Sentences with phrase «sure schools adopt»

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Among the remedies is to end the practice at many schools of blocking creativity - enabling websites, to make sure there's a computer maintenance staff on hand (or to allow tech - savvy students to do the troubleshooting), and to regulate telecommunications companies so they adopt open - Internet rules when it comes to low - income consumers.

«As a school, we have, from the very beginning, been really focused on making sure that if we're going to adopt a practice, if we're going to make some sort of change, that there is good foundation for that and we are confident it's going to have a positive outcome for the students, not just changing for the sake of it.»

An effective principal also makes sure that notion of academic success for all gets picked up by the faculty and underpins what researchers at the University of Washington describe as a schoolwide learning improvement agenda that focuses on goals for student progress.7 One middle school teacher described what adopting the vision meant for her.

In exchange for relief, the administration is requiring a quid pro quo: States must adopt changes that include meaningful teacher and principal evaluation systems, make sure all students are ready for college or careers, upgrade academic standards and lift up their lowest - performing schools.

There is also a school - wide social worker and every teacher «adopts» two or three seniors, according to McKoy, to make sure they make it to graduation.

How can educators be sure that what they teach is strongly aligned to the specific standards that their district or school has adopted?

In addition, since implementation is so important to success, decision makers adopting «less proven» models must make a strong commitment to making sure the model works in their school or district.

School board member training is the only way to make sure that your board has these needed skills: collaboration skills and the understanding and skills to develop and adopt reform policies and a theory of action.

Heartland and its funders are not so delusional that they can imagine getting their curriculum adopted on any significant scale (among climate denialist private schools and home schoolers, sure, but such people are already not teaching the science), so its primary purpose is as a tool to make the teaching of climate science seem so controversial that it's best to just drop the subject entirely.