Sentences with phrase «reward schools based»

If lawmakers want to reward schools based on student success, data from the board of regents provide a roadmap.

Texas, for example, rewards schools based on value - added achievement gains calculated using two - stage regression analysis.

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.»

Not exact matches

With Randy's leadership, DeSoto Trail Elementary School replaced food - based rewards for students with a menu of healthier alternatives and implemented 10 minutes of jogging or walking to start each schooSchool replaced food - based rewards for students with a menu of healthier alternatives and implemented 10 minutes of jogging or walking to start each schoolschool day.

And for some parents, that means returning kids to classrooms rife with unwanted candy rewards, food - based classroom birthday celebrations, junk food sold «a la carte» in the cafeteria, vending machines with sugary juice and sports drinks, and highly processed, chemical - laden school meals.

«We want young people to know they have a range of positive options on leaving school that will open up rewarding careers - be that through university or skills - based learning.

And there have been proposals to make NAPLAN results the basis of teacher performance pay and financial rewards for school improvement.

«There is a growing culture in too many schools of seeking to pay teachers on the basis of what you can get away with, rather than rewarding them for their skills and expertise.

«Based on our data, which is comprised of gene expression across 16 brain regions, we found that the most distinct region, i.e. the region where we observe more human - specific differences in gene expression, is the striatum, a region involved in motor coordination, reward, and decision - making,» lead author André M. Sousa of the Yale School of Medicine and the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience told Seeker.

The rationale for the market model is usually based on the performance of individual schools and the application of whatever rewards and sanctions that performance evokes.

The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), for example, a national network of successful charter schools focused on low - income students, has for years used various money - based rewards.

Practical rewards A user - friendly budget management system enables consistent data processing across multiple users within the school and access to permission - based information.

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

School budgets are based almost entirely on student enrollment, providing vigorous rewards and penalties for success or failure to attract students.

• There was a widespread, well - justified concern that prior accountability measures based primarily on achievement levels (proficiency rates) unfairly penalized schools serving more disadvantaged students and failed to reward schools for strong test score growth.

Instead of trying to specify the amount of progress students should make based on some utopian ideal, it rewards or sanctions schools for making more (or less) progress than one might expect under the circumstances.

Even on a trial basis in grades four through eight, such a program could help states shave school spending by two or three percent — tallying hundreds of millions in some cases while rewarding excellent educators.

Sacramento — Bill Honig, California's state superintendent of public instruction, last week proposed a three - year program that would reward the state's schools on a per - pupil basis for improving their performance in several measurable categories.

She proposes rewarding teachers equally with school - based bonuses, a nonstarter with Rhee, who is zealous about getting rid of those she calls «bad teachers.»

But the rewards are worth it, he says, estimating that online school - based communitieswill multiply rapidly in the comingyear.

They will be able to hire and maintain a teaching force with the goal of higher test scores in mind, and they will have more flexibility than public schools do to reward or punish their teachers on the basis of test results.

To create such programs, states and districts must identify the most important elements of student performance (usually academic achievement), measure them (usually with state tests), calculate change in performance on a school - by - school basis, and provide rewards to schools that meet or beat performance improvement targets — all of which must be backed by system supports that enable all schools to boost results.

Business enterprise efficiency would rescue the schools through organizational improvements; selection, training, assessing, and rewarding of principals and teachers on the basis of performance; and adoption of promising education technologies.

School - based reward programs that offer students such incentives as cash, free MP3 players, or other gifts appear to produce improved reading achievement across grade levels, preliminary findings from an ongoing research project suggest.

What kept them motivated to go the extra mile were the inherent rewards of students succeeding academically and growing emotionally on a day - to - day basis and throughout the school year.

Rewards in the form of a waiver, or incentives in the form of a state innovation grant or site - based merit pay, could be included in a public academy contract with a host school district; so must corrective action policies for academic or fiscal malfeasance.

We analyzed test - score data and election results from 499 races over three election cycles in South Carolina to study whether voters punish and reward incumbent school board members on the basis of changes in student learning, as measured by standardized tests, in district schools.

School leaders can use the SPTQ to gain a useful overview of the quality of teaching in their school, identify professional learning needs, and provide a basis for rewarding and recognising teachers who attain high teaching stanSchool leaders can use the SPTQ to gain a useful overview of the quality of teaching in their school, identify professional learning needs, and provide a basis for rewarding and recognising teachers who attain high teaching stanschool, identify professional learning needs, and provide a basis for rewarding and recognising teachers who attain high teaching standards.

It simply asks officials in participating countries whether the base salary for public - school teachers could be adjusted to reward teachers who had an «outstanding performance in teaching.»

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

The longer I work in schools, the more suspicious I become of reward - based or fear - based behavior - management systems.

Therefore, when policymakers seek to reward schools for improvements in test scores, they should do so based on multiple years rather than a single year of data.

Such volatility can wreak havoc when rewards and punishments are doled out on the basis of changes in test scores; school personnel are at risk of being punished or rewarded for results that are beyond their control.

If students progress based on competency instead of cohort, the state should presumably reward schools and providers that help students progress faster.

The state does not hand out awards based on decimal - point differences among schools; officials reward a previously set percentage of top - ranking schools.

They should avoid prescription and both reward and produce rigorous evidence, thus increasing the share of education dollars spent on evidence - based programs while at the same time fulfilling the federal government's unique responsibility for producing and disseminating high - quality evidence on the best ways to improve American schools.

He is concerned with the disparity between what one learns in schools and at college that is usable («use value»), and the rewards one actually gets from one's education, which is based on the credential («exchange value»).

In addition, you can motivate those desired behaviors with goal - based incentives or rewards — e.g. behavior points, scholar dollars, student paychecks, or school store rewards — which are automatically tracked in Kickboard.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

The new initiative, called «Excellent Educators for All,» aims to bring states into compliance with a teacher equity mandate in the No Child Left Behind Act, the George W. Bush - era law that requires states to reward and punish schools based on standardized test scores.

Applicants were evaluated based on outstanding achievement as evidenced by extraordinary improvement in school performance, success in closing achievement gaps, local or national recognition for his or her school, and personal reward or recognition.

When schools are rewarded or punished based on their students» performance on math and reading tests, they have a strong incentive to divert their time and resources to tested subjects and away from others.

The performance - based rewards are greater for teachers who work in schools that serve students from low - income families.

So there is good reason to fear that principals in public schools, if given discretion to reward teachers as they please, will base their decisions on personal relationships rather than on the results of value - added assessments.

Projects have included: teacher career pathway programs that diversified roles in the teaching force; teacher career pathways that recognize, develop, and reward excellent teachers as they advance through various career stages; incentives for effective teachers who take on instructional leadership roles within their schools; incentives that attract, support, reward, and retain the most effective teachers and administrators at high - need schools; rigorous, ongoing leadership development training for teacher leaders and principals, leadership roles for teachers aimed at school turnaround; and the creation of new salary structures based on effectiveness.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

BASIS does well because the ranking system is designed to reward schools that have a high - achieving student body and give lots of AP tests.

Several countries have implemented programs that use test scores to rank schools, and to reward or penalize them based on their students» average performance.

A recent Kappan article suggests seven ways the secretary of education can encourage, support, and reward systematic school - based efforts to promote students» social - emotional development (also known as social - emotional learning).

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.