Safe Havens regularly works to help
schools improve learning processes by creating school cultures that embrace safety, security and emergency preparedness practices that produce results.
Not exact matches
SHARE aims to involve parents actively in their children's
learning; increase parents» understanding of the important role they play and of the
learning process;
improve the educational attainments of children; enable parents to further their own education; and develop effective management and organisation of parental involvement in
schools.
«In most
school districts, you have constant dialogue between labor and management on how to
improve the teaching and
learning process, and those kinds of conversations happen all through the year,» Korn said.
Many organisations and parent bodies aim to build awareness of the benefits that can be gained from
schools, communities and parents working together in partnership, whether that's supporting children's
learning in the classroom and at home, or helping to
improve overall
school life and
processes.
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.
To a large extent, the work of
improving education right now is redesigning classrooms,
schools,
processes, tools, and incentives so that
learning can be responsive to the individual needs of all students.
Learn a step - by - step
process for engaging in collaborative inquiry and using a range of data sources to
improve instruction and student outcomes within your
school or district.
Approximately 35
schools in this 117,000 - student district are in the
process of «restructuring» their programs: making any changes deemed necessary to
improve student
learning.
The Metro Nashville district in Tennessee began an intensive high -
school - redesign
process six years ago, and, about three years ago, officials there began developing an intensive professional development strategy to help high
school teachers
improve their work in project - based
learning.
When asked to reflect upon these conversations ~ held at 16 different
schools ~ educators responded by affirming the value of the
process ~ Cathy explains: They want to meet with each other at a time and in a place devoted to professional
learning ~ and they want to
learn from and inspire each other in ways that result in
improved teaching and
learning across all participating
schools.
Our new book, Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to
Improve Schools, lays out a different path for schools to embark upon a design process where the technology comes toward the end in service of the learning goals, but high profile busts of 1 - to - 1 initiatives will hopefully slow enthusiasm around tech - first implementations toward more considered approaches i
Schools, lays out a different path for
schools to embark upon a design process where the technology comes toward the end in service of the learning goals, but high profile busts of 1 - to - 1 initiatives will hopefully slow enthusiasm around tech - first implementations toward more considered approaches i
schools to embark upon a design
process where the technology comes toward the end in service of the
learning goals, but high profile busts of 1 - to - 1 initiatives will hopefully slow enthusiasm around tech - first implementations toward more considered approaches in 2015.
The PTLC is an ongoing
process designed to work systemically to
improve the quality of professional development; the use of data to inform instructional and programmatic decisions; the alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment to standards; the monitoring of student
learning; and leadership support for continuous
school improvement.
NSBA believes IDEA can be modernized according to the following principals: foster collaboration and trusting relationships between families and
schools; reduce complex compliance - driven
processes and redirect efforts within IDEA procedures to
improving teaching and
learning; and provide full funding of the federal share of IDEA investments.
This practical, easy - to - use tool will help you and your colleagues create an inclusive, data - driven, and research - based improvement
process and build, implement, and evaluate a formal
school improvement plan that will truly yield
improved student achievement and - ultimately -
learning for all.
Three years ago, the Wooster City
School District (WCSD) took a leap of faith, signing on with the state education agency as a partner district to help design and test the development of a statewide improvement
process that could be used by any district, regardless of size and demographics, to
improve student
learning.
Watch this video to
learn about the connection between onboarding and retention, and see how your
school can
improve onboarding
processes.
Part of the LANALP requirements is the implementation of a research - based field project at the
school site that is geared toward
improving student achievement and the teaching and
learning process.
If
schools are to help poor readers
improve their skills, then it is important that we have a good understanding of the
processes children go through in
learning to read.
We believe that a variety of specific problems are keeping
school - based decision making from
improving teaching and
learning, and that taking some specific steps can refine the
process and overcome these difficulties.
As instructional leader, «the principal's role is to lead the
school's teachers in a
process of
learning to
improve teaching, while
learning alongside them about what works and what doesn't.»
Using this
process at the start of the
school year will help teachers to
improve learning outcomes for all their students.
Challenge Partners is a
school improvement network which
improves performance through effective
learning partnerships and rigorous quality assurance
processes.
These goals serve as the primary tenants for advancing the high
school renewal work to: 1) establish system coherence by aligning central office and site programs, and accelerating student
learning by leveraging and expanding knowledge and skills among staff, parents, and community members; 2)
improve the quality of instructional leadership by providing ongoing professional development for
school leaders; 3)
improve the quality of teaching throughout the district through embedded professional development; 4) increase student engagement in the
learning process by personalizing
learning environments to build on student interests; 5) increase community involvement in
schools by giving principals ownership of the change
process, expanding student voice, and bringing parents and students into the
school renewal
process.
In Tennessee, for example, teachers are increasingly seeing the evaluation
process as a tool for
improving teaching and
learning with more than half of teachers who responded to a recent survey reporting that teacher evaluation will
improve teaching in their
schools.
While the formal or informal leadership roles of teachers may vary in different
schools and districts, teacher leadership is broadly defined in the 2011 Teacher Leader Model Standards as «the
process by which teachers, individually or collectively, influence their colleagues, principals, and other members of the
school community to
improve teaching and
learning practices with the aim of increased student
learning and achievement.»
Describes the
School Administration Manager
process or «SAM
process,» an approach that about 700
schools around the nation are using to direct more of principals» time and effort to
improve teaching and
learning in classrooms.
ALEXANDRIA, VA — ASCD has released five new professional development books for district and
school leaders — including new and veteran principals and teacher leaders — that provide detailed strategies and
processes for developing teachers» professional capacity,
improving teacher evaluation and supervision, enhancing
learning for all students, and more.
«
Schools will still be forced to go through a completely unnecessary and expensive legal
process to change into academies, which will divert their heads» attention away from running the
school and
improving children's
learning.»
The experience of Springdale Elementary
School in eastern Washington proves that school improvement is a process for schools learning to improve — not something done to sc
School in eastern Washington proves that
school improvement is a process for schools learning to improve — not something done to sc
school improvement is a
process for
schools learning to
improve — not something done to
schools.
Find out about past and current budgeting practices in some of our HOT
schools and discuss as a staff what can
improve your budget
process to make
learning even more arts - integrated and democratic.
School Leaders
Learn How to Deliver on Promise of Data to Transform Achievement at NSBA T+L Preconference Workshop: Presenters From TERC Share
Process for Using the Right Data at the Right Time to
Improve Schools October 6, 2009
As a new principal in an urban
school on the north side of Pittsburgh, I look to this
process as a tool to
improve teaching and
learning together, collaboratively.
NNSTOY defines teacher leadership as «the
process by which highly effective educators take on roles at the classroom,
school, district, state, or national levels in order to advance the profession,
improve educator effectiveness, and / or increase access to great teaching and
learning for all students.»
Great
schools would focus on the
process of
learning; using coaching, reflection and collaborative CPD to self -
improve.
This summit is a unique opportunity for
school teams to kick - start the
process of remaking their master schedule to dramatically
improve learning.
Graham is the author of Writing Next: Effective Strategies to
Improve Writing of Adolescents in Middle and High
School, Handbook of Writing Research, Handbook of
Learning Disabilities, Writing Better, Making the Writing
Process Work, Best Practices in Writing Instruction, and more than 135 articles.
Enhancing this
process with technology can provide a clear picture of reality in your
school system and accelerate your goal of
improving teaching and
learning in your
school district.
the internal and external forces that impact the teaching and
learning process in their districts /
schools, the specific barriers to effective teaching and
learning, and the
school leadership practices that have the potential to overcome these barriers and
improve academic achievement for all students
Because of the way the
learning process was structured, principals in the districts we studied were also significantly more likely to find
school visits, principals» networks, professional reading, and research helpful to
improving their practice.
This highly collaborative
process has been successful in
improving student
learning in many
schools.
Breakthrough Principals leads readers through these
processes step by step, drawing on case studies to illuminate how real principals have approached common problems, and providing practical guidance and tools that principals and teams can use to build a shared vision while increasing the quality of teaching and
learning;
improving school culture; attracting and supporting high - performing teachers; and involving parents and community to help students achieve.
Governments must decide how the commissioning
process will be managed to ensure that organizations selected to run public
schools have strong managerial capacity, the right leadership, and sound teaching and
learning strategies that will ultimately result in
improved educational quality.
Laura Flaxman analyzes student achievement during the conversion
process while Jay Feldman and Lisette López look at the ways in which conversion
schools find professional development opportunites that lead to
improved teaching and
learning.
Improving Leader Assessment Assessing
Learning - Centered Leadership: Connections to Research, Professional Standards, and Current Practices,
Learning Sciences Institute, Vanderbilt University, 2007 Assessing the Effectiveness of
School Leaders: New Directions and New
Processes, A Wallace Perspective, 2009 Leveraging Leadership Development through Principal Evaluation, National Association of State Boards of Education, 2008 Purposes, Uses, and Practices of Leadership Assessment in Education, Center for the Study of Teaching Policy, University of Washington, 2006 VAL - ED, Discovery Education Assessment (www.discoveryeducation.com /)
With the CSUSA Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum at its core, the Charter
Schools USA Educational Model provides the
process for
improving student
learning and academic achievement.
Instructional rounds offer a low - cost, high impact, sustainable
learning process focused on
improving instruction across the
school.
Jane became the head of Self - Review and Accreditation in 2012 with responsibility for supporting
schools to use the IEYC / IPC and IMYC Self - Review
Process to
improve learning for learners, teachers, leaders and the community.
Rallis and MacMullen (2000) describe the inquiry - minded
school as one that «recognize (s) that
improving teaching and
learning is an intentional and ongoing
process.»
In doing so, she gained valuable feedback from other teachers, modeled her own professional thinking and
learning process to neophyte teacher researchers, and directly impacted student
learning through her focus on
improving the after
school reading intervention program.
By contrast, looking at student achievement results in conjunction with the context of the
school and the
processes that create the results gives teachers and administrators important information about what they need to do to
improve learning for all students.