Sentences with phrase «creating high levels of student engagement»

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Understand the differences between culturally responsive teaching, restorative practices, multicultural education, and their role in creating conditions conducive to a high levels of learning and student engagement.

Mission's school - wide outcomes include: (1) Utilizing student work to drive instruction, inform teaching practices, and support student achievement at the highest level; (2) Emphasizing Post-Secondary Success at all grade levels to ensure that students are academically prepared, eligible, and have a deep awareness of all post-secondary options upon graduation from high school; (3) School - wide family engagement to create meaningful partnerships, build strong relationships, and deepen avenues of communication with all families in order to provde the highest levels of support to its students.

This teacher leadership idea engages 5th and 6th grade teachers to link student interests with research skills and opportunities to create student anchor projects that extend reading and learning to the highest level of engagement by helping students to design personal and small group «impact projects.»

For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

«Given the current state of public and private higher education,» organizers of the new experiment, called the Black Mountain School, wrote on their website, «we are presenting an alternative — a collaborative learning environment where educators create the content of study, students determine their level of engagement, and tuition is affordable for all.»