Sentences with phrase «guides curriculum decision»

The Framework guides curriculum decision making and assists in planning, implementing and evaluating quality in early childhood settings.

Catholic school leaders must articulate a clear vision for academic excellence (the WHY), guide curricula decisions that flow from the vision (the WHAT) and build capacity among their faculty (the HOW) in order to provide strong academic formation for their students.

Articulating a clear vision, guiding curricula decisions that reinforce the vision and building capacity among faculty are practices that support the school's commitment in providing strong academic formation.

Not exact matches

Education is a local issue, but there is a body of knowledge about what children should know and be able to do that should guide decisions about curriculum and testing.

Two committees form the centerpiece of this effort: The Instructional Program Advisory Council, or IPAC, which will be charged with developing a Profile of the Niskayuna Graduate, and the District Curriculum and Accessory Council, or DCAC, which will be charged with guiding instructional decisions through working with new and existing committees and program review teams.

In this book, W. James Popham calls on his half - century in the classroom to provide a practical, four - stage framework for guiding teachers through their most important instructional decisions: curriculum determination, instructional design, instructional monitoring, and instructional evaluation.

The PLP is an adaptable document that is used to guide students through a rigorous core curriculum and help them make elective decisions based upon their interests and commensurate to their levels of ability, achievement and motivation.

Educators have come to rely on the ACT Benchmarks as a means of predicting college success and as a guide to inform curriculum decisions.

This work includes looking at existing school culture and «hidden curriculum,» the importance of establishing core ethical values used to guide judgment and decision - making, and understanding how character is formed.

Dr. Elias's other books include Social Decision Making Skills: A Curriculum Guide for the Elementary Grades (Author), Problem Solving / Decision Making for Social and Academic Success: A School - Based Approach (National Education Association Professional Library), Building Social Problem Solving Skills: Guidelines from a School - Based Program (Jossey - Bass), Social Decision Making and Life Skills Development: Guidelines for Middle School Educators (Aspen), Promoting Student Success Through Group Intervention (Haworth), and Social Problem Solving Interventions in the Schools (Guilford).

More importantly, PBIS is not a curriculum, program, intervention, or practice but is a decision - making framework that guides selection, integration, and implementation of the best research - based academic and behavioral practices and interventions for improving student academic and behavior outcomes for all students.

But often when we reviewed curriculum in our classrooms, set - up pilots, and ultimately decided on an instructional purchase, we sought out «research - based» options to guide our choices and decisions — and assumed strong research - based curriculum meant strong evidence of effectiveness.

The state emphasized that this is only a guide and that school curriculum remains a local decision.

These pillars guide our decisions in everything from developing curriculum to hiring staff and setting our budget.

While teachers make many decisions about their lessons, in the post NCLB — Common Core era, with the continued emphasis on high stakes assessments, teachers still tend to follow curriculum pacing guides, marching to the drumbeat established in an electronic log that continuously grabs for completion of more, for reaching more benchmarks, at a pace that barely allows anyone to catch their breath, let alone breathe.

Allow me to reiterate, they will simply provide current, data - guided decisions about summer school interventions to the benefit of students who are struggling, they will inform as to where additional supports should be allocated to individual students next year, and they will provide a baseline that will guide the implementation for next year's new curriculum and instructional program.

Among Dr. Elias» books are ASCD's Promoting Social and Emotional Learning: Guidelines for Educators, the Social Decision Making / Social Problem Solving curricula for grades k - 3), The Educator's Guide to Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement: Social - Emotional Learning in the Classroom (Corwin Press, 2006), Bullying, victimization, bullying, and peer harassment: A handbook of prevention and Intervention (Taylor & Francis, 2007), Urban Dreams: Stories of Hope, Character, and Resilience (2008, Hamilton Books), and the new e-book, Emotionally Intelligent Parenting.).