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Leicestershire, UK About Blog SIG Design & Technology is part of SIG Roofing, a division of SIG plc, one of Europe's leading suppliers of products to the construction industry and an FTSE 250 quoted company.

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We are pleased to announce Jessica Snow's upcoming solo exhibition Refraction in the Line of Sig ht at Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas, USA.

The future of the SIG meetings, Demo nights, Nordic Game Jam and other game events depends on volunteers from IGDA Denmark.

Select through a range of Sig Sauer's, Kalashnikovs and Colts, or pick up a FAMAS, TAVOR, BW - 15 or a Mossberg 500.

Of course, not every Email recipient is worthy of a sig line.

The purpose of this SIG is to convene like - minded researchers and practitioners to share resources and ideas related to securing funding, executing research - to - practice - to policy trials of programming, and dissemination efforts towards the ends of improving outcomes for our most vulnerable student populations and the teachers who educate them.

In September 2011, the VDOE requested a federal waiver of the timeline for Cohort I and II schools implementing a transformation model to develop and implement a teacher and principal evaluation system in their first year of the SIG (School Improvement Grant) award.

In all, during the first year of the program, the proportion of students who were proficient in math or reading on state tests went up in roughly 60 percent of SIG schools, he added.

The report had three components, with each exploring one of these issues in depth, and comes amid a flurry of speculation about the effectiveness of the SIG program.

All 46 states surveyed reported that at least some of their SIG schools are implementing an improvement model that requires increased learning time.

Math proficiency increased in 63 percent of SIG schools, while 33 percent reported declines — meaning that increases in math proficiency were almost twice as common as declines.

This brief summarizes much of that research, including studies that assess the impact of NCLB restructuring, the state - level impacts of SIG, and district - level strategies to turn around schools and improve student achievement.

Charlie Geier, Director of Early Learning and Intervention in the Office of Early Learning and Intervention, Indiana Department of Education, shares what the new early learning model means for the state of Indiana and examples of how Indiana is working to support the key components of the SIG.

In the meantime, the department has released more details on the preliminary results of the SIG program's first year based on data from 700 of the 830 schools that participated:

In reading, close to 20 percent of SIG schools made double - digit gains, more than double the 9 percent of schools that had double - digit declines.

In math, more than 25 percent of SIG schools reported double - digit gains in proficiency, while only 7 percent reported double - digit losses.

After nearly 10 years of SIG plans, educators have a better understanding of which improvement plans are effective.

The report said 46 percent of schools in the first three cohort groups of SIG funding are not keeping pace with their peers with regard to achievement.

In comparing data from the first cohort of SIG schools to the most recent one, cohort 5, (completed at least one year of SIG implementation,) we feel that the SIG program is more successful.

With the support of SIG funding, «By the time the grant period is over, these changes will be embedded and become the new norm for our school, for our students and staff, and for our community.»

«GCAE members have been involved in every phase of the SIG application and implementation process,» Pruit says «We went to the community forums when the district first discussed with parents how it (turnaround process) would affect their children.»

In a letter the state department's Julia Rafael - Bar wrote to Brown on March 25 about the situation, she also said that the district could jeopardize its $ 11 million in School Improvement Grant funding from the federal government for 2012 - 13 (and $ 40 million over the remaining life of SIG for Buffalo) if it did not conform to state law about teacher evaluations.

Down the street at Dunbar High School, however, it's a different feeling that's more common among schools that have implemented new changes as part of the SIG requirements.

Chapman said state officials analyzed results of SIG schools shifting from year two to year three of the grant and let districts know «if your achievement is flat or declining, we need to talk.»

The vote came after EdPower CEO Marcus Robinson told the State Board his company might not be able to continue its work at Indianapolis» Arlington High School without another infusion of SIG dollars.

Although the Middle Grades Research Journal is not an official publication of the SIG, in our collaboration with IAP, members can get a reduced rate of $ 50 for a yearly subscription.

This position will also be responsible for coordinating, communicating and reporting to the Executive Director of Elementary School Improvement / Turn Around Officer about the schools progress and efforts toward meeting the goals of SIG.

Westinghouse's performance was not captured in the new federal analysis; none of the SIG schools in Pennsylvania are part of the study because the state high school exams changed in 2013, making it impossible to compare test scores over time.

One - quarter of SIG schools had seen scores decrease, then increase after getting the grants.

In Indiana's first cohort of SIG schools, new ideas for school turnaround were examined form multiple perspectives.

The Chronicle is published three times annually in January, June and October and includes: (a) regular addresses from the SIG's President and Executive Director, (b) reports on the business of the SIG, (c) SIG research and advocacy initiatives, (d) calls for manuscripts for upcoming publications and proposals for upcoming conferences, and (e) the latest pertinent research presented at conferences such as AERA and AMLE.

The Chronicle of Middle Level Education Research serves as a critical conduit for communication within the MLER SIG and reinforces the mission of the SIG to improve, promote, and disseminate educational research reflecting early adolescence and middle level education.

During the first year of the program, the proportion of students who were proficient in math or reading went up in roughly 60 percent of SIG schools, Duncan said.

The nation's rural schools, which account for about a fifth of SIG schools overall, have opted mainly for the flexible «transformation» model, which doesn't call for a big staffing shake - up, but requires schools to replace the principal, create new teacher - evaluation systems and add learning time to the school day.

Thus, we sought schools where specific practices in the PK — 3 years aligned with and accelerated promising turnaround efforts through the implementation of the SIG models.

What's more likely than new legislation, I'd suspect, is heightened scrutiny of Obama initiatives in K - 12 and higher education, including things like the results of the SIG program and the administration's treatment of for - profit colleges.

Both California studies point to positive effects of the SIG program in that state, providing evidence that targeted programs aimed at improving low - performing schools can be successful at a relatively large scale.

The second study of SIG schools in California, for which I am an author with Min Sun and Emily Penner, uncovers some of the pathways by which this improvement occurs.

On a composite measure of their responses, there was no evident change in teacher - reported support after year one of the SIG award, but by the second year, SIG teachers reported significant increases in support (0.26 standard deviations) that grew even greater by in the third year (0.41 standard deviations).

Comparing school outcomes is how the SIG study estimated effects of SIG money.

The most notable finding is that there is very little difference between the goings - on of SIG schools and similarly low - performing schools that didn't receive SIG funding.

The largest - scale study of the SIG program, using a sample of 190 SIG schools from 60 districts in 22 states assessed the effects of the reforms using a plausible technique for distinguishing cause, but in practice, the estimates from this study were too imprecise to distinguish whether the SIG schools nationally had a similar effect to the ones in California or had no effect at all.

Moreover, in most areas studied (such as student discipline and curriculum), the majority of SIG and non-SIG schools both reported that they lacked primary authority.

One way in which proficiency rates remain a primary metric is in the identification of SIG schools (which were mainly chosen using proficiency rates) as priority schools in all states but Alaska, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.

The FY 2010 application was released in the fall of 2010 to award a second cohort of SIG schools.

The FY 2011 application was released in the fall of 2011 and will be used by some states to award a third cohort of SIG schools, while others will use the funds to make continuation awards to previously funded SIG schools.

In the fall of 2009, ED released the FY 2009 SIG application for states to run a competition to award a first cohort of SIG schools.

About 20 percent of the SIG schools chose the second option, the «turnaround» model, which required replacing at least half the staff.

We know of state - level studies showing positive impacts of SIG - funded turnaround efforts in California, Massachusetts, Philadelphia and Memphis.