Sentences with phrase «than a punitive school»

Our additional focus on positive referrals (Commendations) supports a positive rather than a punitive school environment.

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«This review provides the opportunity to ensure that issues around the redeployment of the school workforce rather than redundancy, tight fiscal accountability rather than cheque book management, and the fair and equitable treatment of employees rather than subjective and punitive management are addressed.»

The law also comes across as punitive rather than supportive, because of the sanctions involved for schools that fail to show adequate yearly progress, he said.

Efforts to keep children from dropping out of school must begin in the middle grades, a new report advises, and should include school - based reforms that enhance achievement, promote self - esteem, and provide personalized, rather than punitive, discipline.

A study from the Consortium of Policy Research in Education (CPRE) of Philadelphia schools after the reform found that schools using positive rather than punitive disciplinary measures had more faculty cohesion, better teacher morale, and served higher socioeconomic status students than schools not complying with the reform.

In creating its name, the Legislature indicated that the new agency should take a less dictatorial and punitive approach to school improvement than the federal government prescribed during the past decade under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Nowhere has school reform been more prevalent than Florida, where students have watched a punitive group of legislators push a choice agenda.

«If TCAP was used as a diagnostic tool, rather than as a punitive measure, our schools would not be in the absurd position of deciding whether to send students home without report cards or send home grades that may change once the state chooses to release the scores,» the TEA president said.

In Phase One, we will introduce our RP / SEL model to three schools and work intensively with them to improve the model, identify best practices, and create tools to support schools in using these best practices to create equitable school cultures based on restorative approaches rather than punitive ones.

The majority of BME teachers did not feel positive about the appraisal system: only 30 % of BME teachers working in primary school and 23 % of BME teachers working in secondary school agreed the appraisal system is «supportive rather than punitive.»

In Phase One, we will introduce our RP / SEL model to three schools and work intensively with them to improve the model, identify best practices, and create tools to support schools in using these best practices to create school cultures based on restorative approaches rather than punitive ones.

relying on an unnecessarily punitive and counterproductive management style that is intended to create a climate of fear, rather than collaboration, in our city schools.»

Vos said the sanctions for D - rated schools should include things like more teacher training, rather than punitive measures.

Although other districts have sought help from businesses, Hayward's combination of engaging business and law enforcement while remaining positive, rather than punitive, is unusual, said Hedy Chang, director of Attendance Works, a national initiative that promotes partnerships to boost school attendance.

Rather than turn schools into punitive, zero - tolerance environments, the union is joining with community members to demand social workers, counselors, nurses, and other resources to support students who are facing challenges and trauma outside school.

«The key is ensuring policy makers and schools take a supportive rather than punitive framework,» Hedy told participants.

Central to school - based RJ is the ability to respond to wrong - doing in a positive rather than punitive way.

But achieving this goal will take more than naive slogans or punitive measures levied against teacher preparation programs that do not successfully persuade graduates to teach in these schools.

The Union supports a model of school improvement and accountability which is based around professional dialogue, and that is supportive and developmental, rather than one which is intrusive and punitive.

And teachers have reported using SEL skills in challenging circumstances — for example, when a school is facing budget cuts or a student is acting out — to regulate and guide their own emotions in a constructive rather than punitive or destructive direction.