They defined effective professional development as structured professional learning that results in changes in teacher practices and
improvements in student learning outcomes.
What are
some improvements in student learning outcomes you've seen as a result of blended learning, Catlin?
The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent
improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.
Not exact matches
Kate Copping - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Using Data to Develop Collaborative Practice and Improve
Student Learning Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
Learning Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure
learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing
outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy
Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western A
Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All
Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School
Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western Australia
The move sees two eminent training organisations strengthen their partnership of seven years, and further their commitment to supporting school
improvement and enhancing
learning outcomes for
students in Queensland.
The main focus of coaching and mentoring conversations for school
improvement is to build the competency and capability of teachers, so that they can take steps towards achieving the school's strategic vision and priorities
in the curriculum, teaching and
learning, and assessment, and can effectively make judgments about
students» progress and
outcomes.
First,
improvement in teacher capacity which impacts positively on
student outcomes involves «
learning to do the right things
in the setting where you work» (Elmore, 2004, p. emphasis added).
In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scal
In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting
Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large
Student Outcomes with Digital
Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at larg
Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended
learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at larg
learning to drive
improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scal
in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all
students and teaching peers, and improve
student learning at large
student learning at larg
learning at large scale.
In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learnin
In Kelly School, which is discussed
in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learnin
in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each
student's academic progress, an explicit link between
students»
outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional
improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for
student learning.
In terms of student outcomes, school leaders and teachers highlighted the benefits of learning new knowledge, skills and ways to work and learn, increased student confidence, developing an expansive mindset and an improvement in student - teacher relationship
In terms of
student outcomes, school leaders and teachers highlighted the benefits of
learning new knowledge, skills and ways to work and
learn, increased
student confidence, developing an expansive mindset and an
improvement in student - teacher relationship
in student - teacher relationships.
In an effort to create immediate and enduring improvements in student outcomes, most states have adopted Common Core State Standards or other content standards that reflect higher expectations for student learning than previous iteration
In an effort to create immediate and enduring
improvements in student outcomes, most states have adopted Common Core State Standards or other content standards that reflect higher expectations for student learning than previous iteration
in student outcomes, most states have adopted Common Core State Standards or other content standards that reflect higher expectations for
student learning than previous iterations.
JE: Now, you've also said that «A professional
learning community that leads to continuous
improvement in teaching practices and
student outcomes does not just happen.»
Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare
students to succeed
in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include
improvement of
student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and
students «their responsibility as well for
student learning, including parent contracts, turning
in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»
Evidence of deeper
learning outcomes including dramatic
improvement in student achievement
The Team arguedthat focusing on the
improvement of teaching without looking at school conditions that support teaching and
learning is unfair and will miss critical influences on differences
in student outcomes.
CEC will use its research - based, experience - tested approach to school
improvement in its role as an approved
Learning Partner
in order to build the capacity of educators, leaders, and systems to improve
student outcomes.
Without recognition and support for principals as the catalysts for continuous school
improvement, it is virtually impossible to improve school conditions that lead to better instruction
in the classroom and
student learning outcomes.
For instance, schools participating
in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.
in the Carnegie Foundation's
Student Agency
Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of
learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger
outcomes among low - income black and Latino
students since implementing interventions focused on
learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino
students enrolled
in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.
in advanced placement courses and has seen gains
in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.
in both participation and passage rates as a result.35
In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.
In addition, several studies show that
learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino
students in math and science classes.
in math and science classes.36
Due to the significant
improvements in student outcomes and the collaborative culture at Pattimura, Paul was recognized as the 2012 Distinguished Principal of the Year by the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and
in 2015 Pattimura was recognized as a model professional
learning community.
Proponents of these assessments find them useful
in guiding decision making regarding a
student's
learning despite research yielding «sparse evidence that it has produced measurable or observable
improvements in educational
outcomes» (Hansen, 1993).
• Use of multiple forms of evidence of
student learning, not just test scores; • Extensive professional development that enables teachers to better assess and assist their
students; • Incorporation of ongoing feedback to
students about their performance to improve
learning outcomes; • Public reporting on school progress
in academic and non-academic areas, using a variety of information sources and including
improvement plans; and • Sparing use of external interventions, such as school reorganization, to give reform programs the opportunity to succeed.
Classnotes Podcast (November 26, 2007) A growing body of research has found that professional
learning communities
in schools, combined with mentoring, result
in clear
improvements in outcomes for staff and
students.
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) offers advice to its members: «The recognized need for public schools to support
students in areas beyond academics is not new, but recent developments
in social - emotional
learning (SEL) go beyond what has come before — and are starting to show
improvements in both
student behavior and academic
outcomes.»
The results include significant
improvement in learning outcomes for all
students on statewide assessments, as well as a 40 % reduction
in the number of
students referred for initial placement
in special education and a 50 % reduction
in the number of
students identified as having a
learning disability.
As Senior Director of the Initiative on Contemplative Teaching and
Learning at the Garrison Institute, Dr. Jennings led the faculty team that developed Cultivating Awareness and Resilience
in Education (CARE for Teachers), a mindfulness - based program for teachers designed to reduce stress and promote
improvements in classroom climate and
student academic and behavioral
outcomes.
Reach has as its core mission the
improvement of
student achievement
outcomes as predictors of success
in college or career
in the 21st century, bringing attention to high - leverage instructional practices, including LDC, that empower teachers with effective practices, and a focus on a set of core habits (
student engagement, academic
learning behaviors, differentiation, intentionality, data analysis, and language and thinking development).
For now, I see my role as helping people understand their problem and the system that produces it, test possible change ideas as part of their theory of
improvement, and fail fast to
learn quickly to identify high leverage changes
in their local contexts that are actually moving the needle on
student outcomes.
The Race to the Top — District (RTT - D) program aims to support
improvements in teaching and
learning that leads to improved
student outcomes.
This webinar will explore a comprehensive system for
improvement that allows teachers, administrators, and districts to actively and reflectively respond to
student outcomes in order to provide quality teaching and
learning for all.
Speaking of Community schools, the
Learning Policy Institute,
in collaboration with the National Education Policy Center, has just released Community Schools as an Effective School
Improvement Strategy: A Review of the Evidence, a report on the impact of community schools on
students and
student outcomes.
Learn the research and best practices on how students learn in a way that guarantees sustained performance improvement outcomes for all students (personalized, reinforced, facilitated over time, differentiated instruction, spaced reinforcement, distributed practice), Does the software include these i
Learn the research and best practices on how
students learn in a way that guarantees sustained performance improvement outcomes for all students (personalized, reinforced, facilitated over time, differentiated instruction, spaced reinforcement, distributed practice), Does the software include these i
learn in a way that guarantees sustained performance
improvement outcomes for all
students (personalized, reinforced, facilitated over time, differentiated instruction, spaced reinforcement, distributed practice), Does the software include these items?
By: Rachel Brown, Ph.D., NCSP Many, if not most, efforts to improve
student learning outcomes will result
in measurable
improvements in student performance.
Many, if not most, efforts to improve
student learning outcomes will result
in measurable
improvements in student performance.
The Curriculum and Instruction program addresses teacher empowerment and leadership
in the expanded roles and responsibilities of teachers
in schools, including data - driven assessment for school
improvement, professional
learning communities, applying research to practice, improving instruction and
student learning outcomes, and collaboration with families and communities.