Sentences with phrase «emphasized teacher accountability»

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While the Common Core standards emphasize development of reasoning and critical - thinking skills, the standards» perpetuation of a test - driven accountability system and teacher - directed learning environment compromises children's development of these higher - order skills.

But their own, local accountability system operates very differently; it emphasizes constructive change, not punishment, for schools and teachers.

He emphasizes that the district's crucial decision to ensure that the accountability measures reflect student outcomes — as opposed to adult measures such as teacher evaluation results — facilitated the community's approval of the system and helped to establish the district as a trusted voice in this work.

Many of these policies had the effect of shifting accountability systems away from the school level (where it was emphasized under No Child Left Behind) to the teacher level.

State accountability systems that emphasize minimum proficiency and teacher evaluation systems that focus monomaniacally on improving reading and math scores have the effect of marginalizing those students whose families have taken care to read to them and do math problems with them — and who look to schools for more.

Robust models of teacher accountability exist, and they emphasize the role of teachers as professionals capable of engaging in substantive understanding of their own work and the role of evaluation in supporting teachers as its primary goal.

The big issues for the Education Equality Project were school and teacher accountability, school choice, and merit pay, whereas the Broader, Bolder Approach emphasized linking what happens in schools to the broader environment within which children are raised, including their family and community economic standing, health and nutrition.

Our culture emphasizes empowerment, teacher collaboration across grade levels, strong professional development, student accountability, and high parental and family engagement.