Sentences with phrase «school and classroom conditions»

School and classroom conditions, teachers «professional communities, and student / family background conditions are directly responsible for the learning of students.

School and classroom conditions, teachers» professional community and student / family background conditions are directly responsible for the learning of students (var.

«Transformational leadership,» on the other hand, draws attention to a broader array of school and classroom conditions that may need to be changed if learning is to improve.

At a minimum, then, such evidence suggests that to increase the achievement of diverse student populations, leaders should assist their staffs in implementing the school and classroom conditions warranted by this research — «school leader as policy implementer.»

But there has been a great deal of research concerning both school and classroom conditions that are helpful for students from economically disadvantaged families and those with diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Standard regression equations were used to estimate the «effects» of LSE, LCE, and an aggregate measure of efficacy on leader behavior as well as school and classroom conditions.

Very few principals had systematically - collected evidence about the school and classroom conditions that would need to change for their students «achievement to improve.

Here we were motivated by questions about (1) district antecedents of school leaders «efficacy, and possible differences in the antecedents of individual as compared with collective leader efficacy, (2) consequences of school - leader efficacy for leader behavior, as well as school and classroom conditions, and (c) effects of leader efficacy on student learning.

Very few principals have systematically - collected evidence about the school and classroom conditions that would need to change for achievement to improve.

The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.

Relationships among principal turnover and measures of school and classroom conditions are negative.

Not exact matches

I will fully support this on the condition that the Stork Theory be added to obstetrical training in medical schools and the Phlogiston Theory is given equal time with Thermodynamics in physics classrooms.

At 2:30 p.m., de Blasio will visit the High School of Fashion Industries, where he will meet with parents and students to discuss recent investment to install air conditioning in every classroom, 225 W 24th St., # 343, Manhattan.

At Wednesday's event, the mayor, Brewer and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña spoke with Fashion Industries students about it was like to work on sewing machines in classrooms without air conditioning.

In January, the school — which offers fashion, merchandising and illustration classes along with standard academic courses — launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for the installation of air - conditioning units in the nearly 70 classrooms that don't have them.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

The plan includes $ 36 million — increasing to $ 177 million by 2021 — for a full - day «3 - K for All» program for every city 3 - year - old, and $ 28.75 million over five years to install air conditioning in every public school classroom.

The students may not be standing for classes, but a Citi News reporter managed to gain access to the classrooms in the school, and the sight that greeted him resembled conditions one would associate with primary schools - under - trees in some of the most deprived areas of the country.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

We begin with a prominent question for many school and district leaders: What conditions must we create in order to promote the scaling of identified classroom innovations?

Besides ensuring that all students have compassionate, effective teachers creating classroom conditions and opportunities for these things to occur, a school principal's primary responsibility is to allocate the scarce resources of time, space, and funding to maximize children's positive and productive experiences of school.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

Those leaders will no longer be able to maintain the fantasy of high - school educators floating from classroom to classroom like Mary Poppins because of their love of children while at the same time haggling over pay, benefits, and working conditions as if they were automobile workers.

Any right - thinking school leader would want — and arguably needs — that kind of flexibility so that suspensions (and other forms of discipline) can be tailored and customized to take into account an array of factors regarding individual circumstances and histories, classroom conditions, and the larger school culture.

HG: What this questions registers is how do power, politics and knowledge connect in creating the conditions for the production of knowledge, values, subjectivities, and social relations in both the school and the classroom.

Randomly allocating students or multiple classrooms or multiple schools to the new reading program and to control conditions or to an alternative program eliminates the possibility that the two groups will differ in a systematic way and thus compromise the results.

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

In addition, as a condition of funding, Reading First schools must administer timely classroom assessments and must adjust instruction as needed for every child based on the results.

Despite the smaller (i.e., than for teachers and teaching), yet still significant measured effects on student learning for school - based factors beyond the classroom — Hattie has calculated an effect size of 0.39 for principals / school leaders [3]-- research evidence has confirmed that «school leaders can play major roles in creating the conditions in which teachers can teach effectively and students can learn».

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

In light of this background, we focus here on teachers «school and classroom working conditions, exploring the degree to which variations in the rapidity of principal turnover may influence school culture, as well as curriculum and classroom instruction.

Table 2.2.3 reports correlations between LSE, LCE, an aggregated measure of efficacy and leader behavior (in the Combined column), school conditions, and classroom conditions.

But they had little formal evidence about the organizational conditions that might need to change if classroom and school performance were to improve.

Buddin's statistical procedure, while competently carried out in general, fails to take into account classroom and school contexts that condition the potency of individual teachers.

Bond projects include classroom technology, safety and security upgrades, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) upgrades, new / renovated facilities for College, Career and Technical Education, temporary classrooms replaced by permanent classrooms, air conditioning, ADA improvements to athletic facilities, turf fields, and other capital improvements at traditional and charter schools throughout the district.

Without recognition and support for principals as the catalysts for continuous school improvement, it is virtually impossible to improve school conditions that lead to better instruction in the classroom and student learning outcomes.

Dr. Ford references a «clarion call» from Dept. of Education Secretary John King on «equity in education,» and says that «the condition of school buildings and classrooms are very inequitable.»

In previous articles in this series, we've discussed some of the conditions which lead to teachers making the painstaking decision to leave the classroom: feeling unheard and undervalued, having little to no agency in school decisions and feeling frustrated by systemic norms that prevent them from becoming the teachers they so deeply desire to be.

Hiring more SEAs now, rather than on an emergency basis later in the school year, will foster supportive relationships between staff and students, and prevent conditions in our classrooms from deteriorating.

Engaged Classrooms 2015 Open Enrollment Summer Institute Through this highly interactive Engaged Classrooms Institute, middle and high school educators will take a deep dive to explore engagement conditions and research based strategies resulting in classrooms that support healthy relationships, inspire students to invest in their learning, and support students to tackle the heightened demands of complex academic Classrooms 2015 Open Enrollment Summer Institute Through this highly interactive Engaged Classrooms Institute, middle and high school educators will take a deep dive to explore engagement conditions and research based strategies resulting in classrooms that support healthy relationships, inspire students to invest in their learning, and support students to tackle the heightened demands of complex academic Classrooms Institute, middle and high school educators will take a deep dive to explore engagement conditions and research based strategies resulting in classrooms that support healthy relationships, inspire students to invest in their learning, and support students to tackle the heightened demands of complex academic classrooms that support healthy relationships, inspire students to invest in their learning, and support students to tackle the heightened demands of complex academic content...

Through this highly interactive Engaged Classrooms Institute, middle and high school educators will take a deep dive to explore engagement conditions and research based strategies resulting in classrooms that support healthy relationships, inspire students to invest in their learning, and support students to tackle the heightened demands of complex academic content and social exClassrooms Institute, middle and high school educators will take a deep dive to explore engagement conditions and research based strategies resulting in classrooms that support healthy relationships, inspire students to invest in their learning, and support students to tackle the heightened demands of complex academic content and social exclassrooms that support healthy relationships, inspire students to invest in their learning, and support students to tackle the heightened demands of complex academic content and social experiences.

Berliner seemed to shield teachers from much of the responsibility for poor academic performance by students as he testified that conditions beyond the classroom — he mentioned about nine of them — account for 60 percent of what influences a student's scholastic achievement whereas in - school factors such as class size, curriculum, the quality of the principal and the teacher account for only 20 percent.

Policies and practices that may influence a principal's working environment include principal supervisor caseloads, principal autonomy, and the general condition of classrooms and school facilities.

Three school districts have building referendums on the ballot, including New Glarus, which is asking for $ 5.8 million for heating, air conditioning and ventilation work, roof repairs, improvements to school security and additional classroom space.

«We need to create quality neighborhood schools where we can continue to keep our students in the same classroom while improving the conditions around them, from better facilities to specially trained principals and teachers to updated curriculum.

«IPS envisions creating more schools within the district with the conditions for success, which includes giving educators the freedom and flexibility to innovate in the classroom and fully meet the specific needs of their scholars,» said David Harris, The Mind Trust's founder & CEO.

During a visit to the school, I saw classroom discussions and activities that promoted students» awareness of their social conditions and prompted them to read and write about their lives and realities within their communities.

Cushman describes «deliberate practice,» lists the habits of excellence that interviewees identified, and explores how classroom teachers can set up learning conditions that motivate the kind of effective practice and the sense of «flow» that students experience in their out - of - school pursuits.

I use multiple data sources — including eight months of participatory classroom observation; in - depth interviews with educators, school leaders, and staff; and document and media analyses — to probe teachers» decision - making processes and to examine how, why, and under what conditions they elect to employ discipline in relation to particular students.

But Moskowitz's fine - grained focus imbues every facet of Success Charter Network: the reading rugs in air - conditioned classrooms, the hands - on science program (after the Brearley School's), the otherworldly performance on last year's standardized tests, and, yes, the gleaming lavatories.