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The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, will today reaffirm its strategy to continue to defend the interests of pupils, schools and the teaching profession from the assault by the Government and administrations across the UK on our public education service.

This can be especially detrimental in schools with large enrollments of minority and low - income populations, which may devote the majority of instructional time to arithmetic exercises and simple reading strategies, the researchers wrote.

Co-authors Cathy Sorichetti and Tamara Grundland emphasize that there are many promising prevention strategies including life skills training for middle schoolers, comprehensive community - based interventions addressing children, schools, and the larger community, education of parents about the risk of supplying alcohol to teenagers, and greater enforcement of laws prosecuting those who sell liquor to minors.

«We have developed a general strategy for making a large variety of nanoparticles in different size ranges, compositions and architectures,» said Zhiqun Lin, an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Perhaps because students in the study got the targeted help they needed to catch up, Ludwig said, «These effects on schooling outcomes are larger — much larger — than what we see from so many other educational strategies.»

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My first exposure came in the 1950s at my family's kitchen table, where my mother, a middle school English teacher, talked about strategies for encouraging children to write, and my father, a high school principal, talked about new ways to recruit good teachers at a time when the children from the large baby boom generation were enrolling in the nation's schools.

Recently released by Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a nonprofit that works with large, urban school districts to rethink how best to use resources, Budget Hold»em can be played online for free or with a special deck of paper cards.

In an article that appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Ed Next, Andy Smarick urged charter school advocates to embrace a strategy of large - scale replacement of failing district schools with charter schools.

That's why districts throughout the country are working to personalize learning by creating small schools or reorganizing large schools into small learning communities, as part of their strategy for reducing the dropout rate.

Let's turn now to the preferred strategy, which controls for the fact that students performing at different levels may be sorted into smaller or larger classes both between and within schools.

A recent report by the Consortium on Chicago School Research studied the nation's largest close - and - replace strategy.

Other strategies for sharing the oral histories with a larger audience include dedicating class or homework time to reading other students» oral histories, sending copies of the narratives to local schools and libraries, or creating classroom or campus exhibits based on the project.

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We also document that although public - interest lawyers were initially motivated to expand student legal rights as part of a larger strategy to reduce social inequality, legal challenges to school disciplinary actions are disproportionately the province of white and higher - income students and their families.

The other reform strategy pursued in recent years, by large urban districts from New York to San Diego, is to recruit celebrity superintendents from other professions, such as Joel Klein, the Clinton administration's antitrust official, who is now serving as chancellor of the New York City schools.

Considering the district's sobering graduation - rate statistics — a 2006 study sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ranked the LAUSD in the bottom six of the country's fifty largest school districts — there's practically nothing to lose in embracing new technologies and strategies for reaching at - risk students.

And as of the 2015 — 16 school year, 23 of the 100 largest school districts nationwide had implemented policy reforms requiring nonpunitive discipline strategies and / or limits to the use of suspensions.

SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES Achieving successful outcomes in redeveloping historic school buildings depend in large part on two key principles — Planning Policy 5 (PPS 5): Planning for the Historic Environment and the Constructive Conservation philosophy.

Cruz doesn't credit the district's service focus with all of that success; he maintains it's but one strategy in a larger program that includes keeping schools small, providing tutoring for students, and offering fun after - school classes.

The Arts needs to be considered as a strategy «for forging deeper connections, engaging in more creative and complex thinking, as well as inspiring students to learn,» shares blogger at large Beth Holland (@brholland) from her summer reading, The Brain Targeted Teaching Model for 21st Century Schools by Dr. Mariale Hardiman, and In Assessment and the Learning Brain, by Hardiman and Whitman.

Conceivably, the market strategies of charter schools and large CMOs, rather than the needs of families and students, could drive the market, leading to more imitation and less diversity.

This investigation will outline the major components of the first phase of a larger project designed to build and test a body of evidence - based strategies and practices that can ultimately be adopted by a broad range of elementary, middle and high schools.

Schools have employed several strategies to increase parental involvement in school, ranging from extensive promotion of events such as «back to school» nights, to school - based cultural events in areas with large immigrant populations.

Between 2004 and 2009, Cerf was Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education where he led organizational strategy, innovation, labor relations, and all matters pertaining to recruiting, supporting, developing, and evaluating the nearly 80,000 teachers and 1,450 principals who work in the nation's largest school district.

This research adds to evidence that the strategy to replace large high schools with smaller ones increased student achievement significantly and at great scale.

Before coming to Fulton County Schools, Dr. Avossa served as Chief Strategy and Accountability Officer for Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina, one of the largest school systems in the country.

Developing a marketing strategy for open positions that publicizes the advantages of rural schools — smaller class sizes, lower student - teacher ratios, and lower stress levels — has the potential to attract experienced teachers interested in a new environment and new teachers not interested in larger settings.

The research indicates that, in spite of the controversy they generated in New York at the time, replacing large failing high schools, developing smaller schools in their place, and providing quality charter school options for families, have proved to be greatly beneficial strategies for hundreds of thousands of New York students, with implications for the nation.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

Given the evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically over the summer while other students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve student achievement.

Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»

While it might seem hard to compare such different strategies, the heart of the larger school - reform debate is between systemic reforms like the portfolio model and resource - oriented strategies.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

Creighton and WestEd used four major improvement strategies: 1) refining the curriculum and aligning staff training and student tests to that curriculum; 2) improving instructional practices, including those for English language learners, who comprise a large share of the district's students; 3) developing and using tests during the school year, other than those used for accountability, to assess what students had learned; and 4) implementing a system of individualized instruction based on student needs.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Uses knowledge and understanding of the different backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and languages in the school community to promote effective interactions among colleagues, families, and the larger community; b) Models and teaches effective communication and collaboration skills with families and other stakeholders focused on attaining equitable achievement for students of all backgrounds and circumstances; c) Facilitates colleagues» self - examination of their own understandings of community culture and diversity and how they can develop culturally responsive strategies to enrich the educational experiences of students and achieve high levels of learning for all students; d) Develops a shared understanding among colleagues of the diverse educational needs of families and the community; and e) Collaborates with families, communities, and colleagues to develop comprehensive strategies to address the diverse educational needs of families and the community.

«From Large to Small: Strategies for Personalizing the High School.»

Classes have multiple teachers, particularly in different subjects and in large schools, so long - term and deep - seated learning strategies require close co-operation between teachers.

Models and strategies of change and conflict resolution as applied to the larger political, social, cultural and economic contexts of schooling.

This school year, I'll continue in - depth work with both small and large districts in implementing a variety of comprehensive strategies to support deeper learning through coaching and assessment development (Springdale, AR; NYC Schools; Gillette, WY; and several OH school districts).

Under that strategy they tried to achieve reform by paying school districts to break - up larger high schools into smaller ones.

Prior to EducationSuperHighway, Jeff worked with the Urban Schools Human Capital Academy to develop human capital leaders and implement strategies in large urban districts across the country.

She also oversaw Uncommon's parent and community engagement strategy to empower parents as leaders in the charter school and larger education reform movement, and led the advocacy and external affairs strategy for Uncommon NYC.

In a Wired blog, «Inside the Educational Data Revolution,» David Stewart, CEO of Tembo, laments how in the largest US school systems, «millions of dollars are being spent on interim assessment systems, intended to track student performance throughout the year and adapt teaching strategies in advance of the high - stakes year - end tests.

The district's «portfolio of schools» strategy is to provide a range of schools for students: comprehensive high schools with small learning communities, small free - standing high schools, small schools within a large complex, and charter schools.

Abstract: This survey demonstrates the approaches large consolidated school systems can take to employ strategies to create smaller learning environments for students.

The Coalition for Community Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among Schools estimates that there are about 5,000 community schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools in the U.S. Several large urban districts have adopted community schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among schools as a reform strategy including New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore, among others.

Classrooms and other learning areas in a school building should be large enough to include spaces that accommodate the different learning styles of students — visual, auditory, tactile — and the varied instructional strategies used by teachers.

While the funding issue looms large, there are research - based strategies that educators can employ to mitigate the barriers to school success.