Sentences with phrase «rewards those schools which»

«That's why we are raising standards with a rigorous new curriculum, world class exams and new accountability system that rewards those schools which help every child to achieve their best.»

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They cheerfully pay to go to Riding School, which is rewarding emotionally and as a transaction.

We looked south of the border to the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking conducted by the Aspen Institute, which had established criteria rewarding schools for emphasizing social responsibility, environmental sustainability and community engagement through institutional support, student initiatives and coursework.

As for sanctions, check out the McGuffey «s Readers and other school texts invoked by today's traditionalists, which truly get into rewards and punishments.

Harris Teeter has launched the Together in Education $ 100,000 Giveaway, which rewards customers for supporting schools.

At our school, grades in advanced courses are multiplied in the calculation of GPA, which attempts to both incentivize and «reward» those who take on challenging coursework.

Cuomo launched the School District Management Efficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operaSchool District Management Efficiency Award, which will reward school districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operaschool districts that have implemented long - term efficiency or cost - saving measures in their management operations.

Cable's return with a 52 % share of the vote was just reward for a hugely positive campaign which focused on cuts to local schools, the state of the NHS and the Tories broken promise on Heathrow expansion.

«Mine starts with state schools which helped me to get into a great university and set me on course for a rewarding career... When I was diagnosed with diabetes, the NHS was there for me.

The state, along with eight others and Washington D.C., won a share of $ 3.4 billion in funding from the program which was started by the Obama Administration in July of 2009 as a way to reward improvements in public schools.

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is set to reward school children who partake in the assembly's «Me and my tree competition», which forms part of the Kumasi Urban Forestry Project.

«Student characteristics and behaviors were rewarded in high school and led to higher educational attainment, which in turn was related to greater occupational prestige and income later in life,» she said.

«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.

In 2006 Huston took on a small role in Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential, and appeared in Martha Coolidge's Material Girls opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff.In 2008, Huston joined the cast of the made - for - HBO period film Iron Jawed Angels, in which she played an activist opposed to the National Woman's Party, which encouraged rewarding American women with the right to vote and hold citizenship.

Finally, as with all written documentation, it must be reviewed regularly to ensure that it is still practical and fit for purpose, taking into account: the ethos of the school, its values and the boundaries of acceptable behaviour; the school's moral code; positive and constructive rules of conduct, and the rewards and punishments, which must be fairly and consistently applied.

Pupil rewards Seven high schools in the Cheshire West and Cheshire area have boosted their recycling efforts with Options Management's state - of - the - art plastic bottle recycling machines and are now on course to recover between 96,000 and 200,000 bottles, thanks to the new machine, which diverts bottles from landfill instead seeing them become recycled into other bottles and products.

There is some evidence, however, that the program had a positive impact in schools where teachers were few in number, an environment in which it may be easier for teachers to cooperate in pursuit of a common reward.

Good grades, good character, and community and school service can get their photo and statistics on a trading card — which are given as rewards to elementary and middle school students.

Principals McNeely, Davis, and Potter have offered a few ways in which they recognize their schools» office teams during Administrative Professionals Week and all year long, but maybe you're still looking for the perfect way to reward the efforts of the person who keeps things running smoothly 180 days a year, and then some.

Budget includes $ 100 million for teacher - quality initiatives, half of which will be directed toward raising teacher salaries and half designed for financial rewards for teachers at low - performing schools whose students show marked academic gains.

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.

The rewards program is a cornerstone of the state's landmark 1990 school - reform law, which overhauled the state's assessment program, school - governance system, and school - funding formula.

There is some evidence that the program had a positive impact in schools where teachers were few in number, an environment in which it may be easier for teachers to cooperate in pursuit of a common reward.

If performance is to be rewarded, the unions insist that the rewards go to whole schools rather than individual teachers - which dilutes the impact on teacher incentives, but induces less competition among union members.

The union is also calling for pay levels which remain competitive in the longer term with other professions and reward teachers fairly; a common pay increase for all teachers, recognising that different pay awards for different groups are ineffective and demotivating; and additional government funding for all schools to help them implement the award.

This was all sensible enough (aside from an increasingly unhinged fascination with reading and math scores), but it was pursued with rhetoric that not infrequently veered into broad condemnations of the nation's schools and teachers — and which failed to take serious the need to ensure that any changes were equally attentive to rewarding professionalism and honoring excellence.

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»).

Examples of such initiatives include the No Child Left Behind legislation in the United States, which required schools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pschools to demonstrate that they were making adequate yearly progress and provided escalating negative consequences for schools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pschools that were unable to do this; the creation and publication of league tables of «value - added» measures of school performance in England; proposals to introduce financial rewards for school improvement and performance pay tied to improved test results in Australia; and the encouragement of competition between schools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pschools under New Zealand's Tomorrow's Schools pSchools program.

Every week, every school in America should hold a Hero of the Week program, in which bystanders who defend underdogs are celebrated, acknowledged, and rewarded.

Carla Tantillo also discourages teachers in the schools in which she works from using candy or small toys to reward students for good behavior, saying using yoga to control behavior has more long - term applications.

Whilst teaching pupils provides rewards, teachers also require ongoing support from within the school in order to motivate and involve them in further learning, which in turn sustains learning within the classroom to make it engaging and exciting for the pupils.

Schools and academies are being asked to sign up to the charter which pledges to give teachers: - A fair and reasonable workload - High - quality training and professional development opportunities that meet the needs of individual members of staff - Competitive and attractive pay and rewards packages - Prohibiting the use of «probationary period» contracts in Schools and academies are being asked to sign up to the charter which pledges to give teachers: - A fair and reasonable workload - High - quality training and professional development opportunities that meet the needs of individual members of staff - Competitive and attractive pay and rewards packages - Prohibiting the use of «probationary period» contracts in schoolsschools

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.

Privatization of libraries, hospitals, prisons, and other basic services had long been hailed by those on the political right, but how could one persuade entire communities to hand over their children and their public schools to private sector corporations, some of which hoped to turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders?

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

A combination of school records and administrator reports can inform which teachers should be thanked and rewarded for these usually thankless tasks.

First, «the most important predictor of boys» achievement is the extent to which the school culture expects and rewards academic effort,» they write.

The $ 4 billion in Race to the Top grants, which seek to reward states for their commitment to reforming teacher effectiveness, data systems, low - performing schools, and academic standards and assessments, are paid for through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed last year by Congress.

Over time, as it becomes clearer which programs consistently graduate high - performing principals, this new approach would create a robust marketplace that rewards institutional excellence and helps school districts make smart hiring decisions.

D.C. schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said in an interview that the study validates IMPACT's theory of action, which was to reward the best teachers, give assistance to struggling ones, and dismiss those not able to perform.

«Our current system, in many respects, rewards mediocrity, punishes excellence by granting unlimited job security to all who teach a few years,» Berger said last March at a news conference to unveil his Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 — which contained language that ended career status and was ultimately inserted into the budget bill passed last summer.

«When we began rewarding students with points for positive behaviors each day, we saw our infractions decrease significantly, which created a big shift in our school culture.»

Kevin: For the last five years in Sleep and Dreams we've developed a really rewarding education partnership with Menlo - Atherton High School, which is just a few short miles from our campus at Stanford.

Many schools have reward programs in which they recognize their top readers according to how many points they have earned.

In fairness, he does have an education platform in which he promises to «reward and replicate success» and «rescue students trapped in failing schools.»

But since then, the high - stakes testing movement has blown up: with increasing frequency, student scores on standardized exams are tied to teacher, school, and district evaluations, upon which rewards and punishments are meted out.

Principals must use data, report and explain data to internal and external audiences, in support of data - driven decisions, which influence instruction and stimulate change.Assessment and Accountability Standardized testing is one element in the complete assessment of student progress, but no single test should serve as the sole criteria for a student's advancement in grade level, graduation or placement or serve as a punishment or reward for schools or those who staff them.

As they reflected on the rewards of writing this book, the editors offered several benefits, which for the students included the opportunities to: Have their voices heard; see their names in print; realize they can have an impact on school practices, and; enjoy and learn from the collaborative writing process (p176).

Although we appreciate the $ 300 million in new Title I funds to reward successful schools, we are concerned about a significant shift in support toward competitive grant programs and away from the formula programs, notably Title I and IDEA, which provide the vast amount of federal support for K — 12 schools and students.

The SCPCSD believes in the powerful value of EVAAS data, and that schools and teachers earning Level 5 growth — which means their students far surpassed what was expected of them — should be recognized and rewarded.