Sentences with phrase «models of schooling»

I'm not convinced we need models of schooling that tinker around the edges of our current design.

As in previous years, a key consideration in the latest Race to the Top will be how the applicants prepare students for college and careers, but now the department will also look specifically at how the district plans move beyond one - size - fits - all models of schooling.

School operators to explore entirely new models of schooling, particularly those challenging traditional models in use of time, space, technology and staff in school; reconsider how students experience learning in schools, creating new models that provide personalized and authentic learning experiences; and improve existing models by reconsidering how facilities are used and funded, how to reach full enrollment capacity more quickly and how to maintain steady revenues by «backfilling» (filling vacant seats each year).

While education experts and innovators call for personalized learning and differentiated models of schooling, groups like Stand for Children and DFER support national standards (Common Core is also funded by Gates) and punishments and sanctions tied to test scores.

The social reproduction of inequality can not end until we move past deficit models of schooling that require students to abandon their culture in order to become a success.

Deming wants to use these findings as a base to think more extensively about different models of schooling and skill formation.

Cultures tend to adopt some model of schooling as the standard of excellence in schooling.

Washington Irving Elementary School became a model of school reform in Chicago a decade ago.

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«The extra funding to support the co-operative model of schooling, as outlined in the Report, goes to the heart of ensuring that schools operate within the vales and ethos of a public service.

In March last year, the then General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers Christine Blower called for Ofsted to be replaced with «A new model of school accountability, one that involves school self - evaluation and is designed in discussion with the profession.»

«While the funding and educational models of our schools have largely stayed the same, the needs of students and communities have continued to increase,» one superintendent from the Mohawk Valley told the survey.

Adopting what are becoming tried - and - true blended - learning models (yes, I know it still may be too soon to use that phrase for blended learning, but I just did it) to individualize learning for students and improve teachers» lives is better than remaining stuck in a failed factory - based model of schooling, even if the model is not the most innovative thing ever that pushes the blended - learning field forward for students.

This project does an impressive job identifying models of schools and industry working together that we can learn from and scale up,» Finkel says.

The current model of schooling found in most jurisdictions within North America has likely done the best job it can with our students but has reached its full potential.

Kids in Houston Earn Bucks for Reading Books A special Earning By Learning program sponsored by the Houston Automobile Dealers Association is gaining attention as a model of school - business partnership.

Maybe one reason is that for many teachers and parents their memory of school is different and so our mental mindsets are being challenged and we are needing to rebuild our model of school.

Looking closely at case studies of five models of school - based rounds, Teitel examines critical lessons from each and provides a resource for instructors and administrators across the nation.

He concedes that millions in recent investments have brought some disappointing results, but, he says, «that's because it was layered on top of the existing batch - print model of schooling.»

San Diego — From the outside, this school district's boxy pale - orange headquarters, sitting squatly in the California sunshine, looks like the very embodiment of the old factory model of schooling.

A special Earning By Learning program sponsored by the Houston Automobile Dealers Association is gaining attention as a model of school - business partnership.

Since our own inception, the Christensen Institute has been committed to researching and supporting approaches to instruction that break open the factory model of school.

Le and Dewar: If we truly believe that creativity is an essential ingredient in a child's development, then we need to shift completely away from the cells and bells model of school design — with classrooms as cells and the school bell indicating the time to move from one to another.

Among his methods of improvement: shunning a «one - size - fits - all» model of schools and embracing a variety of programs to educate all students.

In addition, many traditional administrators don't want to break away from the accepted model of schooling.

TNTP President Dan Weisberg's Ed Week quote on the report is right — to give teachers a real shot at professional learning that works, the nation «ought to be testing whether there are other models of school design, teacher jobs, that have a better chance of getting kids consistently excellent instruction.»

«To truly redesign — to transform — the system means shifting from the industrial, assembly - line model of schooling to much more dynamic teaching and learning,» he says.

Ruth Mitchell, the associate director of the Council for Basic Education, writes in Testing for Learning that «a new model of schooling is a national imperative.»

Officially launched in September, the Delany Connective is delivering a contemporary model of schooling to meet the needs of today's learners and equip them with the skills and knowledge to thrive in a connected, global world.

At the Clayton Christensen Institute, we track disruptive innovations in K — 12 schools that upend the traditional factory - based model of school in favor of instructional approaches that better center on each individual student.

If we're going to refashion a 19th - century model of schooling for the 21st century (and I think we need to), this all suggests that how we go about it will be at least as important as what we try to do.

The Delany Connective is delivering a new model of schooling designed to meet the needs of today's learners and equip them with the skills and knowledge to thrive in a connected, global world.

In light of the recent and wide ranging changes within the education sector, the Co-operative Group sought to understand the practices, values and impacts of different models of school governance and engagement to inform the development of a sustainable, impactful model of future activity within education.

Many large districts have embraced a portfolio model of school choice governance, which intentionally offers a wide array of public (and sometimes private) school choices to parents.

It will not emerge from short professional development sessions; rather, those sessions should exist in conjunction with an ongoing model of school improvement that includes ongoing reflection on how things are going and how to improve.

However, some high profile school failures and questions about governance has led to a public debate about the effectiveness of this model of schooling, and whether it meets the needs of children and communities.

Most are based on the traditional model of school breakfast as eaten in the cafeteria before school.

Now, more than ever, those working in the sector need to understand the practices, values and impacts of different models of school governance.

The challenge is how to identify promising, scalable models of improvement and link them to a systemic model of school change.

The recent Gonski report calls for a new model of school education.

Over in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the WINGS model of schooling — now Divine Providence Academy — is an example of how blended learning can facilitate effective multi-age classrooms, allowing schools to right - size staff and become sustainable as much smaller operations, akin to one - room schoolhouses of old.

ACER's Chief Executive Officer Geoff Masters encourages the current Gonski review to reconsider the industrial model of schooling in his recent article.

The truth is that even the nation's better - performing schools operate under an anachronistic model of schooling that could stand some sensible reforms.

LJAF's investments in K - 12 education seek to advance the portfolio model of school governance, an alternative structure that promotes a decentralized administration, more school choice for families, and increased flexibility and accountability for educators.

Chris Barbic is working to advance the portfolio model of school governance in cities across the country in order to increase student achievement.

What We've Forgotten About School Reform: Courtesy of Messrs. Tyack, Cuban, and Payne, September 21, 2017: If we're going to refashion a 19th - century model of schooling for the 21st century (and I think we need to), how we go about it will be at least as important as what we try to do.

Businesses can be contracted to run public schools based on alternative models of school organization.

(Irving Buchen, Education and Business Management Consultant and faculty member at Capella University) At a time when education is too frequently defined in traditional, outmoded ways, this book describes an excitingly different model of schooling.

Based on a study of data - driven decision making in 36 schools, Ikemoto and Marsh (2007) developed a conceptual framework of four models of school data use, varying by the complexity of the data used and the complexity of the analysis and decision making in question.

While this budget is better than it has been in previous years, it still subscribes to a model of school funding that at its core doesn't believe all schools deserve the same opportunities and resources.»