Sentences with phrase «career readiness efforts»

The CCRS Organizer Scorecard allows you to self - assess your college and career readiness efforts and find resources specific to your needs.

A key goal of the guide is to help schools develop a bridge between college and career readiness efforts through the use of ILPs and help youth achieve prosperous and productive lives.

The foundation also has an eye on energy and environmental issues, and has backed work to link that area to its career readiness efforts.

Not exact matches

In exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performance.

While we may want to honor students who graduate in all sorts of appropriate ways, I believe we must make a special effort to grant those high - school graduates who are college and career ready a diploma that signifies and celebrates that readiness.

District leadership is critical for successful efforts at the school level, since those leaders can ensure college and career readiness is a priority and that advisors are empowered to best serve students.

States» efforts to ensure college and career readiness for all depend on it.

In this workshop, a collaborative effort of the National Literacy Project (NLP), Seminole County (FL) Public Schools, and the National Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), teachers, district and school administrators, and instructional coaches learned to use the LDC Framework to help students meet career - and college - readiness standards.

The goal of the study was to determine whether Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) should be considered a promising college and career readiness practice and whether and how youth with disabilities are participating in these efforts.

This effort comes at a critical time as districts embrace college and career readiness as the goal for all students and recognize the potential of digital tools to help teachers personalize learning for each student.

The programs, while boosting local efforts on career - readiness and teacher leadership, will help rising educators become empowered, informed consumers as they plan their trajectories to postsecondary studies and into the workforce.

Guiding these efforts is a strategic plan, developed with the involvement of the community, which calls for the district «to ramp up career and college readiness,» says Superintendent Steve Joel.

«Communication with parents about the new assessment system and efforts to improve student readiness for college and careers is a work in progress,» said Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education.

In this 45 - minute webinar, originally broadcast live on March 10, 2016, Dr. V. Scott Solberg, Associate Dean of Research at Boston University, leads a range of college and career readiness research, practice and policy efforts in collaboration with the National Collaboration on Workforce and Disability for Youth (that is funded by the Department of Labor).

A number of recent state legislative efforts highlight the importance of course rigor in preparing students for college and beyond.1 In addition, the State Board of Education has approved a preliminary college and career readiness indicator, which leans heavily on student participation and performance in rigorous courses, such as a — g courses, advanced placement exams, International Baccalaureate courses, and dual enrollment in high school and college courses.2

While individually our organizations and efforts may emphasize different principles, collectively we share the goal of advancing equity in college, career, and civic readiness.

This effort comes at a critical time as districts embrace college and career readiness.

In an effort to introduce my career readiness unit, I have the students calculate their projected budget for their first year out of high school.

The grant will fund the district's efforts to implement EXCELerator, a career readiness framework developed by the College Board that aims to improve the district college readiness infrastructure and capacity to provide rigorous education and supports, with a particular focus on historically underserved students.

Kim Green, Executive Director of the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc), discussed efforts across states to measure career readiness.

There is a direct connection between efforts to expand interdisciplinary instruction and working toward college and career readiness.

It also addresses efforts to connect students with real - world learning experiences, gauge students» career readiness, and develop and recruit teachers who understand how to apply academic content in career fields.

Senator Lehner has also been at the forefront of efforts to align K - 12 education with college and career readiness, working with stakeholders from across the country to find innovative solutions to Ohio's challenges.

SPN is not the only organization providing information to support your awareness efforts in career readiness.

We hope others will join us in efforts to build approaches to support teachers to provide quality instruction that is aligned to challenging college - and career - readiness standards.

To achieve this goal, MCAN is making efforts to amplify the important impact of school counselors by encouraging participation in college and career readiness training and professional development opportunities.

«With the exception of the state's commendable efforts to align its teaching standards with the requirements of K - 12 college - and career - readiness standards, California falls behind other states on teacher policy,» the group said in a press release.