Sentences with phrase «building student achievement»

PTOs can make even more of a difference for schools with good planning, good communication, and a focus on building student achievement.

Common Core Problem Types: This series of workshops focuses on the word problem types as noted in the CCSS and their importance in building student achievement.

Reading Achievement Building student achievement is at the top every principal's list.

Our flagship professional development program challenges teachers of all academic subjects to build student achievement and meet rigorous standards in creative and effective ways.

Effectively managing financial resources helps support areas that are need to build student achievement.

Policy attributes theory guides the work, the SEC is being revised and updated to better capture the content of college - and career - readiness standards (already completed) and used to provide feedback to teachers participating in our FAST intervention, and to build student achievement assessments highly aligned to college - and career - readiness standards to test the effects intervention.

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Among students of business, PayPal may be known less for its own success than for the subsequent achievements of the people Thiel helped attract to build it.

He has a position on the board of the student achievement and has the vision to start building smaller high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed on the public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.

The Kitchen Community builds Learning Gardens in schools around the U.S. reaching hundreds of thousands of students every school day, improving their vegetable intake and academic achievements.

Find classroom management strategies that help students build community, prepares them for successful living, and increases academic achievement in the classroom.

And the recent results of the achievement levels in small schools suggest that a smaller building environment has more to do with student achievement that teachers themselves.

Next he produced an exhaustive analysis of Buffalo public schools, tracking disparities in student achievement and detailing the deplorable condition of many school buildings.

Cash noted through the bargain, the district is «working in close partnership with our teachers and principals to build a solid track to run on to more rapidly grow student proficiency and overall achievement well into the future.»

«We applaud this latest achievement of our many Penn State scientists and students who have helped to build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system of international collaboration among many research teams worldwide,» said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.

It is such a humbling, cool experience to witness confidence building, bodies getting stronger, healing, forgiving, self - pride and countless other student achievements.

Instead, it means that we lead our staff collaboratively to build the school's vision around student achievement.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

A 1999 study by Lisa Heschong, principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (and expert in daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in building design), illustrated the relationship between natural light and achievement by looking at more than 21,000 students across three states.

Too much of the assistance that was provided through the law was spread too thinly to have the kind of impact to help schools build the capacity that they needed to improve instruction and see long - term gains in student achievement.

We meet regularly in this room to examine data, celebrate student achievement, plan for student needs, acknowledge each other's talents, and build additional skills.

On four items — school discipline, expectations for student achievement, school building and facilities, and the racial and ethnic diversity among students — we find no significant difference in the variation in satisfaction across sectors.

Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have built up the academic achievement and self - esteem of these rural Louisiana middle school students.

The aim is to identify promising school - based initiatives that build social and emotional learning and resilience skills in Victorian students, and which also improve academic achievement.

In «Game Plan for Learning: Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate students to achieve,» USA Today's Greg Toppo revisits James S. Coleman's oft - forgotten findings on teen culture, exploring how educators today can use academic competition to foster engagement, motivation, and student achievement.

A new research center at Rutgers University intends to build on evidence that well - equipped school library media centers can boost student achievement.

«SDP represents a unique opportunity to build on this foundation, by working even more closely with districts and states to impact student achievement on a large scale.»

Reflect, stretch, and strengthen your leadership skills, examine challenges to raising student achievement, and work with experts in school leadership to master effective strategies for building successful schools.

Evidence of student growth that goes beyond academic achievement drives home what so many of the Match leaders and corps members underscored as central to understanding Match Corps: tutoring Match - style is about human capital, relationship building, and providing students with the confidence to succeed, not only in school but in life.

Does requiring students to wear uniforms directly affect school environment and student achievement, or is it the equivalent of painting the walls of a crumbling building — merely cosmetic?

Indeed, building student persistence may be an effective strategy for raising achievement on state tests.

The latter is one of nine principles of learning formulated by the Institute for Learning that I direct at the University of Pittsburgh to provide assistance to school systems in building organizational and instructional practices that will enable their students to meet higher achievement standards.

The articles below from Education World's archive share stories about how data can be used to raise student achievement, plus practical tips for building your data - handling skills.

One important goal included building leadership by identifying roles and styles required to improve the «instructional core»; considering beliefs, cultural changes, and education strategies to promote high student achievement; reflecting on the effects of race, class, and culture within the district.

«In every class in this building, you have kids of all levels of prior academic achievement,» says Principal Dan St. Louis, including kids who are «high flyers,» kids with Individualized Education Programs who are receiving special education support, students with disabilities, and English - language learners.

This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and student achievements at The English High School in Jamaica Plain; Christopher Tsang, a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities teacher at The Harbor School; and Tanya Milner, an eleventh grade United States history and freshman Advancement Via Individual Determination teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

You'll see an evaluation system for teachers and principals, with student achievement built in as a meaningful component.

The progress data would provide the school leader with a guide to the staff changes that would further improve student learning, and the achievement of early goals would help build support for such changes.

Outside observers are better, on average, at identifying teachers who are effective at boosting student achievement than in - building administrators.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

The articles in this archive share stories about how data can be used to raise student achievement, plus practical tips for building your data - management skills.

Icahn Charter Schools build background knowledge to drive learning Student achievement places Icahn among NYC's top performing charter networks

And building test - score - based student achievement into teacher evaluations, while (in my view) legitimate for some teachers, has led to crazy arrangements for many teachers whose performance can not be properly linked to reading and math scores in grades 3 — 8.

If present evidence is to be used, two potent contributions to raising student achievement will be widespread: effective preschool programs for all children and intensive interventions that build capacities of families to support the education of their children.

Headteacher Nick Wergan said: «We are delighted that the hard work, ambition and achievement of our staff and students is being recognised, and that our building provision will now reflect the innovation and high aspirations of our teaching practice.»

The unpacking process led to building teacher capacity and understanding, and the development of plain language statements that classroom teachers could use to make accurate, fair and consistent judgements about student progress and achievement within and across teams in the school.

Here, we outline a workable, balanced strategy that builds on what has been learned in the last decade, improves teaching, and thereby improves student achievement.»

The library here is a far cry from the kind of warm, inviting, fully stocked resource center experts say can help build literacy and research skills, raise student achievement, and foster a love of reading.

This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and student achievements at The English High...

It's through concepts that students will be able to go beyond passing the weekly math test and build to a sophisticated understanding of the language of math; hence taking students to the level of achievement needed in fast tech times.

The Build SF program invests in components we've found critical for long - term student achievement — project learning through class curriculum and community interaction with mentors.