Sentences with phrase «focus on student achievement results»

Students would be much better off if policymakers and education leaders were to focus on student achievement results as a way to assess teacher quality overall, and to assess the quality of teacher preparation programs supported by federal and state dollars.

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It's exactly what one would want from a publication named Quality Counts: a nice, clear focus on academic results, namely student achievement, measured on the best yardstick available.

«Reassessing the Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview Achievement Gap: Fully Measuring What Students Should Be Taught in School» argues that NAEP results offer a «distorted» picture of student achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview achievement because of their exclusive focus on academic skills and take attention away from nontested areas that often fall under the purview of schools.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

We have to maintain our results - oriented, relentless focus on student achievement.

«As a school we have always focused on the achievement of every student, and today's results bear out that commitment.

These «Jubilee Schools» received generous support from private benefactors and are now generating remarkable gains in student achievement, thanks to a combination of old - fashioned high expectations and a modern focus on measurable results.

One of the more interesting questions the CCSR asked was, Did high - stakes accountability cause the teachers, parents, and students of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to change their behavior in ways that would lead to higher achievement, or does the evidence suggest that the CPS's initiatives resulted in simply more focus on testing?

Now, a year later, the Wyoming school district is celebrating the gains made as a result of its first year of partnership and is ready to begin year two with a continued focus on the mathematics achievement of all students in their diverse community.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, results from the study can help parents, students, and community organizations focus on strategies for improving students» attendance and course achievement for eighth and ninth graders to help ensure their on - time graduation from high school.

Freed from the efforts of AEI's education czar, Rick Hess, to spin the results in support of his opposition to accountability and focusing on achievement gaps, Ahn and Vidgor point out that AYP has «beneficial» effects on student achievement.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

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.

Teams must focus their efforts on crucial questions related to learning and generate products that reflect that focus, such as lists of essential outcomes, different kinds of assessment, analyses of student achievement, and strategies for improving results.

Do you believe your current focus on student learning has resulted in significant achievement gains?

When talking with Dr. Ray Tolcacher, Prosser's superintendent, it becomes clear that the improvement in achievement is the result of «a focus on what we want to accomplish — powerful instruction for all students.»

· Increase student achievement results, in areas including PSAT / SAT, AP Exams, and State of Illinois required exams, and other high stakes assessments scores, through coaching focused on improving the quality of classroom instruction.

The results for the 2014 - 2105 school year, published online, reflect scores from California districts that are part of CORE, a nonprofit that is focused on improving student achievement by fostering highly - productive, meaningful collaboration between its nine member school districts: Fresno, Garden Grove, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sanger and Santa Ana Unified.

Redesign schools to create time for collaboration: OECD studies show that higher - performing countries intentionally focus on creating teacher collaboration that results in more skillful teaching and strong student achievement.

To sort students into these two categories, a screening measure does not need to be very comprehensive, it merely needs to focus on a specific skill that is highly correlated with a broader measure of reading achievement and that results in a highly accurate sorting of students.

Although focused on these three areas, the training will include a review of all of the aforementioned gifted and regular education pedagogy and concepts to culminate in creating rigorous and engaging lesson plans and adapting Bright IDEA units that will result in an impact student achievement and gifted potential.

Wilkinson also chaired a task force that resulted in the district focusing on the alignment of staff development to student achievement.

The current system, with its heavy focus on student achievement scores, results in predictable patterns linked to poverty rather than the contributions of schools.

The profiles focus on schools and teachers that have demonstrated noteworthy student achievement results.

A screening measure needs to focus on specific skills that are highly correlated with broader measures of reading achievement resulting in a highly accurate sorting of students.

Unfortunately, the way many learning organizations in the United States got serious was to look at their high - stakes student achievement results and focus their plans on the lowest - scoring subject area or subgroups of students or on the bubble kids.

In one urban middle school, conversations about improving student achievement focused mostly on sending «bubble kids» (whose results fell just below cut scores for proficiency levels) to tutoring or after - school programs (Horn, Kane, & Wilson, 2015).

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