Sentences with phrase «for schools and teachers»

Perspectives For A Diverse America (PDA) was created by Teaching Tolerance, a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center for schools and teachers to use alongside Common Core.

They are authors of the forthcoming Anytime, Anywhere: Student - Centered Learning for Schools and Teachers (Harvard Education Press, 2013).

While a full - scale roll back is unlikely, another professor in IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs thinks there's room for Ritz to shape Bennett's policies so they're more favorable for schools and teachers.

It isn't just another accountability or regulatory program; it's a real opportunity for schools and teachers to create a more well - rounded climate for learning and to enhance how and what students learn.

«It just makes it really difficult for schools and teachers to have not have clarity around this,» said Evan Stone, co-CEO of Educators 4 Excellence, a teacher advocacy group.

A new program under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants, presents an exciting opportunity for schools and teachers to create a more well - rounded climate for learning and to enhance how and what students learn.

An Assembly committee hearing this week witnessed several of the state's most prominent education groups calling for a delay in the new testing, or at least its consequences for schools and teachers.

In light of this, we wanted to provide recognition for our schools and teachers.

But just like other forms of debt, pension debt carries real costs for schools and teachers.

But their own, local accountability system operates very differently; it emphasizes constructive change, not punishment, for schools and teachers.

Many states are moving to delay or alter test - based accountability for schools and teachers, as tests associated with the Common Core State Standards head for their debut nationwide in the coming school year.

Many states are moving to delay or alter test - based accountability for schools and teachers, as tests associated with the...

Our online assessment tool is easy for schools and teachers to administer and requires no special or time - consuming prepping.

As a general strategy, then, we developed empirically driven indices of effectiveness for both schools and teachers, grouped the schools or teachers into categories of effectiveness, and then examined the systematic differences among schools or teachers on other sets of variables.

There's little doubt that a Republican - controlled House will close the federal - spending spigot, including bailout dollars for schools and teachers.

Instead of letting each teacher in each school come up with his or her own curriculum and approach, resulting in an incoherent and in some cases ineffective system of instruction, Payzant gradually narrowed the range of options for schools and teachers to materials and teaching strategies that he and his teams of coaches thought worked best for Boston students.

With more states adopting the Common Core, it can be overwhelming for schools and teachers to consider «adding» anything else.

For those schools and teachers who use the MOOC as part of the classroom approach, test scores have improved by nearly 25 percent.

These approaches reflect the spectrum of choices available to policymakers as they design evaluation systems for schools and teachers.

The implications of those policies for schools and teachers, he says, can be seen in the achievement gap that isolates disadvantaged students, often students of color, in poor neighborhoods.

If we accidentally create incentives for schools and teachers to focus solely on academic achievement and ignore the rest, we could be making our children and our nation less competitive, not more so.

It also offers something for schools and teachers: a new revenue opportunity for schools and additional income for public - school teachers.

This, combined with the latest results of the survey showing that the Internet is one of the most popular sources of information for teenagers, means that it has never been more important for schools and teachers to be armed with the correct information so that children and young adults are able to decipher between fact and fake news.»

The advantages of CPD Continuing Professional Development has always been necessary for schools and their teachers to stay up to date with the advancements in their field.

Moreover, even small differences in measured effectiveness can have practical consequences for schools and teachers, depending on how these assessments are used.

Moreover, inequities will arise simply because measured gains are more dependable for schools and teachers for whom there are more data.

The new standards won't actually have consequences for schools and teachers in most states until 2014 - 15.

(The sum is «substantial» in one respect, at $ 4 billion, minor in another, compared to $ 80 billion to sustain teachers» employment in the stimulus act, or to the total sums spent at state and local levels for schools and teachers.)

For schools and teachers trying to push the frontier of personalized learning, data interoperability solutions can't come soon enough.

Anytime, Anywhere: Student - Centered Learning for Schools and Teachers Adjunct Lecturer Nancy Hoffman, Rebecca Wolfe, and Adria Steinberg

An exception is the impressive base of evidence gathered by CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), which documents useful approaches for schools and teachers to enhance socio - emotional skills.

There's some good news for schools and teachers from the Center for American Progress (CAP): more new teachers are staying in the classroom after five years, up nearly 20 percentage points since 2007.

What is the implication for schools and teachers?

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

The key for schools and teachers is to create the conditions that promote a growth mindset, and better student learning.

The singular contribution of the education reform movement has been a moral one, making it unacceptable for schools and teachers to admit to holding any child — particularly low - income, black, and brown children — to lower standards.

Clearly, there are many options available for schools and teachers to integrate sustainability and environmental problems into the classroom.

Education - focused rallies at the Capitol on Tuesday called for greater accountability and funding for schools and teachers in the new year.

Elia came to New York with a national reputation as a reformer and champion of accountability for schools and teachers.

It would be wonderful if a program was developed for schools and teachers.

The TeamUp initiative includes a novel rewards scheme for schools and teachers with a goal to ensure 150,000 7 -13-year-old girls have more access to team sport.

The full version of the working paper, «Select Growth Models for School and Teacher Evaluations,» is available here.

«Florida is rated the fifth - best state on quality of our public schools by Education Week's Quality Counts report, despite the fact that the state is ranked close to the bottom in funding for schools and teacher pay,» said Andy Ford, president of the statewide teachers union.

This differs from the United States where annual tests are used primarily for school and teacher accountability purposes.

Beginning in 2014, Leading Educators partnered with AUSL Chicago to deliver trainings for school and teacher leaders working together to drive new initiatives within their schools.

The sixth challenge is validating the assessments for new uses for school and teacher accountability.

Not exact matches

For so many of us, schools and teachers are the primary source of our information.

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

Katherine Gredley is a full - time elementary school teacher with a background in marketing and a passion for professional development.

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»