Sentences with phrase «school improvement agenda»

When middle school students lead community organizing they can do almost anything, including designing their own school improvement agenda.

Seven school principals located in a variety of remote, urban contexts in the Northern Territory, chose to use coaching and / or mentoring conversations in 2014 as part of their respective school improvement agendas.

From there, it developed an explicit school improvement agenda focused on three priorities: student data discussion and analysis; literacy and numeracy; and, a quality teacher development program.

In exchange, states were forced to agree to a US DOE school improvement agenda that focused on overhauling low performing schools, adopting more rigorous teacher evaluations and new college and career ready academic standards known as Common Core.

Reforming schools to achieve better educational outcomes is at the top of most national, state, and local school improvement agendas.

Criticizing Congress for months of inaction in updating No Child Left Behind, President Obama on Friday offered to lift the law's most onerous provisions, including its 2014 deadline for bringing all students to proficiency in reading and math, for states that promise to follow his administration's own school improvement agenda.

However, if you would like to know more please do seek to connect and interconnect with others who are prioritising the use of technology as a key tool in their school improvement agenda perhaps even consider joining Naace and adding your voice to this developing community of practice.

Further research has also shown that the potential benefits of the programme go wider than pupil health, with FFL schools «consistently reporting that FFL had contributed to their school improvement agendas, helping improve attainment, behaviour and school environments» and that the experiential learning resulting from Food for Life activity «appears to have been particularly effective at helping engage or re-engage pupils with learning issues and challenges.»

Coaching and mentoring conversations are premised on a shared understanding by the principal and teachers, of the priorities within the school improvement agenda that is being pursued.

We will often have a school improvement agenda item or presentation to our parents and friends.

A Principal discusses her approach to leading and communicating a school improvement agenda.

For example, our K - 10 teacher staff meetings are all focused this year on our writing projects and we constantly remind everybody «this is about our literacy improvement for our school improvement agenda».

In this Q&A, Teacher editor Jo Earp chats to Beth Gilligan, Principal of Dominic College in Tasmania, about her approach to leading and communicating a school improvement agenda.

Sometimes some of your school improvement agenda is quite big and you need then to bring it back into really streamlined ways to do it that will actually improve the practice in the classroom.

For example, when we're doing parent literacy and numeracy workshops (how you can support your children to improve literacy and numeracy) we now say «this is part of our school improvement agenda».

To hold themselves and the system accountable for high quality learning for every student, central office leaders must create a clear through - line connecting a vision for student learning to the school improvement agenda, the professional learning needs of teachers and leaders and ultimately the quality of teaching practice.

In response to these findings, many policymakers have recognized the pressing need to place teachers at the heart of the school improvement agenda.