Sentences with phrase «leverage essa»

Finally, the state's accountability system, reflected in LCAPs, can further leverage ESSA requirements if the Department separately reports the data it maintains on academic performance for English learners, reclassified fluent English proficient (RFEP) students, and long - term English learners on district and school dashboards.

Unfortunately, it is too soon to declare victory because most states failed to fully leverage ESSA's flexibility to advance career readiness.

As states consider how to use these strategies to leverage ESSA to improve student transitions, they do not need to start from scratch.

«We have used this process to re-engage with many of our schools, districts and stakeholders across the state over the last two years to get feedback on how our current education system is working.The conversations were deep and very helpful to the department and other stakeholders as we work collectively to leverage ESSA to improve outcomes for our highest need students in Colorado.»

Higher Ed for Higher Standards — in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), National Association of System Heads (NASH), and State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO)-- released new resources for higher education leaders to «leverage ESSA.»

In an earlier blog post — Assessment Literacy in the Education Ecosystem — An Opportunity to Leverage ESSA — we shared how assessment literacy plays an important holistic role across stakeholders.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

Higher Ed for Higher Standards released a new «Leveraging ESSA» brief detailing how the first 17 states to submit their ESSA plans laid out plans to align K — 12 and higher education to support long - term student success — as the group had detailed in its previous...

Executive Director of Learning Forward, Stephanie Hirsh, authored a piece in Education Week on leveraging ESSA for professional learning system improvement.

Higher Ed for Higher Standards, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers, National Association of System Heads, and State Higher Education Executive Officers Association announced a new series of materials, Leveraging ESSA to Increase College Readiness and Completion.

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Chiefs for Change released a new policy paper about leveraging ESSA funding to provide direct student services including tutoring, access to public school choice, distance learning, access to Advanced Placement classes, personalized learning, and other programs.

Cultivating future school leaders and leveraging ESSA to fi nd new ways of honing their own expertise is the responsibility of every principal in the profession.

College & Career Readiness & Success Center: Leveraging ESSA, Perkins, and WIOA to Support a College and Career - Ready Workforce (Wednesday, December 13, 2017 from 1:00 - 2:15 pm ET) This webinar will highlight three forthcoming CCRS Center resources, Developing a College - and Career - Ready Workforce: An Analysis of ESSA, Perkins, and WIOA.

Leveraging ESSA: Shining a Spotlight on K - 12 and Higher Ed Alignment In this brief by the Education Strategy Group, Every Student Succeeds Act plans from all fifty states and the District of Columbia are compared in terms of how states are working to better align strategies between the K - 12 and higher education sectors to make college and career readiness a priority in order for students to better transition to postsecondary education.

Removing barriers to postsecondary success by reducing remediation will be critical to meeting the Kansas Board of Regents» target of graduating about 53,000 students annually systemwide — see our Leveraging ESSA brief for more examples of how states are working to reach credential attainment goals.

For more about the opportunities ESSA provides for higher education and K — 12 collaboration, check out Higher Ed for Higher Standards» Leveraging ESSA series, with materials around aligned attainment goals to be released in early 2017.

The Leveraging ESSA series to provides several resources to support higher ed and K - 12 collaboration in state ESSA plans.

And very few states leveraged ESSA to promote the integration of academic and technical instruction into their professional development or standards.

The Leveraging ESSA series provides several resources to support higher ed and K - 12 collaboration in state ESSA plans.

Step 2: Incorporate FRS into the State's Consolidated ESSA Plan The next step for leveraging ESSA to support FRS work is to weave the state's vision and activities throughout the state's consolidated ESSA plan.

from the First Five Years Fund — Early Learning in State ESSA Plans: Implementation Snapshot provides a look at where states are leveraging ESSA to develop new or bolster ongoing early childhood education (ECE) efforts.

Your new report talks about leveraging ESSA to support the education success for students in juvenile justice facilities.

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Secretary DeVos can leverage regulations and guidance to ensure that ESSA is read as expansively and flexibly as possible by doing the following:

ESSA gives school districts the opportunity to change the way they leverage federal dollars to support disadvantaged students.

Teacher evaluation policy has undergone a lot of upheaval, but the ESSA transition can provide an opportunity to consider teacher evaluation as part of a larger effort to attract, retain, and leverage teacher talent in a way that may have been overlooked in recent reforms.

However, not much has been written on how states plan to leverage Title II, Part A of ESSA to strengthen their teacher pipelines.

See also: These States Are Leveraging Title II of ESSA to Modernize and Elevate the Teaching Profession by Stephenie Johnson

By explicitly incorporating training and professional development that supports assessment literacy into state ESSA applications, states can enhance student learning by leveraging funds to develop assessment policies and systems that are in balance and reflect quality assessment practices.

Even the nation's new federal education law — the reauthorized ESEA or the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)-- includes language that prioritizes and could be leveraged to incentivize school diversity.

This handbook by Partners for Each and Every Child and the Council of Chief State School Officers provides helpful guidance to local education agencies (LEAs) and school leaders as they engage with stakeholders to think about how the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) can be best leveraged locally.

This handbook is intended to support and provide helpful guidance to local education agencies (LEAs)-- including school districts, county offices of education, regional education offices, and charter schools — and school leaders as they engage with stakeholders to think about how ESSA can be best leveraged locally.

The Alliance for Excellent Education released five toolkits to help stakeholders «create - next generation high schools» by «leveraging opportunities available» under ESSA.

About the Project Thanks to generous support from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, KnowledgeWorks and the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (Center for Assessment) have partnered to help states better understand and leverage the new Innovative Assessment and Accountability Demonstration Authority authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

State Readiness Conditions Briefs This series of State Readiness Conditions briefs, developed in partnership with the Center for Assessment, provides guidance and tools to help states better understand and leverage the new Innovative Assessment and Accountability Demonstration Authority authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

While there are a number of provisions in ESSA that states can leverage to build innovative assessments and accountability systems to support student - centered, personalized learning, many states may not know where to begin.

As an organization, we'll be looking into how state and federal policy can better prepare teachers to address SEL in the classroom, include SEL in successful turnaround intervention strategies under ESSA, and how we can influence education policymakers to leverage industry standards into useful legislation.

In ESSA, blended learning is defined as «a formal education program that leverages both technology - based and face - to - face instructional approaches that include an element of online or digital learning, combined with supervised learning time, and student - led learning, in which the elements are connected to provide an integrated learning experience; and in which students are provided some control over time, path, or pace.»

This report describes how states can focus their ESSA plans on enhancing equity in their education systems to leverage greater success for historically underserved youth and disrupt the school - to - prison pipeline.

To fully leverage this opportunity, state leaders will need to understand what ESSA means and says about the level of support that an SEA will need to ensure for these schools moving forward.

Community leaders, parents and educators «must use ESSA to leverage their desire to see students succeed,» by taking a more proactive role in the state education plan development process according to The Florida Star.

As states work to fulfill the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), this webinar provided concrete strategies to leverage the data collection and reporting requirements related to students in foster care to achieve CCRS goals from Florida and California.

The next section of this report will provide state and local policymakers with recommendations on how to leverage the opportunities within ESSA for advancing learning mindsets and skills, while noting the related risks.

With the passage of ESSA, local and state policymakers can leverage federal funding to strengthen principal preparation and development, an investment that can reap significant dividends — both in the form of increased teacher retention and the improved academic opportunities that come with a strong instructional leader.

States can leverage funds under Title II of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which provides funding to support high - quality programs for principal preparation, including school leader residency programs, offering a full year of clinical training.

As states work to fulfill the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), this webinar also aims to provide concrete strategies to leverage the data collection and reporting requirements related to students in foster care to achieve CCRS goals.

As the mini-plenary closing speaker, Hedy shared how today is in a watershed moment during which states and communities have the opportunity to leverage the changes accompanying the shift from No Child Left Behind to ESSA.

By explicitly incorporating language around assessment audits, training for teachers and school leaders that develops sound assessment practices, hiring of personnel with assessment certifications, and parental engagement through assessment literacy into state ESSA applications, states can enhance student learning by leveraging funds to develop assessment policies and systems that reflect balanced and quality practices.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires in some parts (and encourages in others) the use of evidence - based approaches and continuous improvement to help leverage greater student success with federal funds.

That is why we are encouraging districts to use our checklist and leverage the opportunities presented by ESSA as a catalyst for the must needed change in our education system today.