Sentences with phrase «student growth at»

Such evidence is especially important for candidates who come from states that make student growth at least a significant factor of a teacher evaluation (see Goal 3 - B).

GEO Foundation puts a big emphasis on providing the opportunities for student growth at GEO schools.

The report shows evidence of positive indicators in strong student growth at Innovation schools and higher levels of teacher empowerment.

Advocates for this shift cited research showing the importance of teacher quality, though critics argued that measuring student growth at the school level was a fairer and more reliable way to use the statistical tools.

As a condition of Texas» waiver from NCLB requirements — necessary to ensure exemption from unattainable accountability standards and the flexibility of federal funds — USDE had required the state to ensure that student growth at the individual teacher level would be a significant component of teacher appraisals.

Each of these proposed rule revisions reflects conditions imposed by Texas's NCLB waiver — that student growth be measured at the individual teacher level, that student performance on state assessments must be included as a measure of student growth, that the student growth component must be weighted 20 percent in a teacher's evaluation, and that TEA ensure that local school districts using locally - developed appraisal systems use student growth at the individual teacher level.

Finally, the proposed rules require that local districts using locally - developed appraisal systems instead of T - TESS must include the performance of a teacher's students, defined as student growth at the individual teacher level.

The longitudinal nature of MGLS: 2017 data will enable unique insights into student growth at the pre-adolescent and early adolescent stages.

For this study, student growth at a diverse site was measured for the 2016 — 17 school year using Exact Path scale scores.

It's absolutely true that the MSGPs (Median Student Growth Percentiles) lag peers and state expectation, and puts student growth at the bottom quarter or quintile for LA and math.

Though the intentions behind this decision were honorable — to keep states from setting lower expectations for and administering easier tests to low achievers — it has curbed the use of computer - adaptive testing and other strategies that can accurately and validly detect student growth at the high end.

A five - point A to F scale that focused strictly on student growth at a school would greatly enhance the transparency of the accountability system.

Not exact matches

Growth - mindset students, on the other hand, looked at schoolwork as a series of challenges and puzzles to figure out.

At MissionU, if students don't develop the skills they need to land a good job in a high - growth field, then there is no debt to be repaid.

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

Students with a growth mindset, on the other hand, didn't care if their mistakes were revealed to their peers; they saw this as inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, because their goal was to «learn at all times and at all costs.»

Facebook was aimed initially at college students, later aimed at consumers in general, and more recently found a lucrative growth path with businesses.

It's clear that the growth is due to a confluence of factors: Welch's reputation and brand; a pragmatic education based on Welch's well - known dictums; the relatively low $ 39,000 price of the program (Indiana University's Kelley Direct program costs $ 66,000, while the University of North Carolina's MBA@UNC is priced at $ 99,700); and high levels of student satisfaction.

My students at Peking University, for example, are extremely supportive and think very differently about what I do, and I think I have convinced them that as future policymakers, especially in finance and central banking, rather than join the hype that has always accompanied every growth miracle it is their responsibility to be focus on risks and on all the ways things can go wrong.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Yu Kai, General Manager of Tencent Real Estate, said at the launch announcement in December 2016, «With the growth of China's export - oriented economy, with both travellers and students more often going abroad, and with the domestic property market appearing overvalued, we see a significant increase in demand for overseas property.»

It'd be phenomenal to keep that up, but in terms of growth, it's more about people taking action and it's like I really want to measure the results, which is like pretty impossible to do, but at the same time that's why I really like things what we're doing with the student loan debt movement, where people are reporting back with how much student loan debt they're paying off.

Rotman MFin students can play a vital role at the Lab by providing the strategic insights and the financial acumen needed to turn research innovations into high - growth ventures.

My first semester at seminary I was required, along with all of the first year students, to participate in a «spiritual growth group.»

• Strength - based approach: At Crefeld, we celebrate what students do well every day and help develop compensation strategies for areas of growth.

Paul metropolitan area during the 2009 - 2010 school year to a series of five questions about muscle - enhancing behaviors, two healthy (changing eating patterns and exercising more) and three unhealthy (using protein powders or shakes, taking steroids, or employing another muscle - building substance such as creatine, amino acids, HMB, DHEA, or growth hormone), researchers at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University found that almost all students surveyed (90 % of boys, 80 % of girls) reported doing at least 1 behavior with this as the goal, and up to one - third reported the use of unhealthy methods.

Passions are nurtured, ideas are examined, and a structured support system is in place as students navigate the sometimes intense social and emotional experience at this time of growth and change.

Research conducted last year by my former graduate student, David Yeager [now a professor at the University of Texas], on 18,000 students entering ninth grade, shows us that students who took growth - mindset workshops are seeking more challenges.

Our mission is to enhance our students» social and emotional learning, encourage responsible decision - making, foster positive growth and development, and promote respectful relationships in school and the community at large.

We encourage all of families at our school to follow an age - appropriate approach to use of media, in a belief that guarding a young child's acute senses and impressionable mind is essential to the healthy growth of each individual student.

Always the inquisitive student, she thrives on change and growth, and is enthusiastic about slew of hobbies including gardening, cooking, dancing, language, literature, and blogging about this mishmash of interests at ~ ~ myOLIO ~ ~.

New York's Economic State Development agency revealed that it has tapped a $ 50 million fund designed to promote job growth and tourism to pay for an aggressive marketing campaign boosting Cuomo's program to extend free tuition to middle - class students enrolling at public colleges.

As a parent of a NYC public school student and a preschooler attending an early childhood program, I look forward to parent - teacher conferences as one of many vehicles that provides feedback on my children's development, their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies I can employ at home to support their cognitive and social - emotional growth.

Ossining for Fair Funding Communications Director Jessica Vecchiarelli said: «With significant enrollment growth and substantial increases in student needs, we are simply asking that Ossining be put on a path to being funded at the same percentage level as the average district in New York State, at least 80 % of the fully phased - in Foundation Aid.

Almost all of the schools whose students under perform are students at a «bad» school by the other two measures, and experience minimal or negative academic growth from year to year.

Parents work hard to get into the «right» school mostly in the belief that the «right» school will have more students at a similar level of academic development to their child that is also more safe, and has programs and resources that will foster more student growth as a result.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

Standardized test results for the last school year showed slight growth at the state and local levels in both English and math, and a slight narrowing of the gap between black and Hispanic public school students and their white peers.

He advised that each student should factor himself into being part of that future by making personal efforts at growth and development nurtured through education, which he described as the most portent tool for competition in the world...

«When a new substance forms during a chemical reaction, many students think that the atoms and molecules have actually changed into something new, whereas they simply rearranged, that the mass increase of plants is due to minerals in the soil, or that cell division alone accounts for animal growth,» said Cari Herrmann Abell, a senior research associate at Project 2061.

The findings are the result of a huge and challenging field effort: over a three - year period, local students and technicians spent several weeks every month at each site to measure each tree's woody growth rate and the number of small roots that had grown.

Webster has been studying the possibility of growing tissue around nanomaterials since 1998 when he was a graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Nanoscale materials are increasing growth in all of these tissue types,» he says.

The team led by Andreas Plückthun, Director of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich, involving postdoc Rastik Tamaskovic and PhD student Martin Schwill, has now found out why these antibodies merely slow tumor growth rather than killing off the cancer cells.

PhD student Carles Recasens, who will defend his thesis with the results of this study in January, has discovered that «JAK / STAT appears at key time points in the development of the appendage and that it collaborates with Wingless / Wnt, Dpp / BMP and Hedgehog in wing specification and growth.»

A 2011 report issued by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Status of the Geoscience Workforce, argued that based on graduation rates of geoscience graduate students (approximately 1500 per year) and job - growth numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be a U.S. workforce «shortfall» estimated at 30,000 geoscientists by 2018.

A few years ago, Jihye Yun, then a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, found that colon cancer cells whose growth is driven by mutations in the gene KRAS or a less commonly mutated gene, BRAF, make unusually large amounts of a protein that transports glucose across the cell membrane.

According to the Institute of International Education (New York City), the number of foreign students enrolled at U.S. colleges in 2002 - 2003 grew less than 1 percent, following five years in which the annual growth rate was 5 percent.

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

It does, which means that how adult MuSCs normally support muscle growth is not an intrinsic characteristic, but can be changed,» explained Matthew Tierney, a graduate student at SBP and first author of the study.

Numerous scholars have looked at the growth in numbers and importance of foreign graduate students and postdocs in American science in recent decades.