One aspect of their research in particular caught our eye: the association of more school time
with improved learning outcomes.
Not exact matches
Beyond its financial goals, UnitedHealth executives outlined a number of programs that tap Optum's data and apply machine
learning to
improve patient engagement and
outcomes with both commercial employer members and Medicare enrollees.
The company also has new programs to use Optum's data and apply machine
learning to
improve patient engagement and
outcomes with its enrolled customers.
Some of the many benefits a Postpartum Doula provides for you and your baby include: Better infant care skills Positive newborn characteristics Breastfeeding skills
improve A healthy set of coping skills and strategies Relief from postpartum depression More restful sleep duration and quality Education and support services for a smooth transition home A more content baby
Improved infant growth translates into increased confidence A content baby
with an easier temperament Education for you to gain greater self - confidence Referrals to competent, appropriate professionals and support groups when necessary The benefits of skin to skin contact Breastfeeding success Lessen the severity and duration of postpartum depression
Improved birth
outcomes Decrease risk of abuse Families
with disabilities can also benefit greatly by
learning special skills specific to their situation Families experiencing loss often find relief through our Doula services
Improved bonding between parent and child.
Working together
with parents, teachers, community members and elected officials, they want to empower school communities to reinvent themselves as community «hubs» that can provide services that efficiently and effectively reduce barriers to
learning and
improve student
outcomes.
«It will be valuable to
learn whether improvements in earnings by families
with pregnant women,
improved maternal nutrition or reduced maternal stress — all factors associated
with higher birth weight — also translate to better cognitive
outcomes in childhood,» said Figlio, IPR faculty fellow and Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy and of Economics at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.
«That could well be so,» says von Kriegstein, «but we don't know how much the
learning outcomes improve with the addition of more senses.
«We need to discover how to make these complex surgeries faster and easier; in doing so, it will be important to
learn as much as possible so that surgeons can tailor the surgical repair to the patient and balance upfront surgical risks
with improved long - term
outcomes,» concluded Dr. Hawkins.
«More important, by
learning to communicate better
with patients, they could also increase patient satisfaction,
improve compliance rates and thus have better biologic
outcomes.»
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Microlearning can
improve outcomes, if used
with formative assessments — this is the basic idea behind many adaptive
learning systems.
Add to this the impact, such as that exemplified in research undertaken by Becta which demonstrated that where parental engagement
with a child's
learning during primary years takes place, it can
improve outcomes by as much as 50 %, and therein lies a recipe for success.
Some of his more controversial points included the need to embed responsibility and accountability systems deep into every classroom and office, and the importance of identifying and then removing superfluous burdens from school staff to enable them to
improve teaching and
learning outcomes with pace and certainty.
With guidance from Harvard faculty and district and community leaders, participants study best practices in family engagement and identify strategies they can use to promote student
learning and
improve educational
outcomes for all.
Stephen Dinham, National President of the Australian College of Educators and Chair of Teacher Education and Director of
Learning and Teaching at the University of Melbourne, said to
improve student
outcomes you've got to start
with teacher education.
In what ways could your school work collaboratively
with local businesses to
improve student
learning outcomes?
The top reasons for implementing blended
learning were also strong and in line
with our observations across the country: create / facilitate personalized
learning (73 percent), provide more course choices (58 percent), and
improve student academic
outcomes (53 percent).
The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on
improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively
with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generati
with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; -
With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generati
With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect data from FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy
learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.
The technologies and approach to education associated
with synchronous and asynchronous
learning can
improve the quality of teacher instruction, student - teacher interactions, and
improve student -
learning outcomes.
Educators and staff working
with young people are eager to
learn strategies to enhance their relationships
with students to
improve wellbeing and academic
outcomes.
The Training Arcade offers a library of fun, casual games that can be rapidly customized
with any content to reinforce educational material, assess knowledge retention, measure overall teaching effectiveness, and
improve learning outcomes.
Learning that's delivered on a mobile provides an incredibly powerful method to improve learning outcomes and is something that organizations are embracing with increasing frequency all over th
Learning that's delivered on a mobile provides an incredibly powerful method to
improve learning outcomes and is something that organizations are embracing with increasing frequency all over th
learning outcomes and is something that organizations are embracing
with increasing frequency all over the world.
In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student
Outcomes with Digital
Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at larg
Learning, which we co-authored
with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended
learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at larg
learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and
improve student
learning at larg
learning at large scale.
With its focus on seat time — awarding credit for showing up to workshops, conferences, or classes — formal PD has ignored whether teachers actually
learn new skills, apply them, and
improve student
outcomes.
But just finding that some policy is likely to
improve student
outcomes does not mean that the improvement will reach the high levels sought by Washington
Learns, or by others
with similar views about what students should know.
«A central part of our focus, particularly in the professional
learning we do
with schools, has been about enabling research to influence practice in ways that can achieve
improved outcomes,» Buchanan tells Teacher.
Some of the more controversial points that he will be discussing include the need to embed responsibility and accountability systems deep into every classroom and office, and the importance of identifying and then removing superfluous burdens from school staff to enable them to
improve teaching and
learning outcomes with pace and certainty.
For those association members working in the education market, the year ahead will be focused on providing the best possible advice to schools and settings keen to combine
improving their playgrounds, outdoor classrooms and outside spaces
with delivering positive
learning and physical activity
outcomes for children.
A recent report by the Welsh Schools Inspectorate (ESTYN) has tried to highlight the many benefits of moving more education outdoors and combining it
with active play to let pupils be more active in school, as well as
improving their attention span and opening up new
learning outcomes of the great outdoors.
Barrera - Osorio is currently a senior economist in the Human Development Network Education group at the World Bank, and is known for working closely
with governments in Pakistan and Colombia to evaluate policies and programs to
improve student
learning outcomes.
Living by the mantra «pedagogy before technology», Dr Cowling works to help teachers and academics innovate
with technology,
improving student motivation and
learning outcomes, and leveraging technology as a tool to
improve the overall education process.
Blended
learning that combines digital instruction
with live, accountable teachers holds unique promise to
improve student
outcomes dramatically.
SMART revolutionized the education market
with products that empower educators to
improve student
outcomes by effectively implementing technology products that support all
learning styles and environments.
With teachers working together to collect, analyse, discuss and act upon data, the objectives of meeting professional standards and
improving learning outcomes of students are shown to be both achievable and essential to effective teaching today.
Just try to decipher this recent press release about a new study proving «rubric - based assessment can be taken to scale and can produce valid findings
with credible and actionable information about student
learning that can be used to
improve curricular and assignment designs and to increase effectiveness of programs and classes in advancing the most important
learning outcomes of college.»
As a member of the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) Corporate Associates Program since 2004, we have partnered
with institutions nationwide to
improve learning outcomes.
In adopting and using Progressive Achievement Tests to investigate and diagnose student
learning and to monitor progress over time, teachers are working within a growth mindset,
with the benefits of targeted teaching, increased levels of student engagement and
improved learning outcomes.
«Textbooks are especially relevant to
improving learning outcomes in low income countries
with large class sizes, a high proportion of unqualified teachers and a shortage of instructional time,» the GEM report says.
Many of the problems
with the gap between the intent to
improve performance and
outcomes of
learn - then - work can be overcome by thinking and acting differently.
There are also two additional elements of focus:
improving early
learning outcomes: increasing college access and success; addressing the unique needs of students
with disabilities and those
with limited English proficiency; as well as
improving productivity, or using technology.
However, a structural quality element such as small class size can facilitate
learning when it is paired
with high - quality teacher - child interactions, leading to
improved outcomes for children.Martha Zaslow et al., Quality Dosage, Thresholds, and Features in Early Childhood Settings: A Review of the Literature, OPRE 2011 - 5 (Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010).
School districts electing to use ESSA funding to
improve early
learning programs are creating a potential win - win situation, increasing the number of high - quality early
learning opportunities available, and increasing the likelihood of positive
outcomes for all children, including young children
with disabilities.
OAKLAND, CA — The Black Teacher Project, a national organization
with programming in Oakland, CA, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY, is excited to announce the development of Institutional Transformation, a new project that will result in more positive work environments for Black teachers,
improved leadership capacity, and ultimately
improved learning outcomes for students.
Unlock the magic of
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Especially for the districts across the country using CEL's 5 Dimensions of Teaching and
Learning instructional framework, we see that the foundational work in improving outcomes for students begins with a deep understanding of the transformative role of purpose in l
Learning instructional framework, we see that the foundational work in
improving outcomes for students begins
with a deep understanding of the transformative role of purpose in
learninglearning.
The primary aim is partnership
with a community school, to be able to
learn from what happens in the maintaned sector, but also help the school leadership
improve outcomes for its pupils.
«
With the Senate plan, we couldn't rebuild classrooms — there would be no way to meaningfully reduce class sizes, boost professional development that
improves students»
learning outcomes, and we couldn't recoup the 7,000 state - funded teacher assistants we've lost since FY2009,» said Mitchell.
Three years ago, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan created a dedicated Office for Early
Learning with the ambitious goal of «
improving the health, social - emotional, and cognitive
outcomes for children from birth through third grade.»
UChicago Impact works
with thousands of schools across the country to
improve student
outcomes with research - based tools and professional
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