Sentences with phrase «scaling effective practices»

Join us for a discussion of these research findings and their implications for scaling effective practices and the role of policy.

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Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Neither of the stock responses that modernising social democracy has lost us our traditional base, or (sometimes) alternatively that we have not modernised enough, seem to me to recognise the scale or complexity of the challenge of building an effective politics of support for putting social democratic values into practice.

To what ages should these programs extend in school, and how can the most effective practices be scaled up to apply them universally?

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

His work examines the promise of distributed leadership, the potential for improved incentive systems to promote effective practices and bring them to scale, and the necessity to maintain a tight focus on instruction within an internalized accountability system.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present...

The question is how to learn from the existing success stories and from effective private - sector employment practices, and how to bring these lessons to scale for schools across the country.

A new study from Harvard University could substantially transform our understanding of what works in early childhood education in the United States, creating clearer avenues to bring effective practices and policies to scale.

NCTR launches, sustains and scales a network of high - performing residency programs dedicated to preparing highly effective teachers that will transform educational practices nationwide.

Instead, we used the ratings assigned to teachers on a joint (effective teaching and culturally responsive pedagogy) teacher accomplishment scale to classify teachers into three levels of accomplishment (most, moderately, and least); these levels were used as predictor variables to explain variations in the instructional practices used by teachers (Table 15).

How does a principal bring effective practices to scale in a school, creating the environment of collective responsibility and shared leadership that increases student learning?

The funding will be used to make SunBay Digital Math as cost effective as possible, to improve instructional and teacher development processes, to recruit school districts to contribute to the scale and sustainability of the effort, and to identify and enable broad adoption of effective practices to introduce digital technologies into the classroom.

(a) Provides employment and / or practicum experiences with adolescents in urban public school settings; (b) Provides ongoing support in the development of skills necessary to be an effective group facilitator, utilizing a science - based affective curriculum; (c) Heightens facilitators» understanding of the cultural and contextual factors that impact the psychosocial development of urban adolescents and their ability to achieve academically; (d) Exposes facilitators to the process of designing, implementing and evaluating large scale preventive interventions; (e) Examines educational policy and its implications for practice and research for urban education and school reform; and (f) Encourages facilitators» interest and pursuit of careers in education, psychology social work, counseling and / or other related fields.

The study found that A + places high on Shields and Knapp's scale of six national dimensions of effective reform practice.

The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement.

The policy paper reports that A + places high on Shields and Knapp's scale of six national dimensions of effective reform practice: 1.

Through the multifaceted work, New Leaders recognizes the need for conditions to support effective leadership at scale and advocates for policies and practices related to principal and teacher effectiveness, human capital management, standards and assessments, and other measures.

Jobs for the Future launched Students at the Center by commissioning teams of distinguished scholars to synthesize existing research on student motivation and engagement, cognitive development, school improvement, and efforts to take effective teaching practices to scale.

We know, for example, that the average is the wrong measurement of student proficiency (O'Connor, 2007); that the zero on a 100 - point scale is a math error (Reeves, 2004); and that the implementation of effective grading practices can have a positive effect on student achievement, discipline, and attendance (Reeves, 2008).

The sustainable investment forum gathers around 300 stakeholders from national and regional governments, international finance, private industry and carbon management sectors — the perfect event where we think we can share with our peers regarding the trends, the best practices but also participate in progressing the dialogue on the development of effective public - private funding mechanisms for scaling low carbon innovation.

While the scale of the challenge is enormous, we submit that the complexity of effective implementation is not: commitments should shift to focus on protecting tigers at spatially well - defined priority sites, supported by proven best practices of law enforcement, wildlife management, and scientific monitoring.

So no lawyer, whether they're a solo practitioner in a family law practice in a medium size or small city in the United States or somebody who does the most sophisticated mergers and acquisitions around the globe, no lawyer should think that their practices are unaffected by these large scale forces that are reshaping the entire economy and they ought to be looking for ways that they can use these forces or participate in these broader trends to make their practices more effective, to make the service they provide their clients better, and to make their own lives better.

The smart and effective use of available resources and best practices in the emerging ODR field made it possible for the DCBA to develop and implement a program which can serve a rapidly growing demand, integrates with other programs within the department, and can scale for use in other applications.

Small physician practices are being consolidated or merged into larger providers of health care, and the resulting economies of scale are — supposedly — making the delivery of health care more cost - effective.

A more thorough description of the full range of practices designed to strengthen parenting skills and enhance child development can be found elsewhere.35, 62 — 64 Although most primary prevention programs have not been evaluated systematically, those that show promise should be assessed and, if found to be effective, replicated and taken to scale.

With this important volume, early childhood programs will use the fundamental principles of implementation science to apply, sustain, and scale up effective practices in early care and education.

More than a how - to guide to effective implementation and scale - up, this volume also addresses the theoretical foundation of the stages of implementation science at all levels of early childhood systems and considers research, practice, and policy implications.

Given the recommendations set forth in the practice guideline3 that the assessment of ADHD requires evidence of symptomatology from caregivers and school personnel (ie, teachers), we endorse the use of behavior rating scales as a time - efficient and cost - effective means to gather data regarding the display of the core symptoms of ADHD.