Sentences with phrase «school data gathering»

The programme overview shows how our evidence - based inquiry model is built around a series of workshops and in - school data gathering.

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Thanks to careful data gathering, the new story the school told was based on facts instead of feelings.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

After gathering data from the schools, police, and social agencies that would confirm the existence of the need, this group succeeded in rallying the community to establish a child guidance clinic.

Learn how to gather, analyze, and compile breakfast data into a report that can be used to draw attention to areas of your state that could reach more low - income students with the School Breakfast Program.

Last Friday, I told you about a new study which gathered data in two Vermont elementary schools and concluded that kids» fruit and vegetable consumption is down and food waste is up since the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids... [Continue reading]

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The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

Last Friday, I told you about a new study which gathered data in two Vermont elementary schools and concluded that kids» fruit and vegetable consumption is down and food waste is up since the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA).

According to the USDA data, gathered from the states that administer the programs, 90 of the 524 schools that dropped out of the program said specifically that they did so because of the new meal - plan requirements.

Share best practices in working with Title I, gathering Identified Student Percentage (ISP) data, determining what's best (school, district - wide or a group of schools) and providing outreach data to the State.

The governor says he and his team are merely gathering data to inform the school funding discussion.

«This study is the first to use universal data gathered from U.S. public schools to understand SCP.»

Dr Vera Weisbecker of UQ's School of Biological Sciences said the study represented the first dataset comparing brain growth in different mammals, gathered through a novel method of non-invasive micro-CT (computed tomography) scanning which allowed the fast data acquisition of soft tissue growth in tiny mammals.

The data gathered can now be used to investigate particular biological processes, such as ageing or, as Gary Ruvkun at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues have now done, body fat storage.

«Most people think that it was a mistake,» says Jules LaPides, outgoing president of the 400 - member Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), about the NRC's decision to gather lots of kinds of data, but to rank programs simply by reputation.

This summer, hundreds of Washington area elementary school children donned lab goggles and gathered scientific data to study the science of sports as part of a free, hands - on summer program.

She bases that conclusion on data she gathered from 164 randomly selected labs, representing 12 science and engineering disciplines and 30 U.S. universities, a third each from the top, middle, and bottom ranks of American graduate schools.

«The authors have analysed data from over 16,000 young people attending schools in the North - West of England, gathering information about not only their use of electronic cigarettes but also smoking and hazardous drinking.

At Summit Preparatory Charter High School in Redwood City, California, every teacher gathers real - time data — daily.

Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Richard Niehaus ruled this month that the education department failed to conduct legally required hearings before implementing the Educational Management Information System, which was designed to gather demographic data and achievement scores for individual districts and schools.

The research, which is anticipated to be completed later this year, draws on lessons learned from fields of business and management organisational psychology and explored data gathered from Education Support Partnership's Positive Workplace Survey, a service the charity provides to help schools better understand their working environments.

Indeed, in our view, the unique data we gathered for this study make these schools» accomplishments all the more impressive.

After interviewing the school counselor and other experts about how conflict affects the brain, they gathered and analyzed data to identify common trouble spots (such as lunch lines) and developed site - specific strategies to defuse tensions.

If our schools are to continually improve, we need to gather data and make it available not just to schools, school districts, and parents, but also to independent researchers, who can comb the databases for correlations and any underlying causal connections.

We gathered the data for our study during the spring of 2011 from 32 of the 49 public schools in Boston that serve 8th - grade students.

Parents who earn $ 75,000 a year are more likely than parents at the low end of the income scale to volunteer in school, attend school meetings, or move so that their children can attend a better school, according to data gathered by Education Week in April.

Parthenon began gathering data on every student who entered New York City's high schools in 1999, nearly a quarter million of them, and by 2005, as education journalist Sarah Garland reported in a 2010 Washington Monthly story, had accumulated data that were «shocking»: «Nearly 140,000 high - school - age youth in the city were at least two years behind where they needed to be to graduate on time.

School officials also are gathering data from last year to see if the training is making a difference.

Each school must gather and analyze data on incidents of mistreatment and victimization, and tap student voice and involvement and student and staff perception of climate, using anonymous surveys that allow for disaggregation of data while protecting confidentiality.

First, we gathered the universe of public schools from the Common Core of Data (CCD) for 2014 - 15.

We have interviewed 90 teachers and administrators in these schools and gathered documents and data about them.

Key school leaders and teachers gathered data, input, and reflections from school - based teams, and used this information to design the content for the grant that ultimately led to program funding from the Massachusetts Department of Education.

There we gathered ideas from other teams along with data from the project, and, with the support of Project trainers, we initiated several reforms at school.

The study gathered data from roughly 8,000 high school juniors and seniors.

To set a positive and effective tone in your school, first spend time gathering baseline data and reflecting with your mentor.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

, a new project at the Harvard Center for Education Policy Research designed to connect evidence - gathering and analysis of data in schools to practice.

As schools adopt blended learning, many are eager to use the floods of student learning data gathered by their various software systems to make better instructional decisions.

According to a new Harvard study — based on data gathered from focus groups, interviews, and several surveys, including one of roughly 20,000 11 - to -18-year-old boys and girls from 59 public and private secondary schools — nearly a quarter of girls preferred male over female political leaders.

Students learn research and community - engagement skills more commonly taught in graduate - level urban planning programs than in high school, and produce professional - quality reports incorporating data they have gathered and analyzed.

«In the 21,000 - student Syracuse city school system in New York, which was recently accepted into the Strategic Data Project for this school year, administrators hope to use data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&raData Project for this school year, administrators hope to use data uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.&radata uncovered by Harvard researchers to gather information on key performance indicators.»

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

It would be interesting to gather similar data about teacher wellbeing & bullying if teachers in schools.

Given that every approach has limitations, it makes sense to us to gather information based on as many approaches as data will support and use the results to ensure that school districts have adequate resources.

Their most recent report examined data gathered in 2015 when 10,000 students from around 250 schools participated.

As part of the larger project, I gathered data on the names and zip codes of school district employees in a stratified sample of 70 California school districts, all of them unionized, and I matched these names to county voter files to get each employee's voting history.

Fauteux tackled this challenge by adding additional structures and opportunities to tailor learning to his students» individual needs — he held small - group instruction before and after school and manually gathered data to monitor individual student progress.

The day - to - day running of a school often takes up a lot of time, with data gathering, monitoring and analysis being a significant part of this; it's crucial that this process is as streamlined as possible.

By informal culture we are referring to gathering data by informally spending time in different areas of the school to observe the culture and engage in conversations about what works and what needs to be improved.