Sentences with phrase «role of student achievement»

Designed for districts adding the critical role of Student Achievement Teacher, this training will provide SAT's and site administrators with an overview of the philosophy behind the position as well as provide in - depth training in the daily responsibilities.

Dr. Marzano talks about the role of student achievement and teacher behavior in evaluation.

Not exact matches

«I am honored to serve the citizens of the city of Syracuse in this role and look forward to working with others who are dedicated to improving achievement for all students.

Appearing today before the Senate commerce committee as the nominee for associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Wieman was asked if NASA should play a bigger role in the federal effort to raise student achievement and produce a better - trained workforce.

Critics argue that dividing the students can mean the loss of leaders or role models, greater achievement gaps and lower self - esteem for struggling students.

In her research regarding student motivation, she has studied the origins of mindsets, their role in motivation and self - regulation, and their impact on achievement and interpersonal processes.

John Hattie's landmark Visible Learning research concluded that one of the most important influences of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.

Bipartisan in its origins but controversial in its execution, NCLB, which is the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, expanded the federal role in education and targeted improving the achievement of disadvantaged students.

We were primarily interested in assessing the role of demographics, student achievement, and the extent of school choice currently available in shaping how states participate in the charter school movement.

Across the board at the federal, state, and district level the role of partnerships between home and school is becoming a more important factor in education reform and student achievement, Mapp said.

The federal role in education has been a growth industry since at least the Johnson administration, when the Elementary and Secondary School Act (ESEA, now the Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA) was passed as a part of the War on Poverty, with a focus on closing the achievement gap and equalizing funding between the rich and the poor.

On the other hand, he defies proponents of charters, vouchers, and other forms of school choice as wishful thinkers disposed to let marketplace theories trump evidence of student achievement while also undervaluing education's civic and cultural roles.

The Urban Institute's new report, Breaking the Curve: Promises and Pitfalls of Using NAEP Data to Assess the State Role in Student Achievement, proposes better ways to compare NAEP scores across states and over time.

On the basis of these survey results, we created three measures: (1) the principal's overall assessment of the teacher's effectiveness, which is a single item from the survey; (2) the teacher's ability to improve student academic performance, which is a simple average of the organization, classroom management, reading achievement, and math achievement survey items; and (3) the teacher's ability to increase student satisfaction, which is a simple average of the role model and student satisfaction survey items.

The flat salary schedule for teachers is a good reason for those in Madison to welcome the stipends of $ 6,250 that the district offers to its «master» teachers, who take a leadership role among the faculty, and the bonuses averaging $ 3,400 to teachers who exhibit outstanding classroom performance and student achievement.

In these surveys, we asked principals to evaluate their teachers along a variety of dimensions, including dedication and work ethic, organization, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship with administrators, student satisfaction, role model value for students, and ability to raise math and reading achievement.

One important goal included building leadership by identifying roles and styles required to improve the «instructional core»; considering beliefs, cultural changes, and education strategies to promote high student achievement; reflecting on the effects of race, class, and culture within the district.

Urban school leaders are on the front line of this work, and research points to the important role they play in creating the conditions to improve student achievement.

Students have opportunities to take leadership roles, be involved in collaborative group work and to feel ownership of their school's projects and take pride in their own achievements.

Thank you for featuring research on the fundamental role of teachers in the achievement of New York City's students in «Photo Finish.»

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

Advocates argue that the use of VA measures in decisions regarding teacher selection, retraining, and dismissal will boost student achievement, while critics contend that the measures are a poor indicator of teacher quality and should play little if any role in high - stakes decisions.

The best evidence indicates that this substantially heightened federal role has had only modest impact on student achievement, far short of what had been hoped.

Understanding how students learn, enhancing educational achievement, and expanding educational opportunity are among the defining challenges of our time, and HGSE has an essential leadership role to play in meeting them.

Content: While targeting students and educators, HispanicHeritage.org celebrates the achievements of Hispanic Americans and provides role models for youth.

But, if district - level efforts at school transformation are to be more efficient and effective, what role should the superintendent — essentially a district's CEO — play to move schools toward higher levels of student achievement?

In fact, teachers account for 30 percent of the variance in student achievement, so there's no doubt that their role is crucial.

Mac Iver and Farley - Ripple provide a comprehensive review of the available research (since the 1970s) on the role of the central office in student achievement.

I am very conscious that understandings of leadership work undertaken by teachers typically reinforce those with formal positional roles at the expense of other forms of leadership which I believe are equally important for the improvement of student learning and achievement in schools.

Existing empirical evidence, however, does not find a strong role for measured characteristics of teachers — such as teacher experience, education, and test scores of teachers — in the determination of academic achievement of students.

In other words, Coleman's strategy was to study how much the achievement of African American and white students varied depending on the school they attended, and then use that as an indicator of the potential role of schools in closing the gap.

The Sheepskin Effect and Student Achievement: De-emphasizing the Role of Master's Degrees in Teacher Compensation This brief by Raegen Miller and Marguerite Roza dissects the nation's sizeable investment in master's bumps as a means of highlighting policy obstacles to a more smartly differentiated compensation approach.

The expanded federal role has been most evident in a thoroughly revamped National Assessment of Educational Progress (1988); the Clinton administration's Goals 2000 Act (1994); the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind Act (2001); and, most recently, the «Race to the Top» component of the 2009 economic stimulus act, which will award competitive grants to states that, in the judgment of the Obama administration, have what it takes to turn around failing schools and boost student achievement.

In her role as chief academic officer for Boston Public Schools, she is committed to eliminating racial achievement disparities while improving student learning results so that students of all races and cultures receive an equitable and excellent education that enables them to thrive and experience success in college, career and life.

Parents and the federal government each have an important role to play in boosting student achievement, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois told the nation's oldest civil rights organization on Monday.

Preserve a role for student achievement in teacher evaluation systems In light of political pushback, some states and districts are moving to eliminate student achievement measures from teacher accountability systems, but that is a mistake.

As the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) affords states the flexibility to decide how to measure student achievement, two reports released June 23 show that schools play a key role in developing students» soft skills such as beliefs about their intellectual capacity, sense of belonging at school, and eagerness to learn in the face of advStudent Succeeds Act (ESSA) affords states the flexibility to decide how to measure student achievement, two reports released June 23 show that schools play a key role in developing students» soft skills such as beliefs about their intellectual capacity, sense of belonging at school, and eagerness to learn in the face of advstudent achievement, two reports released June 23 show that schools play a key role in developing students» soft skills such as beliefs about their intellectual capacity, sense of belonging at school, and eagerness to learn in the face of adversity.

Given that the federal role in education has rewarded a lot of cronies and entrenched a lot of anti-freedom bureaucrats but produced no student achievement gains, and can constitutionally exist only because the feds bribe states with their own money, it's about time someone with power and cojones took a stand.

If the gap between these students remained the same as in the overall sample, this would suggest that the quality of the schools is not playing a major role in the expanding achievement gap.

As difficult as it is to close a school, that is what is required to ensure that California's charter movement fulfills its promises to students and the state, and maintains the high level of achievement required to continue to play a transformational role in the education system for years to come.

Among the issues highlighted during the conference were the role of media in literacy instruction, ways of teaching reading comprehension, contributions of the family to language and literacy development, and methods for promoting family involvement in students» school achievement.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

Cities across the country suffer from lagging student achievement and high dropout rates, and elected officials know the role that education plays in the overall vitality of their communities.

If school leaders believe that teachers» and students» understanding of feedback's role in instruction and learning can have a high impact on student achievement, they need to identify how their leadership influences feedback.

Those advocating instructional leadership emphasize the need to maintain a singular focus on classroom practice as the key to improving student achievement, and they point to the important role of the principal as a model.

What to know: The Mississippi Department of Education's (MDE) plan stands out for aligning its teacher recruitment and retention efforts with its ambitious goals for increasing student academic achievement by 2025 and clearly stating its role in supporting districts to address equity concerns.10 The MDE recognizes that in order to reach its stated goals — which include a proposed graduation rate of 90 percent for all students by 2025 — they must also support districts in recruiting and retaining teachers of color who are prepared to improve student outcomes.

«The resulting positive school climate helps overcome the role of family poverty and teacher experience as predictors of student achievement and school performance.»

Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the principal «s role.

Because parental involvement is linked to student achievement by correlation, we assert that teachers and principals can play a role in increasing student learning by creating a culture of shared leadership and responsibility — not merely among school staff members, but collectively within the wider community.

- Half of POINT and PPTI teachers said that they believed teachers were limited on what they could do because family environment played a larger role in student achievement.