Sentences with phrase «system of accountability centered»

Fort Wayne Community Schools... is calling on lawmakers to re-evaluate the state's system of accountability centered on test scores.

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«The judicial process, the judicial system of Kenya and the election laws themselves make full and adequate provision for accountability in this election,» said Kerry, an election observer for the Carter Center.

Computer scientists from the Center for IT Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) have now developed a matching application for the current version of the Android smartphone operating system, allowing for a more precise monitoring of malicious apps.

Accountability systems should measure and reflect this broader vision of learning by using a framework of indicators for school success centered on academic outcomes, opportunity to learn, and engagement and support.

Candidate Impact Through Partnership: How District Central Offices Can Foster Principals» Development as Effective Instructional Leaders Through Systems of Support, Development, and Accountability Friday, April 14, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., Gutman Conference Center, Area 3

Her work centers around five essential school priorities: • Supporting school leadership • Using data transparently for accountability • Coordinating a multitier system of support • Providing embedded professional development based on best practices • Engaging parents and families This free one - hour webinar is sponsored by Learning Ally, a national nonprofit providing resources, training, and technology for teachers and schools; and 80,000 human - voiced audiobooks for students with learning & visual disabilities.

Yet Ed Trust, while acknowledging the importance of growth, remains wedded to accountability systems with gap - closing and proficiency rates at their center.

Brian has been involved with creating policies, models, and criteria for promoting validity, reliability, and credibility in both assessments and accountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisoaccountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical AdvisoAccountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisoaccountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisory Committees.

Education Week highlighted the International Association for K - 12 Online Learning's (iNACOL) recent report on six policy recommendations for states to take advantage of opportunities under ESSA to «redefine student success:» Rethink accountability for continuous improvement; Redesign systems of assessments to align with student - centered learning; Transform systems...

Since joining the Center in July 2012, she has worked with several states to articulate coherent, defensible theories of action aligned to state goals and policy initiatives, and has developed user - friendly resources that support the evaluation and refinement of educator evaluation and school accountability systems.

While there are a number of provisions in ESSA that states can leverage to build innovative assessments and accountability systems to support student - centered, personalized learning, many states may not know where to begin.

Providing teachers with tools for ensuring task validity along with expert task reviews and engaging educators in cross-district sessions on scoring student work are two ways of addressing technical quality within a more student - centered accountability system.

This 2009 report, written by Dana Brinson and Lauren Morando Rhim for the Center on Innovation and Improvement, provides five brief profiles of schools that dramatically improved student performance and successfully restructured under federal accountability systems.

Similarly, our extensive evaluation and measurement expertise along with a thorough understanding of policy and practical contexts allows Center for Assessment professionals to help our clients design and successfully implement effective and technically - defensible accountability systems.

For instance, university researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral outcomes.52

While much of the current focus on teacher evaluation systems is centered on accountability, many have argued that it is equally, if not more, important to design and use evaluation systems to inform professional development efforts and improve student learning.

As the Center on Education Policy noted in its recent survey of states granted waivers under the gambit, there is already fears that they will have scotch the accountability systems they put in place after receiving the waivers and start all over again under a new version of the federal education law.

As the system's second - in - command, he will oversee teaching, learning and accountability, which is where much of his experience at the Education Department has been centered.

She currently supports the Texas Comprehensive Center's work on Texas» Accountability System for Educator Preparation and is the data collection and instrument development task lead for a randomized control trial examining the impact of National Board Certified Teachers on student outcomes.

The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education has produced a series of publications that outline how states and districts can craft new, supports - based accountability systems that give students a more central role...

We leverage the resources available from a range of federal networks, including the Regional Educational Laboratories, Equity Assistance Centers, and our partner comprehensive centers, to provide the most up - to - date information about states» standards, assessment, and accountability systems.

WASHINGTON, DC — As states begin to submit accountability and improvement systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center, today outlined steps that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could take to continue to close high school graduation gaps between white students and students of color, students from low - income families, and other traditionally underserved groups of students.

Prior to joining the Center, Chris was Associate Superintendent for Assessment and Accountability at the Georgia Department of Education, where he was responsible for the development and administration of the state's K - 12 testing program and accountabAccountability at the Georgia Department of Education, where he was responsible for the development and administration of the state's K - 12 testing program and accountabilityaccountability systems.

What will make or break today's accountability systems is whether policymakers dig down into the data or make the mistake of NCLB by drawing quick conclusions about interventions or sanctions, says Ben DeGrow, director of education policy for Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

This report, published jointly by the Learning Policy Institute and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, documents the progress of these pioneering states to transform their systems of accountability in order to provide more meaningful learning opportunities for all students.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

Susan Lyons's work centers on promoting and evaluating the quality of assessment and accountability systems.

Joseph Martineau joined the Center as a Senior Associate in January 2014, and has led and contributed to work on growth models, prepared for and analyzed the effects of interruptions of online testing, developed and improved testing and accountability systems, measured achievement gaps, conducted standard setting, evaluated test security, designed comprehensive assessment systems, conceptualized high school assessment under ESSA, designed educator certification testing, and implemented educator evaluation systems.

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Created a new system of inventory keeping that gave greater accountability for multi-million dollar equipment going to and from work centers