Sentences with phrase «academic improvement across»

Under the Senate plan, districts that do not show academic improvement across subgroups could face a loss of the funding flexibility provided in the bill.

Not exact matches

CORE's School Quality Improvement System attempts to provide a balanced view of quality across academics, social - emotional skills, and school climate.

Critical thinking, risk taking, and collaboration — along with academics and discipline — are just some of the areas where Bates Middle School reported big improvements after integrating the arts across all subject areas.

This report shows that by placing an average ability student in the least effective, rather than the most effective classroom environment could affect their academic progress by as much as the average improvement across a year.

In this webinar, the former chief academic officer for Partnerships to Uplift Communities Schools and now the current chief implementation officer at BloomBoard, Kelly Montes De Oca, will discuss how you can drive more effective professional learning across your school or district by using a framework for instructional improvement focused on data and mastery rather than seat time and credit hours.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

He serves as the principal advisor on all technology systems and initiatives and helps design, develop, implement, and maintain a data platform to enable continuous academic and operational improvement across the University of Chicago Charter School.

With the introduction of personalized learning models in public school classrooms, schools across D.C. have the potential to accelerate the pace of academic improvement and to demonstrate national leadership in education innovation.

On a whole Denver elementary students showed impressive improvement last year: the percent of students meeting or exceeding grade level expectations increased 4.7 points in English Language Arts and 2.3 points in math; on average elementary students scored better than 56 % of their academic peers across the state in ELA and better than 54 % of their peers in math.

Tenth - graders made across - the - board improvements on the MCAS last academic year, and 84 percent of students have already met the state's minimum testing requirements needed to earn a high school diploma on their first try.

For example, one school saw a dramatic improvement in five high - priority metrics included in the culture plan, including a 59 % reduction in the amount of out - of - school suspensions between the 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14 school years, a 56 % reduction in classroom off - task / disruptive behaviors across nine grade levels, and an increase from 57.2 % to 59 % in Academic Performance Index in just one school year, with a Value Added grade of C for the first time in more than five years.

Sadly, extensive research efforts (many of them funded by WFF) on the academic impact of public charter schools have suggested that after 20 years there is little across - the - board improvement to show for it.

Gary Fairclough, graduate trainee at the University of Manchester and Lancaster University has been working in the Research and Business Engagement Team on two main projects relating to engagement and satisfaction with the Postgraduate Research (PGR) Community and in improvements to how academic staff across the university can engage with the business sector.

While classroom - based programs showed significant improvements across all five social measures and academics, comprehensive programs showed no significant effect on students» social - emotional skills or positive social behavior, and were less effective at improving academic performance.