Sentences with phrase «value a school designed»

Parents value a school designed with the goal of making education a more positive, enriching and enjoyable experience for all students.

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But I think there is something very effective about framing character as not about values — I'm not saying that values don't matter — but instead that what schools are good at teaching, and what they're designed to teach, is the skills kids need to do well in life.

As a spokesman for the Florida Education Association noted, «Were schools designed to do this much socialization and values clarification?

Especially as school districts look at implementing Next Generation Science Standards, and researchers are encouraged to do more outreach for broader impact, a better understanding of the mental models of STEM ed and the value of designing an online classroom can be useful.

«Allowing health plans the flexibility to voluntarily cover more services outside the deductible would enhance consumer choice,» says Fendrick, a professor in the U-M Medical School and School of Public Health who heads the Center for Value - Based Insurance Design (V - BID).

THE SOLUTION The Qube worked with the school to design a facility which could be used for a range of activities and provided a «value for money» solution.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

Getting the design right is essential in securing maximum value out of indoor school sports facilities, both for pupils and the local community.»

Design and innovation flourish in school cultures that value dialogue and adult learning.

His interest in the impact of the value of the built environment within society led him to study the connection between the physical design of schools and academic progress.

The value given to art and design in schools and colleges is impacting on choice and provision of art and design qualifications offered for both higher and lower ability students

Parents should, through membership of parent teacher associations and as parent governors, hold the governance and management of the school accountable for the appropriate time, resources, facilities and value given to art and design on the curriculum and in the professional development of its teachers and support staff

«The Educational Value of Field Trips,» by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida, and Daniel H. Bowen, which appeared in the Winter 2014 issue of Education Next, is the first large - scale randomized - control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum, this one in Bentonville, AR.

School management is graded according to whether schools meet «national financial management standards», designed by the money - for - value group.

Sketchbooks are often not viewed as school workbooks by students and this «Contract» between student and Teacher should help them value their work in Art and Design.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

Reporting on the statistics The effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the well ‑ being and workload of art and design teachers.

In that course we were asked to complete an assignment where we defined and explored what we believe the purpose of schooling to be and to design a school that embodied those values.

The partnership between the Design Museum and schools has provided another valuable opportunity for design and technology departments to communicate the value of the subject to parents, students and senior manDesign Museum and schools has provided another valuable opportunity for design and technology departments to communicate the value of the subject to parents, students and senior mandesign and technology departments to communicate the value of the subject to parents, students and senior managers.

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

The research carried out by the RIBA, Better spaces for Learning, helps define and quantify the value of good school design.

Among the successes of these schools were maintaining the core values and design principles, leadership participation, branding, network report cards, and set start - up processes for new schools.

When teachers brought in outside clients to request and evaluate student aquaponics designs, it sent a clear message that student thinking, creativity, communication and learning were valued by the extended school community.

Design a welcoming entry experience that tells a story about your school's values and mission and gives a sense of how to move around the building.

In several states, candidates are also required to pass the School Leaders Licensure Assessment, an exam designed to check whether the applicants hold professionally sanctioned values and attitudes.

«By and large — both in public and independent school education — there is still a tendency to focus on the disciplines separately, and, frankly, there's a lot of value in that,» says Heidi Hayes Jacobs, a highly regarded education consultant, president of Curriculum 21, and author of several influential books on improving K - 12 education, including Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

Sadler and Tai also question the value of college faculty writing textbooks or designing high school courses that cover essentially the same material as introductory college courses.

If the teachers, students, and schools that you are designing your product for do not immediately recognize the value you're creating for them, stop.

Each school offers a unique set of challenges and opportunities, and a good design team can help deliver the best outcomes and value if the rules allow it.

Each school is visited by Fred the Fox (Fuel for School's mascot who stands for the values Feed, Recycle, Educate, Dine) and provided with a range of educational resources designed to improve wellschool is visited by Fred the Fox (Fuel for School's mascot who stands for the values Feed, Recycle, Educate, Dine) and provided with a range of educational resources designed to improve wellSchool's mascot who stands for the values Feed, Recycle, Educate, Dine) and provided with a range of educational resources designed to improve wellbeing.

Further, participants will examine the connection between Design Thinking and Making with the intention of bringing value to school MakerSpaces with the goal of moving beyond MakerSpaces and Making as an isolated location or experience outside of the curriculum.

We designed value - added models to measure teacher and school effectiveness and have produced annual estimates of educators» contributions to achievement in grades 4 - 8 since the 2008 - 2009 school year.

Most schools need to drastically alter their approach to designing the school day, if they are ever to achieve a consensus amongst students that there is genuine value in such things as Ecological sustainability.

If a school wants to develop genuine values in anything, it will have to challenge all the traditional school structures that were designed to only recognise the importance of information and not values.

In a follow - up of two randomized field experiments, a brief values affirmation intervention designed to buffer minority middle schoolers against the threat of negative stereotypes had long - term benefits on college - relevant outcomes.

If the school environment in the inclusive classroom setting were universally designed, then kids could have the intensive instruction that they need without having their label be negatively valued or be the reason they are pulled out of the classroom.

A study by Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida and Daniel H. Bowen, «The Educational Value of Field Trips,» was the first large - scale randomized - control trial designed to measure what students learn from school tours of an art museum.

The program emphasizes school climate, culture, values, leadership, student voice / engagement, and SEL skills development; it is designed for people who are in formal or informal school leadership positions.

Mathematica, a research group that published a 2010 study warning about the use of value - added modeling in high - stakes decisions because of high error rates, was paid more than $ 500,000 to design the value - added model for the Washington, D.C. public schools, according to a DCPS spokesman.

The CPE Briefing Room adds value to the reports found on the CPE public website with content designed exclusively for the use of local school boards and district leadership teams.

We hope that they won't pooh - pooh small innovations like a one - off charter school with a unique design, a teacher evaluation tool that a school district has worked hard to create and implement, or a set of standards that a community has created to reflect its values.

«At the Science Leadership Academy, the framework is universal, but its design allows individual teachers at the school to bring their personal touch to the curriculum they implement, while staying true to the five cove values.»

When designed thoughtfully, schools can be places where students — regardless of race or socioeconomic status — are secure, valued, and can risk real accomplishment; they are places where love and justice thrive.

From this beginning, our approach brings together what we believe to be the three essential principles of effective school improvement — tools and resources designed to inspire and facilitate new and better ways of working, implemented with the support of expert and experienced advisers through a proven and quality assured implementation process that provides leaders and governors with clarity around impact, sustainability and value for money.

When designed thoughtfully, schools can be places where students — regardless of race or socioeconomic status — are secure, valued, and can stretch for significant accomplishment; they are places where love and justice thrive.

The move comes as part of dramatic curriculum reforms designed to improve the value and reduce inflation of top grades, allowing schools, colleges and employers to better differentiate between candidates.

However unattractive this feature may be to some schools, this isn't a matter of bureaucracy or flawed design in the program — it is a matter of mission and values.

The Doctor of Education in Christian Education Leadership is an online program designed to equip educators, parents and pastors with the skills to bring Christian values to education and school leadership.

For some people, the term strategic planning brings to mind a disciplined and thoughtful process that links the values, mission, and goals of a school system with a set of coherent strategies and tasks designed to achieve those goals.

But, as IDRA education associate, Paula Johnson, M.A., explains, IDRA has found that professional development works best when it is ongoing, when it values the teachers themselves and when it is designed for each school's unique context.