Sentences with phrase «school decisionmaking»

School Leadership, Teachers» Roles in School Decisionmaking, and Student Achievement.

Local control is valuable, said the Court, because it facilitates «the greatest participation by those most directly concerned» with school decisionmaking.

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To act as a conduit through which the general public may have input into the decisionmaking process of the FHSAA and to assist the FHSAA in the development of procedures regarding the receipt of public input and disposition of complaints related to high school athletic and competition programs.

A teachers» contract adopted last year, which was engineered by Gov. Roy Romer, established «collaborative - decisionmaking» committees at each of the city's 110 schools and gave them broad authority over instructional and curriculum issues, faculty selection, and other matters.

States can also distribute pre-K funds directly to local school districts, which establish their own decisionmaking processes and standards, often with little oversight.

Whether these characteristics directly affect teachers» decisionmaking or indicate other less tangible factors (such as the disciplinary climate or bureaucratic environment at the school) can not be determined.

Superintendent Joseph Meloche regularly turns to students to inform his decisionmaking in the Cherry Hill, N.J., school district.

To the extent, if any, that parents prioritize test scores in their decisionmaking calculus, they are likely to approve of the data from charter schools in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah (Figure 2).

Catholic - school teachers also develop strong relationships with one another, both professionally and socially, and these bonds help facilitate harmonious decisionmaking.

The book provides an in - depth look at districts that have in one way or another followed the advice given in one of Ouchi's previous books, about the benefits of weighted student funding, whereby schools receive funds based on the make - up of their student populations, and decentralized decisionmaking.

A degree of choice can be introduced in the state sector if decisionmaking is shifted to the school level, as has been done in Ontario, Glaze said.

«As a result, some of the decisionmaking about whether to apply to a specific college happens away from the school's official channels.

What follows is a close look at three schools that have integrated data into their instructional decisionmaking.

I have not found rigorous national research on this subject, but comparisons of metro Denver salary schedules conducted during the development of ProComp found, according to independent researcher Douglas Rose, that all the public school districts routinely «showed strong hints of incremental decisionmaking.»

The Dallas school board last month approved Superintendent Marvin E. Edwards's initial list of 10 schools to participate in a pilot site - based - decisionmaking program.

Ofsted has three primary functions: 1) to offer feedback to the school principal and teachers; 2) to provide information to parents to aid their decisionmaking process; and 3) to identify schools that suffer from «serious weakness.»

Among the topics are systemic school restructuring, school - based decisionmaking, and performance - based assessment.

The School Board and the Mounds View Education Association agree that there is a need to have involvement of professional employees in the decisionmaking processes of the Mounds View Public...

But decisionmaking, including curriculum, faculty selection, budgeting, and all other local - level details, is left to the school leader and the local board of directors.

For these constituents, the costs of becoming informed and actively participating in school district decisionmaking are low relative to the benefits to be gained.

Summers's school (like the other leadership - themed schools described in the book) is a funny mix of progressive (lots of teamwork and decisionmaking activities) and paternalistic (students learn catchy songs emphasizing the 7 Habits and keep notebooks, graphs, charts, and diagrams showing their goals and the progress they are making toward them).

I was inspired by Lesaux's clear and straightforward thinking about how schools can better use literacy data to drive decisionmaking, as well as how connected she continues to be to practice in schools and districts today.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

Most schools need products that help with the implementation of standards, that link instruction to assessments, that are grounded in solid and reliable data that enable better decisionmaking, that work seamlessly with other programs to create blended and personalized learning environments, and that are backed by a reputable company that provides high - quality, ongoing service and support.

The 21st Century Education Commission in Rhode Island issued its final report last month, calling for an array of reforms ranging from shared decisionmaking at every school to creation of a series of professional - development schools to train teachers.

The shared - decisionmaking structure in the 38,800 - student district has fostered a «committee culture» that blurs lines of accountability and has left Superintendent Alton Frailey and school board members with little authority, argue representatives from the Cincinnati Business Committee and the Baptist Ministers Conference.

As part of his research, Brown visits the schools and conducts interviews with presidents, faculty members, administrators, and other campus constituents in order to gain various perspectives on the impact of presidential leadership in decisionmaking.

For example, one characteristic of successful principal leadership is the ability to delegate power throughout the school and create networks of decisionmaking teams.

Moreover, research suggests that changes in school culture and classroom instructional practice are necessary requirements for improving pupil achievement, and that just redistributing decisionmaking power and resources is not enough.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

We believe the most promising approach is to move decisionmaking closer to the consumers of K — 12 public education by unleashing pent - up demand and empowering parents to choose schools for their children.

While such decisionmaking is hard to observe in the OneApp data, this kind of strategy puts parents at a greater risk of not matching to any school.

The OneApp has reduced opportunities for schools to engage in these behaviors by transferring decisionmaking authority in admissions from schools to the centralized process.

What they want and deserve is real decisionmaking that goes beyond simply choosing between mediocre and high - quality schools.

Furthermore, measuring performance using the full range of achievement provides additional and useful information for parents, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers for the purposes of decisionmaking and accountability, including more accurate information about the differences among schools.

Four years later, the parents, the public, and school administrators were frustrated at being left out of the decisionmaking process.

The proposal, which Schools Chancellor Rudolph F. Crew announced at a Nov. 4 board meeting, would set up decisionmaking councils at all the city's 1,100 - plus sSchools Chancellor Rudolph F. Crew announced at a Nov. 4 board meeting, would set up decisionmaking councils at all the city's 1,100 - plus schoolsschools.

Today, reformers still pin their hopes on other strategies that count on the power of decentralized decisionmaking, such as school choice, charter schools, and vouchers.

As the head of family engagement in Washington state's Federal Way Public Schools, Trise Moore helps parents navigate a large bureaucracy and puts them at the center of the district's decisionmaking.

And for charter school operators and other school turnaround players, it means putting parents at the head of education decisionmaking and governance.

She says that although traditional public schools have adopted site - based leadership in some cases, the local decisionmaking didn't come with any real budget authority.

Instead, Brown has promoted an approach that gives local school districts more control and decisionmaking powers, including over how their progress should be assessed.

Instructional decisionmaking had only been in place at the school for a handful of months when the students took the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills last spring.

Ms. Comer said the instructional - decisionmaking process seemed to fit well with the other changes in the school.

This paper argues that decentralizing decisionmaking authority to schools is a reform worthy of a new look, despite the perceived failure of earlier school - based management (SBM) efforts to improve student performance.

Education reformers in the United States have long debated whether school districts should centralize decisionmaking authority in the district office or decentralize it to let schools take the reins.

The morning session will feature a series of briefings for school board members from subject matter experts on key topics that will help to inform your decisionmaking.

«Having a say in how our schools look and function will play a role in their decisionmaking about whether they're going to stay for another 10 years, or two, or five,» Ms. Coggins said.

WHAT»S WRONG: Too many «reforms» remove schools from local control, muting the voices and decisionmaking power of parents and local communities.