What is more telling, in terms of the impact of a school on its students» achievement and life chances, is how much growth the school helps its charges
make over the course of a school year — what accountability - guru Rich Wenning aptly calls students» «velocity.»
The idea is to use student test scores to judge teachers — or more specifically, to calculate how much a student's test scores
change over the course of a school year and use that in a teacher's evaluation.
If combined with a real growth model — holding schools accountable for making sure that all students make
progress over the course of the school year — states can finally create incentives for schools to pay attention to their high achievers too.
The Creativity Lab hosts an annual school maker faire where students in elementary, middle, and high school present projects that they have worked
on over the course of the school year.
Burns and her colleagues surveyed 2,115 U.S. and Canadian high school students from 16 to 19 years of
age over the course of a school year about their eating habits — and, also, tested their lung function.
The programme
runs over the course of a school year in a series of four half - day workshops, and includes expert advice and resources for staff as well as the opportunity to ask questions, discuss ideas, and brainstorm solutions.
This can be
completed over the course of the school year as flags are introduced, as a collaborative group / partner activity within another unit of inquiry, independent homework assignment or a geography and mapping activity.
When teachers and students have built a culture of
reading over the course of a school year, it is essential to capture that momentum and carry it onwards in order to avoid the dreaded summer slide, but it's also equally important to balance student choice.
Active Kids Do Better will also give schools access to Marathon Kids, the nationwide running programme which encourages children to run laps with the goal of achieving four
marathons over the course of a school year.
A Stanford University study found that an intervention that helped middle school teachers to take an «empathic mindset» to student discipline reduced suspensions by
half over the course of the school year.
We follow
along over the course of a school year as each teacher takes time to reflect on the problem, observe her students» actions, question her solutions personally and with a selected peer, and determine a course of action.
It moves away from the once - and - done obligatory and periodic classroom visit as the basis for teacher evaluation to ongoing constructive
feedback over the course of a school year, which results in professional growth and documented positive summative evaluation.