Sentences with phrase «schools and educators opt»

Schools and educators opt into the district's Personal Learning Challenge Schools cohort.

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The Fordham Institute hosted a forum on the growing numbers of parents, educators and school administrators calling for a local «opt - out» from state testing systems.

«Democrats amended the platform to: support community schools with wraparound services in struggling neighborhoods; implement restorative justice and alternative discipline practices; invest in engaging STEM curricula; explicitly oppose high - stakes testing as a means to close schools or evaluate educators; support a parents» right to opt their children out of tests; and support and respect all educators and school employees.

Topics include the educators nationwide opting new ideas like «stealth assessments» hidden in video games and student roundtables that work like college dissertation defenses, views of Dan French, executive director of the Center for Collaborative Education on the same, and Danville Independent Schools where subject mastery in grades 5 through 12 is assessed through presentations.

I am holding an organizational meeting for parents and educators to opt out of standardized testing at Hartford Public High School on Saturday, Feb 1, at 12:00 in my classroom, room 272.

While this is an extreme case — and arguably abusive — test prep is still occurring citywide even at schools with high test scores.The organized opt - out movement here in NYC is led by local parents and educators who spend an inordinate amount of time researching the NYS Common Core testing program and educating themselves on developmentally appropriate pedagogy.

Rather than treat students and parents with the respect and support the comes with serving as an educator, the magnet school's principals were engaged an effort to punish students who had been opted out of the SBAC testing.