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Figure 1 compares the magnitude of the effect of instructional days on standardized math scores to estimates drawn from other high - quality studies of the impact of changing class size, teacher quality, and retaining students in grade.

A study that appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of Ed Next looked at the impact of lost instructional days on student achievement.

At Jackson Avenue, which houses the third and fourth grades, all 417 children, including those in special education, have their own tablets, and they spend about 75 percent of their instructional day on the devices, more than many other schools that have embraced digital learning.

Not exact matches

No child — and I mean NO child — needs a cell phone on his / her person during the instructional day.

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 schedule.

When Alonzo (Denzel Washington) takes Jake (Ethan Hawke) out on his Training Day the day looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional toDay the day looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional today looks more like a trip into a nightmarish revisioning of The Wizard of Oz than a beat cop instructional tour.

The instructional day at YES Prep campuses runs from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., five days a week, with sessions for extra instruction and community service on certain Saturday mornings.

The other day, one of my Instructional Designer colleagues was telling me about the first time she tried to introduce a game into an employee training program early on in her career.

As an e-learning, m - learning, and ILT vendor - partner working directly with clients and as manager of a team of instructional designers, Catherine Davis actively works on innovative instructional design projects every day.

«When a single student misses a day or more of instruction, the teacher can review the recently presented material for the student who missed it, in which case the absent student's peers lose out on valuable instructional time, or she may move forward with new material and risk having the absent student fall behind.»

«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 piece focuses on Teach To One, a math curriculum used to power the Individual Rotation blended - learning model whereby students receive an individualized schedule and instructional plan each day based on their performance the day prior.

Thus the responsibility for operationalizing standards, day in and day out, falls on the teacher, who carefully plans the scope (breadth and depth of content) and sequence (the order in which content is learned), and is able to execute instruction in a way that capitalizes on what TeachThought calls instructional fundamentals.

Instructional days are filled with discussion about the content, which helps students engage in good conversation and think about what they may want to discuss on the air.

As Lemov calculates, the time saved on such mundane tasks quickly adds up to days of extra instructional time over a school year.

Collegio Irabia - Izaga, Pamplona, Spain Presented two - day workshop on Teacher Teams and Instructional Rounds for Teachers to 80 teachers and school administrators from public and independent schools in Pamplona and Barcelona (with Vivian Troen).

Each afternoon, around 5:00 pm, based on the results of that day's lessons and diagnostic tests, a computer algorithm automatically creates a detailed instructional plan for the next day.

Also, our research has focused on the variation in instructional days prior to exams, or accountable days.

Now, so I have an operational team that is looking after all those day to day organisational things and that allows my teaching and learning and curriculum team to get on with those quality instructional programs.

Because some districts were affected while others were not, he was also able to provide unusually convincing evidence on the effect of changes in the number of instructional days.

While our studies use data from different states and years, and employ somewhat different statistical methods, they yield very similar results on the value of additional instructional days for student performance.

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.

If the instructional period is less than nine weeks (e.g. 30 - day cycles), teachers should set goals for several of these short cycles and then aggregate performance on these goals into their SGOs when possible.

Among other things, many charter schools fit more instructional hours into a year by running longer school days and providing instruction on weekends and during the summer (Wilson 2008; Hoxby, Murarka, and Kang 2009; Matthews 2009).

Few primary schools with officers on site at least once a week reported that officers were at school for all instructional hours every day (13 %).

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Our tour guide for this fifth stop on the Knowledge Matters School Tour, Mad River School District Instructional Coach Mandy Polen, had no way of knowing that our visit was going to fall on such a special day.

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.

«We found higher levels of classroom engagement after lessons in nature than after carefully matched classroom - based counterparts; these differences could not be explained by differences in teacher, instructional approach, class (students, classroom, and class size), time of year, or time of day, nor the order of the indoor and outdoor lessons on a given topic.

In the interviews, secondary school principals repeatedly said that there was not enough time in the day to complete all their responsibilities, and they told us directly that instructional leadership «gets placed on the back burner.»

Produced by CUE, each Academy is an intensive, two - day event during which participants get hands - on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in a supportive community of educators making impact...

The «new and improved» summer school program CPS proposes sounds a lot like hours and hours of computer test prep: «weekly acceleration / intervention sessions as part of the full school day; access to instructional tool that provides focused lessons based on individual needs,» which CPS calls «personalization» (slide 14 of CPS PowerPoint Presentation)

After four days of intensive interactions focused on developing greater expertise in leading for instructional improvement, they returned to the students that they serve with the inspiration, knowledge and energy that could make a difference for the whole school year and beyond.

Count how many instructional days are available, and assign a set number of days to cover each unit based on the level of rigor and the quantity of material to be covered.

iCoach I iCoach I one - day workshop provides administrators and education leaders with the training and support they need to collect accurate data on classroom lessons, analyze teachers» instructional delivery, and formulate specific objectives for evaluation and instructional coaching conferences.

We are just starting our journey on this new path and during our initial professional development days we decided to put instructional strategies, coaching and test scores aside, and started working on beliefs, bias and culture.

Lisa believes that «every child can learn and deserves to have the best education possible» She makes it her daily mission to know her content inside and out, stay informed on the lasted pedagogy and instructional tools / methods, and to always bring her «A» game each and every school day.

The Arizona Department of Education sent out guidance to LEAs on April 25 about school closures and altered instructional days.

Each member of the instructional staff employed on a full - time basis is entitled to 4 days of sick leave as of the first day of employment of each contract year and shall thereafter earn 1 day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the member at the end of that month and which may not be used before it is earned and credited to the member.

The more successful professional development programs last several days, focus on subject - specific instruction, and are aligned with instructional goals and curriculum.

These days, as never before, teachers rely on evidence from students» scores on state, district, and classroom tests to help them monitor their students progress and make instructional decisions.

There shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave which a member of the instructional staff or an educational support employee may accrue, except that at least one - half of this cumulative leave must be established within the district granting such leave.

Through a three - day professional development boot camp, school leaders — including principals, assistant principals, coaches, and teacher leaders — learn how to launch an instructional leadership team in order to successfully devise, launch, and execute on school improvement goals.

Kindergarten students with either 450 or 1,000 instructional hours, depending on full - day Kindergarten phase - in

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

Despite different findings on kindergarten's long - term effect on student achievement or how full - day programs differ from half - day in terms of quality and instruction, the issue remains that the amount of instructional time kindergarteners receive varies considerably from state to state, and district to district.

McLeod explained that the extra instructional time has provided enrichment opportunities enabling teachers to go back and teach fun things that excite students, such as a unit on Pioneer Days.

If you are new to the Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model or would like to devote a full day to either the foundations of the model or instructional coaching with the model, join one of our pre-conference sessions on Wednesday, June 20.

This three - day interactive academy, presented by experienced educators and ASCD authors Harvey Silver, Tom Dewing, and Daniel Moirao, will expand on the original concepts presented in the best - selling books The Core Six and The Strategic Teacher and will help teachers move beyond instructional strategies to the larger concept of instructional know - how.