Sentences with phrase «improving teaching and learning in»

I was fortunate to spend a morning with Hazel sharing ideas around improving the teaching and learning in Science.

Five schools and districts were in Massachusetts last week representing Maine at a regional conference on effective strategies for improving teaching and learning in the twenty - first century.

Enhancing this process with technology can provide a clear picture of reality in your school system and accelerate your goal of improving teaching and learning in your school district.

Learn the characteristics that make embedded professional learning the most effective strategy for improving teaching and learning in early education programs.

If you determine that your district or school can benefit from professional development, TERC's Using Data Project provides professional training and consultation to develop effective data plans, data leaders, data coaches, and data teams — with the goal of improving teaching and learning in all classrooms.

Using Data Solutions provides professional training and consultation to develop effective data plans, data leaders, data coaches, and data teams with the goal of improving teaching and learning in all classrooms.

«TIMSS 2011 is the fifth in IEA's series of international assessments of student achievement dedicated to improving teaching and learning in mathematics and science.

One goal of the program was to have participating teachers and administrators focus on research - based projects directly relevant for improving teaching and learning in the district.

It explores the districts» work to change their approach to principal performance evaluation so that it focuses on working with principals, especially novices, to grow into their jobs and concentrate on improving teaching and learning in their classrooms.

• A deep - seated belief in the inherent right of all children to a quality education; • A professional life dedicated to improving education for teachers and their students; • A passionate commitment to improving teaching and learning in America; • Unwavering dedication to the professional integrity and competence of teachers; • Visionary and boundless energy, eternal optimism, and expert leadership; • An innate capacity to inspire collaboration and mobilize support that enabled unparalleled achievements in the history of American education reform; and • A clear vision coupled with steadfast commitment and fierce determination which has led to historic milestones in American education and meaningful impact on teaching and learning.

This view was not universally shared among school personnel, who pointed to a track record of good results on the old state test and rankings, where Tortuga Shoals was always in the top 10 percent of the districts in the region.303 To legitimate these directions for improvement, the superintendent commissioned a curriculum audit by outside consultants, with the expectation that results from this audit would provide direction and legitimacy to a new plan for improving teaching and learning in the district.

Our community will have both the public and political will to invest boldly in WCPSS by supporting and improving teaching and learning in every school.

Research carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), shows that commitment to improving teaching and learning in schools in Wales is «visible at all levels of the education system».

The successful adaptation of astronomy education research to improving teaching and learning in astronomy departments requires close contact between astronomy education researchers, education researchers in other disciplines and teachers who are primarily research scientists.

With the much - discussed Hollywood film Won't Back Down making educational waves, Tough's book is not only timely but germane to the larger public dialogue about improving teaching and learning in all schools — public, private and independent.

The survival of one is not contingent on the other, but both parts taken together have the potential to dramatically improve teaching and learning in our states and local school systems.

«Although there are efforts to create teams of teachers to improve teaching and learning in schools, only recently has there been a broad effort to appoint expert teachers as instructional coaches or teacher leaders,» Johnson says.

«Tom is unique in that he understands the theoretical, research, and policy perspectives on urban education, yet is masterful in designing and executing practices that result in improved teaching and learning in the classroom, at the school and at the district level.

Urban school leaders who join me at the program will learn more about their personal leadership style and how they can use it most effectively to improve teaching and learning in their schools and districts.

L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the study of black and Latino family engagement with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve teaching and learning; and how an understanding of social psychology can improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

But if you believe that these rigorous new academic standards for English and math are importantly stronger than what states had before, and are likely to improve teaching and learning in U.S. schools, then pulling out of the Common Core to spite the president starts to look like a pretty silly idea.

Commenting on the win, Gareth Davies, managing director of Frog Education, said: «We are delighted to receive this prestigious award as recognition of Frog's continued commitment to providing world - class technology to improve both teaching and learning in the classroom.

In this webinar, Contreras, a 2016 Education Week Leaders To Learn From honoree, will detail the strategies he uses to partner with principals to help them grow professionally, as well as support their work to improve teaching and learning in their schools.

SEDL works with educators at all levels to improve teaching and learning in math.

In the second of a four - part series on the assessment of 21st century skills ACER Senior Research Fellow, Dara Ramalingam, discusses how data and technology can be harnessed to improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

For primary teachers, the team has developed guidelines for four «entries» that a teacher might place into their professional portfolio: Developing students» writing; Building conceptual understanding in mathematics; Inquiry skills; and Engaging colleagues in a project to improve teaching and learning in your school.

For secondary science teachers, the team has also developed guidelines for four «entries» that a science teacher might place into their professional portfolio: Building conceptual understanding in science; Conducting a whole class discussion in science; Engaging students in science investigations; and Engaging your professional community in a project to improve teaching and learning in science.

Our results are organized around the dimensions most frequently mentioned by Superintendents as bases for providing strategic direction and support for improved teaching and learning in schools, including the following:

Is the current teacher evaluation system delivering what we need to improve teaching and learning in Colorado?

Put all these factors together and what you get is the ultimate support group for educators who want to test new strategies, refine their work, and improve teaching and learning in their individual classrooms and across the entire school.

These visits provide an in - depth perspective on UEI's work to improve teaching and learning in public school classrooms in Chicago and across the nation.

Supervising Principals: How Central Office Administrators Can Improve Teaching and Learning in the Classroom — The Missing Link for Scaling Up School Improvement Jon Saphier & Pia Durkin Many change agents agree that putting a good principal in every school is the key to improving classroom instruction.

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.

In order to improve teaching and learning in the United States and keep up with changing demands on students, teachers, and schools, policymakers and education officials must make systemic changes to all aspects of the teaching profession: recruiting; training; developing; retaining; and supporting teachers with effective leaders and professional learning environments.

«However that turns out, New York City, I think, ought to follow through on its commitment to trying to improve teaching and learning in those buildings,» he said.

State Education Commissioner John King says Saturday the evaluation system he imposed will improve teaching and learning in the city.

The University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) has released a set of three tools designed for school district central office leaders, especially principal supervisors, to help principals improve teaching and learning in every school across the district.

Facing challenges to improve teaching and learning in the current context of high - stakes testing and accountability and as they contend with discrimination, inequities and injustices in the status quo, effective school leaders approach their work through a social justice lens.

Education consultant and best - selling author Susan Brookhart discusses how teachers and administrators can use assessment data to improve teaching and learning in schools and districts.

The money comes from a federal Race to The Top grant that is meant to improve teaching and learning in North Carolina.

doesn't tell us much about how we can improve teaching and learning in our classrooms tomorrow.

Dennis Sparks is an «itinerant teacher» who assists leadership teams in developing their capacity to continuously improve teaching and learning in all classrooms.

The Center's mission is to improve teaching and learning in order to improve student outcomes and close achievement gaps.

To provide policy recommendations to ensure the protection of student privacy and appropriate use of student data to improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

In search of approaches to improve teaching and learning in middle schools, CREATE researchers tested several research interventions in science, social studies, and language arts classrooms with English language learners from the 2005 - 2006 school year to 2008 - 2009.

These teachers are using the information that they deem valuable to improve teaching and learning in their schools.

In his twelfth year as executive director of the Grable Foundation, Gregg Behr manages a grantmaking portfolio advancing high - quality early childhood education, improved teaching and learning in public schools, and robust out - of - school time support.

Finally, the initiative will provide additional funding to the six districts that already are part of Wallace's separate, $ 75 - million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011 and aims to help those districts develop a large corps of «instructional leaders» — principals who are well trained and supported to improve teaching and learning in their schools.

A few of the major challenges for district and school leaders aiming to improve teaching and learning in their organizations are to identify which elements or conditions in schools and classrooms have a significant effect on student learning; to figure out which of those elements or conditions are relatively accessible to their intervention (directly or indirectly) and finally to determine what are the most productive forms for those interventions to take.

The mission of the Arizona K12 Center is to improve teaching and learning in Arizona's schools through high quality professional development and teacher leadership.