Whether you are an internal or external facilitator accountable
for improving school performance you can dramatically improve your performance by participating in the LAUNCH!
And if that can be done correctly, traditional instruction delivered by the teachers already in classrooms may turn out to be the most powerful lever we have
for improving school performance after all.
Attendees at the ASCD Conference on Educational Leadership will connect with leaders and experts from school districts across the country, learn about the latest breakthroughs in school and district administration, and learn new strategies and technologies
for improving school performance.
Strong school leadership is critical
for improving school performance, but to be effective, school leaders (principals, assistant principals, and principal managers) need strong preparation.
Along with your superintendent and with input from key stakeholders, identify three to four priority goals
for improving school performance.
Perhaps the Houston school system's greatest accomplishment has been to create a widely understood strategy
for improving school performance.
It is evident, Colvin observes, that the unions «recognize the threat» from growing public demands
for improved school performance and teachers» shift away from industrial - style union practices.
Not exact matches
Whether you are just getting started or looking to
improve your
performance for a high
school, college or professional career, we have a program designed to fit your needs.
I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman,
for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you — care so much about: trying hard to feed our kids well in a less - than - healthy food environment;
improving school food; and yes, my pet peeve of food in the classroom
for birthday treats or
performance rewards.
Examines the
school's role in assessing children, practical guidelines and suggestions
for improving educational
performance.
According to the study, more parental monitoring led to less total screen time
for kids and reduced exposure to media violence, which in turn led to benefits such as
improved sleep, lower BMI, better
school performance,
improved social behavior, and reduced aggression.
Every person has sensory needs, and meeting those needs can help
improve behavior,
school performance, and quality of life, especially
for kids.
We must provide parents with more information on the
performance of
schools so that they can make choices
for their children, and take action to help
schools improve.
panel, where panelists discussed all of the great things about serving breakfast in the classroom:
improved academic
performance, reduced tardiness and absences, lower obesity rates, opportunities
for growing
school food programs, and most important of all: it's the right thing to do.
• Redesigning Education: Noting that New York is first in spending but 34th in results, Governor Cuomo proposed restructuring a portion of our education aid to create incentives that reward
school districts
for improving student
performance and implementing management efficiency policies.
The way to
improve student
performance in New York is to fully fund
schools in disadvantaged communities, attack poverty these communities, and desegregate New York's
schools, which are the most segregated
schools in the nation,» said Brian Jones, the recent Green Party candidate
for Lieutenant Governor who taught in New York City
schools for nine years.
This year, we are
for the first time asking how we can successfully address and fix a broken education bureaucracy that has relegated tens of thousands of New York's children to failing
schools every year and how to
improve the overall
performance of our education system.»
A state appellate court ruled unanimously on Thursday that New York City must keep open 19
schools it wanted to close
for poor
performance, blocking one of the Bloomberg administration's signature efforts to
improve the educational system.
A 32 - year - old teacher's vision
for a Bronx elementary
school is
improving the
performance of some of the poorest students in New York City.
Here, there is real evidence to imply this will have an impact, because
school spending is demonstrably important
for improving performance — especially
for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
But in addition to prescribed usage, there's a thriving black market
for these drugs, which young people use to
improve attention, mood, and work and
school performance.
Bilateral extracephalic transcranial direct current stimulation
improves endurance
performance in healthy individuals (Dr Luca Angius, Dr Lex Mauger, Dr James Hopker, and Professor Samule Marcora, University of Kent, with Professor Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Berenson - Allen Center
for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain Stimulation.
The ability to predict the need
for referrals stems from an unprecedented and ever - increasing availability of diverse data sources and has the potential to
improve health services delivery and health system
performance, said Paul K. Halverson, founding dean of the Richard M. Fairbanks
School of Public Health at IUPUI and one of the project's researchers.
The results could also inspire new ways to
improve performance in
school or on the job.In recent years, researchers have gained a greater appreciation of the importance of eye movements and pupil size
for focusing the mind, and how the brain might regulate these behaviors.
(Sec. 3203) Authorizes appropriations
for a four - year period during which the Secretary shall establish a program that provides grants to states, and through them, subgrants to LEAs
for establishing mathematics programs to
improve the overall mathematics
performance of secondary
school students.
Teachers in 21 Kentucky
schools and five districts are now eligible
for cash rewards
for improved student
performance as a result of corrected scores on the 1996 state assessment.
Improving Performance Assessment Newsletter The Newsletter of the State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards Technical Guidelines
for Performance Assessment Consortium Council of Chief State
School Officers, Washington, D.C.
The District of Columbia tiptoed up to the edge of this idea in 2005, when then superintendent Clifford Janey called
for public - private partnerships to support
improved school performance.
But it is also plausible that
schools will develop strategies
for improving the grade they receive from the state without actually
improving the academic
performance of students.
Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards
for students in a given
school district or state are necessary to
improve student
performance.».
Growth models allow
schools to receive credit
for improving the
performance of individual students, even if those students fall short of the target set
for them.
In fact, it
improves their preparedness
for high
school and their
performance while enrolled.
The green paper suggested that there was «much more» that independent
schools could be doing to
improve education
for young people from poorer backgrounds and suggested that if they did not meet new requirements set out by the government, such as sponsoring under - performing state
schools and being responsible
for their
performance, then independent
schools could have their charitable status taken away.
The report questioned the academy model as a viable option
for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department
for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the
performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing
schools.
Research has shown that starting
school later and reducing class sizes, particularly
for adolescents, can
improve school performance and behavior.
Alicia, Clearly, the Title I funds are directed at low performing
schools... but, our opinion is that we can affect the
performance of ALL
schools by using our funds to provide parent training and professional development opporunities
for staff about strategies that will ultimaeley
improve learning opportunities
for all students.
Accompanied by business leaders from their states, the governors declared an «urgent need
for schools to
improve and
for academic
performance to rise.»
They may also be appropriate
for schools characterized by a high degree of staff cohesion, in which teachers work collaboratively to
improve student learning and it is difficult to isolate the
performance of a single teacher.
The role of counselors in
schools is expanding from just attending to individual students to leading discussions and activities
for groups of students that can help
improve school performance and behavior.
As public budgets shrink, and technology enables increasingly individualized instruction,
schools are justifiably looking toward online models
for ways to
improve student
performance.
It was the combination of a new market environment and effective responses from the public
schools that simultaneously expanded choices
for poor families and
improved both choices and
performance within the Milwaukee public
schools.
For example, a young man, Randy, was sent by his parents to a parochial
school to
improve his academic
performance, but Randy didn't want to be separated from his friends, so he created havoc at the
school hoping to be returned to his friends at his former
school.
A new accreditation system in Texas has cited 349
schools for unacceptable
performance and alerted 10
school districts that they have two years to
improve or face state management.
36 American Heart Association warns kids should have heart exam before ADHD drugs;
schools fight stigma of free lunch;
performance improves when breakfast served in classroom; ideas
for fantastic field days.
In his eight years as Minnesota's governor, Tim Pawlenty's «push against the teachers union grew stronger,» Sherry writes, and he called
for tying teacher pay to
performance, bringing up the state's standards, and urging state lawmakers to authorize the use of a transparent growth model to see how well
schools are really doing to
improve student achievement.
Murray warns against false hope: «Some say that the public
schools are so awful that there is huge room
for improvement in academic
performance just by
improving education.
This is despite the fact that microlevel data is critical to
improving day - to - day student
performance, says Beverly Donohue, vice president of policy and research at New Visions
for Public
Schools, a school support organization responsible for working with 76 of the district's public s
Schools, a
school support organization responsible
for working with 76 of the district's public
schoolsschools.
One important anecdotal explanation
for the success of the TAP is that teachers in
schools using the program
improve significantly because their
performance evaluations are related directly to TAP teaching rubrics.
These obstacles are compounded by the fact that few districts are making it easy
for parents to exercise their right to choose or to avail themselves of the related option that offers «supplemental services,» such as after -
school tutoring, to students who remain in
schools that have failed to
improve student
performance.
Parent Pointers provides simple, practical tips
for parents on a variety of topics from raising good citizens to
improving a child's
school performance.