Sentences with phrase «lot about accountability»

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

«We talk a lot about accountability and always showing up in the big moments, and we did that today.

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Lerone A. Marti, an assistant professor of American religious history at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, wrote that church folks who stick by unrepentant pastors have a lot to learn about forgiveness and accountability.

I talk a lot about authenticity with accountability.

Obviously, the police have been feeling a lot of heat lately with a series of nationwide (even global) protests about abuse of power, racial profiling and lack of accountability.

And there is accountability too which I know we will talk probably a little bit more when we talk about kind of the downside of the groups, sometimes what can happen, but accountability is huge and obviously you get that a lot in person and you can really develop those relationships even further.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

«It was clear that they needed to be looking a lot harder at accountability and what was really working and whether they were really being guided by the best understanding of STEM education,» he told the committee about the findings from the 2008 report.

If you've been following this blog for a while you know that last year I wrote a crazy popular post about «How To Get Rid of Belly Fat For Good» and that is because I was getting a lot of questions from the women in my FREE online fitness accountability group on the subject.

There's a lot of talk of God (Jan plays the organ with a passion but can't reconcile a benevolent God with his world) and forgiveness and confession but the film is ultimately about responsibility and accountability, and not just for Jan..

Those who are already skeptical about using tests to judge schools and educators will find a lot to like, while those in favor of the practice will be challenged by the evidence presented that test - based accountability can lead schools to engage in unproductive practices.

«Even though the law says a lot about parent involvement, parents are usually on the other end of one - way communication,» said Lauren E. Allen, the senior program director for accountability at the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, based in Chicago...

Finally, we've learned a lot about how to design accountability policy to better target the schools that most need improvement.

If we can wrap our minds around this core proposition — that accountability is about outcomes, not inputs, practices, curriculum, staffing arrangements, budgets, uses of time, etc. — and the related proposition that families have the right to choose the schools they think best for their daughters and sons, we can save ourselves an awful lot of grief, not to mention many regulations and much bureaucracy.

Some are both familiar and basically applicable, such as «set clear goals,» have checkpoints along the way to gauge (and control) student progress, worry a lot about teacher quality (principals, too), finance schools equitably, strike the right balance between autonomy and accountability, strive for a coherent «system,» etc..

With decades of accountability experience behind us, states have a lot to think about.

«They both believe in accountability, they both have shown a faith in testing as a basis on which accountability can be done, they both seem to care a lot about teacher quality.»

«We don't know a whole lot about kids using vouchers to attend schools that have been assigned grades in large part because a lot of the schools that offer vouchers do not have an A-F accountability system in place,» says Indiana University researcher Ashlyn Nelson.

But there's a lot more to analyze about how states are prioritizing ELs» growing English skills in their accountability systems.

The second one is concerns about the way accountability pressures in the No Child Left Behind era created pressure to teach to the test, lots of sanctions and the loss of autonomy in the classroom because quite often in central - city schools, where minority teachers are concentrated, they were moved to a scripted, teacher - proof curriculum, geared to test preparation, which is not what people go into teaching for.

We spend a lot of money on behalf of the business, so it's about transparency and accountability.

The financial meltdown in 2008 made a lot of small time investors furious about being misled, and they demanded some accountability.

So you hear a lot on our website about quality and service and accountability as well as transparency.