Sentences with phrase «accessing challenging curriculum»

Yet, there is something important and compelling, even unifying, in the idea that no student should be held back from accessing challenging curriculum and that every student should be adequately supported in achieving to their highest possible level.

«Students with disabilities served in urban settings, in which minorities predominate, have higher likelihood of being placed in segregated settings, and lower likelihood of accessing challenging curricula,» said Tom Hehir, lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Not exact matches

In Florida, qualifying students can participate in the Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning program, giving them access to accelerated instruction.

I'm not a gambling person, but if I had to place a bet on one sure - fire method for engaging students, increasing test scores, reaching students who fall below standards, challenging students who exceed grade - level standards, accessing students» creativity and originality, maximizing brain connections formed, applying concepts to new situations, and making the learning process more fun for the students and teacher, I would place that bet on... teaching the core curriculum through the arts.

Teachers can often gain access to rich and challenging curricula by contacting community agencies charged with addressing public health or environmental issues.

Of course, pupils should have access to a challenging and stimulating academic curriculum, but to truly work for all children, the education system needs to value and make space for different types of learning and success.»

Some cities are addressing inequity, by finding ways to give more students access to challenging curriculum, reducing the use of disproportionate exclusionary discipline, and improving access to the best schools.

They will have access to a curriculum that enables them to be competent in the key skills of learning, challenges their thinking and opens up their understanding of the world.

If enrollment for rural schools declines further, it will only increase the challenge of providing federally mandated programs for students in special education, English - language instruction, and ensuring students have access to school personnel and curriculum.

The real issue behind differences in student performance is unequal access to a high - quality, challenging curriculum.

The NAACP works to ensure that all disadvantaged students and students of color are on the path to college or a successful career by ensuring access to great teaching, equitable resources, and a challenging curriculum.

Articles will examine areas where equity is a challenge, such as financial resources, teacher quality, technology instruction, and access to a challenging curriculum.

The original intent of the standards movement was to ensure that all students would have access to a much more challenging curriculum and therefore, would perform to higher levels of academic achievement.

Access to such learning is mandatory for students demonstrating a strong yearning for substantive and challenging science curriculum in schools.

With this prestigious accolade, Pinecrest Preparatory Academy Charter High School continues to expand its partnership with the CollegeBoard «Incorporating the Pre-AP curriculum at our school continues to support our mission of giving all of our students, regarding of ability level, equal access to a challenging, college - bound curriculum», stated Maria Beatriz Nuñez, Principal.

Each student in our school has access to challenging, comprehensive curriculum in all content areas.

«Among the group's other recommendations in its two reports released in January are that new teachers should be given access to teaching mentors in navigating the challenges of working with students who have experienced trauma or are considered at - risk, as well as developing effective curriculum.

These students are suspended, expelled, and drop out at higher rates, and are less likely to have access to strong teachers and challenging curricula,» according to the U.S. Department of Education.

They also provide a consistent framework for challenging instruction to promote access to the general education curriculum.

How did PTP teachers use current materials and technology to ensure that students have access to rigorous and appropriately challenging curriculum?

Part of the problem is access to challenging high school curriculum: Only 33 % of high schools with high black and Latino student enrollment offer calculus, compared to 56 % of high schools with low black and Latino student enrollment.

One of the next pieces, in addition to looking at behavior, is to review our results for Tier III students and review results not only against the Tier III interventions, but evaluate the results of those students against our State assessments because one of the challenges that come up is if you are really serious about making gains with intensive students at Tier III, you need to evaluate them and their ability to access the typical or the core curriculum and that's been a concern.

For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.

The rise of blended learning, access to technology, and rigorous digital curricula is driving the opportunity to truly personalize learning to keep all students actively engaged and appropriately challenged, and to prepare them with the skills to be really ready.

Practices at the institutional level (like placement, regrouping, and tracking) sometimes deny certain subgroups equitable access to the district's most interesting, challenging curriculum.

The assurance that all education stakeholders accept responsibility and hold themselves and each other responsible for every learner having full access to quality education, qualified teachers, challenging curriculum, full opportunity to learn, and appropriate, sufficient support for learning so they can achieve at excellent levels in academic and other student outcomes.

First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed - Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects evolving best practices in education, the experiences of practitioners throughout the United States and around the world, and Tomlinson's continuing thinking about how to help each and every student access challenging, high - quality curriculum; engage in meaning - rich learning experiences; and feel at home in a school environment that «fits.»

In this framework, accountability is defined as: the assurance that all education stakeholders accept responsibility and hold themselves and each other responsible for every learner having full access to quality education, qualified teachers, challenging curriculum, full opportunity to learn, and appropriate, sufficient support for learning so they can achieve at excellent levels in academic and other student outcomes.

ASCD began its Whole Child Initiative three years ago to encourage schools and communities to move beyond a narrow curriculum and accountability system and, instead, work together to ensure that each student has access to a challenging, comprehensive curriculum in a healthy and supportive climate.

WHEREAS, the San Diego Unified Vision 2020, long - term strategic plan, Quality Schools in Every Neighborhood, supports and provides for quality teaching, access to broad and challenging curriculum for all students, closing the achievement gap with high expectations for all, and is committed to using multiple formative measures of success that go beyond standardized achievement tests; and

One of the tables discussing equity quickly moved from barriers to achieving equity to specific steps that could be taken to provide all students, but especially those of poverty and color, access to the richest and most challenging curriculum.

This improvement in test scores is attributed to the fact that racial and socioeconomic integration creates more equitable access to experienced teachers, good facilities, more challenging curriculum, and more funding for students (Wells et al. 2016).