Sentences with phrase «system focused on student»

I submit we would have an education system focused on student learning.

This resource is designed to guide administrators as they develop indicator systems focused on students» college readiness.

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While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

Holding a summit to tackle the tough issues of food insecurity, exploitation of food workers, and food waste at the opulent Ritz Carlton in San Francisco provoked an interesting contrast, but the collection of industry, NGOs, media and students in attendance were indifferent to their surroundings and intently focused on improving the world's food system.

Implement an advisory system to focus on social and emotional learning and to help students find faculty advocates.

They remain focused on grades even on low - stakes assignments and they game the system even when assignments allowed for student choice and voice.

I am glad the show is tackling an entire school system, rather than only focusing on the much - easier - to - mold - and - entertain pre-school and elementary school students.

Principals say the new lunch system has reduced misbehavior and helped students focus on eating.

«The Regents and I are focused on providing greater equity for students throughout the entire education system,» Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa said.

«While the UFT focuses on political stunts and lobbying to keep bad teachers in the classroom, the mayor, governor, and State Education Department are working collaboratively to implement a rigorous teacher evaluation system that will help ensure our students have the best teachers,» she said in a statement.

«In a typical 25 - person graduate class of physics students at a major research institution, perhaps two or three might be focusing on the physics of living systems.»

The report details an accreditation system that has been in development for two years, which will certify training programs that focus on scientifically validated treatments and instruct their students in the scientific method.

Stephens said that the ability to apply knowledge to real - world situations is missing in many students — an apparent consequence of relaxed standards in the American educational system and a focus in the classroom on passing standardized tests, he said.

According to the report, most large - scale data systems that include information on undergraduate students are built to track students in a pipeline model, focusing primarily on full - time or first - time students.

Instead of emphasizing the aesthetic benefits of Spinning, like great glutes or shapely legs, Carson focuses more on what it does for her students cardiovascular systems, muscles, and metabolisms.

But these results at least indicate that accountability systems can help to focus attention on poor and minority students whose needs have been ignored or neglected.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Fulton's approach is a useful example because she has focused on creating a teacher evaluation system that models the structures and processes that comprise «best practices» for student evaluations.

OECD Director of Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher says Indigenous students face tough challenges in most education systems, but analysis of outcomes in Canada, New Zealand and Queensland, Australia reveals sustained improvements have been achieved through focusing on several or all of six areas.

Instead the system requires students to rote learn and move on while teaching staff focus on data collection and admin rather than people.

Focusing exclusively on one side of the balance sheet is a highly misleading tactic we're used to seeing from those who'd rather pump money into a system than have it follow individual students.

Through this experience students were able to develop a sense of how digital systems work and how to solve problems through programming, rather than only focusing on how to use them.

My class, which is called Sports for the Mind (SFTM), is a learning space built into Quest schools in which students engage with project - based learning assignments that are focused on design thinking and systems thinking.

MyTeachingPartner - Secondary is a Web - mediated professional - development system focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom.

On the other hand, when schools can achieve substantial «improvements» by focusing on a relatively small group of students, they face a strong incentive to game the systeOn the other hand, when schools can achieve substantial «improvements» by focusing on a relatively small group of students, they face a strong incentive to game the systeon a relatively small group of students, they face a strong incentive to game the system.

Classroom applications of this theory focus on systems that reward students for various behaviors or incremental achievements.

And under ESSA, states appear to be making their accountability systems both clearer and fairer: clearer by using A — F grades, five - star ratings, and the like; and fairer by focusing much more heavily on student - level growth, which credits schools for the progress that all kids make while under their tutelage.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

How Shanghai Does It: Insights and Lessons from the Highest - Ranking Education System in the World says teachers are supported with ongoing professional development which is often collaborative in nature and focused on improving instruction, and a framework of clear learning standards, regular student assessment and well - aligned curriculum.

Others have suggested leaving a government - operated school system intact, but putting different people — mayors, [3] appointed boards, or state officials [4]-- in charge and using performance standards to focus the attention of educators on student learning, not distracting rules.

If you're looking for a new Learning Management System (LMS), there will be lots of different features you will want to focus on, to see how they perform for your company and also what sort of eLearning experience they will give your students.

Several principals who use PBIS told Education World that they were elated to see that when student behavior improved under the system and teachers had more time to focus on instruction, academic performance shot up as well.

Maarit Rossi in Finland wonders if all classrooms might need a common «global curriculum,» and Carl Hooker in the United States writes, «if we were starting the American school system from scratch today, knowing what skills our students will need, we could change the subjects and not base them on what big - time publishers want us to focus on with our students.»

Despite the need to keep the focus on academic achievement, the Teacher Advancement Program acknowledges that research has identified pedagogical methods that help students learn, so it includes evaluation of classroom skills as part of its teacher compensation system.

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.

It would be great to see Microsoft focus on three things that will transform our education system into a more student - centered one.

Current state tests were missing several important opportunities — they often did not measure the full range of what students should know, focusing on easier skills and ignoring hard - to - measure standards, and most states did not include writing in their assessment systems (to name just a few of the issues with the current market of tests).

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.

By undercutting these reform strategies and presenting evidence on the powerful influence of social class on student achievement, Rothstein hopes to convince us that we can expect little from focusing on reform within the school system.

Online and blended learning have the potential to dramatically transform our education system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - centric one.

Because the central idea is to use labor relations to focus on student achievement rather than on adult privileges, the core of the quality diamond is a system of standards and indicators.

If your state really values whether or not students are proficient in reading and math, there should be a really strong focus on reading and math in your accountability system.

Dr. Lombardi's strengths as principal at Garza ECHS include the development of a positive, collaborative school culture focused on college success, the academic empowerment of students, the implementation of a common instructional framework, and the enactment of systems - thinking for discipline, grading, scheduling and interventions.

Even though most education policy debates have focused on school quality and student achievement, most research on the economic impact of schooling has focused narrowly on the number of years students remain in the educational system.

In Massachusetts, a statewide system divides students into three grade chunks (from first grade all the way up to 12th) and focuses on children's likelihood of achieving progressive academic targets — all of which are separately considered indicators for high school graduation but also have more immediate relevance.

Seventy per cent think that the government should rebalance the education system to focus more on student wellbeing.

Online learning holds the potential to create a student - centered educational system that can personalize affordably for students» different learning needs at different times — a key to allowing all students to maximize their success — if policy moves away from regulating inputs and toward focusing on individual student outcomes and other conditions are put in place.

YoungMinds stated that the survey results suggest that the current education system is «fundamentally unbalanced», with an «over-emphasis on exams and too little focus on student mental health».

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

«Dr. Effie Jones was a stellar career educator, who used her considerable talents to maximize opportunities and successes for students and emerging system leaders, with a focus on significantly augmenting the senior leadership pool with more woman and people of color,» Sherman said.