Sentences with phrase «outcomes focused on student achievement»

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At the same time, the cost - effectiveness of the board's approach, its focus on what teachers should know and be able to do rather than on the student outcomes or achievement associated with teaching, and its methods of assessing teacher quality, are features that have attracted strong criticism — issues we will return to later in this article.

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.

AIR is conducting a three - year evaluation focusing on a variety of outcomes (e.g., educator perceptions, teacher retention, teacher effectiveness, and student achievement) associated with the contract and associated initiatives.

Her research focuses on the processes and outcomes of school, family, and community collaboration; education leadership; school reform; and African American student achievement.

Teams must focus their efforts on crucial questions related to learning and generate products that reflect that focus, such as lists of essential outcomes, different kinds of assessment, analyses of student achievement, and strategies for improving results.

It also examines the educational achievement outcomes for traditional and charter high school students, focusing on nine LAUSD traditional schools and nine LAUSD Alliance charter schools.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

School - level data reviews provide school leadership teams time to focus on problem solving and act upon student outcome and fidelity data to improve student achievement.

School is very simple to me; it is about educating and having a laser - like focus on instruction, student achievement and student outcomes.

Changing the current evaluation system to focus on improved student outcomes, including objective measures of student growth, is critical to improving teacher effectiveness, raising student achievement, and meeting the objectives of the federal «No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.»

Additionally, it says that states do not need to continue to meet waiver requirements that ESSA doesn't address, such as teacher evaluations based on student outcomes, but that waiver states must continue to focus on the lowest performing schools and those with large achievement gaps.

Schools and school systems will need a laser - like focus on building the capacity of teachers through strong induction programs, job - embedded professional learning, support for implementation of the new Common Core Performance Standards with accompanying assessments and teacher evaluation programs linked to student achievement outcomes.

Linked Learning is the right fit for students of all achievement levels and aspirations, with an essential commitment to equity and a focus on improving postsecondary and career outcomes for all students, including students of color and students from low - income backgrounds.

The department will give competitive preference to those projects that propose evaluation plans to improve project design, implementation, and outcomes; are supported by strong evidence; focus on turning around the persistently lowest - achieving schools; or use technology to improve student achievement or teacher effectiveness.

John Hattie (2012) conducted an extensive meta - analysis, looking at 800 meta - analyses that focused on locating a specific student achievement outcome and identifying an influence on that outcome.

Based on the premise that positive relationships between middle and high school students and their teachers can lead to better educational outcomes, «Creating birds of similar feathers: Leveraging similarity to improve teacher - student relationships and academic achievement,» by Hunter Gehlbach, Maureen E. Brinkworth, Aaron King, Laura Hsu, Joe McIntyre, and Todd Rogers, focuses on a simple intervention...

Reach has as its core mission the improvement of student achievement outcomes as predictors of success in college or career in the 21st century, bringing attention to high - leverage instructional practices, including LDC, that empower teachers with effective practices, and a focus on a set of core habits (student engagement, academic learning behaviors, differentiation, intentionality, data analysis, and language and thinking development).

Keep the data focused on just a few data sets that offer information on how to contribute to employee performance, school or district outcomes, and most importantly, student achievement,» said Tony Davis, Ph.D., project consultant for McREL International and 28 - year veteran education who held roles as a teacher, assistant principal, principal and K - 12 human resources administrator.

Control - treatment outcome comparisons reveal that students at schools with an arts focus combined with arts integration programming scored higher than other types of student cohorts (non arts schools, conventional arts, and academic magnet schools) on both state academic achievement scores and arts integration learning measures.

Consolidate and target categorical aids in ways that encourage innovation and focus on increasing student achievement, turning around struggling schools, and improving graduation outcomes.

A greater focus on experiential and individualized learning, as exhibited by the Achievement First Greenfield Schools pilot, can certainly help to break down the lack of development of students and improve outcomes (Achievement First, 2016).