Sentences with phrase «focused upon the school»

If the pace of change is not as the headteacher, governors and NET would wish it, our best endeavours, rooted in a deep knowledge of school improvement, would be focused upon the school.

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Waldorf schooling also focuses upon nurturing the child's self - confidence and self - reliance, while fostering his or her personal integrity and sense of social and environmental responsibility.

Recently, GFI translated their material to secular publications (e.g., Babywise) This presentation focuses upon four of the teaching modules: Preparation for Parenting, newborns to age four months (PFP); Preparation for the Toddler Years, from five to fifteen months (PFTY); Growing Kids God's Way, for toddlers through elementary school age (GKGW); and Reflections of Moral Innocence, the GFI sex education curriculum for all ages of children.

Given the politics of NYC it is likely that school spending would go up if an independent board focused upon quality education was to be put in place.

Graduate school provides students with a didactic framework of knowledge upon which they can build a vastly more detailed but more narrowly focused range of interests.

Interactive Learning is based upon the Learning - Focused professional - development program, which teachers at Cochrane first began using in the 2007 - 08 school year.

Although the traditional focus has been on ensuring that all children are ready for school, equally important is ensuring that schools are ready and able to respond to the very different stages that children have reached upon entry to school.

The Department of Education focused upon discipline management because of the disproportionately large number of suspensions, particularly out - of - school suspensions, being given to minority students.

If we believe the bigger problem is that we have too many bad schools, then our focus is primarily on trying to figure out more regulations we can lay upon them to force them to improve or simpler ways to close them.

Blacksburg, Va — Called together to comment upon what one speaker called «the current fervor to enhance the moral influence of the public school,» experts in the study of values suggested here this month that schools should resist external pressures to «narrow their focus» to the teaching of specific religious or moral doctrines.

If we reduce or eliminate homework, they can focus on what they want to do upon leaving school grounds.

The Association's president, Phil Seymour, said that primary school principals are advocating for a reporting system based upon «an individual growth model that focuses on (a student's) cumulative progress» (McDougall, 2018).

Focused and accountable teaching requires on - going assessment of the core aim of schooling: whether students can wisely use and reflect upon, not just recall, knowledge in simulations of complex adult intellectual tasks.

Because the focus is on attainment upon completing school, there has been little focus on using assessments to monitor learning progress across the senior years.

We will focus on applications to the practice of education, from classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.

The school currently has over 1,000 students, aged 16 to 19, and focuses heavily upon nurturing independent student - centered learning.

Both groups see such weighted funding as providing more dollars to the specific schools they tend to focus upon, and both see it as inspiring improved achievement through newfound political pressures.

This 15 minute programme features Jacky Wood, a teacher at Lexden Springs Special School in Essex and focuses upon her personalised curriculum for children with severe and profound learning difficulties.

a bill of rights and responsibilities of students which focuses upon positive student behavior and a safe and supportive school climate, which shall be written in plain - language, publicized and explained in an age - appropriate manner to all students on an annual basis;

Keeping in mind that test - based accountability mostly focuses on the level of test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification of how test scores are caused by schools and programs, we have no way of knowing that that the kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.

Effective schools are characterized by explicit, agreed - upon academic goals for all children; a strong focus on academics; order and discipline in the classroom; maximum time on learning tasks; and frequent evaluations of student performance — all principles repudiated by the Disney school and also by many «new» education reforms.

While the tool has not been perfect, (no tool is) it has provided a powerful map for what to focus upon at the district and school level.

Finally, each focus area cluster also includes recommendations to LEA's and to the state on how schools might better focus upon and address the needs of English Learners.

All the modules have threaded through them techniques, skills and questions, which the Clinical Educator can use to maintain focus upon the state content standards, student learning and achievement, curricular alignment, and other school - specific improvement areas.

Instead of focusing on what we expect of our students upon graduation, the discussion of standards has become complicated by political agendas, teacher evaluations, school rankings, the challenges of computerized test platforms, and a myriad of topics that distract from the original goal, which is to establish benchmarks for student learning.

Built upon the idea that school improvement needs structures and procedures that support sustainability, ASCD's Capacity Building solution is customized for each partner through a highly consultative process that focuses on building awareness, skill development, implementation, and maintenance of targeted educational behaviors over time.

As the end of the school year is upon us, let's make a concerted effort to focus less on the coverage of content and more on the meaningful process of inquiry and deep, critical thinking.

Our CRSH Institute is intentionally focused upon modeling teaching practices and methods that teachers can use the very next day of class and throughout the entire school year.

In contrast to more traditional mentoring, the Success Mentor model is much more integrated into the school environment, focused on attendance and attendance data, and dependent upon family engagement for success especially in the early elementary years.

The Prosper Act's primary focus is to drive skills that enable students to be ready for the workforce upon school completion.

Leverage your chronic absence data to decide whether to focus on one or more elementary grades for the entire district, or let elementary school leadership determine where to start the program based upon their own data and strengths.

The Singapore government has employed the developers of the Queensland system to focus their school improvement strategies upon performance assessments.

School - level data reviews provide school leadership teams time to focus on problem solving and act upon student outcome and fidelity data to improve student achievSchool - level data reviews provide school leadership teams time to focus on problem solving and act upon student outcome and fidelity data to improve student achievschool leadership teams time to focus on problem solving and act upon student outcome and fidelity data to improve student achievement.

With ongoing support from Education Northwest that includes monthly check ins, the middle and high school and leadership team is looking at data to decide upon an instructional focus for their change cycles this year.

In a junior high school setting (Sarroub et al, 1997a, 1997b), they found that the activities, which focused on building a consequential English language arts portfolio based upon new state standards, and the school - university collaboration itself influenced teacher learning and the evolution of roles played by the teachers in the effort.

The papers draw upon different geographic and topical areas of focus — India and the making of a moral panic of child criminality and discourses of girl empowerment, Iran and the making of entrepreneurial subjectivities, and Kenya and the making of the impoverished target of low - fee schooling — in order to challenge traditional constructions of their «fields.»

Phase I commenced during the 1996 - 97 school year and focused upon Tribes training sessions and classroom implementation.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

According to them, effective school boards: focus on student achievement as the number one job; allocate resources to support students based upon their differing characteristics and needs; watch return on investment and report to the communities they serve with transparency and accountability; use good data to inform policymaking to support student success, and engage the communities they serve in providing real opportunities to give input into policymaking process (2006).

Programs vary in focus — ranging from efforts to identify potential leaders very early in their teaching careers and develop leadership skills with an eye toward longer - term potential to intensive residency - based programs that place aspiring principals in embedded - training programs in schools with the goal of moving to a full - time principal position immediately upon completion.

In the English case of Multi-Academy Trusts and in the Dutch case of networked regional school authorities organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, inspections have remained resolutely focused upon the single school with a hierarchical inspectorate system fully intact.

In this first dimension in the framework, school leaders create a reflective, equity - driven, achievement - based culture of learning focused upon academic success for every student.

The news stories touched upon virtual book readings, self - publishing in high school, the reader's journey, the post-gold rush trough, and what self - published authors should focus on.

Developer Krystian Majewski, currently a student at Köln International School of Design, describes Trauma: «It builds upon this established formula by introducing a gesture - based interface, real - time 3D technology for dynamic level layouts, unique photographic visuals and a level design philosophy that focuses on creating a rich experience rather than an elaborate puzzle challenge.»

Initially intended to be a career retrospective, the exhibition narrowed in focus upon our discovery of several storage boxes that held a wealth of previously unseen photographs dating from the artist's graduate school days at the Institute of Design.

While previous projects have illuminated Matisse's relationship with postwar artists, this will be the first exhibition to expand Matisse's impact beyond the typical focus upon the New York School by extending it back to the beginning of the 20th century and forward to the 21st.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1985, I spent nineteen years in litigation practice, with a focus upon federal litigation involving large damages and complex issues.

Specifically, their multi-year project «Foundations for Practice» focuses upon defining the fundamentals that all new attorneys should possess upon leaving law school.

Upon graduating from law school, Justice Himonas returned to Utah and spent 15 years working as a litigator for the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, where he focused on complex civil litigation.

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