Sentences with phrase «instructional days do»

A study published in the Winter 2010 issue of Ed Next found that more instructional days do indeed mean more student learning.

Not exact matches

Does dressing a teddy bear for the weather each day make optimal use of instructional time?

Whatever you decide to do with the last handful of instructional days, stay flexible and open to taking the journey with your students.

The instructional coaches are connecting that work and connecting teachers every day, all day long, in a way that professional development — sending teachers to a class or workshop — can't do.»

«It's time for me to do other things - finishing the book [Every Child, Every Classroom, Every Day], working with Larry Leverett on instructional improvement with 15 superintendents in New Jersey, supporting HGSE's efforts in South Africa, and assisting our graduates as they ascend to their superintendencies,» Peterkin said.

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.

A simple and transparent way to do this is for state report cards, which inform parents about school outcomes and summarize the information on AYP status, to include information about the number of instructional days at test date as well as the total number of instructional days for the year.

It's why charter schools can and do fire ineffective teachers, why they can turn on a dime when an instructional approach isn't working, why they can spend their money on the classroom instead of the bureaucracy, and why they can put the needs of students first, every day, all day.

«Personalized learning» seems to be everywhere these days — in the instructional goals set by school districts, in state and federal policy, and in the promises made by educational technology companies trying to do business with schools.

More districts are training their subs in classroom management and instructional skills so a teacher's absence does not mean a lost day of learning.

It does not address the changes we need to see in teacher compensation, the organization of the school day, the role of instructional leadership, and a range of other key factors crucial to getting the teacher - quality equation right in a workforce of 3,000,000 facing 200,000 teacher hires a year, due to high rates of turnover and mounting retirements.

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Much has been written about the importance of the principal as an instructional leader.124 Often, however, this scholarship is markedly theoretical or vague (not the same things), failing to reflect the messiness of what principals do on a day - to - day basis.

By giving students flexibility over their own learning, we don't have to spend our whole day in the classroom and utilizing blended learning allows us to use a greater variety of instructional techniques.

To meet the education department's quotas for instructional time, Kaimuki students get out at 2:50 p.m. most days, 10 to 25 minutes later than they did in the past.

And because the state has provided little help with Common Core instruction and lesson plan design (part of that «infrastructure» that doesn't exist in CA and gives Michael Kirst insomnia) to the teachers currently in classrooms, our district is spending roughly $ 100 million in LCFF funds to pull teachers out of classrooms during 10 instructional days this year to work in school site PLCs.

These high - end uses of the IDS did not occur every day but happened often enough to indicate that the IDS influenced the participants» instructional practice.

You might even consider, if you have the instructional time, splitting the content into 3 days so students don't get overwhelmed.

I think the opening and closing day videos are great - they're nice and short so they don't take up any of our instructional time.

Now that you're familiar with the ID process, maybe you're wondering, What does an instructional designer actually do on a day - to - day basis?

Levinson explained that because students don't physically appear before a teacher each day, instead logging onto their computers from home to access instructional materials and lessons, requiring the recording and reporting of daily student attendance doesn't make sense for virtual online charter schools.

As consultants who work with teachers every day on how to execute high leverage instructional strategies, never does a strategy elicit so much excitement from teachers than when we coach them to implement Think Pair Share, a strategy many already think they know.

I thought that teaching kids was all I would ever do as an educator, until one day, I was offered an instructional coaching position.

An instructional designer doesn't simply bash out a piece of content and then take a nap for the rest of the day.

They spend entire school days disciplining and suspending instead of leading and inspiring as instructional leaders must do.

These key ideas remind me of the work successful instructional leaders can do every day to support their teachers.