Sentences with phrase «making curricular decisions»

The agreement essentially reverses a top - down approach to reform, giving individual schools local power over matters such as redesigning their governance, tailoring union contracts, lengthening the school day or making curricular decisions that lift student achievement.

Ullman says: «If we keep making curricular decisions that impact hundreds of thousands of kids, if we're making these decisions that impact huge groups of the school community based on assumptions, based on ideas with no actual research backing them up, based on fear — that's just curricularly - irresponsible.»

We make curricular decisions, we fundraise, we set budgets and make hiring decisions, and we are nimble enough to respond to the varying needs of our schools without being bogged down by bureaucracy.

Without a minimal knowledge base, leaders and schools will make curricular decisions that negatively impact ELLs.

Not exact matches

While governments can establish directions and curricular goals for the instructional system, teachers need to be more involved in decision - making.

Educational neuroscience looks at how our understanding of the human brain can affect the curricular, instructional and assessment decisions that teachers make every day.

Apparently, CCSSI needs to reassure the public that the new standards allow local districts to make key curricular decisions.

To do that, use meetings for instructional curricular and assessment issues that foster student learning, such as analyzing data to make decisions about needed interventions for students.

In a system that prizes local control over curricular decisions, 10,000 school boards will be making the most critical calls over Common Core implementation.

The resident is an important part of a teacher team; these teams make instructional decisions based on the learning needs of students and the standards - based curricular goals and objectives.

Here's the conundrum for state policymakers: How do you encourage local school districts to make smart curricular decisions?

The Bayou State is supporting local control while helping districts make informed curricular decisions with the help of practitioner - based textbook evaluations.

At PS 770 she was member of that school's Educational Leadership Team who along with the Headmaster made educational, curricular, policy and hiring decisions.

With observed teachers, the focus was on specific activities during the lessons; general approaches to pedagogy; the role of the principal as well as other leaders within the school, district, and state on pedagogy; curricular and pedagogical decision making in the school; professional development; and student learning.

As practice is built around the integration of global themes in everyday learning, you will begin to find that you no longer have to make a difficult either - or decision between test results and global know - how, or between fulfilling mandated curricular requirements and bringing the world to your students.

Charter public schools in Idaho already have some opportunities for flexibility, through curricular choices and their performance certificates, and this option opens the door for traditional public schools to have the same opportunities to make governance decisions at a local level.

Instead of the district telling the principal what the school needs and the principal filtering instructions down to the teachers, principals and teachers work together to make decisions and problem solve — this applies to budgeting and operations issues as well as curricular level concerns.

From the introductory chapter through the conclusion, the reader is presented with research that supports meaningful student involvement in school decision - making and research, students» perceptions of detracking, gender, school support, and learning environments, students» experiences of identity - based curricular reform and school governance.

Regardless of curricular model, educators must make a single profound decision daily: who in the classroom is generating the information used by the classroom?

Our school staff understands and makes curricular, instructional, and school improvement decisions based on child and adolescent development and student performance information.

I was recently reading a great article by Paula and Keith Stanovich (2003), Using Research and Reason in Education: How Teachers Can Use Scientifically Based Research to Make Curricular & Instructional Decisions (link - PDF).

To what extent and how effectively is assessment used to guide curricular and instructional decision - making?

Most of the times, modern schools and organizations are not just satisfied with your test scores, extra curricular activities and awards, they are looking for something more, might be your attitude, your decision making ability and many factors subjected to the organization or school you are applying to.

Features that enhance learning for one student can easily hinder it for another, so curricular decisions and opportunities need to be made available in a wide variety of formats.

As one of the leaders in curricular publishing, too, Scholastic's release of Wilhelm and Smith's title will hopefully hold some level of sway over administrative decision making at the local and state government school boards, allowing more time during the school day to be spent on individualized reading for pleasure rather than simply reading for the sake of the curriculum.

While there are funding sources and legal decisions that are handed down from the federal level, most curricular and instructional decisions are made at the state government level.

The journal Perspectives includes a regular feature called Brutal Choices in Curricular Design «designed to explore the difficult curricular decisions that teachers of legal research and writing courses are often forced to make in light of the realities of limited budgets, time, personnel, and other resourcCurricular Design «designed to explore the difficult curricular decisions that teachers of legal research and writing courses are often forced to make in light of the realities of limited budgets, time, personnel, and other resourccurricular decisions that teachers of legal research and writing courses are often forced to make in light of the realities of limited budgets, time, personnel, and other resources.»

Design a course that you are qualified to teach and that fills a curricular gap, then determine how to most appropriately and persuasively pitch your course to the faculty making the hiring decision.

Our school staff understands and makes curricular, instructional, and school improvement decisions based on child and adolescent development and student performance information.

A curricular focus on social and emotional education includes a range of holistic approaches emphasising awareness of emotions, caring, empathy and concern for others, positive relationships, making responsible decisions, impulse control, resolving conflict constructively and valuing the thoughts, feelings and voices of students (see also Weissberg et al., 2015; Brackett et al., 2015; Downes, Nairz - Wirth, & Rusinaite, 2017).