Sentences with phrase «impacting the decisions students»

Student debt may also be impacting the decisions students make about future employment.

Not exact matches

And with so many people working toward paying off student loan debt, how will the Fed's decision impact our interest rates?

We also encourage our students to do additional reading on these situations — it is never good enough to take an instructors word on these, especially for the decisions that impact their child.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have expressed concern at the UK Government's decision to replace bursaries for nursing students with loans, saying it could have an adverse impact on the future nursing workforce in Wales.

City University of New York professors are pledging solidarity with students impacted by the decision to rescind DACA.

We hope that the tools we have developed will allow researchers, students, managers, and the public to better understand how these threats are impacting species, so that we can make informed conservation and management decisions» concluded Dr. Aide.

The decision to terminate the 2017 program has significant impacts on partners and the large number of graduate students involved.

According to Sarkar, feedback she received from students let her know that the program was having an impact by increasing students» knowledge, helping them make informed decisions about future career paths and providing a better understanding of the power and reach of neural engineering.

For many purposes, such as tenure or retention decisions, it is not the «year to year» correlation that matters, but the «year - to - career» — that is, the degree to which a single year's value - added measure would provide information about a teacher's likely impact on students over their future careers.

These decisions obviously have a significant impact on all of our students as they move on to further education.

This is not to dispute the importance of additional research to investigate the particular settings in and populations with which nudge strategies are most effective, or the mechanisms through which nudges affect students» decisions, but rather to observe that, in fact, multiple researchers have demonstrated, through well - designed experiments, positive impacts from nudge strategies.

If we aspire to educational equity for our students, we need to start with the decisions made in central offices, and by site leaders, that impact the learning of all educators in our schools.

An effective learning culture in a school has a number of key features, including: engaging teachers in collaboration, using data to inform decision making and learning activities, conducting professional learning that is based on current research and identifying the impact of professional learning on staff and student outcomes from the outset (AITSL, 2013b).

In an article for The 74, the new reform - oriented education news website launched by Campbell Brown, Matt Barnum looks at the impact of the Obama administration's decision, in 2009, to push states applying for Race to the Top funds to evaluate all teachers based in part on student test scores.

For instance, Sisk (2008) researched the impact of the teaching of spiritual intelligence to gifted secondary students, who studied the lives of spiritual pathfinders, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Hildegarde de Bingen, and grappled with moral dilemmas, such as conflict in Iraq and issues of the use of torture, kidnapping, and ransom to develop students» decision - making abilities and help them become aware of their «knowing.»

«SDP offers districts and states a terrific opportunity to catalyze their analytical talent,» said Glover, «We look forward to working closely with SDP partners to develop and expand methods of identifying, collecting, and analyzing data to help education leaders make policy decisions that are likely to have significant impact on raising student achievement.»

Their voice matters in decisions that impact them, their students and their schools.

Spurred by dot - coms, school furniture is becoming comfy (The Boston Globe) Professor Daniel Wilson comments on the impact of design in students» education experiences and that design decisions do need to serve an educational purpose in schools, not just be flashy or comfy

This decision will have an immediate impact on students with disabilities who take the SAT with accommodations, presently 2 percent of the two million students who take the SAT each year.

HPE is a learning area that can support children and adolescents in the choices they make and can manifest in the skills, knowledge and understandings that will ensure students are equipped to make decisions that will impact on their own health and wellbeing choices, hopefully for life.

HPE is a learning area that can support children in the choices they make and can manifest in the skills, knowledge and understandings that will ensure students are equipped to make decisions that will impact on their own and others health and wellbeing choices, hopefully for life.

As with the core impact analysis, we compared outcomes before and after the closure decision for both the closing schools and comparison schools, to shed light on the degree to which the phase - out process itself affected outcomes for non-mobile students.

Most importantly, it requires inviting a student's community into decisions that impact their future.

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

In an article for The 74, the new reform - oriented education news website launched by Campbell Brown, Matt Barnum looks at the impact of the Obama administration's decision, in 2009, to push states applying for Race to the Top funds to come up with ways to evaluate all teachers based in part on student test scores.

With the Senate poised to approve a bill that would repeal Obamacare and restructure Medicaid, schools superintendents are writing their congressional delegation to let them know that the health care decisions made on Capitol Hill could well have a profound impact on schools and their most vulnerable students.

Given the events of recent weeks, many of our students will be seeking to understand the impact of the UK's decision to leave the EU in terms of opportunities to study, undertake post graduate work and / or seek employment.

Staff at the Sydney school informed the decision on mobile phone usage through consulting research on the impact smartphones are having on today's students, both academically and personally.

It has as its goal, «to help students make better choices for the future by understanding the impact today's decisions have on their planet.»

What do students think about the impact they can have on school decision making?

Speak up when administration makes decisions that will adversely impact staff or students.

In explaining the decision to zero out the program, Rep. David R. Obey, D - Wis., the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, cited the results of a preliminary federal evaluation of Reading First, released May 1, which found that the program has had no impact on students» reading comprehension.

Our academic affiliates are research partners selected for their expertise in many of the issues related to educator impact, ranging from student surveys to value - added methods to decision theory.

We enable educators to make informed decisions about their students to create maximum impact.

Assess students based on their participation in a discussion about the potential impact of a person's decision to or not to vote.

The session shows how seemingly small decisions related to fidelity of implementation can have a powerful impact on student outcomes and provides recommendations for how to implement RTI to achieve improved student learning outcomes.

I think this is going to be a great experience for everyone involved because we can't make these decisions about issues impacting our students of color without them.

Hall said he has been able to have an impact by demanding that children are the focal point of all decisions, and ensuring that all instruction matches students individual needs.

In short, the education research community needs to prime the pump of evidence - based education with a supply of research findings that are of immediate relevance to workaday decision - making, e.g., recruiting tools that enhance the effectiveness of the workforce; ways to increase the productivity of the central office; and differences in the impact of available curriculum materials for particular types of teachers and students.

We asked principals and vice principals about the principal «s leadership in areas such as student achievement goals, vision for the school, and student learning; making decisions about instruction; leadership distribution in the school; professional development experiences for principals and teachers; curriculum and instruction; school culture; state and district influences on administrators «and teachers «work in the school; and the impact of parents and the wider school community.

The importance of defining progress can not be understated as it impacts many issues in relationship to effective use of assessment, instructional decision - making, and lastly, the importance of how we think about our work as evaluators, change agents, and adaptive learning experts and the impact these thoughts can have on student achievement and the success of our teaching.

We will continue to learn about the budget — and share those findings with fellow educators so that we can change the narrative from teachers who simply complain without providing solutions, to teachers who intelligently advocate for budget decisions that positively impact Oakland's students and families.

A communications and community involvement plan for each community that includes engagement of students, school - based personnel, parents, and key stakeholders throughout the community for more community input in the long term planning for school communities avoiding facility decisions that can negatively impact students.

And if SEL finds a place in accountability — as it now has the potential to do under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- how will decisions about growth vs. proficiency impact teachers who are especially focused on these skills, but whose students may fall below standardized benchmarks?

«You can sense this student - centered focus as it drives the district's day - to - day decision - making and clearly impacts their long range program planning.»

He is highly involved in education politics on a state and national level in an effort to positively impact decision - making toward greater student achievement.

Paula outlines the potential impact of the Texas State Board of Education decision on SAT and ACT performance, end - of - course exams in Texas schools, and student eligibility for the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan.

«We have seen how these grants positively impact students» decisions to go on to higher education, which is why we will continue with this successful program.»

For too long, others, oftentimes those who have no idea what we do day in and day out, are making decisions that directly impact our lives» work, and that of our students.

Blanket level district decisions can be effective, but won't necessarily impact specific subgroups or students if the district doesn't have visibility into how they are performing or undertake prescriptive measures.