Sentences with phrase «in effective schools»

This year I have had the opportunity to visit inner city American schools to gather good practice happening in effective schools.

Teachers in the effective schools participating in this study reported using a variety of assessments daily to assess reading.

Administrators and teachers in the effective schools worked closely together in developing and selecting instructional materials, assessments, and learning strategies.

Together, they offer a powerful vision of what good instruction in effective schools can look like.

We think the role that scaffolded word identification during reading of stories played in these effective schools is an important finding.

Although ability - grouped instruction has been criticized in the past because it has been found to doom children to a lifetime in these low groups (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985; Barr & Dreeban, 1991; Gamoran, 1992; Hiebert, 1983; Oakes, 1985) and a persistently unambitious curriculum (Allington, 1983; Hiebert, 1983), it is important to remind ourselves of how teachers implemented grouping in these effective schools.

While we are encouraged by the current findings, we must remind ourselves that this work, like all of the work in the effective schools and effective teaching tradition, comes with serious limitations.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

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«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.

Membership enables you to converse with other school board members who share your interests in effective school board leadership, high student achievement, and equity for all students in our public education system.

Investing in Effective School Leadership: How States Are Taking Advantage of Opportunities Under ESSA (policy brief) by Danny Espinoza and Jessica Cardichon is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Not exact matches

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

Later on in the discussion, Zeif spoke up again when Trump asked the group to provide suggestions for ways to prevent school shootings and argued that the country could look to states like Maryland, which have stricter, and more effective, gun laws.

There are effective and less effective schools in all kinds of communities,» he reminds parents.

According to the TD report, recent research indicates that boys demonstrate more confidence in math and more voluntary participation in high school and university math classes, implying that more effective methods of «developing numeracy skills and confidence» in young girls are needed.

The survey found execs think that MBA schools are not effective in developing a student's interpersonal skills.

If a school wants to be effective and strategic in communicating and connecting with their alum, an app is the place to be.

«Schools need a provider to help them implement effective strategies to integrate online curriculum,» said the CEO, Sari Factor, in a press release.

School district taxes, included in the average effective property tax rate, are limited to $ 5 per $ 1,000 in market value.

The Information Technology team will provide the highest quality technology - based services, in the most cost - effective manner, to facilitate the Haskayne School of Business as it applies to management, teaching, learning, and community service.

A funny thing happened when we asked people to weigh in on whether the new clear backpacks at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would be an effective school safety meSchool would be an effective school safety meschool safety measure.

The change, effective March 26, comes in the wake of a shooting at a Florida high school that killed 17 people.

In the poll conducted after a gunman killed 17 people at a Florida high school last week, more than three - quarters, 77 percent, said they think more effective mental health screening and treatment could have prevented the shooting.

Dr Lawrence Hrebiniak, Professor of Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, states in his book, Making strategy work: leading effective execution and change: «What's absolutely critical... is that the organization celebrates success.

Matthews, the student who came out at Wheaton in 2010 — he now teaches middle school science in Connecticut - wrestles with whether the group OneWheaton will be an effective network since its views are far from the college's stance on sexuality.

If antipoverty programs are about helping people get out of poverty, the most effective antipoverty program in America today is the parochial school.

As was the firing of Joseph Fernandez and the effective abandonment of «The Rainbow Curriculum» in the public schools.

I think we will soon see that schools in which professors are not fully committed to teaching and the life of the mind do not form the characters or intellects of students and may not be effective even in imparting technical skills.

when pastor Darling says «In fairness to gun enthusiasts, no reasonable observer could pin the blame for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting solely on the lack of effective gun laws.»

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

They point also to the rapid expansion of knowledge and technical skill required for effective living in the modern age, and they ask how the schools, with their limited share of the student's time, can afford to spend any of it on instruction in recreation, which they believe he either does not need or can get outside of school.

It also requires school administrators to «assist teachers» in finding «effective ways to present the science curriculum as it addresses scientific controversies.»

Schools and formal instruction seem effective for teaching persons about Christianity, but not for enabling growth in faith.

«A recent study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests that abstinence - only» education can be effective in delaying sexual activity among sixth - and seventh - grade children.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

Inner - city Catholic schools (the Church in America's most effective social welfare program) demonstrate that time and again: They spend less than the government schools, and their students learn much more — and not just in quantifiable, standardized - testing terms.

Perhaps the nearest thing to consensus, one which did become practically effective, was the consensus of the learned doctors of Islam; and this has been still further reduced to the agreement among the learned doctors of the four accepted schools of thought in Islam.

In a nutshell, theological schools can provide solid and effective professional education only if it is clear to the students that their school studies and experiences are pertinent to their future ministry.

Educators insist, according to E. Dale David, that «a list of civic values consciously chosen by a school system to realize the goal of developing effective citizens is the necessary first step in the teaching of civic values.»

But that language neglects the countless thriving and effective Sunday schools, where gifted teachers use adequate materials in anything but stereotypically repressive or dull circumstances.

Students should provide perspective in their essays on who should receive sex education, what sex education should include, what would make it more inclusive and effective, why sex education is important, what they did and did not learn in their previous sex education class, what they wish they had learned, and how sex education can be taught more effectively in schools.

By joining forces the campaigners hope to be more effective in spreading the message and encouraging schools, restaurants and companies to get involved.

In general, school salad bars are an effective way for schools to apply new federal school lunch nutrition standards, which require that a variety of fruits and vegetables are offered to students daily.

«Clarifying and standardizing date label language is one of the most cost effective ways that we can reduce the 40 percent of food that goes to waste each year in the United States,» said Emily Broad Leib, Director, Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC).

From procurement and finance to menu development and lunchroom education, this online course series provides in - depth training on how to implement effective change in school food programs.

After accounting for the increase in student numbers and teacher wages, the effective increase is closer to half the Productivity Commission's figure of 14 % per student across government and non-government schools.

The No Kid Hungry campaign connects kids in need to effective nutrition programs like school breakfast and summer meals and teaches low - income families to cook healthy, affordable meals through Cooking Matters.