Sentences with phrase «own schools and school systems»

In reality, though, many schools and school systems look at students who are struggling in those areas and instead think: How do we discipline them?

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K - 12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training.

The American Enterprise Institute hosted a special forum on Feb. 12, 2012, on Cage - Busting Leadership, the new book by Rick Hess that looks at the constraints education leaders face (and imagine) as they try to improve schools and school systems.

That doesn't mean all teachers should follow identical lesson plans, that everybody needs to read the same poems and plays, or that a rigid «scope and sequence» should be clamped onto all schools and school systems.

It is critical that these are common within the school and the school system so that we can share tasks and calibrate towards mastery within the school and across the system.

But everyone who spends time in and around schools and school systems understands how much time, energy, and initiative is soaked up by the paper chase.

The traditional way of finding candidates for school leadership positions is not a promising path to finding new talent or fostering needed changes in schools and school systems.

We believe that if schools and school systems clearly define their graduate outcomes for students to include not only the courses or subjects they need to pass but also Deeper Learning Outcomes — mastering academic content, thinking critically, communicating effectively, collaborating productively and learning to learn — we will create schools and school systems that ensure students are ready for success in college and career.

The challenge comes in isolating the causal effect of a longer school day or year from the effects of other characteristics of schools and school systems that offer more instructional time.

We need an accountability system that holds schools and school systems accountable for all of their students, including the lowest - and highest - achieving.

While it may not always be evident to outsiders who are eager to shake up schools and school systems, educators are buffeted by an endless whirlwind of programs, policies, and reforms.

Give to the Dean's Venture Fund, providing seed funding to teams of faculty to launch promising research initiatives, whether related to creating and sustaining successful schools and school systems, reshaping how students learn and teachers teach, or breaking down barriers to access and opportunity.

Dr. Chubb has served as an adviser to the White House, numerous state governments, and public and private schools and school systems.

Finally, the «common» in «Common Core» was supposed to equip policymakers and policy wonks alike to compare schools and school systems nationwide.

The program is designed to help schools and school systems boost their training capacity and bring data inquiry to scale in cost effective and context - specific ways.

With the emphasis on high - stakes testing, we have learned a great deal about who is succeeding and failing, and which schools and school systems are meeting targeted performance standards.

Specifically, he developed a strong conviction that schools and school systems ought to be structured in a way to facilitate continuous improvement, foster innovation, and empower talented people to be entrepreneurial in order to continually improve practice.

Meanwhile, for those students for whom online education shines, we are starting to partner with schools and school systems to provide avenues to allow appropriate students to take their math classes from us rather than in a traditional classroom.

Schools and school systems are often on the receiving end of lots of new and exciting opportunities.

Schooling and school systems have historically served a role of custody, control, and distribution of merit.

The problem is not a lack of warm bodies, but an artificial shortage of individuals with the skills, training, and knowledge to lead modern schools and school systems.

They teach us that it is possible to cultivate deep learning and social justice in schools and school systems.

It would be nice to hear from our administration — both school and district level — what we as a school and a school system will do to support these students.»

White met «heroic educators who were saving lives,» and he saw quickly «what an impact one teacher could make, and I thought, what an extraordinary thing it would be if we started creating groups of teachers and even schools and school systems that were doing this kind of thing.»

has aimed to train individuals who would not only run schools and school systems, but lead transformative change through a variety of roles and organizations, from charter networks to education nonprofits to state agencies.

Yet schools and school systems casually waste scarce talent by operating on the implicit assumption that most teachers will be similarly adept at everything.

Current and aspiring school leaders, federal and state policy makers, and education stakeholders must understand how policy, research and practice come together to transform schools and school systems.

«NAPLAN is a good thing but it's early days and there's a lot of improvement needed in how they fine tune the testing and in communicating its purpose — it's not about ranking schools or school students — it's about learning where schools and school systems should allocate their own resources.

This connection between place and performance applies to both the experiences of individual students and the collective performance of schools and school systems.

Some Australian schools and school systems have seen greater improvements in NAPLAN results than others.

Learning within teams may be critical to sustaining change efforts both within schools and school systems.

«Private, Parochial and Charter Schools» means Pre-K-12 private, parochial and charter institutions of education operating in the Territory, such as schools and school systems that will allocate products to teachers and students who will use them.

That's the theory behind «deeper learning,» a broad term encompassing the goals of an increasing number of U.S. schools and school systems.

Well, residential segregation combined with neighborhood - based schooling is the main reason we have such inequitable & segregated schools and school systems (and charter networks, too).

In recognition of the challenges faced by busy teachers - the constant swathe of initiatives and reforms and the complexity of schools and school systems - the value of collaboration is emphasised.

High - functioning schools and school systems understand the link between building a cadre of effective, committed educators and providing teachers with ongoing support, development, and opportunities for growth and leadership.

Our consultants are trained to help both schools and school systems with every aspect of the school improvement process (with or without a school review conducted by ACER) in line with relevant strategic planning documents.

The reform movement received scant support... from the powerful professional organizations that represent the managers of the nation's schools and school systems.

By the time my daughter was nearing kindergarten age, I had already spent nearly 50 years in schools: 20 as a student; 8 as a teacher; and 20 as an education policymaker and adviser to schools and school systems, especially in the area of standards and curriculum.

One is through partnerships with schools and school systems.

Teacher organizations, at the same time, asserted their right to bargain collectively and to strike, which brought them unprecedented power over schools and school systems.

Because our members prepare future leaders for schools and school systems, our community extends into districts, schools, and classrooms — the very spaces where children learn and grow.

Although our member faculty and deans come from different states and regions, we all share the same goals of building knowledge for the field and providing quality preparation and lifelong learning experiences for school and school system leaders.

Yet, in schools and school systems across the nation, instructional leaders face chronic gaps in student achievement.

Schools and school systems typically focus on behavior itself, instead of scrutinizing and responding to aspects of students» experiences that shape their behavior.

One - hundred - thirty - five private nonsectarian and religious schools and school systems registered with the Department of Public Instruction by the January 10 deadline to accept students for the 2016 - 17 school year through the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP).

Different people and cultures have differing reasons for leaving, but very often the high attrition rate for Black teachers is due to school and school system culture, policies, processes, etc. that do not fully support them (Kini & Podolsky, 6/16).

Denied At the Door: Language Barriers Block Immigrant Parents from School Involvement This report addresses the lack of meaningful access afforded to parents with limited English proficiency to their children's schools and the school system due to language differences.

At Abeo School Change we cultivate and develop the internal capacity of schools and school systems to improve performance in multiple areas.