Sentences with phrase «informed school decisions»

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The school's 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students were informed of the college's decision on July 10.

Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

Crocker says that he will visit each school and will listen to friends and past teammates to help make an informed decision when the time comes.

We know that schools and parents want up - to - date research to help inform their decisions, but they often don't have time to sort through all the data and interpret the findings.

But, in the meantime, it should be up to schools, coaches, parents, athletic trainers, team doctors, and the athletes themselves to weigh the benefits and risks of supplemental helmet padding and helmet sensors, and to make the decision - hopefully an informed decision - that is most likely to improve player safety, NOCSAE certification or not.

The experts are there to answer any question to help you to make an informed decision about your child's educational journey from preschool through high school.

The fact that this couple «went to one of the top liberal arts schools» is completely irrelevant to any discussion of how well informed their decision to do a home birth was.

As to LTFA and school lunches, I'd like to say that there really needs to be better education for the schools / nutrition services & personnel as to what is REALLY in the foods, what has / hasn't been disclosed by manufacturers (true grasp of the food labelling laws as currently written), and how to fully and accurately provide all students / parents / consumers with timely and accurate ingredient lists so that fully - informed and educated decisions can be made as to when / if student might eat the cafeteria (bfast or lunch) foods.

School expectations can help parents make informed decisions.

Whether you're thinking about enrolling your child in a traditional public or private school, a DoDEA school or you're currently homeschooling your child (or considering the possibility), there are many resources available to help you make informed decisions about your child's education.

The Service later announced that it will carry out an investigation into the matter to ascertain the factors which informed the headmistress» decision to ask for chalk from the Second Lady who had visited her school to donate 5 computers and about 500 books.

You anticipated it and that informed the decision to add 200 new Community based Senior High Schools to the existing stock.

«In order to make well - informed decisions, you have to involve critical stakeholders who have vested interests in ensuring that our schools succeed,» Treyger said.

It is unclear what might have informed the school's decision to charge such fees, and whether same has been approved by the Ghana Education Service.

Lawrence D. Phillips, an emeritus professor at the London School of Economics, will present his research group's findings about the relative risks of different drugs at Advances in Decision Analysis, a conference sponsored by the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS).

For health officials, it could inform decisions on how to stockpile and distribute vaccines and antiviral drugs, and in the case of a virulent outbreak, whether other measures, like closing schools, are necessary.

«People rely heavily on the «normal» way to compute an average and if they simply had ready access to software that calculates the average of ratios, they could make more informed decisions about many big - ticket purchases, such as cars,» said Michael Tsiros, professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business Administration.

Physicians now have robust data to help them counsel patients and make informed decisions regarding treatment options,» says study co-author Lloyd P. Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, Director of Joslin's Beetham Eye Institute, co-head of Joslin's Section of Vascular Cell Biology, and founding chair of the DRCR Network.

The results of this trial study should inform surgical decision making when caring for these complex patients,» said Annetine C. Gelijns, Ph.D., the Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Evidence and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the principal investigator for the Data Coordinating Center based at Mount Sinai.

Often it is the role of the finance director to provide school leaders with all the necessary financial information before an informed decision can be made.

In addition to making a positive statement about the school's approach to sustainability many of the issues that inform the decision making process can also be introduced into the classroom to engage pupils with real - world issues in a meaningful way.

«When schools create a collaborative culture around data use — when they use data not to point fingers but to inform collective decisions — something powerful can happen.»

When job seekers see an advert for a school they have access to Ofsted reports, good schools guides, league tables, performance rankings, and online forums; many of these will be used to make an informed decision about whether to apply for a particular job.

Managing and inspiring others, making well - informed decisions and shaping culture is part and parcel of school leadership.

An effective learning culture in a school has a number of key features, including: engaging teachers in collaboration, using data to inform decision making and learning activities, conducting professional learning that is based on current research and identifying the impact of professional learning on staff and student outcomes from the outset (AITSL, 2013b).

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

They construct an image of parents who need the help of school administrators and government agencies, and, if left to their own devices, would make ill - informed decisions that are not motivated by school quality.

Second, take advantage of your time at HGSE to begin developing your school design and seek out courses that will directly inform your decisions.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mSchool of Education today announced a $ 15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a new, national education initiative to help school district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - mschool district and state leaders increase student achievement and attainment through data - informed decision - making.

Learning to Make Informed Choices What to wear, what to eat, who to get in a car with all are decisions middle schoolers face often or daily.

Visiting Group Preparation It is important that informed decisions can be made by schools, parents and pupils.

The main premise is simple: If every state has a data system in place, decisions will be based on hard evidence, which will help inform other core reforms such as developing effective teachers, improving standards, and reforming poorly performing schools.

Many school leaders will already be using aggregated student data to inform decisions around the foci for professional development — but is this always done in the most useful way?

Wondering what to do here is no longer trial and error, school administrators can clearly see if their Moodle is getting stressed and when which allows them to make informed decision on any necessary upgrades quickly.

Data about student learning, demographics, school processes, and teacher perceptions are used to inform decision making, and extensive professional development is used to set goals, prioritize, and make appropriate intervention plans (Slavin, Cheung, Holmes, Madden, & Chamberlain, 2012).

External thought partners can connect school leaders to pioneers and other peers and serve as an informed sounding board for ideas and key decisions.

Schools will be required to publish a clear statement on their policy and what will be taught, to enable parents make an informed decision.

However, the decision to convert into an academy is not one to be taken lightly, and schools should ensure they perform a proper assessment and seek out the external advice available to make a fully informed decision.

There are so many great ways to promote your school online these days, yet parents and prospective students alike have limited resources for making informed decisions on this matter.

is to inform parents, voters, taxpayers, and educators about the performance of their kids and schools, then let them make their own decisions as to whether anything needs to be done.

The new professional standards will also play a role here in informing decisions about appropriate continuing professional development activities for school business management practitioners.

The school consulted with students, teachers and parents, explored research (including the work of Alfie Kohn and John Hattie), read articles by Joe Bower on abolishing homework, and looked at policies in other jurisdictions — all of which informed the decision to stop setting formal homework.

Statisticians can then use the raw results to make cohort - based comparisons to inform various rankings or comparisons between schools or to make policy decisions.

The Urban Prep Creed is a clear articulation of the values that help inform the decisions our students make each and every day at school and in life.

However, the amendments will continue to allow parents a right to withdraw children from sex education and schools will be required to publish a clear statement of their policy and what will be taught in order for parents to make informed decisions.

In many cases, these systems inform high - stakes decisions such as which schools to close and which teachers to retain.

With the reach and trust of Bett, combined with the unprecedented number of schools involved in their communities, we have the ideal platform to give schools the support and advice they need to make informed decisions.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

And as Andy Smarick has argued, voucher programs need something akin to authorizers, too, so that decisions about participating schools can be informed by nuance and human judgment, not just by test scores and other data points.

Schools need to work to ensure as much information and choice as possible is available for parents so that they are making informed decisions, not emotional decisions based on their child's friends or the trendiest device on the shelf.