The original legislation called for major increases in education spending to offset the cost of reaching NCLB's
ambitious goals for student achievement, but federal spending never reached the lofty levels outlined in the law.
Additionally, Check State Plans found that, «Washington has set
ambitious goals for its students that other states should emulate.»
Danielle Neves, the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning for TPS, shared, «Meeting
our ambitious goals for students will require outstanding learning for our educators that is grounded in content and curricula, happening day - to - day and week - to - week in schools, and led by and for teachers.
I also knew to set
ambitious goals for all students to earn at least 85 percent on our district assessment.
Leading Educators is supporting us, but it is our work as a district, our vision,
our ambitious goals for students.»
The Committee has been an active participant with the Kentucky Department of Education and other stakeholders in creating a new accountability system for the state that sets
ambitious goals for student learning, educates and empowers parents with information about schools, and provides state and local education leaders and policymakers with data to help make more informed decisions to improve opportunities for each student.
LEXINGTON, KY — The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence applauds the commitment of the Kentucky Board of Education in setting
ambitious goals for students to reach academic proficiency and beyond as measured by the state's new accountability model.
Since the beginning of KDE's work on the accountability framework, the Committee has pushed hard with its coalition partners, KY Chamber of Commerce, the state NAACP, the Louisville Urban League and Teach for America — Appalachia for an understandable system with clear,
ambitious goals for student achievement.
Not exact matches
«We had good,
ambitious goals to eliminate achievement gaps
for poor
students and we just failed.
FRAC has set an
ambitious, but achievable,
goal of reaching 70 low - income
students who qualify
for free or reduced - price school breakfast
for every 100 who eat school lunch.
States shouldn't back down on making these
goals ambitious, but the
goals — including
goals for all subgroups of
students — must be achievable.
Setting such early
goals for students you are just getting to know can feel overly
ambitious and dubious.
With a collection table set up in the lobby of Gutman and a special donation page created online, the
students set an
ambitious goal for the Ed School community: $ 5,000 in one week.
While the Millennium Development
Goals and the Education
for All
Goals established an
ambitious agenda to provide a basic education worldwide, they did not, according to Reimers, focus on ways to help
students develop relevant skills to expand their options in life.
The New York Times, September 26, 2011 «To reach the
ambitious goals policy makers have set
for academic achievement, most
students will need more learning time.
A Maryland school district's curriculum and classroom assessments represent what teachers need to help
students reach
ambitious academic
goals and succeed on state tests, concludes a report issued by a group pushing
for greater
student achievement.
I conclude that we set the right
goal for education reform — to educate all of our
students, and all means all,
for success — but that we failed to adopt the right strategies and to design the right delivery system to achieve our unprecedented and highly
ambitious goal.
Vermont is fortunate, she says, to have been able to experiment with different ways of doing things, and set
ambitious goals for its districts and its
students.
Alexander apparently decided to keep his powder dry a month ago after the Department released the «Feedback That Shook The World,» telling Delaware that its plan to use
student performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams as a metric
for college readiness was out of line, and declaring that the state's
goals for boosting proficiency rates were not «
ambitious enough» to merit approval.
To be sure, even Virginia officials have agreed that the
goals put into their ESEA application weren't
ambitious enough; they will come back later this month with more challenging targets
for their poor and minority
students.
Because the proposed long - term
goals for academic achievement are not
ambitious, DDOE must revise its plan to identify and describe long - term
goals that are
ambitious for all
students and
for each subgroup of
students.
For the last 25 years, three major goals have animated the U.S. mathematics education community: more knowledgeable teachers, more challenging curricula for students, and more ambitious instruction in classroo
For the last 25 years, three major
goals have animated the U.S. mathematics education community: more knowledgeable teachers, more challenging curricula
for students, and more ambitious instruction in classroo
for students, and more
ambitious instruction in classrooms.
What to know: The Mississippi Department of Education's (MDE) plan stands out
for aligning its teacher recruitment and retention efforts with its
ambitious goals for increasing
student academic achievement by 2025 and clearly stating its role in supporting districts to address equity concerns.10 The MDE recognizes that in order to reach its stated
goals — which include a proposed graduation rate of 90 percent
for all
students by 2025 — they must also support districts in recruiting and retaining teachers of color who are prepared to improve
student outcomes.
Goals ensure that students are striving for ambitious and focused academic achievement, but if students are not invested, the goals become much less meanin
Goals ensure that
students are striving
for ambitious and focused academic achievement, but if
students are not invested, the
goals become much less meanin
goals become much less meaningful.
The federal law passed in 2001 set
ambitious goals for schools, particularly around improving outcomes
for poor and minority
students.
In current national dialogues about school improvement, SEAs have increasingly been asked to provide oversight and support
for districts in their efforts to meet
ambitious goals for increasing
student achievement.268 SEAs also clarify education policy
for districts.
Louisiana provided an
ambitious goal to sustain its recent gains and increase its proficiency rate by 2.5 %
for all
students each year from 2018 - 2025.
The publication examines what it will take
for the consortia to deliver on their
ambitious goal to create next - generation assessments that are better able to measure deeper learning and assess
students» abilities to apply standards in a real - world context.
For context, our school has been actively engaged in the process of looking at student data as the basis for setting student learning goals and developing an ambitious action plan to meet those goa
For context, our school has been actively engaged in the process of looking at
student data as the basis
for setting student learning goals and developing an ambitious action plan to meet those goa
for setting
student learning
goals and developing an
ambitious action plan to meet those
goals.
Building on the district's «Destination Excellence» vision of inspiring and preparing every
student to love learning and achieve
ambitious goals, Empower creates weekly opportunities
for teams of teachers in a content area to lead collaborative learning and practice in rigorous standards and pedagogical best practices.
No Child Left Behind, first passed in 2002, was an
ambitious, bipartisan attempt to close achievement gaps between poor and minority
students and their peers by setting a
goal for all
students to eventually become proficient in reading and math.
New Jersey,
for example, defines an SGO as «a long - term academic
goal that teachers set
for groups of
students and must be: Specific and measureable; Aligned to New Jersey's curriculum standards; Based on available prior
student learning data; A measure of what a
student has learned between two points in time;
Ambitious and achievable» (
for more information click here).
The Committee was particularly impressed with the Board's commitment to defining and setting
ambitious goals for achievement and helping communities, schools and teachers determine how best to help all
students learn.
The board also supported revised,
ambitious long - term
goals for improving
student proficiency and closing gaps
for all
students over the next generation.
The board established
ambitious goals for high
student performance, high quality
Develop standards - aligned, measurable,
ambitious big
goals that will increase
student opportunities
for achievement; assess and track performance against these
goals.
An
ambitious goal for graduation rates has a place in a revised strategic plan — it is a measure of success that
students, teachers, families, businesses, and communities can rally behind.
Kentucky's plan includes
ambitious interim and long - term
goals on which to measure progress including increasing academic achievement significantly
for all
students; cutting the achievement gap
for each
student group in half by 2030; and increasing the graduation rate significantly
for all
students and each
student group.
China has a long - range plan with
ambitious goals for preparing Chinese
students for a global knowledge economy.
In working to achieve this
ambitious goal, personalized learning innovations have helped set high expectations
for all
students while providing individualized supports to meet the unique needs of each learner.
● Six years of experience in educational leadership with a track record of
student achievement results ● Strong understanding of progressive pedagogy ● Demonstrated experience leading highly effective professional learning
for teachers and / or leaders around instructional best practices ● Ability to use data to inform practice, with a clear understanding of the metrics that lead to
student achievement ● Exceptional results leading others and managing a team to achieve
ambitious goals ● Demonstrated success creating and managing systems and work product ● Incredibly high excellence bar and ownership over results ● A team player with a strong work ethic and consistent follow - through ● Ability to build lasting and meaningful relationships with team members,
students, and families ● Strong organizational skills and attention to detail ● Master's degree
Meanwhile, California's recent efforts to address math placement — and to meet the
ambitious goal of equal access
for all
students — are steps in the right direction.
We expect M.A.T. candidates to set
ambitious, attainable academic and character growth
goals for students, track their progress towards those
goals, and analyze
student performance to inform instruction.
It includes helping educators understand, observe, and get actionable feedback to improve performance toward rigorous standards
for professional practice and
ambitious goals for a healthy blend of
student outcomes.
Our Board plays a vital role in ensuring that we meet
ambitious goals and make steady progress toward our mission of achieving educational excellence and equity
for all
students.
This training module demonstrates how academic progress monitoring fits into the Data - Based Individualization (DBI) process by (a) providing approaches and tools
for academic progress monitoring and (b) showing how to use data to using progress monitoring data to set
ambitious goals, make instructional decisions, and plan programs
for individual
students with intensive needs.
ESSA requires all states to set «
ambitious long - term
goals»
for student achievement, but the word «
ambitious» isn't defined in the law.
Aiding Chiefs in developing strong accountability frameworks
for their systems including
ambitious but achievable
goals, effective indicators, and clearly aligned incentives focused on continuous improvement and dramatically improving outcomes
for all
students.
Wisconsin's proposal
for holding schools accountable is short on details and lacks
ambitious goals to improve
student achievement, according to a federal review.
The publication also said Wisconsin — like many others — was told its plan lacked
ambitious (
goals), including
for subgroup
students and was told it needed more specific exit criteria
for priority and focus schools