Sentences with phrase «meaningful differentiation»

Schools are required to show at least one measurable example of school quality that allows for meaningful differentiation of school performance.

The state's new system merely provides a «general sense of effectiveness,» which is inadequate and does not allow any sort of meaningful differentiation among levels of performance.

The bill requires states and districts to use educator evaluation systems that establish multiple performance levels to ensure meaningful differentiation among staff.

We can answer this question with three important guidelines that will transform student learning experiences through meaningful differentiation.

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.»

In this interactive, THP analyzes whether rates of chronic absenteeism provide meaningful differentiation between schools, as required in the statute for the fifth indicator.

Brookings, one of the nation's oldest and most respected non-partisan think tanks, reports that attendance fulfills ESSA demands that the fifth indicator provide meaningful differentiation between schools, and also that it deliver valid and reliable data that can be drawn statewide across all schools and grade spans.

«A State must define annual meaningful differentiation in a manner that... [r] esults in a single rating from among at least three distinct rating categories for each school, based on a school's level of performance on each indicator, to describe a school's summative performance....»

The proposed regulations go beyond ESSA by requiring that a state's system of meaningful differentiation assign a single summative rating to each school based on all of the required indicators.

Second, they critique meaningful differentiation among teachers as well as defend policies such as last - in - first - out layoffs, lockstep pay, and tenure.

Meaningful differentiation helps states prioritize which schools need the most support in improving and helps parents understand how their children's school measures up to others.23

If law schools sought out and acted on feedback from their target customers — particular prospective students, current students, alumni, and employers — they could take a significant step towards meaningful differentiation.

The only meaningful differentiation between State Farm and all the other burial life insurance companies is what they charge each month for the insurance (which we discuss further down in this article).

Experimental software from Sony brings meaningful differentiation, speedy performance and fast - moving updates.

Finally, ESSA requires state accountability systems to include «not less than one indicator of school quality or student success that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» and is «valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide.»

A state would be able to compare the two schools while simultaneously identifying annual meaningful differentiation in the performance of School A from that of School B.

Kansas will create a system that calculates annual meaningful differentiation for student subgroups, school buildings and school districts using five identified indicators: academic proficiency, performance gaps, English language proficiency, graduation (applicable to high schools only) and student success.

Meaningful differentiation doesn't occur in my district.

An indicator may not have strong relationships with student outcomes or provide meaningful differentiation between school performance but still provide value in a school classification system, particularly if that indicator signals what a state values and drives behavior that states want to see at the district and school levels.

Under the SBE's approved methodology, California could satisfy the federal requirement by giving each state indicator equal weight within the system of meaningful differentiation.

If those surveys are designed in a way that allows for meaningful differentiation between schools, states that use the surveys may be likely to subsidize social emotional learning programs in districts that are struggling with a school climate metric.

[xi] Teacher associations, for their part, continue to push back against teacher evaluation systems that focus on objective measures of student achievement and provide any meaningful differentiation between teachers.

It provides only that a state's system of meaningful differentiation must: (1) give «substantial weight» to test scores, graduation rate, the additional K - 8 academic indicator, and EL progress and (2) provide, «in the aggregate, much greater weight» to these indicators than to the additional indicator (s) selected by the state, including the state - determined school quality indicators.

Meaningful differentiation is a pipe dream.

3) After years of struggling for meaningful differentiation, our group of parents took to creating a gifted magnet school.

4) Studies twenty years apart showed that meaningful differentiation doesn't occur for gifted students 80 % of the time.

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).

Meaningful differentiation would likely show performance across a range of values, showing performance at the bottom, middle, and top of the performance spectrum.

States should test for meaningful differentiation through a trial data run of each indicator, using past student performance data when available.

Under the existing ESSA regulations, states have two years to design and launch their school classification systems, which are complex and take time to develop.8 The measures and formulas that states use must meet specific technical standards set by the law, including validity, reliability, and meaningful differentiation.

Any other measure of growth as determined by the state (not necessarily based on state assessments), or another «valid and reliable indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance» for all non-high schools.

Too many law firms have made revenue («we'll do anything for a client if there's a dollar in it») or size; and trying to be all things to all people («look at us, we're full service») their priority... rather than meaningful differentiation.

The B2B versus B2C competitive positioning is a meaningful differentiation.

Everything that's there is meaningful differentiation.