Sentences with phrase «giving schools autonomy»

The crystal clear lesson for those who are willing to see it is that we need to decentralize control of education, especially by giving parents control over education funding, giving schools autonomy, and letting proven, market - based standards and accountability go to work.

Giving our schools the autonomy they need to implement new and creative programs will benefit our students and allow them to achieve greater levels of success,» said IPS Board of School Commissioners President Andrea Roof.

The government is giving schools autonomy in this area and it is for schools to decide what to spend the pupil premium money on.

This innovative structure gives schools autonomy — a crucial ingredient to helping their students thrive.

Pilot status gives the school autonomy to offer innovative curricula, assessment, interventions, and a school culture that supports high expectations and achievement.

Not exact matches

Since the autonomy structure is not really autonomy — just more streamlined collusion — and still does not permit schools to give athletes monetary benefits, it will have no effect on the lawsuits.

Students in Waldorf high schools are given increasing autonomy over their education under the mentorship of teachers who are specialists in their fields.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

Perhaps her kids waste time in front of the TV, eat processed foods, have week behavioral boundaries, attend overcrowded schools... things that are tolerated much more than giving children autonomy but potentially far more damaging.

The obvious solution is to build nutrition and sustainability into food contracts, give principals more autonomy to make smart decisions, and extend the school day so that our fine, fine teachers have enough time to give our kids what they need.

It is all about giving professionals the autonomy to run their schools, but within a framework of increased accountability.

Adonis also encouraged state schools to adopt practices of the private sector and generally believed in giving individual schools more independence and autonomy from central government and the local education authorities.

«As a result of the excessive freedoms, flexibilities and autonomy given to schools we now see a pay gap that not only persists, it is widening.

NY1 Capitol report Erin Billups, who staked out the Red Room get - together, reports Sen. Kevin Parker stormed out of the meeting and accused Zimpher of «berating» lawmakers who are not supportive of the so - called empowerment plan that would give the SUNY and CUNY schools autonomy from the Legislature — particularly when it comes to setting tutition.

Struggling schools that were given more autonomy in the early 2000s improved GCSE results for their pupils.

Struggling schools that were given more autonomy by being converted into academies under the former Labour government have seen improved exam results compared to similar schools that did not become academies, according to our new research.

Clegg also accuses Gove — who was education secretary for the majority of the coalition government — of putting dogma ahead of the interests of pupils when he axed the Connexions careers advice service but refused to give schools instructions on how to compensate for it because he did not want to compromise their autonomy.

Harold O. Levy, a former city schools chancellor, said he was skeptical of any arrangement that would give anyone in the Department of Education besides the chancellor leverage and autonomy.

Reasons given included a desire for autonomy, leadership roles, prestige, high salaries, work variety, and opportunities for one's partner, according to the paper about to be published in CBE - Life Sciences Education (LSE) by researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Harvard Law School, and The Jackson Laboratory.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

This comes despite two years of government policy giving schools the freedom and autonomy to choose the ICT tools and resources appropriate to meeting their specific needs.

When schools already have many building blocks in place, the state should give those schools the tools and autonomy they need to make the next steps.

This would, in turn, allow state leaders to give district - run schools charter - like autonomy and create a single citywide accountability system.

It's common for students to propose new after - school clubs or fundraisers for field trips, and if the activity is appropriate, we give them the autonomy to carry it out.

Daniel and I developed a business plan to support our educational model; central to our plan was creating charter schools not because we believe charter schools are the silver bullet but because we believe the charter structure gave us the autonomy we needed to implement and sustain our design.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Guest blogger Steve Gardiner, a high school English and journalism teacher, looks at the benefits of a resilient mindset and shows how, through modeling confidence and giving a sense of autonomy, teachers can foster student resilience.

Singapore is similarly described: «Moving away from the centralized top - down system of control, schools were organized into geographic clusters and given more autonomy....

The Commonwealth Pilot Schools model, for example, gives greater autonomy and some additional support to help schools turn around their own perforSchools model, for example, gives greater autonomy and some additional support to help schools turn around their own perforschools turn around their own performances.

If done well, this initiative could be a real breakthrough, giving some innovation schools the same autonomy that charters enjoy, along with a board to shield them from district mandates and politics.

Beginning with four innovation schools but able to expand, the zone could for the first time give district schools the autonomy charters enjoy.

Well, what we've found from research and detailed studies of schools that are using this additional autonomy is that just giving schools more authority may make no difference at all if schools don't have a capacity to make good decisions in the interests of their students.

The district had been freed from mayoral control after more than a century, and a high - energy superintendent was leading bold moves to de-emphasize central administration, give schools greater autonomy, and engage families in a revitalized portfolio of educational choice.

These schools hold students accountable for achievement; extend the school day, week, and year; and give principals the autonomy to hire the most skilled teachers.

Generally, school autonomy seems to have a positive impact — but only when schools are given extensive decision - making powers over the purchase of supplies, the hiring and rewarding of teachers, and the choosing of instructional methods.

Structural autonomy is just the changes in policies and procedures that give the school more authority.

A change in a community's expectations of students and autonomy given to their leadership will help prove that young people have an incredible ability to organize positive social change to a school's and community's culture.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Schools were given greater autonomy in return for more accountability.

In general, charter schools are held accountable for results, and in return they are given greater autonomy than district schools.

• Will giving individual schools so much autonomy leave some mired in mediocrity?

[We want to] start new school models, give principals more autonomy to run their schools, have the central office be more responsive to schools instead of vice versa, and — perhaps most of all — find ways to recognize teachers and school leaders who are moving student achievement.

Furthermore, the schools in New Zealand were given limited autonomy.

He responded that it was the autonomy that he had given schools to create their own visions for what they wanted to achieve and how they would go about delivering something specific and owned by the school.

By extending learning time, concentrating on school leadership, and giving many schools greater autonomy, the district made noticeable gains in reading scores and significant gains in math scores.

I have come across school principals who cherish their staff, who get to know them as individuals, seek their views and within the framework of clear expectations, give them autonomy and do not micro-manage.

As more autonomy is given to schools the reporting facility of these systems is vital to school leader's management.

Reforms targeting governance and funding policies were also included in the analysis, such as the increase in the number of academies in England as part of moves to gives schools greater autonomy.

Charter schools are publicly funded schools that operate outside the direct control of local school districts, under a publicly issued charter that gives them greater autonomy than other public schools have over curriculum, instruction, and operations.

It increased funding to school districts with a larger number of disadvantaged students by financially weighting those students according to need, simplified current byzantine school finance regulations, and gave school districts more autonomy over finances.