Sentences with phrase «need of improvement category»

Lee Hall was able to move out of the school in need of improvement category while Hidenwood is close to making adequate yearly progress (AYP).

Not exact matches

The RBC housing affordability measure captures the proportion of pre-tax household income that would be needed to service the costs of owning a specified category of home at current market values (a fall in the measure represents an improvement in affordability).

One area of the Pulse survey that could fall under the «needs improvement» category, however, is the relatively limited awareness of ETFs outside those that offer exposure to broad stock market indexes.

Schools should be placed into one of two categories of «needs improvement.»

It mandates and specifies performance targets (100 percent proficiency, Adequate Yearly Progress, etc.); creates mandatory, specified performance categories («in need of improvement,» «restructuring,» etc.); and spells out the activities required for struggling schools.

Hickok: After not making AYP for two years, schools fall into a category called schools in need of improvement.

Instead of putting underperforming teachers on an automatic track to be fired, the bill created a new evaluation category — «needs improvement» — complete with resources to improve their classroom performance.

It argues that SEAs generally think about these activities through a lens provided by federal law; it discusses how today's reform - minded state chiefs prioritize this line of work; it highlights how SEAs need to alter how they interact with LEAs if these schools are to improve; it details how some departments have reorganized themselves to do this work; it discusses the challenges associated with launching new school - improvement efforts in an era of austerity; and it offers a three - category framework for comparing SEAs.

The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).

Each parent whose child is in the pilot project will self - evaluate the parent's involvement in the child's education and assign to himself or herself a grade of excellent, satisfactory, needs improvement or unsatisfactory based on several categories.

Most support that was offered to schools was directed at senior leadership teams, with other popular support categories including «key» subject improvement and increasing the quality of special educational needs.

Despite increases in the percentage of Nauset students in the «advanced» category, the percentages of students in the failing or needs improvement categories remain virtually unchanged.

In 1999, 30 % of the students scored in the needs improvement and failing category in math last year; in 2000, 62 % of the students fell into that range.

In 2000, all of the students scored in the needs improvement and failing categories in English.

This «loss» may contribute to boosting school scores overall or may reduce the percentage of students scoring in the «failing» or «needs improvement» category, but such «improvements» will not necessarily represent authentic learning gains.

The index measures innovation activities and conditions of urban schools along 42 indicators in nine categories: Innovation Culture Need for Academic Improvement Collaboration and Coordination Read more about The U.S. Education Innovation Index: Prototype and Report -LSB-...]

«I was a beginning teacher and I really feel that a lot of our beginning teachers are in that needs improvement category.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

To ensure that the evaluation instrument accurately differentiates among levels of teacher performance, Pennsylvania should require districts to utilize multiple rating categories, such as highly effective, effective, needs improvement and ineffective.

Changes a «D» rating from unacceptable to needs improvement, which falls under the category of acceptable.

Sir Michael wants to see more schools progressing beyond the current category of «satisfactory», with the change in description intended to emphasise that these schools need to make improvements.

One area of the Pulse survey that could fall under the «needs improvement» category, however, is the relatively limited awareness of ETFs outside those that offer exposure to broad stock market indexes.

On May 17, 2012, an A.K.C. inspector said that the 34 Great Danes and mastiffs under the Williamses» care were in «acceptable» conditions, with only 2 of the 15 categories marked «needs improvement,» for the construction of kennels and signs of «untreated, visible wounds.»

Practice the development of the above transferable skills categories and list those areas where you need improvement.