Sentences with phrase «meaningful use of evidence»

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The candidate's quoted as seeing Twitter as a «way to regularly communicate with the thousands of people we are supposed to represent,» but the evidence of his successful use of the tool is a brief media hit — was that his goal and does it advance his candidacy in a meaningful way?

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

Despite initial scepticism about what it would be possible to demonstrate using pre-existing school data, the analysis revealed widespread evidence that meaningful engagement in the Greenhouse Sports programmes was associated with a range of positive outcomes for students when compared to students who did not participate.

Teachers who use formative assessment as part of their everyday classroom toolbox... quickly identify important evidence of student learning and separate it from distracting information, readily perceive meaningful patterns among their students» responses to questions and tasks, implement a broad range of formative assessment strategies automatically and flexibly as part...

Teachers should use summative assessments to frame meaningful performance goals, show criteria and models in advance, assess before teaching, offer appropriate choices, provide feedback early and often, encourage self - assessment and goal setting, and allow new evidence of achievement to replace old evidence.

Guskey and Jung conclude that grades are more likely to be fair and «meaningful communication» when teachers examine the evidence of student learning and use their judgment to decide what grade best summarizes that evidence than when teachers use computerized gradebooks for all situations.

Speaking from long experience with using data to enact meaningful change, any successful effort of this type hinges on two important words: evidence and leadership.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of daUse data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of dause of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of dause of data.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.

Encourage the use of proactive, effective, evidence - and research - based strategies and best practices to reduce the occurrence of challenging behaviors, eliminate the use of seclusion and restraint, and increase meaningful instructional time for all pupils.

Calling this post normal is just evidence of an inability to think clearly, or use ordinary language in a meaningful way.

It provides the evidence of how language is used in real situations, from which lexicographers can write accurate and meaningful dictionary entries.»

Most people can not make meaningful use of the raw evidence without someone to put it all together.