Sentences with phrase «helping hold schools accountable»

I think it's helping hold schools accountable in terms of gender equality, which might always be necessary.

Here are questions that parents and stakeholders should ask in order to help hold schools accountable fiscally:

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But, I have to believe that school administrators, having once been teachers themselves, will help find the proper balance between holding teachers accountable and holding teachers to an impossible standard.

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

Nevada holds schools accountable for student performance by publishing test data on school report cards and using the results to help rate schools.

As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

It is unacceptable to hold students accountable for meeting standards that their schools are not staffed to help them meet.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

The purpose is twofold: it will help to inform parents of the reading progress made by their children; and, it will hold schools accountable for the children's learning.

To take on this task, Governor Cuomo has brought together top education and business leaders from across the country to help build an effective education system that puts students first and holds schools accountable for the results they achieve and the dollars they spend.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

helping parents hold schools accountable by providing clear answers to often - asked questions.

Video: As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

The AFT also sent the HELP committee a detailed letter Wednesday morning, which in part reflected the civil rights groups» concerns about «limiting accountability to only the lowest 5 percent of schools, and leaving it up to states to address how other schools will be held accountable.»

However, should any other situation arise where it is clear that an outlier school is deviating from the responsible practices found throughout the rest of the sector, we will not hesitate to take action helping to ensure that all parties are held appropriately accountable.

When the California State Board of Education voted last week to once again delay holding schools accountable for their students» performance on new Common Core - aligned assessments, they had one thing right: Schools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meeschools accountable for their students» performance on new Common Core - aligned assessments, they had one thing right: Schools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meeSchools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meet them.

«Student assessment is essential to informing good teaching and can help communities hold local schools accountable for effectively serving all students, but children must not be hurt in the process,» said Dr. María Cuca Robledo Montecel, IDRA president and CEO.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

If we don't try to find better answers than we have now and improve the ways we hold transfer schools accountable, we not only do a disservice to schools like BCHS that are branded failures when they are not, we also do a disservice to tens of thousands of students who need a school system that will stop failing them and start helping them.

At a time when Ofsted and the Government are holding schools more accountable for the Pupil Premium, it will also help schools to ensure that they are making the most of their funding at a time of scarce public resources.»

For example, he said that even as the administration has called for wrap - around supports beyond schools — in areas like health and social services — to help children succeed academically, the president's blueprint for overhauling the NCLB law «holds schools accountable for identical results, whether or not they have these [supports].

«In the absence of a summative rating for a school, it becomes very difficult for families to hold schools accountable for what happens within the walls,» said Seth Litt, executive director of Parent Revolution, an organization that helps parents push for better educational opportunities in their neighborhoods including using the «parent trigger» law to take over low - performing schools.

I encourage stakeholders to hold their school systems accountable in the following ways to help build advocacy and voter engagement.

This transparency, in turn, can help reformers and their allies in state houses set high proficiency targets, and in turn, leverage an important tool for holding districts and schools accountable for providing all children with comprehensive college - preparatory content, for evaluating how well teachers and school leaders are doing in helping all students in their care succeed, and for providing all children with the high expectations they need to thrive in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

And one way we are doing that is by empowering and engaging parents of our most vulnerable students, as well as working with local leaders and civil rights groups, in the fight to improve their child's elementary and secondary education and helping them to hold school systems accountable when it comes to their children's future.

ESSA also creates opportunities for parents to engage with their child's school, help schools improve, and hold them accountable for meeting the needs of all students.

Use these step - by - step tools to help your team implement supportive, inclusive discipline policies that hold students accountable and improve school climate and safety.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

The state board says the report failed to look at total effort to help schools and hold them accountable.

State leaders should also help districts and schools understand what it means to continually improve and hold them accountable for doing that.

To achieve this goal, PARCC will develop «assessments to help educators improve teacher, school, and system effectiveness by providing a wider variety of data that is useful for the purposes of analyzing effectiveness, calibrating interventions, holding school professionals accountable for student outcomes, supporting strategic management of human resources, and identifying mid-year professional development and support needs for educators.

That federal guidance helps teachers and schools reduce exclusionary discipline like suspensions and encourages proactive approaches to address the causes of misbehavior and hold students accountable in the inevitable cases when students make the wrong choices, known as restorative practices.

Here at Barry Regar APLC, we want to help you keep your children safe by holding these negligent schools accountable for their actions.

As an attorney, Calli has helped many families and students hold schools accountable for providing the services students need.

As a former driving instructor, I created this blog as a way to help improve the driver education industry and hold driving schools accountable for the level of education they provide.