Sentences with phrase «improved classroom effort»

Notes of Praise: A private note left on a student's desk praising improved classroom effort is a powerful reinforcement, especially when the note is heartfelt.

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The measure was inspired by first lady Michelle Obama's efforts to have children eat healthier foods and exercise more, and it would move breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom in many D.C. schools to improve participation.

Lucky for us, we have a left leaning school board who do support our efforts and who understand that this is an investment they make in our students which pays big dividends in terms of better focus in the classroom and improved educational outcomes.

The program reworks how school breakfast is delivered by offering it to all students at no charge and moving it from the cafeteria to the classroom in an effort to improve participation in the federally - funded School Breakfast Program and boost learning and health.

We love the recent post over at the USDA blog by Dr. Robert Lewis of the El Monte School District, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the classroom.

New programs put aspiring teachers in classrooms from the start in effort to improve training, reduce turnover and help districts overcome shortages in qualified faculty.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.

In an effort to make retrieval practice a common strategy in classrooms across the country, the Washington University team (with the help of research associate Pooja K. Agarwal, now at Harvard University) developed a manual for teachers, How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning.

All of the efforts to establish new standards, develop new assessments, improve the quality of teaching, and increase funding will produce few positive results if the effects of that activity do not reach the classroom.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Although Delaware requires only a basic - skills test for teachers to earn their initial licenses, it also has a performance assessment, consisting of classroom observations, to evaluate novice teachers once they are in the classroom.

«Heather Hill is a scholar with an outstanding record of research, teaching, and practice, whose expertise bridges classroom practice, school - and district - level efforts to improve instruction, and policy issues related to schooling.

This annual effort focuses on improving education across America and takes place during the months of August through October when students around the nation head back to the classrooms.

The toolkit offers practical guidance that grew out of CEPR's Best Foot Forward project, which set out to discover if it was possible to improve the classroom observation process by letting teachers record videos of their lessons and submit their best efforts to administrators for evaluation.

In a paper published by Columbia University in 2015, The Economic Value of Social and Emotional Learning (PDF, 324KB), evidence suggests that classroom efforts to improve sociability are well worth the costs.

In a series of recent studies, short physical activity breaks in the classroom improved students» behavior, increasing the effort they put into their activities as well as their ability to stay on task.

Yet increasing numbers of professional - development efforts in the out - of - school realm resemble those used to improve the quality of classroom teachers.

«I felt my relationships with some students improved and the tone in my classroom improved as they stopped seeing poor grades as something mean I did to them, and began to realize that their time and effort in turning in homework and redoing poor quality work was a function of their time and effort,» Slentz said.

We seek to strengthen both classroom arts instruction and less formal arts experiences, and, through this work, aim to generate information and insights to help policymakers, arts professionals and others in efforts to improve and expand arts learning for the young.

School - Wide Rules Creation Learn about one school's efforts to improve school climate by developing a more consistent approach to discipline from classroom to classroom and in common school areas, such as the playground, lunchroom, and hallways.

With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, WestEd is exploring how teachers make decisions about which instructional materials to use in their classrooms to inform efforts aimed at improving the quality and consistency of instructional materials across the country.

Put bluntly, why should a tenured classroom teacher go to the effort of altering her long - standing instructional protocols to adopt new technologies when her pay, professional status, and job security are only remotely related to improving her effectiveness or her clients» satisfaction?

The committee (Snow et al., 1998) recommended that poor performing schools consider reading reform efforts with a dual focus on schoolwide organizational issues and improved classroom reading instruction.

In addition to advocating improved classroom reading instruction, the Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children discussed the importance of systematic, schoolwide restructuring efforts in reading.

Teacher leaders — current or former classroom teachers who work with other teachers and educators in their schools or districts to help improve instruction — are a key feature of many school reform efforts.

Clearly, a number of the most effective schools had made an effort to improve classroom instruction, primarily through the intervention training they had put in place in their buildings.

This is why we have to simplify our efforts to improve education and focus on the one thing that we know improves learning: the classroom teacher.

The effort has also become a large - scale field trial of using classroom video, to help teachers improve and to evaluate them remotely.

Advice from experienced practitioners offers guidance to those involved in teacher leaders» efforts to improve teachers» classroom practice through lesson planning, review, or analysis.

That is not to say that efforts to improve teacher quality, modernize curriculum, infuse technology into the classroom where it makes sense and other reforms should not be pursued.

These efforts are intended to improve the quality of classroom teaching through the use of new curricula or resources used in instruction.

Coaches reported that other coaching responsibilities (such as finding resources for teachers or coordinating school reform efforts) were less effective at improving teachers» classroom practice.

Advice from experienced practitioners offers guidance to those involved in teacher leaders» efforts to improve teachers» classroom practice through professional development programs.

All of this work to reinforce student aspirations and support them in reaching their goals is deeply connected to other efforts to improve classroom learning and school culture.

In order to improve rural schools, authors recommend federal policymakers stop promoting private school vouchers as a way to expand educational opportunities in rural areas, and to instead boost educational opportunities in local public schools by increasing efforts to modernize rural classrooms and integrate technology into teaching and learning.

That's why teachers who use feedback to maximum effect must get to know their students well and establish a classroom environment in which all students feel safe making mistakes and believe they can improve with effort.

The MassCUE and M.A.S.S. 2014 Annual Technology Conference, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE) and the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (M.A.S.S.) is held annually to connect educators from across New England in an effort to improve the use of technology in our classrooms.

In classrooms that adopt these practices, students examine the efforts of their peers, discuss what is good and what needs to be done, and set out to improve their work.

Describes the School Administration Manager process or «SAM process,» an approach that about 700 schools around the nation are using to direct more of principals» time and effort to improve teaching and learning in classrooms.

This user - friendly resource presents high school teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction.

A national push to improve the quality of teachers has focused largely on those already in the classroom, with the adoption new teacher evaluation systems and efforts to help struggling teachers and push out those who don't improve.

This user - friendly resource presents grades K — 2 teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction.

In an effort to improve teaching and learning, TKG's instructional coaches target the following components of an effective classroom, as identified by the most prevalent research on effective pedagogical practices: instructional planning and procedures, instructional delivery, instructional environment, assessment, and instructional materials.

The funding will be used to make SunBay Digital Math as cost effective as possible, to improve instructional and teacher development processes, to recruit school districts to contribute to the scale and sustainability of the effort, and to identify and enable broad adoption of effective practices to introduce digital technologies into the classroom.

Reaching this goal will take a collaborative effort of families, schools, and community partners working to improve classroom literacy instruction, provide appropriate reading interventions and support services, and expand opportunities and remove barriers to learning that exist outside of school.

They have appointed a committed classroom educator and trusted labor leader with a long, successful record of direct engagement in grassroots efforts to improve schools in Meriden and across Connecticut.

Many efforts to improve U.S. education today focus squarely on the «talent strategy» — how to get more great teachers into the pipeline and keep them in the classroom.

TORSH Talent, an easy to use, video - based and in - person observation, feedback and data management platform, provides center directors with the ability to remotely coach educators to support and improve classroom quality, developmentally appropriate practice, and accreditation efforts.

These efforts should be inherently joined, giving teachers an embedded mechanism and plan for improving their skills in real time while building their store of high quality instructional materials to use in their classrooms every day,» said Suzanne Simons, Chief Academic Officer for Literacy Design Collaborative.

Understanding the importance of early learning to children's educational success, Miami - Dade County Public Schools (M - DCPS) Office of Early Childhood Programs partnered with the University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning to augment its efforts to improve teacher quality in prekindergarten classrooms.