Sentences with phrase «meaningful accountability systems»

«More meaningful accountability systems that promote continuous support and improvement and align with the broader outcomes we collectively want for our students.

Suggestions range from offering students an array of extracurricular activities and extended - day learning opportunities to establishing more meaningful accountability systems that encompass a variety of subjects and use multiple measures of student performance.

And that gets us back to meaningful accountability systems.

Implementing meaningful accountability systems requires thoughtful and diligent persistence — and it requires challenging long - held assumptions, practices, and power structures.

So today I'm proposing a more balanced and meaningful accountability system, with two new measures:

Though the work with the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium, College Station ISD has constructed a meaningful accountability system that measures what this community believes is important.

Not exact matches

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

Other countries may be able to impose meaningful systems of test - based accountability, but the decentralized nature of American education and politics gives far more power to organized groups of upper - middle - class families and educators than to the technocratic elite.

While Popham's preferred solutions may cause some chuckles among accountability proponents — he champions the use of «affective inventories,» student work samples, and the like — his analysis constitutes a meaningful critique of the NCLB accountability system and raises hard questions that NCLB proponents need to address.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

On the first major concern — avoiding a monopoly choice system — I believe the most meaningful form of accountability is having to satisfy parents.

ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.»

Most traditional public schools, however, have no meaningful system of accountability.

Fourth, we immediately linked the outcomes to meaningful systems of accountability and support; we didn't delay integration.

Osborne explains that chartering blends parental choice, school - level autonomy, and meaningful accountability in a way that produces school diversity, empowers educators and families, fosters entrepreneurialism, and maintains the system's focus on student performance.

It seemed not to realize that the system lacked meaningful accountability and tangible incentives to improve, that it exhibited the characteristic flaws of a command - and - control enterprise.

A modern accountability system would use today's technologies to provide rapid feedback about whether students are on track for meaningful work and to become productive members of American society.

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In 2014, Council of Chief State School Officers» (CCSSO) Taskforce on Career Readiness released a pivotal report calling on states to make career readiness more meaningful in their accountability systems.

Documenting policies and procedures that supporting Meaningful Student Involvement, and making those documents know to students and available to them in order to assure accountability to students and adults throughout the education system and beyond.

The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator of «school quality or student success» that «allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).

Transform the traditional role of the central office from a top - down management system to a system designed to provide meaningful support to schools and effective accountability for school performance.

This report documents the progress made by a select group of 10 states in the 51st State Working Group to transform their systems of accountability to support more meaningful learning opportunities for all students.

The system, which includes both summative assessments for accountability purposes and optional interim assessments for instructional purposes, uses computer adaptive testing technologies to the greatest extent possible to provide meaningful feedback and actionable data that teachers and other educators can use to help students succeed.

«Secretary Tomalis and the Corbett Administration should stop their efforts to game the system, and the General Assembly should enact meaningful reforms which address financial and academic accountability for charter schools,» says Crossey.

«We look forward to those conversations and anticipate discussions on how to ensure our accountability system is reliable and meaningful,» she said.

In order to function well, standards must be high, the information must be meaningful to parents and educators, and accountability systems must be carefully designed to create the right incentives for schools and educators.

States are committed to using new and meaningful indicators in accountability, reporting, and diagnostic systems.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan posed a central question in his speech at the National Council for Social Studies Annual Conference: «How can we promote both a well - rounded education with rich offerings across all subjects — civics, geography, economics and history, the arts, foreign languages, physical education, the sciences, et cetera — and simultaneously create a system of real and meaningful accountability that doesn't lead to narrowing of the curriculum?»

This approach follows CAP's belief — laid out in its 2014 report — that an ideal accountability system is meaningful for all schools when it embeds what ESSA requires within a broader system for driving improvements and supports.

English Learners (ELs), a continuously growing share of the student population, will particularly benefit from meaningful learning and re-imagined accountability systems.

This report, published jointly by the Learning Policy Institute and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, documents the progress of these pioneering states to transform their systems of accountability in order to provide more meaningful learning opportunities for all students.

«We look forward to working with the Legislature and other stakeholders to develop a meaningful and robust assessment and accountability system that is both aligned with the State Board of Education's strategic priorities and better informs educators and parents on student performance,» said Accountability Task Force Chair and State Board Member Briaccountability system that is both aligned with the State Board of Education's strategic priorities and better informs educators and parents on student performance,» said Accountability Task Force Chair and State Board Member BriAccountability Task Force Chair and State Board Member Brittney Cummins.

One such challenge was significant limitations regarding the underlying validity of the data that were to inform judgments about performance and accountability, which corresponded with a less than robust picture of the meaningful steps that should then be taken to improve systems and yield better student learning and outcomes.

He concludes with a discussion of California's Senate Bill 1458, arguing that the bill gives California the opportunity to create an accountability system which uses meaningful data to inform actions, provided it does not fall victim to the rules - based, one - size - fits - all nature of prior systems.

With this in mind, have we spent the past 20 years fretting over raising standards, creating related assessments, and designing accountability systems to improve student performance, but neglecting to help students understand why any of this should be meaningful to them?

Recommendations for making college and career readiness meaningful in state accountability systems.

In my view, the levers have not changed as a result of the evolving accountability systems, which will hopefully become more meaningful for schools due to broader, more appropriate measures of achievement.

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One group already has the power to make the required changes (or at least to kickstart the process), because they are the group which, in a meaningful sense, runs the system and operates the levers of accountability.

Further, the objective of the YCJA, as is clear from its preamble, is to create a youth criminal justice system that fosters responsibility and ensures accountability through meaningful consequences and effective rehabilitation and reintegration.