In Tennessee's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan, one
nonacademic indicator for school and district accountability is the «chronically out of school» metric, which will evaluate progress in reducing the number of students who miss ten percent or more of the school year.
Not exact matches
Of the seventeen states that submitted their ESSA plans to the U.S. Department of Education last May,
for example, fifteen said they plan to use student chronic absenteeism and / or attendance as an
indicator of school quality, and a number are using it as their only «
nonacademic»
indicator.
Data Quality Campaign: Using Social - Emotional Learning Data in the CORE Districts: Lessons Learned This resource provides a framework
for states and districts to understand the CORE Districts» work measuring and reporting on
nonacademic indicators over the past five years.
A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures
for accountability, including at least one «
nonacademic»
indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.
The recently enacted Every Student Succeeds Act requires multiple measures
for accountability, including at least one «
nonacademic»
indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure.
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).
The Every Student Succeeds Act requires that states include at least one
nonacademic indicator in their school accountability frameworks, which is leading states to explore options
for teaching and measuring
nonacademic skills.
He highlighted several opportunities within ESSA that will help schools prioritize a comprehensive education
for students, including the student supports in ESSA's new Title IV and the inclusion of
nonacademic indicators in accountability systems.
The law freed states to expand the ways they hold schools responsible
for improving student success by adding at least one «
nonacademic»
indicator to an accountability system primarily based on standardized tests scores in reading, math and science.
This should include a focus on
nonacademic indicators including,
for example, data on disciplinary actions (including suspensions and expulsions) and chronic absenteeism.
However, they are coming into much greater prominence in the national conversation because of ESSA, the new federal law which «requires multiple measures
for accountability, including at least one
nonacademic indicator, generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.»