Sentences with phrase «individuals at all levels of a school»

High - quality school leadership can be demonstrated by individuals at all levels of a school, including those in formal leadership positions, such as assistant principals or curriculum leaders, and those without a formally defined role.

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These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familySchool: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

Additional Accountability Requirements: The Statewide School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school School Wellness Policy (2005) adopted by the State Board of Education requires school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school districts to report annually to the state on the implementation of their local wellness policies at the district and individual school school level.

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.

-LSB-...] mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and -LSB-...]

According to the fundamental document, in order to qualify for election to the office of the President, an individual must be «educated up to at least School certificate level or its equivalent».

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

«We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

In a related but independent study published in July in Psychological Science, Emily Bianchi, a professor at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, looked at how the state of the nation's economy affected individual levels of narcissism.

In a linked editorial, Rebecca Burch from Harvard Medical School and Melissa Rayhill from The State University of New York at Buffalo caution that «the magnitude of the risk should not be over-emphasized,» as «it is small at the level of the individual patient, but still important at a population level because migraine is so prevalent.»

The researchers also measured socioeconomic status looking at median household income, the percentage of individuals living below the poverty level, and whether or not they had a high school education.

Scientists at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University have completed a comprehensive review of the literature on the mechanisms of potential coral resistance and recovery across scales from global reef areas to the microbial level within individual corals.

The researchers analyzed state - level rates of nonmedical exemptions at school entry from 1991 through 2004 and data for incidence of pertussis from 1986 through 2004 for individuals age 18 years or younger.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

In the world of schooling, the majority of highly successful turnaround cases seem to be those where an individual educator had not only the right idea about instruction, but also the tenacity to bend or break those rules that would have prevented meaningful changes at the school level.

SchoolWorks provides support to educators at all levels, from individual schools to districts, state departments of education, and private foundations.

Although there is plenty of data to understand the growth of charter schools or the numbers of students in districts, because blended learning is a phenomenon that doesn't occur at the school level — it instead occurs at the level of individual classrooms and teachers — capturing what's happening is difficult.

At their most elegant, they can responsibly test only a modest number of interactions between different treatments or between any one treatment and individual differences at the school, classroom, or individual leveAt their most elegant, they can responsibly test only a modest number of interactions between different treatments or between any one treatment and individual differences at the school, classroom, or individual leveat the school, classroom, or individual level.

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

Trying to isolate the true effect of a program that is no longer the same is difficult even at the individual level; it is even more difficult at the school level.

Central to the concentration is research on the factors that put children or youth at a disadvantage, and those assets — family, community, or cultural — that support high levels of academic, social, and moral development; healthy individuals; and effective schools.

Americans May Know More than You Think about Science Science, 8/9/16» «We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.

This includes: the role of MATs in the context of other intermediate structures operating between Whitehall and individual schools, including Regional Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and mschools, including Regional Schools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and mSchools Commissioners; the current MATs landscape, including in terms of the number, size, and geographical coverage of MATs; the balance of decision - making at the individual school level and at the chain level, and the appropriateness of formal governance structures employed; and how the expansion of MATs should be monitored and managed.

At any point in time, the leaders of a level 4 school can identify individual students» strengths and weaknesses relative to specific topics in each subject area.

In most of the private school sector today, accountability is at the level of the individual school, i.e., with the principal and the school's board.

Also, several of the resource and institutional variables, such as the school's decision - making responsibility and the existence of national examinations, are measured at the school or country level, further decreasing the independence of individual observations and reducing the number of independent observations on these variables.

I performed the analysis at the level of the individual student (not the class, school, district, or country) because this directly links student performance to the teaching environment.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

The DfE has published details of the individual allocations at school level as well as scheme funding guidance and case studies showing how some schools have delivered a real impact for pupils through sports and physical activity.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

««The Standards» refers to all elements of the design — the wording of domain headings, cluster headings, and individual statements; the text of the grade level introductions and high school category descriptions; the placement of the standards for mathematical practice at each grade level.

Some reforms are implemented at the district or state level, some at the school level, and some are targeted directly toward specific individuals or groups of students.

This is useful for giving us a window into the quality of a school on average, but it misses understanding at an individual level the true circumstances under which and motivation for why a student enrolls in a full - time virtual school.

Studies of participation in special education typically rely on school district records, either used at the student - level through administrative data or aggregated and reported up to the federal level as required by Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Firstly, the experience shows the importance of «system - ness» — education reform takes place in an integrated, coherent, and sustainable manner at the system, school, classroom, and individual levels.

It can help people reach better informed decisions about individual children's school placements and formulate better informed evaluations of provision at local and national levels.

«By starting at the school at the age of four and staying with us right up until they take their GCSEs, it means we will be able to get to know each child as an individual from an early age, developing them on an holistic level.

Dr. Rodney Andrews, director of the Texas Schools Project and UT Dallas assistant professor of economics, said the study will take advantage of the large repository of individual - level, administrative records available through the UT Dallas Education Research Center (ERC), housed at the Texas Schools Project.

Unlike most federal elementary and secondary education programs, most Title I funds are allocated to individual schools, although LEAs retain substantial discretion to control the use of a share of Title I grants at a central district level.

Using data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools and controlling for individual characteristics, most notably verbal ability, they found modest evidence that, in the aggregate, PBL increased learning of macroeconomics at the high school level as compared with traditional classes.

Each KIPP school is managed locally, and hiring decisions are made at the level of the individual school.

At the level of individual schools, the most commonly used criterion for determining whether students are from low - income families is approval for free or reduced - price school meals.

Instead of relinquishing at the level of the school, schools can start relinquishing at the level of individual courses.

«If the goal is rich feedback at individual or school level, portfolios of some sort are indispensable while tests are of minimal use as they provide far too little information.»

The board, a nonprofit consulting organization funded by individual state membership fees and corporate gifts, aired those views in a 30 - page report citing «widespread erosion» of student achievement and academic standards throughout the region's 260 colleges and universities and suggesting that such problems at both the school and college levels threaten the stability of the New England...

Policymakers should pay much closer attention to the practices of individual schools rather than concentrating exclusively on policies and interventions typically enacted at the district level.

For the present analysis, I aggregate to the district level the data on racial imbalance at individual schools from the SRI and link it to the ECCI data on the choice systems of large districts.