Sentences with phrase «instructional capacities of»

«Districts don't use the skills of these expert teachers very effectively and so, as a result, not much is done to increase the instructional capacity of the schools.»

Principals can increase the instructional capacity of their schools by creating opportunities for teachers to collaborate as they use key resources to improve teaching and learning.

The initiative also provides support to increase the instructional capacity of teachers who are not yet eligible for certification.

Principals can increase the instructional capacity of their schools by creating opportunities for teachers to work collaboratively as they use key resources to improve teaching and learning.

Research has shown that the most impactful staff development to foster building the instructional capacity of educators is job embedded with frequent opportunities to revisit and adapt skills.

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«There's a significant lack of instructional capacity in many parts of the world, so I think this will be heavily used outside the U.S.»

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary sCapacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary scapacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

A US study titled Schoolwide intervention to reduce chronic tardiness at the middle and high school levels found that «instructional time lost to widespread tardiness is likely to significantly affect the capacity of the entire student population to meet rigorous academic standards».

Another important factor is the investment that the most successful CMOs are making in building the capacity of their central offices, especially the focus on recruiting and developing talent, as well as building instructional support systems that are grounded in the use of performance data.

Supporting and mentoring the principal as instructional leader by focusing on the further development of core leadership capacities, practices and competencies;

ProComp has its limits — it is rooted in compromise; the timeline for implementation is slowed by the need to build district financial and instructional capacity; it does not raise entry pay and provides relatively slow growth in annual earnings; many incentives are too small to really meet demands of the market — but I believe it points in some important new directions.

«Many schools have come to recognize the potential of increasing their instructional capacity by creating leadership roles for expert teachers, but they seldom are organized to prepare teachers for that work,» she says.

Advocates of the Common Core are counting on PD to equip teachers with the instructional capacity to actualize the standards.

The hardest part of capacity building is not identifying effective instructional methods or putting this information in the hands of teachers, but getting teachers to change what they do every single day.

Reville identified key components of an effective statewide system including leadership support, planning and implementation, better access to data, curriculum and instructional support, professional development, and building district level capacity.

«I think what's happening is that the next generation of educators is embracing the notion that to do well in their careers, they need not only strong capabilities in instructional practice, but also the capacity and confidence to engage with others in productive collaborations,» Higgins says.

Corwin partners with schools and systems to deliver training and tools that build capacity, have positive change on instructional practices, and put students at the heart of all we do.

Its efficacy depended on principals» capacity to provide targeted instructional guidance, teachers» ability to respond to the instructional feedback in a manner that generated improvements in student achievement, and the extent of district - level support and training for principals who were primarily responsible for implementing the new system.

Teachers need practice and appropriate protocols, which can be obtained from outside the school or developed internally, to develop their capacity to look at student work as a means of instructional improvement.

Which was that we wanted to make a commitment not just to the accountability side of the reforms, but also to what might be called the instructional core and to invest in capacity and the capacity of people on the front lines of the educational systems; to give them better preparation, to give them better tools, to give them better professional development.

By instructional leadership, we mean the principal's capacity to: 1) offer a vision for instruction that will inspire the faculty; 2) analyze student performance data and make sound judgments as to which areas of the curriculum need attention; 3) make good judgments about the quality of the teaching in a classroom based on analysis of student work; 4) recognize the elements of sound standards - based classroom organization and practice; 5) provide strong coaching to teachers on all of the foregoing; 6) evaluate whether instructional systems in the school are properly aligned; and 7) determine the quality and fitness of instructional materials.

That sweeping shift in demographic patterns has strained the capacity of school districts, and even state departments of education, to develop and pay for instructional programs to teach children who are still learning English.

Educating instructional leaders who will have the capacity, skills, and knowledge to create and sustain K - 12 charter, district, and pilot schools that foster the learning and well - being of all children.

provide staff ongoing, high - quality job - embedded professional development (e.g., regarding subject - specific pedagogy, instruction that reflects a deeper understanding of the community served by the school or differentiated instruction) that is aligned with the school's comprehensive instructional program and designed with school staff to ensure they are equipped to facilitate effective teaching and learning and have the capacity to successfully implement school reform strategies;

The text explores the key characteristics of the educational environments and instructional designs under which maker - centered learning thrives, and describes unique thinking routines that foster the primary maker capacities of looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity.

The summer program for students has proven to be a useful vehicle for increasing staff capacity and providing support for the implementation of new instructional strategies.

We believe that the three elements of the Agency by Design instructional framework — looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity — are concrete capacities that support the development of a sensitivity to design, which therefore may be documented, made visible, and assessed.

Throughout, Payzant's concentration has been on a small set of classroom and «schoolhouse» issues including school leadership, instructional capacity, and quality curriculum, combined with a careful approach to implementation.

Over the course of a school year, SREB's approach to professional development builds capacity for continuous, ongoing professional learning into the instructional day.

State leaders are taking advantage of this «ESSA moment» and are targeting funding to boost principal pipelines, thereby strengthening principals» capacity as instructional leaders who improve student outcomes.

During NLC, principals talked with their members of Congress about pressing states and districts to focus on building capacity in systems to better recruit, prepare, and support principals in the profession, and taking advantage of how they can now support instructional leadership — an area that was overlooked in the last version of the law, the No Child Left Behind Act.

This instructional capacity is being built within the framework of Common Core state standards.

Many districts consider development of their principals «capacity for instructional leadership — one of the district conditions included in our measures — to be a cornerstone of their improvement efforts.

District leaders should acknowledge, and begin to reduce, ways in which secondary school principals are limited in their capacity to exercise instructional leadership by the work required of them in their role as it is currently structured.

Assisting in the development of learning programs in coordination with consultants, project managers, instructional designers and content experts to expand the knowledge and capacity of the NYC Child...

Principals and teachers reported increasing efforts to develop the capacity of teachers to engage collectively in data analysis for instructional decision making, supported by but not dependent on other experts.

CCSSO believes that stronger connections across teacher and leader initiatives and instructional work with CCR standards will have increased impact and benefits for talent management systems, allow for more targeted professional development to support improved instruction for both teacher and leaders, and increase capacity for teachers and leaders to meet the needs of each student and improve learning.

He / She will provides professional development and guidance for teachers to improve their content knowledge and effective delivery of instructional strategies to build the capacity of the school and its teachers to enhance instructional practices.

The Instructional Designer II (Designer) serves in a development / design capacity for the creation of asynchronous online courses.

In that capacity she worked with teachers and administrators in low - performing schools to improve teacher effectiveness through the use of data to inform instructional practices.

Taking advantage of the experts who comprise ASCD Faculty, ASCD Professional Learning Services ™ build educators» local capacity to learn, implement, and sustain research - based leadership and instructional skills and practices.

Previous residence in this state shall not be required in any school of the state as a prerequisite for any person holding a valid Florida certificate or license to serve in an instructional capacity.

To meet the goal of supporting school - based administrators and teacher leaders in their instructional leadership roles, Christina School District's professional development team turned to ASCD and their customizable and sustainable Capacity - Building solution.

The findings of the project detailed in this paper indicate that targeted professional development reinforced by coached Reach PTAR cycles improves the instructional planning capacities, the moment to moment delivery of instruction and the novice teacher's sense of efficacy and success.

The district has invested heavily in improving the capacity of instructional leaders by providing monthly training opportunities for principals.

Such online professional development approaches were found to provide effective teacher support for the adoption of new curriculum with geospatial technologies in science classrooms (e.g., see Fishman et al., 2013; McAuliffe & Lockwood, 2014; Moore, Haviland, Whitmer, & Brady, 2014) and can promote science teachers» pedagogical design capacity for effective instructional enactment (Bodzin et al., 2012).

One way of addressing these challenges is to design the curriculum materials to promote the pedagogical design capacity of teachers — that is, their ability to perceive and mobilize curriculum materials and resources for effective instructional enactment (Brown, 2009).

Dr. Markholt is particularly interested in the intersection of teaching, learning and the leadership capacity necessary for school systems to engage in instructional improvement.

The use of the coaching cycle, equity lens and a focus on developing and strengthening teacher capacity have become anchors in my «toolbox» and enable me to promote and support instructional shifts.

A second approach builds instructional capacity that leads to the ongoing generation of more effective instructional resources.