Sentences with phrase «miss instructional time»

While many in the community appear to support teachers and their plans to go to Raleigh to advocate for public education, one political action committee questioned the closure of schools, which would force students to miss instructional time.

Prior to partnering with Kickboard, school leader Dawn Love calculated that the 1,600 classroom behavioral infractions in her school during the 2013 - 14 school year equated to 25,395 minutes of missed instructional time.

School closures for rare events like weather, broken heating systems, bomb threats and flooding account for less than one quarter of missed instructional time.

Not exact matches

There were growing pains in the early stages, said Sanchez — students missed favorites (like a chicken patty) from the old line menu, and teachers were a bit nervous about losing instructional time — but the program was quickly accepted.

«With tardy students entering the school day at abnormal times and potentially missing a large number of cumulative instructional hours, teachers must divert their attention away from regular teaching time and towards remediation,» he says.

«When a single student misses a day or more of instruction, the teacher can review the recently presented material for the student who missed it, in which case the absent student's peers lose out on valuable instructional time, or she may move forward with new material and risk having the absent student fall behind.»

«The bottom line is students miss out on instructional time and learning opportunities when they're not in school.»

«Our students have missed a significant amount of instructional time this year due to inclement weather days, and I am not certain that the planned rally is a convincing approach to advocate for more school funding.

While cultural events such as international food night are important in raising awareness of the global community, their isolation from the daily instructional time leads to missing opportunities to look deeper into other's values and beliefs, and how these shape each of our worlds.

Hayward: Hayward Unified School District in California's Bay Area knew that many of its students were missing too much instructional time.

Hayward Unified School District in California's Bay Area knew that many of its students were missing too much instructional time.

That was apparent early on when DeSantis extended the school day so teachers had more planning time, cleared schedules so content teachers would not miss instructional meetings and had teachers using the UBD lesson planning format.

Under the older, truancy - based approach, educators would not take note of absences - much less intervene - until students had missed a significant amount of instructional time.

Included in the brochure is a feature on common early warning indicators, including chronic absences (missing more than 10 % of instructional time), failure to pass courses in core subject areas (English, mathematics, science, and social studies), failure to be promoted to the next grade level, and disengagement from the classroom.

Students who are excluded from class miss valuable instructional time and adopt negative academic identities, leading to higher rates of truancy and dropping out (Scott & Barrett, 2004; Newcomb et al., 2002; Jimerson et al., 2000; Townsend, 2000).

At a minimum, discipline reports should include data on all significant disciplinary actions that list types of infractions (with specific and standardized definitions), track instructional time missed, and allow cross-tabulation and analysis of data by subgroup.

Instead, principals often struggle with a lack of coordinated professional development, not enough time to work with teachers on instructional improvement, and a missing consensus on what the day - to - day work of a principal focused on teaching practice should look like.