Sentences with phrase «increasing teacher attendance»

According to a report from the Digital Textbook Collaborative, which was convened by the FCC and the US Department of Education, the cost of implementing the shift to digital varies from $ 250 to $ 1,000 per student per year, but the cost savings from increased teacher attendance, reduced paper costs, online assessments and other factors are estimated to be $ 600 per student per year.

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«I find no evidence that teacher incentives increase student performance, attendance, or graduation, nor do I find any evidence that the incentives change student or teacher behavior.

Increased student achievement, student and family participation in the educational process, better school attendance, and reduced disciplinary issues are all advantages that can be attributed to the long - term teacher - student relationship developed during the looping years.

Although she doesn't have data on attendance, she found that the number of female teacher increased at schools that constructed latrines.

I think teachers play a key role in increasing attendance and if they're able to improve the teachers, this will definitely have a direct correlation on attendance rates.

The Commission will examine state and local policies to increase parent and family engagement, including: how the school calendar meets the needs of students and families to optimize engagement such as parent - teacher conferences and half - days; district and school - level policies to address student attendance issues; access to information regarding teacher effectiveness; and parental involvement in school policies such as placement of students in low - performing schools and in the classrooms of ineffective teachers.

«Our objectives for the program were to increase attendance, improve their fitness and activity levels, build their self - esteem, provide them with opportunities for leadership development and try to improve their community links, [and] their associations with outside bodies,» McInerney tells Teacher.

With the baseline controls, using the factor model, an SD increase in the teacher factor based on test scores has a predictive effect on college attendance of 0.16 percentage points.

When the factors are constructed using data on college attendance, the predictive effect of a 1 - SD increase in the teacher factor is 0.79 percentage points.

A truly great teacher, someone in the top 5 percent of a cohort, can increase a child's lifetime earnings by $ 80,000, improve the likelihood of college attendance, and reduce the odds of teenage motherhood.

The former teacher, Kenneth Williams, also reported to school district authorities that the school's staff sometimes used personal vehicles to drive students to school on days when the state was counting attendance to increase enrollment numbers, and therefore, payments from the district.

These estimates are lower bounds on the predictive effect of an SD increase in the teacher factor (Gco) based directly on college attendance.

A recent study showed that when students have a more engaging teacher, their attendance increases and their chances of completing high school improve.

Research shows that teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, increasing high school completion and college attendance rates for these students.

When I asked teachers, principals, and program coordinators to describe the impact, they took care to emphasize that they were still experimenting and learning from their mistakes, while pointing to early indicators such as increased student attendance, greater student and parent engagement, and less teacher turnover.

The 20,914 resulting home visits have led to many positive results, according to the project's Sacramento - area director Lisa Levasseur, including not only better communication, trust and support between families and teachers but also increases in student attendance rates and test scores, and decreases in suspension and expulsion rates.

The study has informed, and contributed to the formulation and implementation of effective policies, strategies, financing and systems to ensure that teachers» attendance in schools and classrooms is increased to acceptable levels to ensure the quality of student learning.

Texts also increased attendance at parent - teacher conferences but not at other school - related activities.

The attendance rate is increasing, chronic absences are down, and even teacher attendance increased from 69 percent to 79 percent.

Engaging, hands - on, and fun for teachers, Quaver Professional Development Days boost attendance, increase enthusiasm, and manage the incorporation of new resources.

Speaking to a task force on teacher compensation earlier this year, Sen. Jerry Tillman (R - Randolph) told those in attendance that, «large across - the - board and step increases are probably not going to happen.»

These teams took on challenges including increasing school attendance rates, building better relationships between teachers and students, and improving the ways students are taught, as well as the kinds of things they are learning.

Teacher home visits are said to result in increased rates of attendance and test scores as well as decreased rates of vandalism and suspension / expulsion rates.

They work collaboratively with school leaders to help develop or strengthen multi-tiered systems to reduce chronic absenteeism, increase punctuality, and provide recognition to students and teachers with strong attendance.

Revamping the current evaluation system that administrators use to track teacher performance, and including increased accountability for teacher attendance

Berry's research suggests that such «teacher - powered» schools decrease discipline issues and safety concerns, and increase graduation rates and college attendance for students.

Increasing racial, ethnic, linguistic, socio - economic, and gender diversity in the teacher workforce can have a positive effect for all students, but the impact is even more pronounced when students have a teacher who shares characteristics of their identity.20 For example, teachers of color are often better able to engage students of color, 21 and students of color score higher on standardized tests when taught by teachers of color.22 By holding students of color to a set of high expectations, 23 providing culturally relevant teaching, confronting racism through teaching, and developing trusting relationships with their students, teachers of color can increase other educational outcomes for students of color, such as high school completion and college attendance.24

Many teachers and schools experimenting with personalized learning also report early success with boosting student and parent engagement, improving student attendance, increasing teacher retention, and other measures of progress.

Many urban districts across the nation have expanded the proportion of charter schools; increased the percentage of teachers trained in alternate certification programs; widened attendance zones; adopted voucher programs; constructed new facilities; and changed their relationships with teachers unions.

This Kellogg Foundation - funded work aims to improve outcomes for 1,797 pre-school through 3rd grade students, increasing family engagement, while strengthening their attendance, cognitive and language development, and pre-literacy skills, as well as improving teacher job satisfaction.

«Sorting teachers in a way that allows them to teach a subset of subjects of relative strength has, if anything, negative impacts on test scores, negative impacts on attendance, and increases suspensions due to ill - advised behavior,» Fryer wrote.

-- Beth Janson, Tribeca Film Institute Part 1 of the Education in Film series Last year, the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York saw 50,000 students and 5,000 teachers from 13 different states and 12 different countries walk through its doors — an increase of nearly three times in school group attendance...

The increase in student attendance also has a «Triple Bottom Line» benefit of: students learn when they are present in class, teachers have more opportunity to teach, and increased revenue to districts through the current funding model of Texas school districts which is based on student attendance.

The aim was to inform and contribute to developing and implementing effective policies, strategies, financing and systems to increase teachers» attendance in schools and classrooms to acceptable levels to ensure the quality of student learning.