Sentences with phrase «whole school achievement»

For whole school achievement to take hold and be sustained, principals have to know literacy and teachers have to be leaders.

The data also shows primary school results as a whole are improving, with the same percentage reaching new higher standards for whole school achievement.

Not exact matches

We create, develop and deliver programmes and initiatives that improve health, attendance, academic achievement and raise whole - school standards, equipping all young people with skills for life.

All the arguments levelled in the US are the same ones we dealt with — and now that our work has been independently evaluated we are proving that a whole school approach to educating children about food, where it comes from, how its produced, and cooked is a more effective way of reducing obesity, but also increasing pupil attainment and achievement.

Byrne Creek Secondary School was the 2012 winner of the ASCD Whole Child Award that recognizes schools that move beyond a narrow focus on academic achievement to take action for the whole cWhole Child Award that recognizes schools that move beyond a narrow focus on academic achievement to take action for the whole cwhole child.

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Cause nothing can motivate us better than knowing our skills, achievements and dynamics are out there for the whole world to see, so potential employers, organizations and schools can explore our individual competencies, hands - on expertise, talents, leadership skills and experience.

A teacher's contribution to a school's community, as assessed by the principal, was worth 10 percent of the overall evaluation score, while the final 5 percent was based on a measure of the value - added to student achievement for the school as a whole.

The education marketplace is crowded with competing «whole school reform» models, such as Success for All, Accelerated Schools, and Core Knowledge, all promising remarkable gains in student achievement, especially among disadvantaged students.

Schools realize the importance of SEL and / or character for their broader purposes of developing the whole student, fostering academic achievement, promoting positive behavior, and creating a positive culture and climate for learning.

These «whole school» models appear to offer the kind of dedication to high achievement, as well as reinforcement from similarly focused peers, that serve students with exceptional abilities well.

Nonprofit and for - profit organizations today are peddling dozens of «whole school» designs intended to improve student achievement.

In fact, one school that discontinued the program saw the strongest achievement gains, and the final school was shut down for a whole host of reasons having nothing to do with SO1.

NCLB, while broadening awareness of the achievement gap, simultaneously narrowed the purpose of our nation's schools, boiling the whole endeavor down to the incremental movement of testing numbers as an attempt to say something about student literacy and numeracy.

The entire school reform movement is predicated on a hypothesis: Boosting student achievement, as measured by standardized tests, will enable greater prosperity, both for individuals and for the country as a whole.

New Teacher Placement, Retention Can Exacerbate Achievement Gaps Education Week, July 18, 2012 «Marty West, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, said the results point to the need for districts to take a closer look at who they keep and lose both in individual schools and the district as a whole.

EFFECT ON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS The previous portions of our study investigated the impact of private competition on student achievement in the educational system as a whole.

It was implemented by the Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE), a San Francisco nonprofit organization that is a national leader of whole - school implementation of QT.

We know from those studies that a handful of programs as a whole worsened achievement but improved graduation rates (a set of Texas's charter schools, for example).

Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE)-- The nonprofit organization responsible for implementing the Quiet Time program at Visitacion Valley Middle School; specializes in high - impact, whole - school transformation through meditation - based stress - reduction and readiness - to - learn prSchool; specializes in high - impact, whole - school transformation through meditation - based stress - reduction and readiness - to - learn prschool transformation through meditation - based stress - reduction and readiness - to - learn programs

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

Working in partnership with established school partners with a successful track record in using Achievement for All programmes to support student progress and whole school improvement, the Trust's activities will be informed by a deep - rooted mission and set of aims that will drive school improvement, develop professionals, improve outcomes for children and young people as well as enhancing inclusion and social mobility.

«[We] came out quite convinced,» report co-author Jeannie Oakes said by phone, «that not only community schools as a whole, but [their] components all made a positive difference in things like student achievement, attendance, behavior and graduation rates.»

It will also explore whether Higher Achievement's new cost - efficient, whole - school model (which serves only children in a middle school feeder system) can achieve the same types of results as its traditional «magnet model.»

The sad truth, however, is that the whole achievement - gap enterprise has been bad for schooling, bad for most children, and bad for the nation.

Effective remedies to improve instruction, learning and school climate (including, e.g., decreases in bullying and harassment, use of exclusionary discipline practices, use of police in schools, and student referrals to law enforcement) for students enrolled are implemented in any school where the school as a whole, or any subgroup of students, has not met the annual achievement and graduation targets or where achievement gaps persist.

We create, develop and deliver programmes and initiatives that improve health, attendance, academic achievement and raise whole - school standards, equipping all young people with skills for life.

This means early childhood education for all children, funding all schools so they can better serve those with special educational needs, access to health and well - being services for all children in all schools, and a national curriculum that insists that schools focus on the whole child rather than narrow academic achievement.

Of 24 whole - school reform designs, AIR found that only three had «strong» positive effects on student achievement: Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, and Success for All, none of which were NAS designs.

Students in KIPP schools may be surrounded by classmates who are, on the whole, more supportive of academic achievement than peers in traditional public schools with similar poverty rates.

Taken as a whole, our results suggest that school transitions lower student achievement but that attending middle schools in particular has adverse consequences for American students.

But the estimated effects on achievement of adding 30 days to the school year are tightly clustered around the 0.10 estimate for the nation as a whole.

Several promising «whole school reform» models, such as «Modern Red Schoolhouse» and «Atlas Schools,» both the products of intense R&D efforts, have been placed on the market, but thus far their record in boosting student achievement has been pretty mixed.

Assessment data is used to trigger subject intervention (subject teacher / subject leader) and whole school intervention (raising achievement managers / SLT).

RAISEup TexasTM (Research - Validated Approach to Instruction for Secondary Excellence in Texas) is a targeted, whole - school approach to improving student achievement in middle school.

Externally developed research - based programs and programs that focused on whole school reform were related to greater achievement gains than locally developed programs and innovations composed of various pull - out programs.

Title I was created to help these schools better serve their students by providing school - wide services and whole school reforms tied to raising student achievement, such hiring additional teachers and classroom aides; improving curriculum; enhancing parent involvement; or extending learning time for students who need extra help.

Before enrolling in KIPP, typical students had lower achievement levels than both the average in the elementary school they attended and the average in the district as a whole.

In a multiple - regression analysis, fractions and whole - number division were the only two early math concepts that had a significant correlation with students» overall mathematics achievement in high school in both countries.2

In addition to finding that knowledge of fractions and whole - number division were better predictors of high school math achievement than whole - number addition, subtraction, or multiplication, the study also discovered that knowledge of fraction and whole - number division had a stronger relation to overall math achievement than family income level did.

«Among the many excellent schools in Rhode Island, these 17 schools have demonstrated high achievement for the school as a whole and for all student groups.

Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award is designed to recognize schools that that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole cWhole Child Award is designed to recognize schools that that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole cwhole child.

The Whole Child, Whole Person Summit will raise awareness for the need for education systems and schools to use a different methodology that expands the definition of academic achievement beyond content mastery and test scores.

The Learning Commons has the potential to drive the changes needed to bring schools into the future, improve student achievement, and thus sustain whole school improvement.

ASCD believes this next - generation approach to school accountability is essential to promoting a whole child approach to education, enhancing understanding of student progress, and ensuring that no single indicator of student achievement defines success.

This award acknowledges those schools that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child, making sure each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

This annual award recognizes schools that have moved beyond a narrow focus on academic achievement to take action for the whole child, creating learners who are knowledgeable, emotionally and physically healthy, civically active, artistically engaged, prepared for economic self - sufficiency, and ready for the world beyond formal schooling.

A whole - school approach to raising the achievement of African Caribbean youth.

How its used to grade schools: In its new School Performance Reports, the state is now using the SGP as a measure for student achievement in a school as a whole, in addition to the standard proficiency rates that have been publicized for more a dSchool Performance Reports, the state is now using the SGP as a measure for student achievement in a school as a whole, in addition to the standard proficiency rates that have been publicized for more a dschool as a whole, in addition to the standard proficiency rates that have been publicized for more a decade.

Joe Crawford, former assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in Freeport, Illinois, told me that during five years in which each school and the district as a whole used one - page plans, student achievement improved significantly.