Sentences with phrase «schools focus on data»

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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.

WBFO's Focus on Education reporter Eileen Buckley talked to two school board members about the data.

These Green Campaign Schools will focus on building skills at all levels, from assembling a campaign team, to creating effective campaign literature, raising money, handling and using voter data, financial reporting, media campaigns, the role of the candidate, and setting and working toward goals.

The researchers focused on data from 1,680 teachers in 200 urban schools, along with their more than 50,000 students in grades six through nine.

The research, conducted by the University of Warwick's Medical School using data from the Health Survey for England, and published by BMJ Open focused on mental wellbeing and found that high and low mental wellbeing were consistently associated with an individual's fruit and vegetable consumption.

Analyses focused on data collected from high school seniors (weighted N = 10,597) in years 2007 - 2011 (2011 was the last year recreational marijuana use was still illegal in all US states).

The School's curriculum will focus on best practices in software engineering — version control, continuous integration, data management, programming paradigms, etc. — to promote reproducibility and reliability in research as well as aspects of modern high - performance computing architectures and code optimization.

European Space Agency (ESA) organises a series of summer schools on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation EO data across disciplines, with a specific focus on their assimilation into Earth System models.

Over the past decade, my research has focused on the academic, social, and civic development of immigrant youth, specifically the ways in which schools Chief Architect and Vice President of Innovation, Phill Lawson - Shanks, to Present at The 6th Annual Provider Forum on Financing & Investing in Data Centers

In February 2006, CPA trainers conducted sessions at each participating school to assess staff needs and provide more - focused professional development based on school and student - specific data.

Extended day and year, a relentless focus on academic achievement, value - added evaluations for teachers, data - driven decision - making, and others were scooped up by schools impelled to keep up with the Joneses» College Prep.

States should focus on improving the quality of school performance data, and then making that data available to third parties so they can work their magic and offer it to all parents.

Whole - school commitment: All staff are required to participate in the process, which involves being an active member of a professional learning team focused on understanding student data and improving instruction.

The Lubienskis point out that both the NAEP and ECLS - K were altered, prior to the data collection for their study, to focus more heavily on the math content that was being taught in the public schools but not as much in the private schools.

Monitor student performance data across the school to ensure teachers are focused on areas of need; and,

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

As the experiences of these three schools make clear, the use of data can help teachers and leaders stay focused on student achievement.

After reviewing the data as presented in Figure 1, the school's principal would likely conclude that online bullying is only a «slight» problem at the school and focus his or her attention on other issues.

This year's meeting focused on the latest school reform data and progress.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

In addition to technology, many schools that focus on data analysis are seeing great benefits.

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.

Some of the acknowledged limitations of the data used in the Coleman study — the need to focus on the relationship between teacher variables averaged to the school level and student achievement, in particular — have been addressed by more - recent research.

Since introducing the three targeted programs and implementation model in 2016, Buchanan says the school has seen: improvements across a range of classes using the NAPLAN writing scale of up to 40 per cent; improvements in spelling using NAPLAN assessment and internal data of up to two years within a 12 month period; and its first spike in NAPLAN numeracy improvement for Years 3 and 5 (the two year groups staff focused on through the program).

Here, we focus on educational data analytics technologies for supporting data - driven decision making in schools.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

Arnup and Bowles also highlight data from the OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)-- focusing on lower secondary school teachers and their principals — suggesting «the majority of teachers are satisfied with their jobs, but teaching classrooms with a high proportion of challenging students is associated with lower levels of job satisfaction (OECD, 2014)».

It's proven to be a difficult issue to monitor, on top of which there was no good data focused on school climate.»

We focus on this three - year window (the exact dates of which vary according to the student's grade when enrolling in the study) because the most recent enrollment data available are for fall 2011 and the youngest cohort was expected to graduate high school in 2009.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Education's ongoing study of 16,000 children who entered kindergarten in 1998, the report from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, focuses on what many disadvantaged children are lacking when they arrive at school.

Policymakers should therefore assign greater weight to studies that focus on such students than they do to studies that, because they lack experimental data, must focus on atypical students who enter charter schools when they are older.

The virtual onsite offering of the Data Wise Leadership Institute addresses similar content and objectives as our on - campus program with a focus on individual school efforts, but takes place in the comfort of your own setting.

We focused on high - achieving, low - income students from nonfeeder schools because we hypothesized (and the early data confirmed) that they would be more affected by the ECO-C Intervention than students who attend a high school with a critical mass of high - achieving students.

«We changed our school culture into one that focused on teacher collaboration and looking at the right data,» says Cordova.

The school has stepped up its focus on using data to pinpoint students» weak points and to adjust instruction.

The report cites yearly national exams, a new curriculum focused on learning results and a new data driven system of school evaluation as further strategies which fostered higher quality schools.

The report by Ipsos Mori and the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) focuses on how schools are spending the PDG and teachers» perceptions of the impact of the grant.

In terms of the school factors, obviously in reality there's a whole range of factors that schools may influence on student's engagement level but given the data that we have we can only focus on the school factors that actually potentially can influence the student engagement based on the five categories.

In this webinar, the former chief academic officer for Partnerships to Uplift Communities Schools and now the current chief implementation officer at BloomBoard, Kelly Montes De Oca, will discuss how you can drive more effective professional learning across your school or district by using a framework for instructional improvement focused on data and mastery rather than seat time and credit hours.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

In Duval County, Florida, posting scores in a data room helped school officials see the need to focus more on high school reading skills.

She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.

If school districts wish to monitor the progress of the very lowest - income and most vulnerable students, focusing on Identified Students works well, as these data are available for all schools regardless of whether they have adopted community eligibility.

This resource for states focuses on improving school leadership and the principal pipeline by tracking the right data and planning strategically.

She helped me really dig in and figure out how to help the school move from mediocre to excellent — especially by focusing on culture, consistency, data, instruction, and accountability.

[viii] Focusing specifically on one urban school district because of the richness of available data, the study finds positive effects of the program, similar to those for the broader state.

Third, today's focus on results - based education, combined with plenty more data on school performance in an era of educational accountability, means that reform - minded education leaders are getting bolder about closing bad schools — and sometimes (but not always) opening new ones in the same building.

On the other hand, the Army of the Potomac needs to give up on its quest to repair inequitable school spending via Title I's comparability rules — and focus on requiring accurate school - level fiscal data, insteaOn the other hand, the Army of the Potomac needs to give up on its quest to repair inequitable school spending via Title I's comparability rules — and focus on requiring accurate school - level fiscal data, insteaon its quest to repair inequitable school spending via Title I's comparability rules — and focus on requiring accurate school - level fiscal data, insteaon requiring accurate school - level fiscal data, instead.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.