Sentences with phrase «align with the quality standards»

These benchmarks roughly align with the quality standards outlined in the Strong Start for America's Children Act.

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For Founder and CEO, Bradley Bennett, maintaining the Non GMO Project Standard aligns seamlessly with the company's enduring commitment to a superior - quality, clean label consumer experience.

With over 25 years of producing high quality products that surpass the global safety standards, every Mountain Buggy product is developed to encompass our design DNA of manoeuvrability, adaptability, durability and simplicity, which not only gives the brand a cohesive look and feel; but aligns each product category with our world class safety standaWith over 25 years of producing high quality products that surpass the global safety standards, every Mountain Buggy product is developed to encompass our design DNA of manoeuvrability, adaptability, durability and simplicity, which not only gives the brand a cohesive look and feel; but aligns each product category with our world class safety standawith our world class safety standards.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

In order to raise awareness about the importance of plants and bring them into the limelight in science education, it is important that teachers are provided with high quality, engaging activities that complement their curriculum and align with state and national standards.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

We then worked with all faculty members in every discipline to build projects aligned with the Buck Institute of Education (BIE) project quality standards.

And so it goes with their future investment plans: networks to help schools identify and implement evidence - based practices; collaboratives to help improve teacher preparation programs; stronger curricula aligned to college - and - career ready standards; support for «pathways» to postsecondary success, including high - quality CTE; research on personalized learning.

Forty - six states and the District of Columbia are «developing high - quality assessments aligned with these standards.»

The quality of standards and tests is uneven; the tests are often not aligned with the standards they claim to measure.

Because these customized standards - based tests were designed (almost always with the assistance of an external test - development contractor) to be aligned with a state's curricular aspirations, it would seem that they would be ideal for appraising a school's quality.

The reason why expert claims about the quality of standards have never aligned with student achievement is that there is no single set of standards that could be optimal for promoting even basic literacy and numeracy for all students.

Supporters of the Common Core, ourselves included, peer out across this vast nation and see a hodge - podge of standards, tests, textbooks, curricular guides, lesson plans — little of it of high quality or particularly «innovative» (with much of the «innovative» stuff being faddish and silly), and none of it aligned with much else in any meaningful sense.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

The video materials chosen are based on length, clarity, quality and how closely they align with the national standards.

With over 100K standards - aligned resources, PBS LearningMedia is THE destination for educators to access high - quality, trusted digital content and solutions that will inspire students and transform learning.

Each state can choose whatever assessment system it wants — PARCC, SB, or something else — but that system will have to be aligned with high - quality standards and measure college - and career - readiness.

The instructors are themselves of two minds on this matter, many of them taking professional pride and pedagogical satisfaction in developing and adapting their own curricula, even as others yearn for someone to please supply them with quality instructional materials that are aligned with the standards and assessments that their states have mandated.

States and districts will need to recruit, prepare, and retain talented teachers and principals and support them with high - quality professional development, curriculum and instructional materials aligned with standards, and the tools to support data - based decisions.

INSPIRE is aligned with national educational leadership standards, the UCEA Institutional and Program Quality Criteria and provides a source of evidence on program outcomes.

The promise of the latest standards will only be seen with high - quality, aligned materials.

High - quality standards - aligned item banks with the breadth and depth to meet both formative and benchmark assessment needs.

Library of education content features more than 15,600 unique, high - quality classroom assessment questions aligned with today's learning standards and Common Core curriculum.

The continued use of a high - quality statewide assessment that is aligned to the standards, provides teachers and parents with meaningful information, and has a proficiency score that indicates college and career readiness.

This purpose can be accomplished by ensuring that high - quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with state academic standards so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can measure progress against common expectations for student academic achievement.

These include poor - quality content standards with unclear language, poor - quality and poorly aligned assessments, flawed school accountability metrics, and inadequate supporting materials, including textbooks and professional development.

Driven by LATT's goal to improve program quality, we will offer professional development opportunities aligned with TXPOST standards and best practices in afterschool and summer programming.

A strong academic formation requires curriculum that is comprehensive and coherent, aligned to standards, sequenced appropriately, and supported with quality resources, assessments and professional development.

EL's curriculum, created in collaboration with the New York State Education Department, combines high quality, rigorous, standard - aligned content with effective instructional practice, bringing together the «what» and the «how» of the Common Core standards.

By linking our evaluations to professional development, every employee now has access to quality professional learning experiences aligned with their specific needs, as well as our district's targeted goals and effectiveness standards.

Assist the school / district with the identification of standards - aligned text / OER resources and the creation of high quality unit / curriculum development

The studies show that PARCC is a high quality assessment, aligns to state learning standards, predicts college readiness, compares well to NAEP performance, is endorsed by the country's top educators, and gives students with disabilities and English learners more tools and access to the test than previous tests.

I would hope to see states get more ambitious as they go from plans to action, building high - quality pathways from high school into postsecondary education, standards and assessments aligned with the expectations of entry into college and the workforce, supports for struggling schools that go beyond general assistance, and strategies to help traditionally underperforming student populations close gaps to reach the promise of college and career readiness for all.

The federal government should restructure current Title V block grant funds instead as matching grants to states to expand access to high - quality PK programs and aligned PK teacher and curricular standards with elementary grades.

The Office of Innovation and Incubation's work is aligned with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, a set of national best practice standards for authorizers to open and sustain high - quality sQuality Charter School Authorizing, a set of national best practice standards for authorizers to open and sustain high - quality squality schools.

Open Up Resources is a national nonprofit that originated as an open education resource (OER) collaborative founded by 13 states, and has assembled a small distributed team of experienced K - 12 executives who contract with best - in - class partners for high - quality standards - aligned curriculum.

Beginning this year authorizers will be ranked based on three components: the academic performance of the students in charter schools they authorize; adherence to «quality practices» aligned to NACSA standards; and compliance with applicable laws regarding charter school authorizing.36 Low - performing authorizers can be prohibited from authorizing new schools, or have their authorizing authority revoked entirely.

Aligned to NYCLA's Principal Supervisor Leadership Standard # 3: Balance Coaching with Evaluation, «Building a Culture of Learning in Leadership» addressed the popular topic of balancing high - quality support with high - quality accountability by creating relationships of ongoing feedback and trust with principals.

However, the tests must be aligned with the state academic content standards, address the depth and breadth of such standards, and be equivalent in content coverage, difficulty, and quality to the state - designed assessments AND must provide comparable, valid, and reliable data on academic achievement, as compared to the state - designed assessments, for all students and for each subgroup of students among all local school districts within the state.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Collaborates with colleagues and school administrators to plan professional learning that is team - based, job - embedded, sustained over time, aligned with content standards, and linked to school / district improvement goals; b) Uses information about adult learning to respond to the diverse learning needs of colleagues by identifying, promoting, and facilitating varied and differentiated professional learning; c) Facilitates professional learning among colleagues; d) Identifies and uses appropriate technologies to promote collaborative and differentiated professional learning; e) Works with colleagues to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to the quality of professional learning and its effect on teaching and student learning; f) Advocates for sufficient preparation, time, and support for colleagues to work in teams to engage in job - embedded professional learning; g) Provides constructive feedback to colleagues to strengthen teaching practice and improve student learning; and h) Uses information about emerging education, economic, and social trends in planning and facilitating professional learning.

With the adoption of new College and Career Ready Standards, development of high - quality, standards - aligned assessments, and passage of ESSA, we might think that test prep frenzy should be a thing of the past; however, pep rallies and cram sessions are still held in many places in advance of high stakes assessments.

Employ a curriculum informed by input from stakeholders (state accountability data and evidence collected from the Education Quality Review process) and aligned with standards, including Vermont's Professional Learning Standards, Education Quality Standards, and the Core Teaching and Leadership Standards for Vermont Educators.

ReVISION districts use these plans to phase out low - quality programs, develop new ones, and align standards with industry needs.

However, the eye for quality and incredible performance that sets Land Rover vehicles apart can also benefit you in your search for the perfect pre-owned vehicle, as you can trust a dealership like Land Rover Troy to be aligned with your high standards for quality and driving excellence.

Several engaging picture - book biographies and autobiographies of music makers from a wide variety of backgrounds have been published in recent years, and they align perfectly with ELA Common Core Reading Standard 10, which defines expectations for range, quality, and complexity of text types.

Retailers could also develop a set of criteria that will ensure any new healthcare products or companies they are considering meet high quality standards and align with their own values.

«The Series is synonymous with high performance and aligning G - OIL with those same quality standards, will give consumers the confidence to go green with their own engines.»

Produced and implemented Quality Systems and procedures throughout the project / software life cycle to align with IEEE, SEI CMM Level 2, and ISO 9001 standards and guidelines

Developed training tools and facilitated professional development sessions to ensure the development of quality and complaint documents aligned with today's current state standards.

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