Sentences with phrase «students achieve consensus»

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While widespread consensus may be hard to achieve on whether middle schools work for the students enrolled within them, most people can agree on one thing: Regardless of one's zip code, there is a healthy amount of trepidation around middle school and the middle school years.

Most schools need to drastically alter their approach to designing the school day, if they are ever to achieve a consensus amongst students that there is genuine value in such things as Ecological sustainability.

When educators can achieve consensus not only about learning priorities but also about how such priorities are measured and what criteria define successful work, students can stop fixating on the personality at the front of the room and start focusing on the task at hand.

Much depends on the few states that will be able to reach beyond the immediate challenges they face, forge a new consensus on broadly shared prosperity as their state goal, and redesign their whole education system so the vast majority of their students can reach the standards they will need to reach to achieve that goal.

The Efficacy Institute approach is built on three elements: building consensus on clear targets for academic proficiency; building belief among teachers, parents, and children themselves that proficiency standards can be achieved; and then building a continuous stream of feedback from student assessments to drive changes in curriculum and instructional strategy.

In addition, school teams will benefit from time spent identifying specific student learning priorities, building consensus and capacity to achieve these goals, investing in high quality implementation, and spending time examining student outcomes.