Sentences with phrase «for meaningful differentiation»

Any other measure of growth as determined by the state (not necessarily based on state assessments), or another «valid and reliable indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» for all non-high schools.

States should test for meaningful differentiation through a trial data run of each indicator, using past student performance data when available.

If those surveys are designed in a way that allows for meaningful differentiation between schools, states that use the surveys may be likely to subsidize social emotional learning programs in districts that are struggling with a school climate metric.

The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator of «school quality or student success» that «allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).

3) After years of struggling for meaningful differentiation, our group of parents took to creating a gifted magnet school.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»

Not exact matches

[xi] Teacher associations, for their part, continue to push back against teacher evaluation systems that focus on objective measures of student achievement and provide any meaningful differentiation between teachers.

«A State must define annual meaningful differentiation in a manner that... [r] esults in a single rating from among at least three distinct rating categories for each school, based on a school's level of performance on each indicator, to describe a school's summative performance....»

Alexandria, VA (07/21/2015)-- Educators will find support in addressing the challenges of meeting and assessing students» individual learning styles by picking up a copy of ASCD's newest publications, Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards - Based Learning and Differentiation in Middle and High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners.

«This initiative creates an environment that provides personalized differentiation to enable meaningful instruction for students at various learning levels.

Too many law firms have made revenue («we'll do anything for a client if there's a dollar in it») or size; and trying to be all things to all people («look at us, we're full service») their priority... rather than meaningful differentiation.

The only meaningful differentiation between State Farm and all the other burial life insurance companies is what they charge each month for the insurance (which we discuss further down in this article).