Not exact matches
From my time as a teacher, I
learned how challenging and
rewarding the teaching profession is, how meaningful real connections with
students can be (I'm still
in contact with quite a few of my
students from St. Jude), and how important it is to take a
growth mindset to this work.
This points to a desperate need to move toward a competency - based
learning system that measures and
rewards individual
student growth, as well as an underlying shared
learning infrastructure that allows the country to identify each unique
student in a consistent way — so that when he or she moves geographies, the
student's record does as well — and to keep track of what that
student knows and can do
in a consistent way across geographies.
To this point it appears that policies that create access to online
learning — as evidenced
in the rapid
growth of the movement — are outpacing policies that
reward quality for each
student.
We are proud to offer exceptional training
in an environment for
learning and
growth that will
reward students throughout their careers.
Our outstanding educators are provided with unmatched opportunities for
rewarding professional
growth, are committed to using data to improve
student results, possess exceptional professionalism, and embrace our school's belief that all
students, regardless of economic status or family structure, are entitled to
learn in a system that gives them the best chance for success.
In this report Harris makes «Recommendations to Improve the Louisiana System of Accountability for Teachers, Leaders, Schools, and Districts,» the main one being that the state focus «more on
student learning or
growth --[by] specifically, calculating the predicted test scores and
rewarding schools based on how well
students do compared with those predictions.»
Our outstanding staff members are provided with unmatched opportunities for
rewarding professional
growth, possess exceptional professionalism, and embrace our school's belief that all
students, regardless of economic status or family structure, are entitled to
learn in a system that gives them the best chance for success.