Sentences with phrase «on improving outcomes for students»

«Change will have its challenges, but we should see this as an opportunity to create a stronger public school system with a focus on improving outcomes for students and teachers.

«In selecting Richard Carranza, Mayor de Blasio has chosen a lifelong educator and a proven leader with a track record of leading large and diverse school districts, seeking the input of communities and teachers and focusing on improving outcomes for students who have been historically underserved - experiences that should set him up for success in our nation's largest school district,» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Educators for Excellence.

There is an expectation that individual activities (e.g. one - off training sessions, individual meetings) are threaded together in a logical way to create programmes which have an explicit focus on improving outcomes for students.

The best part was witnessing the power and promise of a group of individuals unapologetically focused on improving outcomes for students — particularly in our most under - resourced communities.

Principles EdisonLearning has a strong belief in holistic, coherent and sustainable school improvement, founded on educational research and focused on improved outcomes for students.

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These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

Developed specifically to instruct teachers and other school professionals about the impact hunger has on learning, the NEA Healthy Futures Breakfast in the Classroom Toolkit will help you communicate how BIC can help increase breakfast participation and address hunger in schools, which in turn can improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students.

These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

By focusing on youth, addressing critical education and health outcomes, organizing collaborative actions and initiatives that support students, and strongly engaging community resources, the WSCC approach offers important opportunities that may improve healthy development and educational attainment for students.

According to Capital New York, StudentsFirstNY held a rally on Broadway outside the hearing to show their support for the Common Core and improving student outcomes:

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

Current research on mindfulness, brain science, and education suggests that mindfulness-wise application of neuroscience in the classroom may improve social - emotional and educational outcomes for students.

Additional research that validates these measures of teacher effectiveness on non-tested outcomes would have important implications not only for teacher recruitment, assessment, and placement, but also for improving overall life trajectories of students.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

In a ten - year study by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research on high school interdisciplinary teaching teams, researchers found that team teaching produced positive outcomes for students, and professionalism and morale improved when teams developed collective authority and accountability.

Given that money per se will not necessarily improve student outcomes (for example, using the funds to pay for lavish faculty retreats or to shore up employee pension funds will likely not have a large positive effect on student outcomes), understanding how the increased funding was spent is key to understanding why we find large spending effects where others do not.

It has been a major player in this market for many years and its focus is on helping students and teachers to gain the most from the technology they often already have in schools, thereby improving student outcomes.

CPAHS has consistently used AL to build teachers» understanding and capacity across more than 25 projects on a range of new and emerging pedagogies to deepen student engagement and improve learning outcomes for students.

Last year, they released a series of white papers on college accreditation, holding colleges accountable for student outcomes, and improving the provision of consumer information in higher education.

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

The purpose of this project is to perform the evaluation portion of a randomized control trial designed to assess the impact of The Match School Foundation, Inc.'s teacher training program for novice teachers on outcomes such as achievement growth of teachers» students, principal ratings, and retention with the ultimate goal of improving K - 12 education.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study of the Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) double - dose algebra policy for struggling 9th grade students — the first such study to examine long - term impacts of this intervention — has found substantial improved outcomes for intensive math instruction on college entrance exam scores, high school graduation rates, and college enrollment rates.

They must also avoid reductionist policy fixes and focus on the hard but necessary work of, as DeVos tweeted, improving «options and outcomes for all students.»

This summer Mapp led her first Program in Professional Education (PPE) institute, «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student ouStudent Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student oustudent learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student oustudent outcomes.

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

Improving achievement outcomes for students, particularly those who do not appear to be on track to graduate.

The Victorian education department's recently released Framework for Improving Student Outcomes includes a focus on student resilience and respectful relatioStudent Outcomes includes a focus on student resilience and respectful relatiostudent resilience and respectful relationships.

Indeed, our review findings would suggest that if professional development is explicitly focused on improving an observed teacher practice instead of being focused explicitly on addressing a pupil need, then it is less likely to be effective at improving outcomes for students.

On one side: the informal network of advocates, philanthropists, educators, and nonprofit organizations that all back higher academic standards, greater accountability, and improved teaching, and who saw the city as a potential proof point for their theories of how to improve student outcomes.

ESSA wisely eliminates cost - by - cost testing for SNS, a practice which discouraged schools from spending Title I funds on comprehensive services and perversely encouraged spending on add - ons (like pulling students out of academic classes to work with paraprofessionals) that met compliance standards but were not necessarily helpful in improving educational outcomes for low - income students.

With its focus on seat time — awarding credit for showing up to workshops, conferences, or classes — formal PD has ignored whether teachers actually learn new skills, apply them, and improve student outcomes.

If we are going to judge schools it should be based on their record of improving outcomes for students.

Educating Students on the Autistic Spectrum by Martin Hanbury (2011, SAGE Publications) is a must - have resource for all practitioners working with children and young people on the autistic spectrum, this book will improve your inclusive practice and ensure positive outcomes for these children.

Fryer, the Henry Lee Professor in the Department of Economics, is a bold researcher who has focused his work on race and education, testing theories and evaluating policies aimed at expanding educational opportunity and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students.

Particular emphasis was placed on how inequitable funding for public schools can hamper efforts to boost academic outcomes and improve achievement among vulnerable student populations, as well as on exploring what could be done to change it.

«Australia is investing record funding in education that will continue to grow, all targeted based on need, and the Turnbull Government is focused on improving student outcomes through measures we know are effective — teacher quality, a better curriculum, greater parental engagement and support for principals to make local decisions about their local school,» he said.

Improved outcomes for less advanced students depend on establishing in some detail the points individuals have reached in their learning and then providing targeted teaching to address specific skill deficits and misunderstandings and to establish stretch targets for further growth.

If the authors of the above article want to really help teachers differentiate their programs to improve learning outcomes for every student, offer practical, evidence - based suggestions focusing on the «how».

The review panel heard that the fundamentals for supporting all students do not change and personalised learning and teaching based on each child's learning needs, is effective at improving educational outcomes.

The first is improved student outcomes, and while that is usually around achievement outcomes — literacy and maths, for example — increasingly there is a focus on social outcomes such as reduction in bullying and students» enjoyment of school and of their learning.

Banning mobile phones improves outcomes for the low - achieving students [14.23 %] the most and has no significant impact on high achievers.

In this program, a group of experienced primary school teachers have become practitioner researchers, focusing on strengthening their practice and improving outcomes for students.

Education reform is a well - intentioned effort to improve outcomes for all students that is undercut by a misguided focus on achieving those goals on the cheap.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Based on this information, Kissam makes several recommendations that could not only help to close the attainment gap between rural Hispanic students and their white peers but could also improve outcomes for all rural students:

Action By More than 80 Colleges and Universities: Over 80 colleges and universities are — in addition to their efforts in other categories — taking actions like engaging in new efforts to recruit students who might not otherwise attend their university, expanding need - based aid for low - income students, setting new goals for increasing the share of low - income students, committing to additional community college transfers and taking new steps to improve outcomes for low - income students once they arrive on campus.

Fourteen percent of Michigan's charters are both low - performing and do little to improve student achievement, according to Stanford University's Center for Research on Educational Outcomes; while just one of the 11 charters shut down in 2015 - 2016 were closed because of academic failure, according to data from the Wolverine State's Department of Education.]

After scores on the 2014 New York State English language arts assessment at P.S. 52 Sheepshead Bay School in Brooklyn were unsatisfactory, first - year principal Rafael Alvarez searched for a way to improve academic outcomes for his students, who come from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and about a quarter of whom are English language learners.

Mathematica conducted an independent, five - year evaluation for the KIPP Foundation to assess KIPP's effectiveness at improving student outcomes on a larger scale under the i3 grant.