Sentences with phrase «ensure equity for students»

Dr. McNair shared strategies for practices that can change the climate at an institution to ensure equity for all students.

South Korea has also made efforts to address the high level of private spending on tutoring, to both ensure equity for all students and reduce the level of stress among students.

California: Mike Guerena, Director Educational Technology, Encinitas Union School District, CA Mike Guerena, described as «curious and committed» by colleagues, has led the nation in designing a complete suite of personalized learning programs for district students; believes in building the capacity of the educators with whom he works; models that risk - taking is essential for making substantial change; and looks for creative solutions to ensure equity for all students.

One of the underlying purposes of a state accountability system is to ensure equity for all students by looking at whether every student is progressing towards college and career - ready outcomes.

This opportunity allows Chiefs to be creative, bold, and lead with courage as they work with local communities to design systems that ensure equity for all students.

We are committed to serving traditionally under - served populations and establishing the platforms necessary to provide the supports needed to ensure equity for all students.

Leaders at all levels are trained to think systemically and apply their skills to close achievement gaps and ensure equity for all students.

«SEED funding will ensure we are able to continue our pursuit of the best practices to retain effective teachers; reposition teaching as a profession; improve student learning and lives; and ensure equity for students.»

Those include: setting high standards; continuing progress made over the past 11 years; providing families diverse school options and a fair enrollment process; ensuring equity for all students; empowering schools to make instructional decisions, and giving the community information on how money is being used and how schools are performing.

Not exact matches

The rally, organized by the Rise and Resist and the Alliance for Quality Education (AQE) in recent weeks, is part of a statewide push to fulfill the 2007 Campaign for Fiscal Equity court ruling that mandates education funds be distributed to New York's school districts to ensure all schools can provide students with a «sound basic education.»

Equity shows up here as the foundation for ensuring that all students have the opportunity to take math, and have multiple doors open to them because of the math they take.

Today more than 9,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two - year teaching commitments in 43 regions across the country, reaching over 600,000 students, and nearly 24,000 alumni are working inside and outside the field of education to continue the effort to ensure educational excellence and equity.

In September 2005, approximately 18 months after the School Funding Task Force report was released, the Association of Metropolitan School Districts, the Minnesota Rural Education Association, and Schools for Equity in Education contracted the services of APA to «examine the Task Force results and, using widely accepted methodologies, determine the costs necessary to ensure that each public school student is educated to meet the state's academic standards.»

Others oppose opt - out, viewing universal standardized testing as an important source of information for educators, students, and parents and a necessary tool for ensuring equity in public education.

Under the law, these plans are intended to help states think comprehensively and collaboratively about their ESSA programs to ensure equity and excellence for all students, including a fair, equitable, and high - quality education that closes achievement gaps.

It is in this vein that we submit these comments, which are not intended to reflect the entirety of our concerns with the proposed regulations, but rather to illustrate where they impede progress toward ESSA's overall goal: to provide states with maximum flexibility while ensuring a focus on improving performance, equity and access, and improvement for all students.

One proposed regulation in the Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) is for states to analyze the performance of student subgroups separately in order to show how states are leveling the playing field over time to ensure educational Student Succeed Act (ESSA) is for states to analyze the performance of student subgroups separately in order to show how states are leveling the playing field over time to ensure educational student subgroups separately in order to show how states are leveling the playing field over time to ensure educational equity.

For 2017, there were recommendations in the areas of ensuring equity, promoting excellence, and supporting educators (http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/siteASCD/policy/2017-ASCD-Policy-Recommendations.pdf) and positions related to standards development and implementation, educating students in a changing world, the whole child, health and learning, closing the achievement gap, and multiple measures of assessment.

«NEA will continue to work with Congress on a comprehensive bill that works for students and reflects the important federal role of ensuring equity while working with states and local school districts to support the public education system,» said Van Roekel.

«Standardized measures of student learning are vital to ensuring transparency, equity and that our tax dollars are reaching the students and schools most in need of support,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.

With roots in community organizing and a deep level of passion towards the pursuit of academic equity for historically underserved communities, Dr. Lyons - Moore is dedicated to ensuring that schooling experiences are accessible, responsive, and relevant to students, families, and the communities they serve.

Equity Across America How principals can ensure a great teacher for every student.

Ensuring access to high - quality learning experiences that are personalized to learners» needs and interests is a cornerstone to achieving equity for all students.

The Achieve3000 platform is powered by built - in blended learning, actionable data, and proven efficacy, ensuring equity of access to core instruction while accelerating student learning, improving performance on high - stakes assessments, and preparing all students for college and career success.

The Council of Chief State School Officers, the Aspen Institute Education & Society Program and America's Promise Alliance released a new report «showing promising practices in states to ensure educational equity for all students.»

They monitor their use of «wait time» and ensure equity in opportunities for student response.

Policymakers and the public must immediately engage in an open and transparent community decision - making process about the best ways to use test scores and to develop accountability systems that fully support a broader, more accurate definition of college, career, and citizenship readiness that ensures equity and access for all students.

The goal is for students and families to not only have their recommendations adopted but to implement and resource them by ensuring the school's resources are aligned to community - prioritized equity challenges and solutions.

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OVNV works to build the capacity of Latino parents in the greater New Orleans area as advocates to ensure educational equity for all students.

Educators must understand the history and context of American public education, including institutional racism and discrimination, as well as the moral imperative to ensure equity of outcomes, opportunities and resources for the most vulnerable students.

Promoting equity for students of all races helps schools ensure equal opportunity for learning

Therefore, during the contextual analysis, IDRA assesses teachers» science self - efficacy for diverse students using the equity lens to ensure that all teachers are prepared in attitudes, knowledge and practice so that «no learner is denied the fair and equitable benefit of a quality, sound educational experience afforded to all other students regardless of race, gender, national origin, economic level and handicap» (Scott, 2009).

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«NSBA applauds lawmakers in the House and Senate for their commitment to passing a modernized law that preserves important federal cornerstones, such as equity and excellence, while establishing a «new federalism» in education policy — upholding local governance and creating a new federal - state - local partnership to ensure that states and local school board members are better positioned to provide all students with a world class public education,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director of the National School Boards Association.

Additionally, KBE, KDE, community stakeholders and the business community must continue working together to ensure the system is driving education excellence and equity for all students.

NEA will continue to work with Congress on a comprehensive bill that works for students and reflects the important federal role of ensuring equity while working with states and local school districts to support the public education system.

AASA Executive Director Daniel A. Domenech added, «The public school superintendents we represent are committed to implementing ESSA as intended, including the key element of stakeholder engagement, and to ensuring educational equity and opportunity are the reality for all our nation's public schools and the students they serve.»

We bring people together to realize the most effective solutions to ensure educational excellence and equity for Oakland students.

NEA urges legislators to complete the reauthorization of ESEA to ensure full equity for students who sometimes come to school hungry, who have no books at home, and no safe place to study after school.

MSA developed the National Institute of Magnet School Leadership (NIMSL) to provide technical assistance to schools and districts across the nation to ensure they are equipped to provide high - quality instructional programs that promote choice, equity, diversity, and academic excellence for all students.

Every student deserves a high - quality education, and states are uniquely positioned to lead the way in ensuring educational equity for all students.

There is still work to be done to ensure equity is woven through the state's policies, but together we can ensure these policies work for students and the communities that surround them.

Leading for Equity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteEquity: A Practical Framework for Board Discussion and Action Using a framework developed by the Arizona School Boards Association, participants will unpack five essential and interrelated areas through which school boards can lead for equity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational poteequity, consider key questions within each, and identify actions board members can take individually and as a leadership team to ensure personal or social circumstances such as gender, ethnic origin or family background of students in their district are not obstacles to achieving educational potential.

«The Utah State Board of Education is committed to equity and innovation as fundamental to ensuring each student is prepared for success,» said Sydnee Dickson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

As the North Carolina General Assembly opens its long session on January 25, WakeEd Partnership has released its Public Policy Agenda (PDF) with an emphasis on teacher talent management, improving school accountability measures, and ensuring student equity for all...

She has spent her career ensuring equity and excellence in education (P - 20) and is a tireless advocate for ensuring that every student in America has the chance to learn and grow under teachers whose knowledge and skills have been verified through a peer - reviewed, performance - based process.

The desired outcome of an effective principal - counselor relationship is to raise achievement levels for all students and ensure equity in education outcomes.

Most importantly, given this unique ability to work across districts, states are best situated to tackling challenges of digital equity, ensuring that every student, regardless of district or zip code, has access to a learning environment that effectively integrates technology to prepare them for the future.

While we appreciate CDE's proposal to disaggregate student subgroup data in achievement (not just growth, as was the case in previous frameworks), as well as the Department's commitment to ensuring transparency of subgroup performance data in reporting, we strongly encourage CDE to reconsider the adoption of a combined subgroup for accountability purposes, which would have significant implications for educational equity.