is a non-starter... It's a wrong policy [emphasis added]... [and] Its days are numbered.»

VCS is putting maximum emphasis on improving student achievement.

Greater emphasis on student centered activities, collaborative pairs, student assessment, and higher order learning goals have improved student achievement.

With our district's emphasis next year on individualizing student achievement primarily through a Response to Instruction (RtI) model, teachers will also need time to determine how curriculum and / or instructional practice needs to be adjusted on a consistent basis to assure each student achieves.

The tendency to casually focus on student achievement, especially given the testing system's heavy emphasis on reading and math, allows a large number of employees to either be excused from results - driven accountability or be held accountable for activities over which they have no control.

It lays out a blueprint for addressing three of the most intractable challenges facing college applicants today: excessive academic performance pressure, the emphasis on personal achievement over good citizenship, and the uneven opportunities available to students of varying income levels and backgrounds.

The Center's work, based on research and two decades of experience, focuses on K — 16 mathematics and science education with an emphasis on strategies for improving student engagement, motivation, persistence, and achievement at scale.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

This detailed information about student academic growth should be used instead of AGT scores or any other measurements based on a single test, as teachers and administrators seek to use data to inform best practices that will improve student achievement;» [emphasis ours]

«I am most excited that the plan includes an unprecedented focus on closing Kentucky's achievement gaps, emphasis on students» readiness for success in careers and postsecondary education, and a much more transparent and easy to understand rating system for schools.»

«We think that the use of learner - centric assessment will benefit our students and teachers in our effort to increase achievement scores for all students, with an emphasis on our ELL and disabled student populations.

In the video and a post for the website Medium, Bush said his plan is based on school choice (including charter schools), accountability for student achievement, an emphasis on early childhood education, and moving authority from the federal government to local officials, teachers, and parents.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan praised the Madison School District's recent emphasis on raising the achievement levels of low - income and minority students but cautioned there is no one simple solution.

In a self - paced learning environment the emphasis is on individual success, were teachers can invest more time in promoting student achievement.

School leaders more than anyone else understand the emphasis on testing and improving student achievement due to increased state and...

For those who thought STEM (science - technology - engineering - mathematics) education was going to get swept away in the educational tsunamis of economic stimulus, core curriculum debates, student performance concerns, and a new national emphasis on achievement and innovation, guess again.

This year's emphasis is on maximizing student achievement.