Institutional Support
Teachers are providing a rigorous curriculum and addressing challenging behaviors in the classroom. They are being compensated for the rigorous curriculum and want more compensation because they are working even harder with the behaviors. What economic key term relates to this?
What are budget constraints?
A high school is experiencing frequent disciplinary issues, affecting all aspects of school productivity and efficiency. The administration is trying to decide between two solutions: implementing a Restorative Justice Program as a potential solution or sticking with the same PBIS model. However, the school has limited resources and must decide whether the benefits of the program justify its costs. By weighing the costs, benefits, and opportunity costs, the school chooses the Restorative Justice Program as the best investment to improve school culture.
What economic theory did the school administration utilize?
What is choice theory?
Not having enough school supplies for students is an example of what economic term?
What is scarcity
A school district implements a new policy where teachers are required to attend a series of mandatory professional development workshops outside of regular school hours. This policy causes teachers increased stress and more tension between teachers and admin. What economic theory describes the result of the new policy?
What is a negative externality?
In a small school district, there is only one approved curriculum provider for social-emotional learning (SEL) programs. The district has chosen to sign a 10 year contract with this company.
This situation relates to what economic term?
What is a monopoly?
The effect of including tardiness in the list of suspendable offenses relates to which economic theory?
What is inequity
Teachers wanting more administration assistance so they can provide students with a positive educational experience.
What is supply and demand
A school is considering whether to hire an additional support staff member to improve school culture. Currently, the school has a team of 5 support staff members who help with activities like mentoring students, organizing extracurricular programs, and facilitating communication between teachers, students, and parents.The hope is by adding a new support staff member, they will impact the overall educational environment and school culture. What economic term describes the effect of adding a new support staff in this scenario?
What is marginal product of labor?
Creating Professional Development sessions for faculty to learn about student redirection best practices leads to what economic theory or term?
What is efficiency?
A school district is considering how to allocate its resources to increase administrative support of teachers when contending with student behavioral issues. The district is considering two options: Invest in additional support positions, such as school counselors and behavior specialists, or invest in professional development regarding student redirection best practices for teachers. The school district must contemplate balancing the enhancement of administrative support and improving teacher training.
What economic theory is illustrated in this situation?
What is trade-off?
A middle school is implementing a series of strategic initiatives to improve its students’ educational and behavioral outcomes by cultivating a school culture focused on innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. Initiatives include: funding for professional learning communities (PLCs)so educators from all departments can contribute to a repository of best practices that other educators can adopt and adapt, funding a family engagement team, and creating a student innovation lab equipped with 3D printers, robotics kits, and coding software, to encourage students to engage in hands-on projects and creative problem-solving. What economic theory would best describe the impact of these initiatives?
What is New Growth Theory?
A school hiring board who thinks an educator as being more productive solely based on their highest earned degree, is an example of what economic theory?
What is Signaling Theory?
A school administrator has a budget surplus for PD and must decide between two potential uses for the funds: invest in an outside PD facilitator or invest in the school’s Dean of Students to run PD.
The school administrator’s decision process is a sign of what economic theory?
What is Prospect Theory?
A high school is committed to improving its school culture by reducing disciplinary issues and fostering a more inclusive environment. To achieve this, the school implements a series of restorative justice initiatives aimed at transforming how conflicts and disciplinary issues are handled. The first initiative brings substantial benefits, the second adds value but with less impact, and the third, despite requiring significant resources, results in only a marginal improvement.
This example illustrates what economic term?
What is Diminishing marginal return?
When the state Department of Education asks districts to track discipline inequity trends without offering the funding or support to address the root causes of these trends, is an example of what economic term?
What is status quo bias?