Sentences with phrase «wide focuses on student achievement»

District - wide focuses on student achievement and the quality of instruction.

The conditions making the greatest positive contribution to the principals «sense of efficacy were, in order, a District - wide focus on student achievement and instruction, Job - embedded professional development for teachers, Investment in both school - and district - level instructional leadership, and District personnel policies.

The conditions cited most frequently (by a third or more of the sample) as negative influences on efficacy were District - wide focus on student achievement and instruction, Job - embedded professional development, and District personnel policies.

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They have a strong focus on continual improvement, often with explicit school - wide goals for improving current school practices and levels of student achievement».

Instructional improvement requires a school - wide focus on goals and expectations for student achievement.

for (Grades K - 5) Leading for Learning in the Common Core: Keys to Improving Student Achievement via a School Wide Focus on Academic Literacy

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

As a school leader Daneen's strengths were uniting people around a student centered vision and creating school wide systems and structures focused on improving adult practices that in turn increase student achievement.

Facilitating the creation of a school - wide unified shared vision and plan focusing on student engagement and achievement through the HOT Schools Approach

Which is what both Cut the Gap in Half does (by setting lower levels for districts improving proficiency for minority students versus white and Asian peers), and No Child waiver gambit tacitly endorses (by allowing states to only focus on the worst five percent of school districts and at least ten percent of districts with wide achievement gaps).