Sentences with phrase «instructional practices school»

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A «Christian thing» is revealed through the administrative structures and instructional practices of those schools.

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.

Use it to promote instructional best practices, to celebrate excellence, and to recognize all of the things that make your school unique.

These offer a glimpse of how individual students will perform on standardized tests, and schools can later use them to identify which instructional practices worked best, Guidry says.

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.

Despite knowing that there are schools that positively influence students» reading experience through instructional practice, it was initially difficult for Francois to find examples when she set out on her research.

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.

Instructional coaches working at multiple schools share innovative practices throughout the district.

Specifically, Cahill set forth four main areas that should be addressed, including the school's missions and expectations, relationships, curriculum and instructional practices, and governance.

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 reading.

Instructional rounds is an embedded practice at Camdenville, used to drive school change.

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.

«Administrators build their credibility as instructional leaders when they consistently demonstrate classroom expertise by modeling instructional practices, collaborating on curricular initiatives, and enacting the classroom culture they envision for the whole school,» she says.

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 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 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.»

I focus on the educational theory of engaging student's utilizing the best instructional practices for the diverse learning style of the different schools of thought.

One is the lesser profile accorded to curriculum and instructional practice and to what happens once the teacher closes the classroom door; another is the view that random assignment is premature, given its dependence on expert school management and high - quality program implementation; and another is the view that quantitative techniques have only marginal usefulness for understanding schools, since a school's governance, culture, and management are best understood through intensive case studies.

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 program examines four leadership themes — school improvement, instructional practice, student / adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies — and looks at how to adapt and implement specific leadership strategies.

When teachers and school leaders can collaborate on curricula, instructional practice and assessments, it leads to better outcomes.

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.

A 2005 NCREL report draft (which we received special permission to cite for this article) finds «new evidence supporting the apparent effectiveness of online programs and schools and generally demonstrating the potential of online learning as a promising instructional intervention that can, when implemented judiciously, and with attention to «evidence - based» practices, apparently improve student academic performance.»

If inspectors are able to evaluate actual practices and instructional quality at the school, both before and after an inspection, then inspections may well have a mitigating effect on such unintended responses.

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.

We need to concentrate on assisting schools to improve the quality of teaching and learning by providing expert guidance, quality professional development, and the time necessary to use data to improve instructional practice.

The conditions, behaviors, and practices required by an effective coaching program can affect the culture of a school or system, thus embedding instructional change within broader efforts to improve school - based culture and conditions.

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.

These findings also highlight the importance of taking a close look at the practices and instructional policies at the school level, rather than solely concentrating on district - level policies.

As I seem to be spending much of this semester investigating effective writing instruction, setting up a writing center at my middle school where I broadcast some of these instructional practices into the larger school culture has an immense appeal.

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 learning.

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.

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).

A break from hyperactive policymaking gives schools the time and space to finish what we started — to actually implement the higher standards that most states adopted seven years ago; to get better at giving teachers helpful feedback about their instructional practices; to find curricula worth teaching; and to experiment with new approaches to personalization.

The study, «A Delicate Balance: District Policies and Classroom Practice,» found a gap between how central - office administrators envisioned instructional change, and how teachers and school leaders thought about their directives.

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.

Their power can only be unleashed if we also pay sustained attention to curriculum, school organization, educational philosophies, instructional practices, family and community involvement, and the other components of successful schools.