Sentences with phrase «instructional practice in their schools»

Educators have access to tools that support job - embedded learning and influence instructional practice in their schools.

Over 500 school and district leaders and 1,500 teachers experienced professional development diving into the framework's utility for improving instructional practice in their schools.

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Another Success principal in the Bronx has begun advising the local district school principal on instructional practices, the application reads.

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

Currently, he is the Supervisor of Instructional Practice K - 12 in the Salisbury Township School District (1:1 MacBook / iPad) in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

To help us analyze and maximize use of instructional time, here are five common literacy practices in U.S. schools that research suggests are not optimal use of instructional time:

Like successful business executives, winning coaches, and triumphant politicians, good school leaders have traditionally been viewed as standouts — not because of their expertise in instructional practice (which, after all, is what their business is all about), but because of their individual character traits and actions, «in the heroic American tradition of charismatic leadership,» exlains Elmore.

I am the coauthor of Hacking Project Based Learning, and the Supervisor of Instructional Practice K - 12 in the Salisbury Township School District (1:1 MacBook / iPad) in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

In his acclaimed Readicide (2009), high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher argued that the «inane, mind - numbing» instructional practices found in today's schools are partly to blame for students» lack of interest in readinIn his acclaimed Readicide (2009), high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher argued that the «inane, mind - numbing» instructional practices found in today's schools are partly to blame for students» lack of interest in readinin today's schools are partly to blame for students» lack of interest in readinin reading.

What I found is that schools that exceed expectations — as well as those that are making significant improvement from a base of overall poor performance — engage in the extensive practice of six research - informed instructional strategies and develop a culture that communicates high expectations and support for all students.

One strand of his research, which has sought to replicate effective charter - school practices in public school contexts, has shown that when a school increases instructional time, has excellent teachers and administrators, and instills data - driven instruction, small - group tutoring, and a culture of high expectations, it can eliminate gaps in math performance.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

These outcomes may also result from the specific ways in which schools and teachers have adjusted their instructional practices, perhaps differently for mathematics and reading.

As a result of the compact, BPS and the local charter sector have established several school - to - school partnerships (some including local parochial schools) in order to share and develop effective instructional practices.

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of HispanicIn a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of HispSchool of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispschool organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanicin the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

Before schools can respond to external pressure for increased academic performance, they must transform themselves from atomized, incoherent organizations to ones in which faculty share an explicit set of norms and expectations about what good instructional practice looks like.

«Teachers learn to draw connections between their instructional practice and student learning through the deliberate analysis of data,» says Richard Elmore, «and this sense of efficacy in teaching is central to internal accountability at the school level.»

So they begin to behave in ways they otherwise wouldn't — including adopting instructional practices and school culture habits we might not want.

But edtech innovations hold real promise for improving student learning outcomes if education leaders use them to redesign classroom and school models in ways that transform teachers» instructional practices.

from City College of New York before coming to the Ed School as a doctoral candidate in the Education Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice Program.

The latter is one of nine principles of learning formulated by the Institute for Learning that I direct at the University of Pittsburgh to provide assistance to school systems in building organizational and instructional practices that will enable their students to meet higher achievement standards.

Corporate entities run many of the new for - profit schools, and to establish their brand identity they have sought relative uniformity in instructional practices from site to site.

Course for Families Enhances Math Test Scores With boosting math scores as a goal, the staff at one Wisconsin school focused on curriculum, instructional practices, and the role parents play in student success.

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learninIn Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learninin the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

To date, our work using the distributed perspective has demonstrated the ways that leaders co-construct leadership activity, how leadership practice connects and fails to connect with instructional change, why teachers heed or ignore the guidance of school leaders, and how leadership is practiced differently in different school subjects (e.g. mathematics versus language arts).

Elmore expanded this concept — similar to the medical rounds used in teaching hospitals — into a more formal practice of «instructional rounds» when asked to consult for a group of Connecticut superintendents who were meeting informally to talk about school performance.

To do this, school leaders need to create the conditions through which instructional practices are continually improved in order to meet all students» needs.

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.

Moreover, research suggests that changes in school culture and classroom instructional practice are necessary requirements for improving pupil achievement, and that just redistributing decisionmaking power and resources is not enough.

Here, John Dewey, no fan of the Catholics or their schools, which he pronounced «inimical to democracy,» may have had the last laugh: Once known for their rigorous academic and organizational structure, Catholic schools now implement many of the instructional theories and practices that predominate in Dewey - inspired progressive - education schools (the dominant principle of our public schools for most of the last fifty years).

Wrapping these ideologically charged reforms into an expert national «consensus,» though, forces those who have concerns about these strategies to look askance at the SEL agenda — when it might instead make clear that there's room in the SEL coalition for those with diverse views on school discipline and instructional practice.

At Albemarle County Public Schools, teacher - driven instructional coaching supports teachers in their professional development, helps them to engage their students in authentic learning, and spreads innovative practices district - wide.

Instructional leadership (practices that involve the planning, evaluation and improvement of teaching and learning) and distributed leadership (a reflection of leadership being shown by the principal, but also of others acting as leaders in school) are seen as conducive to student learning.

This innovative collaboration between HGSE and Harvard Business School integrates best practices from both schools, combining expertise in managing teams and organizations with a commitment to school and instructional leadeSchool integrates best practices from both schools, combining expertise in managing teams and organizations with a commitment to school and instructional leadeschool and instructional leadership.

School leaders should participate in ongoing training in using data to inform school improvement and instructional decision making and in motivating their staff to engage in these pracSchool leaders should participate in ongoing training in using data to inform school improvement and instructional decision making and in motivating their staff to engage in these pracschool improvement and instructional decision making and in motivating their staff to engage in these practices.

Online classes may be a relatively young instructional practice for K - 12 schools, but experts already generally agree on one point: Research shows that virtual schooling can be as good as, or better than, classes taught in person in brick - and - mortar schools.

Daniel Whitt, the coordinator of instructional technology in the Madison City School District in Alabama, says his district started using Seesaw — adopted in more than 25,000 schools, 200,000 U.S. classrooms, and over 150 countries — to showcase learning practices in the schools.

As a senior fellow for the International Center for Leadership in Education, she provides professional learning and coaching to districts and schools on leading learning organizations, designing rigorous and relevant learning experiences, achieving instructional excellence, and utilizing formative data to drive daily practice.

Insight ADVANCE, the company behind the observation and coaching platform used in schools and teacher preparation programs, invited me to develop an ebook that explores research, tools, principles, and best practices for providing inservice teachers feedback on their instructional performance.

This combination helps you link classroom experience to relevant theory and research, learn and rehearse new instructional practices, and ground your own learning in your students» learning and school context.

If you visit most American schools today, you'll observe instructional practices that are not designed to develop students» competencies and engagement in learning, but to teach simple recall tasks that can be transferred to test scores.

This comprehensive software, developed in partnership with Harris School Solutions, makes it easy for teachers, coaches, and school leaders to work together to improve the use of instructional strategies and other professional pracSchool Solutions, makes it easy for teachers, coaches, and school leaders to work together to improve the use of instructional strategies and other professional pracschool leaders to work together to improve the use of instructional strategies and other professional practices.

Previously, Ben worked alongside K - 12 educators in schools, providing both professional development and analytical support related to the effective use of data to enhance instructional practice and support school improvement.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaSchools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaSchools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college prepaschools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

Teachers in the same school are strategically paired based on complementary strengths and areas for growth on specific instructional practice areas.

Annual teacher surveys between 2010 and 2013 asked teachers about the frequency of visiting another teacher's classroom to watch him or her teach; having a colleague observe their classroom; inviting someone in to help their class; going to a colleague to get advice about an instructional challenge they faced; receiving useful suggestions for curriculum material from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from their principal; and receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from another school leader (e.g., AP, instructional coach).

«We also find that «F» - graded schools engaged in systematically different changes in instructional policies and practices as a consequence of school accountability pressure, and that these policy changes may explain a significant share of the test score improvements (in some subject areas) associated with «F» - grade receipt.»

Utilizing an in - depth consultation protocol, attendees will conduct a thorough analysis of the practices and accountability of teachers at their school, leaving with a plan that improves leadership among teachers, instructional practice, student and adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies.