Sentences with phrase «individual schools and systems»

As we examine the individual schools and systems, it is significant to note that the core concepts employed by the schools are diverse and yet surprisingly similar.

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What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

Here in Britain, however, Tough's central tenet appears less radical; our Public School system is founded on the importance of character, so much so that rounded individuals are fast becoming a key national export, as foreign students flock here and schools open satellite campuses overseas.

The Food Shuttle works with each school system and individual schools to identify need.

America was built and prospered on a private school system, directly reflecting individual parental values; modern Americans, indoctrinated by many years in government schools, recoil at such history / ideas... mistakenly seeing it as beyond belief or reason.

«Since 2010 there has been an obsessive focus on structural change and increased autonomy for individual schools and providers, which has compromised the values and ethos of the public education system.

Until an individual can be appointed to lead the institute, a standalone SUNY school with campuses in both Albany and Utica, executive staff at SUNY System Administration, under the leadership of Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Alexander Cartwright, have been directed to «collectively serve» in an officer - in - charge capacity for the school.

«Although some of the data used to compile the rankings is subjective in its reporting, the report highlights the fact that community health is the responsibility of the entire public health system comprised of individuals, schools, non-profits, faith - based organizations, and public safety, as well as health care providers,» Gilmore said.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

This project illustrated for the first time how the teaching system in schools and the allocation of resources to individual subjects have changed since 1830 in the country's main language regions.

«By diversifying our labeling approaches, we also visualized different types of individual biomolecules in the chromosome - containing nucleus, including sequences in the DNA, proteins bound to DNA or the membrane that encloses the nucleus, as well as nuclear RNAs,» adds Yin, who is also co-leader of the Wyss Institute's Molecular Robotics Initiative, and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School..

«There are some individual and public health risks with daily dosing of sublingual buprenorphine, such as missed doses and accidental pediatric exposure, as well as the risk of theft or intentional diversion,» said Richard N. Rosenthal, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System.

While most initiatives are focused on sequencing patient genomes, Ken Mandl, Isaac Kohane, and Joshua Mandel of Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School argue that an individual's genetic information could be put to even better use if it was linked to app - fueled, electronic health record systems.

Independent, motivated individuals with research experience in either cell biology and / or biochemistry and an interest in secretory systems are always welcome to apply to our established neurobiology / endocrinology laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

In research published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizophrenia.

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The success of schools also depends on other individuals and institutions to provide the health, intellectual stimulus, and family support on which public school systems can build.

This customized school system that attempts to meet local and individual needs is a poor host for external inspections and standardized tests.

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

Some schools install firewalls on their computer systems; others install filtering software — such as Bess, CyberPatrol, Surfwatch, Net Nanny, and WebSense — on individual computers.

The system attaches funds to individual students, rather than to schools or school districts, and then allows students to choose any public school in the district, with neighborhood students» having preference at each school.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Richard Niehaus ruled this month that the education department failed to conduct legally required hearings before implementing the Educational Management Information System, which was designed to gather demographic data and achievement scores for individual districts and schools.

Third, the choice movement, including charter schools, magnet schools, vouchers, and outsourced school management, has shown us what it means to devolve authority from bureaucratic systems to individual schools and families.

Set up visitors» access control systems around all entrances to a school, so that every individual is checked and identified before they are allowed into the establishment.

Towards an adaptive education system in Australia says that, despite individual bright spots, overall student performance is declining in international tests, and an unacceptably high number of students are not ready for life after school.

Although our ultimate goal is a system of schooling that naturally evolves and improves, it's important to keep in mind that the capacity for experimenting and innovating resides in individual schools, not in central offices.

Other initiatives in their school improvement plan (PDF) included Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), an operational framework for implementing practices and interventions to improve academic and behavioral outcomes, and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a college readiness system with research - based methods for elementary through postsecondary students.

Although I'm at university now, I've just come out of working in the school system for many years and working in leadership roles in schools, and I think it can be very useful for schools to drill down into the individual student data.

Put together, it gives individuals, groups, whole school communities, and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time.

There is no serious monitoring for cheating in most of the 13,000 school districts in the U.S., and some of the best known cases became known only because of the determined efforts of a few individuals outside the school system.

However, I witnessed firsthand the limitations imposed upon the creativity, energy, and professionalism of individuals when I was working across schools within a system.

Our chiefs, key leaders in the state departments of education and local school systems, postsecondary institutions, and individual educators have made an unprecedented commitment to this work.

The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.

The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure effective teachers and principals for underperforming schools, expand learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.

This approach will be innovative in its integration of personalized screening measures that validly identify different kinds of learners; personalized educational interventions that are matched to the needs of individual students, in and out of school; and personalized resources that build the capacity of educators and parents, and the systems in which they work, to adopt and integrate these personalized tools and measures.

PBIS focuses on creating and sustaining primary (school - wide), secondary (classroom), and tertiary (individual) systems of support for positive behavior.

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

One of the thorniest challenges facing district leaders today is that of improving teaching and learning — not just in individual schools, but across entire systems of schools.

It seems that individual schools and education systems seldom learn from each other on what it takes to improve education for Indigenous students.

Relationships: A starting point for success lies in establishing respectful and trusting relationships with Indigenous leaders and communities, both at a system governance level and at an individual school level.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

With the more cost effective alternatives to enterprise Learning Management System software, such as WordPress web development tools and availability of free resources for setting up an education website, it is becoming easier for local schools and individual tutors to build a great site with minimum investments.

Too many states try to include too many measures into their accountability system, and then none of the individual measures are really important or really guide schools on what their learning outcomes need to be.

She added: «The principle is clear: selective schools have a part to play in helping to expand the capacity of our school system and they have the ability to cater to the individual needs of every child.

Once through the school gates, access to the internal buildings can be controlled using access control systems, providing automated entry to authorised individuals and denying access to any unauthorised visitors.

She said: «I have made it a personal mission to increase the capacity and diversity of the school system so that there is a good school place that caters to the individual needs and abilities of every single child, whatever their background and wherever they live.

By centralising all data required in an open system that is password protected, and can be accessed by numerous individuals at a time, the responsibilities that are part and parcel of the school office do not rest solely on one person's shoulders.

Recommendations for states, districts, and individual schools include improved teacher training, support for e-learning and virtual schools, stronger technology leadership, a move toward more digital content and away from reliance on textbooks, better use of broadband, and integration of data systems for such uses as online testing, understanding relationships between decisions, allocation of resources and student achievement, and tailoring instruction to individual students.