Sentences with phrase «important academic tool»

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Presenting the health, academic, and social benefits of school breakfast to your principals and administrators is important, and an important tool in building the coalition you need to get breakfast - in - the - classroom off and running.

Shanker supported tenure protections for teachers after a three - or four - year probationary period because he believed that it was an important tool for attracting high - quality teachers and protecting academic freedom.

There may be other academic vocabulary words the tool does not highlight that a teacher determines are important to the text.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

The findings, though limited to the teachers» perceptions, emphasize that arts integration is important to this population of students and that collaborative and supportive relationships with colleagues as well as well - designed tools, such as rubrics, can help enhance academic instruction and student learning.

The choice afforded them by the framework and the assignment, combined with the technology tools and freedoms of the approach, allows them to pursue their interests, while also developing important academic skills.

From showing parents how they can help their kids become self - directed in their own learning, to crafting learning plans that focus on matters academic and otherwise, Smart Parents provides some important and useful tools.

Because principals are crucial to establishing the climate and culture of their schools and can play an important role in expanding learning beyond the academic, the webinar showcases steps and tools they can use implement a whole child approach to education.

The Portrait of the Movement report plays an important role in advancing knowledge about the state's charter schools, as the report features movement - wide analyses to aid efforts to assess, monitor and improve the academic performance of all charter schools, including tools schools can use directly to assess their strengths and weaknesses.

PARCC is fully aligned with New Jersey's academic standards, as are the SAT, the ACT and other important tools used in our children's educational development.

These tools, while adaptive and potentially allowing the educator to save time, do little to engage students in learning, help them see the relevance in academic material, and make the process of learning these important concepts personal.

To that end, the Early Childhood Consultancy Group has met over the last four months to: 1) determine the most important information early childhood parents need to know about children's academic progress; 2) review the current structure of APTT and recommend changes to the substance of meetings so they better serve parents of young children; and 3) create tools, videos, and tip sheets about developmentally appropriate activities families can do at home with their young children.

«As most states implement new academic standards, it is important for educators to have the tools and resources they need to prepare each student for success,» said Judy Seltz, ASCD's Executive Director.

Within the academic community, we've heard a similar reason for not investing in evolving and increasingly important legal tools.

A laptop is arguably the most important tool for achieving academic success.

As the academic job search evolves to incorporate new, high - tech recruiting tools, it becomes more and more important that you make your resume for the academic position you are seeking stand out to the reader and to any software that might be used to review it.