Sentences with phrase «holding schools and teachers»

For the past several decades, American education reformers have focused on reading and math test scores as the primary means of holding schools and teachers accountable for improving student performance.

Those policy makers have been pursuing a «Test - and - Punish» policy primarily relying on tests as a way of holding schools and teachers accountable and using threats to pressure schools.

They view holding schools and teachers accountable for how well students are doing as a key part of improving education.

Instead, he returns to the unilateral concern with holding schools and teachers accountable.

Elia talked about the importance of holding schools and teachers accountable for their performance in the weeks before the election.

«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»

The more serious difficulties arise when value - added assessments are used to hold schools and teachers accountable, with high - stakes personnel decisions to follow.

[1] And along with all other students, they are included in standards - based reforms — policies that hold their schools and teachers accountable for what they do or do not learn.

Despite the controversy and opposition from teacher unions, value - added measures have become increasingly popular as a way to hold schools and teachers more accountable.

It is also entirely possible to hold schools and teachers accountable without our mass testing ritual and all of the distortions it causes to genuine learning.

Meanwhile, the Common Core standards, related assessments, and how they are used to hold schools and teachers accountable will remain a top education issue within statehouses around the country and will likely continue to echo through campaign rhetoric on national and state stages.

Not exact matches

Kansas lawmakers are considering legislation that would hold schools liable for refusing to allow teachers to be armed for defense of themselves and their students.

Students, teachers and parents called for an increase in mental health services and more school counselors on Monday night during a discussion of gun violence held in Delray Beach.

The White House announced that a «listening session» would be held with high school students and teachers Wednesday.

Broward County schools have enhanced training for teachers to cover active shooter situations, but — 19 years after Columbine and five years after Sandy Hook — there is no requirement that schools hold an active shooter drill for students.

Some educators in Arizona are volunteering to care for students and holding food drives as a historic teacher strike that has closed schools stretches on.

The church held appreciation dinners for the teachers, and they began tutoring students and truly getting involved in the life of the school.

Though this ringing silence on the subject would have been typically Lutheran — as Luther saw it, the works of humankind appear attractive and good, but they are likely to be mortal sins — I suspect that my Sunday school teachers weren't holding back out of any Reformation - based fear of «works righteousness.»

The ones listening have not been the «establishment», or the intellectuals but, by and large, the humble and grateful people of God — loyal priests desperately trying to hold the line in their parishes, seminarians despised by their professors, Anglican converts seeking the clear truth, devout teachers in our schools, prayerful parishioners, and members of the new movements have been enthusiastic for this teaching.

Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

For instance, William Honig, the former state superintendent of schools in California, insisted that teachers instruct children in the common ethical convictions of the American people, «the ideals and standards we as a society hold to be worthy of praise and emulation.»

Part 3 — A four - hour Follow - Up Workshop held in the schools where the teachers work — for evaluation and further applications of learnings to their job problems.

A project launched by the Association of Catholic Women, «A Day of Art and Music» for primary - school teachers and catechists became a popular event held in various places, with attendees learning some simple chant in the afternoon, and singing it at a Mass as the day finished.

In the case of oldsters, the history of Sunday school is likely to be the memory of earnest teachers struggling to hold the attention of the young back when there were fewer distractions — say, in the «20s and 30s.

I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative ways, organized presentations for parents in the local community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about how Challenge Success ties into Jewish values at my Hebrew School.

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

For certification as a school nurse - teacher, a candidate must possess a bachelor's degree, have completed six semester hours of professional education courses, hold a registered nursing license in the state of New York, have participated in the child abuse identification and school violence prevention workshops, and have fingerprint clearance.

Pope's organization, Challenge Success, advocates school policies such as holding final exams before winter break, not publishing college acceptance lists and taking steps to make teachers approachable.

Sheryl holds a B.I.S. in Women's Studies in Communication from George Mason University, and she has worked in Communications as a human resource specialist and quality improvement trainer, community health trainer and supervisor, technical editor and writer, publisher, and as a writing and public speaking teacher in home school cooperatives.

I think the push towards taking noncognitive skills seriously met up with the push towards holding teachers and schools accountable.

CCSD will hold its annual job fair for teacher candidates, as well as future bus drivers and school nutrition workers, on Saturday, March 3, from 9 am to 12 noon at River Ridge High School in Woodschool nutrition workers, on Saturday, March 3, from 9 am to 12 noon at River Ridge High School in WoodSchool in Woodstock.

Jennifer holds bachelor's degrees in English and history from the University of the Incarnate Word and received her Waldorf teacher training certification from Antioch New England Graduate School.

She is certified as a Montessori teacher for children ages 0 - 3 and 3 - 6 by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and also holds public school certifications in early childhood education, elementary education, bilingual education (Spanish and English), and English as a Second Language.

The Parent - Teacher Organization will hold a book fair from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday in Meridian Middle School, 2195 Brandywine Lane, Buffalo Grove.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

Over the last couple of weeks, teachers and their supporters built the action and held meetings to make lunches for students who will miss school.

The commission was given the authority to hold workshops and seminars for teachers and to recommend changes to textbooks and school curricula.

At the same time, public schools, teachers, and local governments who hold great sway in Albany have in the past opposed the idea of getting rid of the requirement that sex abuse victims file a notice of intent to sue within 90 days of their attacks.

LGBT Network CEO and founder Dr. David Kilmnick, center, listens as Joe Laricchiuta, 24, a teacher at Sachem Central School District, speaks during an annual conference held by the LGBT Network at Stony Brook University that aims to drive the conversation about bullying in schools, May 1, 2018.

He stressed that his union holds the largest teacher population in basic and second cycle schools, «therefore if you want to take any decision that affects education in Ghana, you can not sidestep us.»

That move was criticized by the teachers unions, which does not take children out of the public schools, and holds their events after school hours and on weekends.

It also means that school administrations, teachers, and school boards must be held accountable for student learning and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

In New York, charter school interests and the teacher unions each have pumped millions of dollars in recent years into state races, particularly in the Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority and are strong charter - school backers.

Angry teachers held a mock grand jury Tuesday night and indicted Governor Cuomo for such things as depriving students of enough school aid to meet the State Constitution and forcing standardized tests on students.

Leaders of the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo Teachers Federation are expected to hold a conversation Tuesday.

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.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

The use of «pupil interventions» to raise attainment among pupils who are struggling is increasingly being misused by schools to justify adding to teachers» workloads and working hours, the Conference, which is being held in Manchester, has heard.