Sentences with phrase «school and educator performance»

States and schools plan to use the new tests to not only determine how well students are mastering the new standards, but also to make judgments about school and educator performance.

It is reasonable, then, to wonder whether we need to abandon high - stakes testing altogether or whether better tests and smarter measurement of school and educator performance might help address the failings that Koretz describes.

Not exact matches

He was fascinated by the career of Frank Macchiarola, New York City's schools chancellor from 1978 to 1983 and a legendary educator who pushed for integration and better performance in public schools.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

Some want the current majority to maintain control and continue pushing for changes such as a longer school day, more charter schools and a teacher contract that holds educators more accountable for performance.

The study's authors recommend that educators, administrators, and parents work to strengthen students» positive emotions and minimize negative emotions related to school subjects, for example, by helping students gain a greater sense of control over their performance.

In any case, Angrist notes, the topic of school performance is a vital one for researchers to examine and for educators to evaluate.

«Many educators believe engagement leads to better school performance and is necessary for developing student motivation and interest,» said Ze Wang, associate professor of educational, school and counseling psychology in the College of Education at MU.

His clients have included students (elementary to university), high - performance athletes, educators, School Psychologists, and adult continuing education programs.

Featuring an astonishing, Oscar - nominated performance by a then - twenty - six - year - old Ryan Gosling as a functioning drug addict, basketball coach and history educator, and an equally outstanding turn by newcomer Shareeka Epps as a street-wise middle - school student, the impressive indie drama is a considerate and mannered look at dynamics, race and make - shift families.

It assembled panels of educators and asked them what education services, in their professional judgment, a typical school district would need to reach two benchmarks: the current level of student performance on exit exams and a higher level of student performance that represents a desired goal.

Others have suggested leaving a government - operated school system intact, but putting different people — mayors, [3] appointed boards, or state officials [4]-- in charge and using performance standards to focus the attention of educators on student learning, not distracting rules.

That's why I've asked some of America's top educators, advocates, political and business leaders here today, to mobilize our schools to raise standards, demand accountability, and specifically, to strengthen math and science education and performance all across America.

Common Core advocates hailed the scores as an honest accounting of school and student performance, while others worried that they reflected problems with the tests, inadequate support for educators, or a lack of alignment between what schools are teaching and what's being tested.

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Dr Warren's thesis, A Non-Authoritarian Approach To Secondary School Pedagogy: A Critical Action Research Project, informs the methodology and addresses the challenge of assisting educators engage a classroom and improve their performance to the benefit of their own careers and student experience and attainment.

Key elements included a new principal evaluation system, a pay - for - performance teacher evaluation system, a Leadership Development Fellows Academy for principals, an Accelerating Campus Excellence plan that seeks to attract educators to «struggling» schools, and an emphasis on dramatically boosting the number of students earning career certifications.

He has received national attention for moves favored by reformers, such as opening 75 new schools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay - for - performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - schoolschools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay - for - performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - schoolschools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - schoolSchools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - school route.

As charter schools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student ouschools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outschool educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outSchool's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student ouSchools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outcomes.

is to inform parents, voters, taxpayers, and educators about the performance of their kids and schools, then let them make their own decisions as to whether anything needs to be done.

Scope: Geared as much toward educators and policy makers as parents; offers school overview, student performance, community demographics, and financial data.

Model one would make transparent the performance of students across the nation, providing an X-ray to show parents, educators, and policymakers how different schools and groups are performing in key subjects.

Take a moment to contemplate that fact: The positive impact of years of work done by thousands of educators to build networks like KIPP, YES Prep, Achievement First, Noble, Mastery, Uncommon, Aspire, IDEA, Harmony, and others is literally negated by the performance of virtual charter schools.

Educators interpreted poor academic performance as the inevitable effect of poverty outside of school and a lack of curricular relevance and student engagement inside the classroom.

Now new research from Education Next concludes that in order to send the most useful information to educators and local decision makers, growth measures should level the playing field by comparing the performance of schools and teachers that are in similar circumstances.

Simply put, comparisons among similarly circumstanced schools send more useful performance signals to educators and local decisionmakers than the alternatives.

In 1997, North Carolina identified 15 elementary and middle schools with poor performance in both levels and gains and assigned «assistance teams» of three to five educators to work in these schools.

The RSC has a terrific program that digitally delivers content to schools, and here at BAM we have held educator symposiums and school - age performances that engage young minds and prompt discussion of his plays.

Crafting Thorough Cleaning Plans Few educators may link school cleanliness with student performance, but cleaner buildings can mean higher attendance and more learning.

The Foundation supports the collaborative efforts of public school educators, their unions, school districts, and communities to focus on learning conditions that improve student performance.

At Haut Gap Middle and other Charleston, S.C., schools, educators say PBIS has transformed student behavior and increased academic performance.

School principals need support to face a tidal wave of challenges: new college and career readiness standards and assessments, new educator performance evaluation, fewer resources available to meet expanding student needs, and short timelines for improving performance.

As states zero in on the performance of individual schools, report cards are one of their most popular tools for communicating information to parents, other taxpayers, and educators.

Within a state's accountability plan, «substantial weight» would have to be given to quantitative measures, such as graduation rates and performance on state tests, with much less weight allotted to subjective measures, such as school climate and educator engagement.

This online, 12 - week program offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Education will enable educators to achieve their aspirations by applying Immunity to Change technique to instead to pursue most important goals and drive organizational performance to new heights.

You'll review your performance coaching and developing educators with Relay faculty members, practice new approaches, and immediately apply what you learn to your own school contexts.

This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost - effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance.

These leadership development systems identify highly capable educators and develop them to lead high - performance school organizations centered on teacher professionalism and collaboration, which in turn drives the state, provincial or national agenda for school improvement.

Osborne explains that chartering blends parental choice, school - level autonomy, and meaningful accountability in a way that produces school diversity, empowers educators and families, fosters entrepreneurialism, and maintains the system's focus on student performance.

RAND, a non-profit analysis group, said expanding measures of school performance beyond mathematics and English language arts will give educators better information when evaluating the academic achievements of schools.

In California, we find that SIG schools were able to improve student performance and families» assessment of the schools and they did this, at least in part, both by improving the composition of the educator workforce through differentially retaining more effective teachers and by improving the professional supports for teachers in the school.

It makes sense that the educators at the two failing Florida schools, when subjected to clear and immediate sanctions, redoubled their efforts to improve students» performance on state tests.

Performance - based compensation systems must consider gains in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each school year among other factors and provide educators with incentives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles.

If educators are empowered to incorporate lessons about the positive impact of reflecting on their learning and using specific strategies to improve academic performance from the early grades on, students will be better equipped with the skills they will need to thrive in school, in their personal lives and in the working world.

The purpose of the TIF program is to support the use of performance - based compensation, and other human capital strategies that enhance and sustain performance - based compensation, in order to increase students» access to effective educators in high - need schools, and to expand the array of promising approaches that can help these educators and other personnel succeed.

Researchers and educators collaborated to create a substantial set of research - based instructional practices, performance management strategies, and student supports that middle schools should implement to increase the number of students prepared for success in high school and beyond.

In addition to seeking a change in the way the state uses data to measure student, teacher, and school performance, Mr. Schwarzenegger asked lawmakers to repeal California's charter school cap, expand public school choice, step up turnaround efforts for struggling schools, and enact alternative - pay plans for educators.

But as educators and policymakers, we need to compare ourselves with similar nations and on a broader set of indicators that put school performance in context - not just a single number in an international ranking.»

«These results reinforce what thousands of Arizona parents, families, educators and school choice champions have known for years: when it comes to academic performance, Arizona's public charter school students are setting the pace,» said Eileen B. Sigmund, Arizona Charter Schools Association President and CEO.