Sentences with phrase «toward school decisions»

Involving parents and caregivers on advisory committees to contribute toward school decisions and goals.

Not exact matches

My parents faced a big decision: Should they keep me in the same school and allow my challenges to direct me toward a special education program?

The NCAA when hamstrung by red tape has its share of issues, but given the decision - making in the past, the idea of the NCAA and schools riding a rocket docket toward substantive change seems fraught with peril as well.

Using Podio as our interactive platform will allow us to make decisions and discuss our motivations as we — acting as our «characters» in this fictional school district — make our way toward successful school breakfast implementation.

With this huge shift toward online education, it's no wonder that students are feeling savvier online and are better equipped to use the internet as a tool for their back - to - school fashion decisions.

Witness her decision to endorse and campaign for Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose electoral showing suffered this year from antipathy toward him among liberals, and who Mark - Viverito herself had sharply criticized a few months earlier for his positions on taxes, charter schools and the minimum wage.

Without good numbers to measure and compare these decisions, however, politicians and school board members may gravitate toward easier - to - measure line items like computers and tablets that parents and community members can actually see in their children's hands.

WASHINGTON — A decision by the Federal Communications Commission to allow telephone companies to transmit television programs is a major step toward providing new telecommunications services to schools, according to industry spokesmen.

New York and Texas see a connection between their early decisions to raise expectations for public schools and the progress their students have made toward closing gaps in academic achievement.

The decision noted that IDEA requires only that a school district demonstrate progress toward meeting the goals of an IEP, rather than assuring that progress can be generalized in the home and other environments, and thus the district was not responsible for the costs of a residential placement.

The first step toward making your school a community hub is a district - level decision.

Recommendations for states, districts, and individual schools include improved teacher training, support for e-learning and virtual schools, stronger technology leadership, a move toward more digital content and away from reliance on textbooks, better use of broadband, and integration of data systems for such uses as online testing, understanding relationships between decisions, allocation of resources and student achievement, and tailoring instruction to individual students.

However, dissemination of accurate information about the responsibilities of charter schools toward students with disabilities is critical to helping parents make informed decisions.

But we observed tensions in some schools between traditional norms of decision - making (reliance on established expertise) and the recent move toward decisions informed by evidence.

Our evidence shows a trend toward increasing the array of data that district and school personnel consult in making decisions.

They enrolled us in Catholic school, and that decision made all the difference — not just in my education, but in my attitudes toward education.

Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the principal «s role.

Distinguishing the earlier Brady decision, the court noted that funds were paid to the transportation system administered by the board of education, not directly to individual schools, and benefits flowed «toward the safety and welfare of elementary age school children and not into the accounts of non-public schools.»

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Are some individual schools making the decision to count benchmark test results toward final grades?

Rating: 3 - Leaders and staff align their decisions and actions toward continuous improvement to achieve the school's purpose.

When I hear their complaints, and I hear it often having a family of teachers on all sides of me, it usually has to do with administrative decisions and parent attitudes toward teachers / schooling.

Leaders and staff align their decisions and actions toward continuous improvement to achieve the school's purpose.

Advocates for private - school vouchers this week cheered the Supreme Court's decision that the state of Missouri may not deny a playground resurfacing grant to a church, calling the decision a first step toward an end to state bans on using public money to pay tuition at parochial schools.

The 74, a noted DPE oriented publication started by Campbell Brown, said that when first appointed he looked like a strange choice then continued, «But since he stepped into the role of superintendent in 2013, Ferebee has developed stronger relationships between traditional district and charter schools, grown the city's network of innovation schools, and worked toward giving principals more decision - making power.»

Whether a school system has newly appointed leadership or is deciding whether to implement a new technology initiative, a clear and concise strategic plan helps guide decisions and ensures energy is directed toward advancing the priorities of the community.

It probably couldn't have happened but for the decision to fire every employee of the local school system after Hurricane Katrina, a move that has embittered many of the city's veteran educators toward everything that's followed.

But we believe that the practices that we have honed in our AUSL - managed schools — around school culture and climate, data - driven decision - making, behavior management, teacher development — are applicable in some way to all schools and districts wanting to work toward excellence.

The Economic Opportunity Institute (EOI) undertook the first survey of the state's 296 districts in order to document the extent of school district involvement in early education, identify promising models, and help shape policy decisions about moving toward universal preschool and full - day kindergarten.This report presents an overview of the survey's findings.

Yet after years of progress toward school desegregation, largely achieved through busing and other court - ordered remedies, the combination of white flight from urban public school districts and a series of Supreme Court decisions limiting the use of desegregation strategies have resulted in a widespread pattern of resegregation.

RALEIGH, NC (October 18, 2017)-- In a statement released today, the Board of Directors of the Public School Forum of North Carolina said the decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was wrong and urged Congress to pursue a path toward...

That's why The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building on their work to foster a network of test beds across the nation that will: focus on helping students achieve desired learning outcomes by developing personalized learning products and accelerating their adoption; put teachers and school decision - makers at the center of the shift toward personalized learning; lower risks and barriers to all parties of adopting new, potentially transformative products; and encourage the rapid development of a healthy, transparent market for highly effective learning technologies.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and other supporters of school choice are hailing a U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday as one more step toward tearing down states» opposition to tuition vouchers for private and religious schools.

Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on July 1, 2013, the Local Control Funding Formula aims to ensure that a higher percentage of state education dollars are directed toward California's highest need students and provides local school districts with more control over spending decisions.

Specifically, performance management strategies can aid schools in effectively using data at the school and classroom levels to improve instruction and learning, monitor progress toward goals, and evaluate the effectiveness of decisions.

School leaders should examine state - level Title I decisions with an eye toward how they will impact your district at a local level as well as for how these decisions provide opportunities for collaboration and consensus building.

Dwyane Wade continues to back up his commitment to the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Monday discussing the $ 200,000 grant he and wife Gabrielle Union have made toward the March 24 «March For Our Lives» in Washington, as well as his decision to extend the Wynwood warehouse - district tribute to the 17 slain in the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland.

And most psychologists have leaned toward specialization in their own past practices, which also discounts their «expertise» as a know - everything generalist and means that for the most part they are little better than laypersons — a few courses in graduate school do not an expert make in substance abuse, domestic violence, parenting capacity (or even what constitutes «good parenting»), child sex abuse, family systems, psychometric testing, infant attachment, personality disorders, child development, breastfeeding, sibling relationships, child education, medical decision - making, communications, marital relations, and so forth.

Hence, speculatively, perhaps certain proximal correlates of rearing in advantaged socioeconomic environments (e.g. more frequent and consistent exposure to supportive parenting practices and parent — child interactions; more frequent home and school exposures to adult modeling of adaptive decision - making) favorably influence — and in their absence, impede — the assembly and long - term functionality of brain systems supporting top - down or regulatory control functions that, in turn, bias individuals toward less impulsive decision - making (Hackman and Farah, 2009; Hackman et al.

«The Selection Committee considers commitment to learning; involvement in school and community; maturity and responsibility; initiative and / or strength of character; and decisions toward higher education,» says Roger Sandford, president of NSAR.